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Dear Linda, as part of my Stored Collections project at UCL we have found, not surprisingly, that most users of collections would prefer to find out what's in collections from online catalogues. Francesca Monti, who's assisting with the research, has analysed the websites of museums that told us they had online catalogues (not all did, that she could find!) and arrived at some criteria that seem important. We have just opened a survey to a few users to ask their opinions on what is most useful. Here are the replies so far. It closes on 21 March. We don't expect a lot of replies as this is just an indicative qualitative exercise. Replies (ongoing): http://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/rtp.do?r=4554 Research project website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/storedcollections You might like to ask Francesca to have a look at your website, [log in to unmask] . There is some previous work by Barbara Lejeune published recently, you can get the very useful volume of papers on stored collections from http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/pia/special-volume-1-2007/contents.htm (only £8) best wishes Suzanne Keene :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Dr Suzanne Keene Institute of Archaeology, UCL 31-34 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PY 020 7679 4935 www.ucl.ac.uk/museumstudies/ www.suzannekeene.info :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: You might be interested in my new book, Fragments of the World: uses of museum collections On 13 Mar 2008, at 17:03, linda ellis wrote: > Here at Wolverhampton Arts and Museums we have just launched our > updated > website - http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/ > > I would welcome feedback from list members about the site, in > particular > what people think about the collections section - > http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/collections > > We have found it really hard to design this part of the website - we > wanted to appeal to a wide audience not just art informed researchers. > > We have commissioned an evaluation of the website but it would be > really > useful to get feedback and thoughts from fellow museum and gallery > professional who are also making their collections available online. > > Linda Ellis > ICT Development Officer > Wolverhampton Arts & Museum Service > > ************************************************** > For mcg information and to manage your subscription to the list, > visit the website at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk > ************************************************** ************************************************** For mcg information and to manage your subscription to the list, visit the website at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk **************************************************