Museum TrendsWatch 2020: Fostering Financial Sustainability
AAM offers 3 steps museums can take toward achieving sustainable finances: paying attention to data, fostering financial literacy, and experimentation
AAM offers 3 steps museums can take toward achieving sustainable finances: paying attention to data, fostering financial literacy, and experimentation
Millennials comprise the majority of museum visitors yet their numbers for attendance are not as high as they need to be due to economic factors
The top five barriers to museum entry and enjoyment for seniors are: comfort, sensory, physical accessibility, safety, and practical access.
Museums and social media are a great combination; Twitter makes museum professionals more available to the public, answering questions building interest.
Skills for special librarians include creating environments where people learn to use the library and find information on their own
Special librarians designing library website should focus on a good user experience; it’s often users’ first exposure to content, products and services.
Often, a special library makes a first impression through its web presence; keep the user experience (UX) at the front of all website decisions
Special librarians can work with a user experience (UX) designer to create virtual online spaces (intranets, websites) that are intuitive for users
Offering experience-based learning is an important way for special librarians to facilitate deeper engagement with resources.
As physical libraries are reduced and resources go digital virtual services increase meaning librarians must creatively reach virtual library users.
A museum collections management system is more than a vault for data; it is a digital space for innovation, collaboration, and relationship building.
Tips for special library survey design. Surveys are great for collecting user data that informs special library strategy and changes.
Museum Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI) practices are gaining momentum within the museum field.
Museum professionals rely on the data within the CMS to assist them in making informed decisions. A better CMS will support their work – not add to it.
KM methods for getting people to present, and ask questions in meetings; knowledge management best practices for user adoption
Knowledge management methods for getting people to attend, speak, present, and ask questions in meetings; knowledge management best practices.
Museum interactive exhibit Hamilton: The Exhibition embodies diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion (DEAI)
Museums have ethical responsibility for objects representing ethnographic communities; engage communities early and often; they are important stakeholders.
Knowledge management best practices include ongoing training strategies that leverage a variety of channels e.g., webinars and self-paced courses.
The study and development of personas helps special librarians develop better products and services, and select the best integrated library systems.
shared museum catalogs meet digital visitor expectations for access to objects and discovery of contextual information while offering shared savings
Special library reference interviews cover digital resources, packaging and adding value to responses, and considering cost-value benefit(s).
KM expert Stan Garfield stresses KM adoption is driven by a great KM user experience; make it easy to access people, process and technology tools.
5 main methods for improving museum digital visitor experience include practicality, visitor immersion, accessibility, mobile optimization and SEO.
Digital visitor data who, what, where, why helps museum online presence decision-making, strategic planning. Best collections management system statistics.