Suzanne Keene
suzanne.keene@ucl.ac.uk
020 7639 5371
Dear recipient,
You kindly completed an online questionnaire before Christmas, contributing to my research project
on the uses of stored collections. Your questionnaire replies were very useful. You provided details
for possible future contact.
Just to recap, I am working on a research project looking at the uses of UK museums' stored
collections. Many respondents said that they would like to see more online catalogues of collections.
It would be very helpful if you could provide some more details about what you would like to find in
such catalogues, if you have time, in this further short questionnaire.
For information on the project, please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/storedcollections/
Thank you very much in advance for your time and trouble,
yours sincerely
Suzanne Keene
Reader in Museum Studies
University College London
Technical notes:
Please complete all questions except that your personal details are of course optional.
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policies. It will be removed after the questionnaires have been processed. No data or information or
comments will be associated with any individual museum or person. The data will eventually be
stored in an academic repository for possible future research.
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Research project supported by MLA Renaissance in the Regions, the AHRC, the MDA and the
Pilgrim Trust
Associated organisations: the Museums Association, the National Museum Directors Conference,
regional MLAs, ICON: the Institute of Conservation, The Scottish Museums Council, CyMAL (Wales)
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1. Optionally Your name:
Organisation (if you are affiliated with one):
2. Have you used online catalogues of museums' collections in connection with accessing or
researching the collections?
What sort of collection?
3. The positives: What makes you think, this is going to work well? What features do you find most
helpful in online catalogues?
4. Please give one or two examples to illustrate your points:
5. The negatives: What makes your heart sink? On the whole, what do you find least useful, or
dislike most, about online catalogues?
6. Please give one or two examples of online catalogues that you don't find easy to use:
7. These are some features of online catalogues that we think may be important. Please rank them
and tell us about other features if necessary. (one choice on each line, please)
1st
2nd
3rd
not so
Catalogue feature
importance importance importance
important
It's easy to find the online catalogue within
the website
General design and layout of catalogue
If coverage is not complete, it is specified
Effective ways to search for objects of
interest
Details in individual catalogue entries
Images in catalogue entries
Comprehensiveness of catalogue
Any comments?
8. Finally, thank you very much for providing this information. Would you like to comment on any of
these points? Is there anything else you think we should take into account?
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