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This paper summarizes the results of a Web-based survey of museum
professionals conducted by the John Nicholas Brown Center at Brown
University in August 2007. The goals of this survey were to identify
topics of interest to the Center's regional constituency of museum
professionals; to determine the composition, in terms of role
and responsibility, of the survey participants; and to receive
input regarding the preferred duration of workshop sessions and
the amount that museum professionals are willing to pay for training.
In addition to providing informative and sometimes unexpected
insights into the nature and interests of this constituency, as
well as broader trends in the museum field, the results of the
Center's survey also suggest a variety of approaches for universities
and professional associations to provide continuing training and
education to their audiences of museum and cultural agency professionals.
This paper discusses the methodology used by the Center for
its museum professional education and training survey, and serves
as a case study of the benefits and challenges of using Web-based
tools for conducting these types of assessments.
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