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This 4 page paper discusses some of the ways in which museums are using the Internet. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Internet, great museums can "open their doors" to people who would otherwise never see the treasures inside. This paper discusses some of the ways in which museums are using
the Internet. Discussion Museums can benefit from the Internet in many ways. These include the opportunity to participate in "discussion with curators, conservators, museum managers, documentation and computer
staff" and other specialists; the opportunity to keep up with "news of current developments" in the profession; the ability to see catalogs of other museums, often with pictures; the opportunity
to visit "virtual exhibitions" of other facilities; the availability of "directories of people, organizations, museums, companies, official and international bodies"; the ability to find "information about products and services"; the
ability to post announcements about museum activities; the ability to post reference documents; and access to "software packages, including free or low-cost programs for text processing and image manipulation" (Will,
1996). There are vast numbers of resources available to museums, but they generally fall into one of three categories: "Presentations by museums of their collections and services"; "resources and
services for use by museum professionals" and "all the other information on the Internet, which has no specific museum connection but which is of value to museum people in doing
their work" (Will, 2003). There are many types of resources that museums can use, depending on what they want to do. Some "have aimed for coverage, including a high
proportion of their collections" while others give "a more glossy presentation of a selection of their collections, of special exhibitions, or of highlights complete with pictures and interpretive text" (Will,
2003). A "bare bones" web site that simply lists such things as the items in the collection, the catalogue offerings, and links to some research may be all that
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