I work for a museum. We have a grand total of 4 staff. We all wear so many hats
we can't keep track of them all. Personally, I'm responsible for the
collection, the exhibitions, all museum security, the desktop publishing,
supervising student fellows and work-studies, managing the climate control
system, the museum shop, and more.
I'd LOVE to have that level of detail for everything in the collection even for
our own purposes let alone for interested visitors, but it's neither a time nor
financial possibility at the moment...
Astrida
Astrida, I really do understand your problem. There are many museums I
was able to wander through in Germany that aren't open any longer
because the personnel simply aren't there and the people who do know the
collections are simply not computer literate, nor do computers
necessarily speed things up!
Much as I cringe to suggest this would a cadre of volunteers help? I
don't mean young, hot shot computer experts although some of Tudor
Talkers might be great for this. I'm thinking of the wonderful guides
I've had in various cities of older people who love their cities and now
they have retired have time to devote to guiding and other things. Here
in the States I'm always surprised at the number of people in their 80's
and over who are not only computer literate, but desperate for something
that they can do to keep their minds and fingers busy. I'm looking
forward to taking classes that wouldn't do me any good for work, but
that fascinate me (medieval/Tudor history). I'd be happy to learn any
computer program you might need to help put things on-line if we were
anywhere close. Digitizing books is one thing I could definitely do,
and I'm used to working at least 40 hours a week.
Wanda
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