16.501 new on WWW: study of museums & the Web

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 06:05:13 EST

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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 501.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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             Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:33:22 +0000
             From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
             Subject: IMLS Study Shows 72% Museums Use Web to Reach K-12

    NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
    News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
    from across the Community
    February 19, 2003

                             MUSEUMS SPEND OVER A BILLION,
               COMMIT OVER 18 MILLION HOURS TO K-12 EDUCATION PROGRAMS
                    STUDY FINDS 72 PERCENT USE WEB SITES TO TEACH
                   http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/012903.htm

      From Web Site:
    >WASHINGTON, JANUARY 29, 2003 - In its second study of K-12 educational
    >programs offered by the nation's museums, the federal Institute of Museum
    >and Library Services (IMLS) found that the percentage of museums' median
    >annual operating budgets spent on such programming increased four-fold
    >since 1996. The study also calculates that America's museums commit more
    >than 18 million instructional hours every year on programs for K-12
    >schoolchildren.
    >
    >Increasingly, museums use new technologies to bring their resources into
    >the lives of American school children. Seventy-two percent of museums use
    >Web sites for educational programming; fifty-eight percent communicate
    >with teachers via e-mail, and 24 percent e-mail students.

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