Sustaining Digital Community Collections
Project Website: https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/re-246346-ols-20 Principal Investigator: Katrina Fenlon, PhD Team Members:
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Purchasing Representation in Games
iSchool Inclusion Institute Project Project Advisor: Daniel Gardner, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chapman University, Grand Challenges Initiative -- Schmid College of Science and Technology Publications:
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Adapting Museum Pandemic Outreach
Advisor: Christina Getrich, PhD Team Members:
This project analyzes how museums are adapting their community engagement and outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic. Museum outreach is often focused on school field trips, camps, public events and celebrations. Due to the pandemic, most of these are on hold or severely hindered by the social limitations in place. In this work, we seek to examine new ways that museums are conducting outreach in order to see how institutional and funding differences, public support, and social media presence might impact museums’ abilities to maintain or develop engagement. As an area normally focused on face-to-face interaction, museum outreach has had to change its practices rapidly in the face of social restrictions. The basis of this project is built on three research questions: How are museums conducting outreach in a pandemic setting? How does money/funding impact the ways different museums conduct outreach? And how do visitors interact with museum outreach? To answer these questions, we conduct interviews with museum staff and attend virtual outreach events as well as analyze data from museum websites and reports from American Association of Museums. We hope that our work will allow us to see a broader picture of how museums are adapting and how this could be beneficial to museum outreach as a whole, both during and after the pandemic. Presented at 15th Annual Conference of the Inclusive Museum |