6 librarians responded
* 4 museum libraries
* 1 museum/school library
* 1 academic library
Here is the essence of their responses.
1. May I presume that you subscribe to their Museum Collection?
Yes - 5 No - 0 No response - 1
2. Do you include any of their "Current Scholarship Program" in your subscription?
Yes - 0 No - 5 No response - 1
3. How would you rate the JSTOR Museum Collection's usefulness to your Curatorial and Education departments?
* Very useful to our curators and interns and even more useful to me personally in finding articles for the aforementioned curators and interns! We actually came in as a "very small museum" by their matrix, so it is really a good bargain to boot.
* Curatorial, exhibitions, and collections staff love it. Our students are less enthralled. It is one tool in a good set.
* The Curatorial department had been requesting a subscription to JSTOR for several years but we did not have the budget for it. They are thankful that we have it now. I think it has made their work easier. We went with the Museum Collection because it is also heavily used by our Conservators, especially our conservation scientist. I couldn't say if it is useful to Education Department staff but docents have used it at times and seemed happy with the results. Additionally, it has made our reference work easier.
* JSTOR's usefulness is very high. JSTOR is certainly a time saver for conducting research as well as offering options for journals we don't have the money to subscribe to. Well worth the money.
* I do not recommend JSTOR at all based on my experiences. While there is a lot of useful content, it is often borderline useless due to the lack of indexing as well as inadequate search features.
* Very useful.
Thank you again to all those who took the time to consider and reply,
Susan
Susan T. Ferrer-Vinent
Denver Art Museum Library
100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy.
Denver, CO 80204
720-913-0100
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