ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions.
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Dear ISEN Listserv member:
Your answers to the following questions will help us support you and your efforts to engage scientists, engineers, and other professionals as volunteers. TryScience.org is planning to connect these volunteers to the rich resources available in science and technology museums and professional societies worldwide. While we are focused on serving scientists and engineers initially, we are interested in the experience of all types of museums with their professional volunteers. Please let us know if you are interested in a summary of the results. If you are able to respond during this holiday period, we will forward a holiday token of our appreciation if you supply us with a mailing address.
Thank you!
Eric Marshall, Ph.D.
Director, TryScience.org
New York Hall of Science
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1. What is your title and what type of museum do you work for?
2. How do you use professionals as volunteers (both outreach and in-house)?
3. What are the drawbacks to using professionals as volunteers?
4. What are the obstacles to the quality of professional volunteer time?
5. What is the average length of a professional volunteer’s involvement and what are the obstacles to the quantity of their volunteer time?
6. How do you support professional volunteers (workshops, resources, ..)?
7. Are there any resources – books, websites, conferences, teaching materials, – that you think have been particularly useful to you in supporting your professional volunteers?
8. What kinds of rewards/support/feedback seem to lengthen or improve the quality of a volunteer’s involvement?
9. What kind of resource or support would make your volunteer recruitment, training, management, and recognition tasks easier?
10. Have you conducted any evaluation studies of your program? If so, did the study look at impact on surveyed professionals for their needs & interests?
11. Who are the leaders, the movers and shakers in this field? Whose work do you admire?
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