...Dongming Ma; Anping Cheng; Hao Qian Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of augmented reality (AR) on users' tour experience and psychological well-being in museums. The study utilizes the Information System (IS) Success Model and the Perceived Value Theory to investigate...

...Laura Fuentes-Moraleda; Carmen Lafuente-Ibañez; Natalia Fernandez Alvarez; Teresa Villace-Molinero Purpose The aim of this exploratory study is to identify the factors that influence the acceptance of social robots in museum environments and determine if this influence depends on the visitor's...

... of the presentation of Kungfu as a form of cultural heritage with engagement-creating technology, in which technology is unobtrusive but effective. Originality/value Although it is already a global trend for the museums to integrate multimedia technologies into their exhibitions, research on the situation...

...Joyce Ray Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a perspective on the development of digital curation education and practice in museums in the USA. Design/methodology/approach Methods used include: a historical overview of the development of digital curation, originally as a field...

... in particular the European Commission who is to blame for this. It is save to put money in the past and risky to invest in the future culture. Can we ever overcome Museum Europe? Geert Lovink touches on the differing logics from analogue and digitized cultural heritage. Where analogue cultural heritage...

...Kay Neville The history of handheld devices in museums, is briefly outlined, by Loic Tallon, in the introductory chapter. The origins of “visitor technology” in museums started in 1952 with “short‐wave ambulatory lectures” at the Stedelijk Museum using a radio broadcasting system. Handheld...

... exceptions. The lack of public testing does not mean that systems do less than they claim, but it does mean that libraries, archives and museums need to press for proof if they want to have confidence in the product. Originality/value When betting on the future, these cannot be certainty, but bets placed...

...Elke Greifender; Sanjica Faletar Tanackoviæ; Boris Badurina Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on research that examined the relationship between, and collaboration of, Croatian archives, libraries and museums. Design/methodology/approach Online survey and unstructured interviews...

.../methodology/approach The paper discusses the three major aspects of the IMLS Leadership project: the process of the museum/library collaboration, the technical aspects of the building, the digital archive and the metadata scheme, and the effort to engage the archive user with the past through interactive...

...Timothy W. Cole; Sarah L. Shreeves Its National Leadership Grant (NLG) program is one of the many ways in which the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) supports the development of innovative new projects and services by the museum, library, and archival community in the USA. Over...

...Joyce Ray As a federally‐funded independent granting agency, The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) became involved in digitization in the late 1990s when Congress gave it statutory authority to fund digitization of library and museum collections. Since that time, IMLS has funded more...

...Brenda Bailey‐Hainer; Richard Urban The Colorado Digitization Program has received several IMLS Leadership Grants. The Heritage Colorado and Western Trails grant projects both involved extensive collaboration between libraries, museums, historical societies and archives. Successful collaborative...

...Priscilla Caplan; Stephanie Haas Linking Florida's Natural History uses species information as the nexus for pulling together scientific data from museum specimen databases and library catalogs of scientific literature. The goals of the IMLS funded project were to integrate specimen records...

...Matthew F. Nickerson Eight partners including three university libraries and five regional museums worked together to create the Voices of the Colorado Plateau online exhibit. This site features multimedia exhibits that combine oral history recordings and historic photographs to create a new...