Artistic computing in art museums: Findings from a national survey

Art museum computing in the United States and Canada emphasizes the business objectives of institutions but deemphasizes the arts objectives. This major finding of the 1989 National Art Museum Computer Survey is the principal focus of this paper. Other major survey findings include documenting the largely micro orientation of museum computing, the dominant role of full-time noncomputer staff in performing computing tasks, the lack of planning and management control over information systems, and the generally high level of satisfaction with computing expressed by museum computer management.