The Heritage Interpretation Training Center Interpretive Bookstore and the Heritage Interpretation Resource Center http://www.heritageinterp.com/interpretation_book_store.html If you’re looking to expand your interpretive library check out our interpretive bookstore. Most of these books are available as e-books. These are the same textbooks that I use for our 40 interpretive training Courses. Interpretive Planning Volume 1 (available as an e-book - $30.00), Interpretive Planning Volume 2 (available as an e-book - $30.00), and Interpretive Planning new 2015 expanded edition with color photos - available from MuseumsEtc.com. Advanced Interpretive Planning - available from MuseumsEtc.com (left). John Veverka's Master Copy (pre-publishing) available as a PDF e-book - $30.00. The Interpretive Trainers Handbook Available as an e-book - $30.00. MuseumsEtc: The textbook on how to teach interpretive techniques and principles to others. Lots of practicum ideas, and training strategies. The Interpretive Trails Book (left) available from MuseumsEtc.com. John Veverka Master copy - available as a PDF - $30.00 E text book for anyone planning any interpretive trails systems, trail media or trail construction. The Interpretive Writers Guidebook - How to Provoke, Relate and Reveal your messages and stories to your visitors in s. Available as a PDF - $40.00 - this is our new Interpretive Writing textbook used for the Heritage Interpretation Training Center's Interpretive Writing Course. 40 Years a Heritage Interpreter - a collection of resource articles and reference materials. $40.00 Introduction - 40 + years minus 39 years. Way back in 1972 after several years in the Army, I was back at The Ohio State University starting to work on a degree majoring in ecology/zoology. The problem was I loved too many different things, archaeology, architecture, cultural heritage sites, museums, zoos, and on and on. As a part of my work study I had a job at the Ohio State University Museum of Zoology working in the malacology department (sea shells). But as this was an academic year appointment I needed a summer job. Thus, the "rest of the story". I saw an advertisement for seasonal naturalists with Ohio State Parks. I applied for a naturalist position and my new lifetime career was born. I worked 5 academic years at the Museum of Zoology and 5 summers as an interpretive naturalist until I graduated, after a change of majors, with my B.S and M.S. in Interpretation in 1978. I was lucky that OSU had interpretation as a major - took all the courses, and even was asked to teach a course in "Interpretive Master Planning" at OSU. Then got recruited to go to Alberta Provincial parks in Canada as an interpretive planning consultant for two years, and then recruited to go to Michigan State University to work on a Ph.D. in interpretation and take over teaching introductory and advanced interpretation courses there for 5 years. I loved consulting work more than teaching at a university, and have been working as an interpretive planner and trainer since then - my 40 years as a heritage interpreter well under way. This is one of my collections of articles on interpretive theory and philosophy, handouts from some of my interpretive training courses and other interpretive ideas that I developed over the years. Some of these were just written the past year, some are older. The main job of a interpretive professional is to learn all you can about your profession, contribute ideas and theories about your profession, get loads of on-site experience "doing" interpretation, write more about what you learned and then… pass it on to others. So here you go. Note: It is the intent of this resource to allow other interpreters or interpretive trainers to freely use and copy any of these documents in their own interpretive training and to help advance the interpretive profession. Please reference any documents you may use for these purposes. Use the ideas and information - pass it on. John Veverka. Copyright 2018, John Veverka & Associates Heritage Interpretation Training Center Resource Manual, April, 2018. Heritage Interpretation Resource Center: http://www.heritageinterp.com/heritage_interpretation_resource_center.html The Heritage Interpretation Resource Center has a list of FREE articles and handouts – all of which I use in my training courses. Check out the list of articles and let me know if you would like copies of any of these. Again – they are free. InterpNEWS – the International Heritage Interpretation e-Magazine. InterpNEWS is the most widely read interpretive publication reaching over 300K in 60 countries. Subscriptions are FREE. IN is published 6 times a year and sent as a PDF attachment. You can review back issues at: www.issuu.com/interpnews. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. For our complete course catalog click on the link below. Cheers John Veverka http://www.heritageinterp.com/interpretive_training_center_course_catalogue_.html ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). 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