The book is museum related. Many museum education folk reside here.  In
spite of your personal feelings about advertising in general you must
consider the purposes of this list and its members.  Your comment about
the book looking interesting (in its museum-related context) should have
clued you into its raison de etre on museum-l. Please excuse my French.

On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Robert A. Baron wrote:

> The following is an example of what presents itself as a public interest
> message crossing the line that separates a notice in the public interest
> from private self-promotion.  What appears below is self-serving
> advertising, is mildly offensive, and is only slightly more tolerable than
> a spam offering for sale time-share condos in Mexico.  Too bad, because the
> book looks interesting.
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> Robert A. Baron
> Museum Computer Consultant
> P.O. Box 93, Larchmont N.Y. 10538
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> > I am posting the following on behalf of my Executive Director, Dr. Robert
> Janes.
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> > Museums are perhaps the last place one would look for radical
> organizational
> > thinking, but the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, under the
> > directorship of Robert R. Janes, is startling the cultural community with
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> > its innovative and challenging new ways of doing business.  A profile of
> > Glenbow's attempts at transformation has been captured in a new book:
> > "Museums and the Paradox of Change", by Glenbow Executive Director,
> Robert
> > R. Janes, recently published by Glenbow.
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> > Janes presents a detailed case study of Glenbow's change process,
> described
> > with sometimes startling candour.  This case study is complemented by a
> > thoughtful essay by Michael Ames, Director of the University of British
> > Columbia's Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada, as well as
> > contributions by six museum directors from Canada and Europe, who comment
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> > Glenbow's experience and offer their own insights.  This publication is
> > unique in that ten Glenbow staff members, both current and former, also
> > offer perspectives on the "human side of change" and what the changes at
> > Glenbow have meant to them personally and professionally.
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> Robert A. Baron
> Museum Computer Consultant
> P.O. Box 93, Larchmont N.Y. 10538
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