This is an update on the project of Friedrich Waidacher and I, in which we have
now been joined by Jan Sas.

A month or more ago, Fritz and I decided to combine our bibliographies on
visitor studies, evaluation, market research and performance measurement.
(Fritz did all the hard work!). My bibliography had concentrated on methodology
and consisted mainly of books and similar publications, mostly in English but
with some French language citations.

Fritz's bibliography had a number of the same citations, but included a great
many journal articles and much material published in the German language as
well as English, so our two bibliographies complemented each other nicely.

Recently, Jan has offered his own VERY large bibliography, which has a great
many citations in English (and some in German and French) that neither Fritz
nor I had. Jan also has included a large number of citations in Dutch, which
makes our combined bibliography much more comprehensive and international in
scope.

I am in the process of merging Jan's material into our combined bibliography,
and hope to finish this task tonight. The bibliography will have, I estimate,
more than 800 citations. I hope that, by the end of this week/early next week,
it will be "up" on the Canadian War Museum WWW site, from whence it can be
downloaded in MS Word 6.0, WordPerfect 5.1/5.2 and ASCII versions. We hope that
a number of museums/organizations world-wide will establish links to it so that
it is as freely available to colleagues everywhere as possible. In the future,
we hope to add additional citations in the existing and other languages to
maintain its comprehensive, international characteristics.

Please do not ask for copies at this time. It should be available very soon. As
soon as it is, I will place an announcement on this list. To other people who
have provided citations recently, our thanks.

Harry Needham
Director, Programmes & Operations
Canadian War Museum