If - as I hope! - you have access to the (UK Museum's Association's)
"Museums Journal you will find an important group of papers from its 1971
annual conference on precisely these issues with examples - chaired by
John Jacob: should be in the September or December 1971 quarterly issue.


Patrick Boylan

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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Lindy Farneth Please. wrote:

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