Good afternoon, Kiersten.
As co-author (with Anne Ackerson) of *Leadership Matters*, a book on museum
leadership in the 21st century (Alta Mira, 2014), and *Women+Museums:
Lessons from the Field* (Left Coast, 2016), I can tell you how desperately
the field needs a journal to focus research on the how we train and staff
museums. So bravo for your new venture. That said, I hope you take Patrick
Cox's comments to heart. Online and open access speaks to the way the world
is; paper speaks to the way the world was. Please consider a journal that
provides the greatest availability and the quickest turn-around so it can
be accessed by senior members of the field as well as graduate students.

Best regards,
Joan Baldwin

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Latham, Kiersten <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hello everyone in museum-L land!
>
> I am writing today to get your opinions, thoughts, and/or suggestions
> about whether or not our field needs a dedicated journal devoted to issues
> in museum studies itself (which focuses on t*he study of *museums, and
> approaches to training of professionals), rather than about museums, their
> functions and how to run them. Organizations in existence that are related
> to this are: COMPT
> <http://www.compt-aam.org/resources/standardsguidelines.html> (the AAM’s
> Committee on Museum Professional Training) and ICTOP <http://ictop.org/>
> (the international version, through ICOM) but we don’t have a peer-reviewed
> journal dedicated to issues in teaching, training and learning in museum
> studies programs (undergrad, graduate, certificate, single courses). For
> the past 10 years, I have lived in the world of Library and Information
> Science, where I teach museum studies. In this field, they have a very
> well-developed organization, called ALISE
> <http://www.alise.org/about-alise-2> (Assn for LIS education), which has
> a great peer-reviewed journal and an annual, *very* well-attended and
> useful conference.
>
> As an academic, I find very few places where I can publish (or even
> sustain longer, deeper conversations) about training in museum  studies or
> ask the larger questions about the field itself. I find this to be an
> unfortunate gap in the literature and therefore, a gap in the dissemination
> and generation of new knowledge around museum studies. Yes, I know that
> these kinds of articles are sporadically coming up in other journals such
> as Museum Management & Curatorship and Curator (among others) but there is
> no one source for dedicated discourse at this level.
>
> What are your thoughts on this? Do you feel there is a gap as well? Would
> you submit work to such a journal? Would you read material from such a
> journal?
>
> Thanks ahead for your thoughts on this.
> KF
>
>
> *Dr. Kiersten F. Latham *·  *Assistant Professor/ MuseLab director **S**chool
> of Library & Information Science *· *Kent State University *· *314
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