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Re: non-professionals / musea: was libraries / musea
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Christine Castle <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 7 Jan 1995 11:50:16 -0500
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Wilcomb E. Washburn (1985) argued along similar lines in an article,
"Professionalizing the Muses", Museum News, 64(2)
 
Christine Castle
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Ken Yellis wrote:
 
> On Fri, 6 Jan 1995 01:42:25 -0500,
> Matthew A. White  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> . . . .
>
> >I think that the field of museum work is less a professions than it is a
> >series of professions united for a common goal.
> >
> This is precisely what A.E. Parr argued in "A Plurality of Professions," in
> Curator about 20 years ago.
>
> Ken Yellis
> Assistant Director for Public Programs
> Peabody Museum of Natural History
> 170 Whitney Avenue
> Box 208118
> New Haven, CT 06520-8118
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> (203) 432-9891/9816(fax)
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