An article entitled "Museum Studies Literature and its Accessibility" by
Geoff Stansfield in the  June 1996 issue of  Museum Management and
Curatorship discusses the "rapid growth in the number of monographs and
journals relating to museum studies in recent years..."
The challenge, he says, is to find information on specific topics, as
published bibliographies come and go (mostly go) and updating them is
always an uncertain prospect.  Secondly, only one abstract journal is
now being published, and few journals publish useful cumulative indexes.
 Stansfield goes on to discuss the future potential for on-line
databases, the need to keep up to date with new monographs, theses and
dissertations as they are published, and the need for improved indexes
for both monographs and journals.

IMHO, we need  better access to the scholarly material that is already
being published to stimulate and encourage US professionals to do the
same.

Roxana Adams
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Roxana Adams
"The old order changeth, giving way to new." Tennyson