There are lots of good responses from the ethics direction on how to great the suggestion of cleaning out storerooms to fill the gift shop, which brings me to a question -- how do you, as a staff person, convince higher-ups with little investment in the museum world that just because the AAM says so, it's important?  Sometimes -- especially if there are insufficient institutioanl policies -- people shrug these recommendations off.  Only with a legal cudgel will some people begin paying attention.  In other ways, I run into this peoblem at my institution as well -- AAM recommendations aren't as respected (or noticed) by Boards as they are actual staff people with museological training.  

Juliette Rogers
Collections Manager/Registrar
Stephen Phillips Trust House
Salem MA

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