I agree with Dan. There is a need and it's over due.
Keni Sturgeon
Sent from my iPhoneYes. There's a critical need for this.dbOn Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:58 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 the 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 (the AAM’s Committee on Museum Professional Training) and ICTOP (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 (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
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