Hello Kiersten, I support your idea very much. As someone who teaches in a museum studies program, I find that our students are always most interested in, and appreciative of, the comments that I share with them about real-life experiences. I am very interested, then, in how museum professionals can assist and support each other as we educate young professionals for their own museum careers. Good luck! Jill Hoffman, Ph.D. — Acting Director Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Education and Faculty, Graduate Museum Science Program, Museum of Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 806-742-2432 [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Museum discussion list [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Baldwin, Joan [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 11:55 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] a peer-reviewed journal about museum studies training/education 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]<mailto:[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<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. 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