The AAM Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation will continue the tradition of a poster session and publication of _Current Trends in Audience Research & Evaluation_ at the 1997 American Association of Museums Meeting. The papers will be published and available for purchase at the poster session on April 26 in Atlanta. "Posters" describing a visitor study, survey, evaluation, or research project are encouraged. Topics from any area of audience research and evaluation including audience outreach, exhibit or program design, label and multimedia design and content, public relations and marketing, school museum programs, visitor learning, visitor services, wayfinding and orientation, are appropriate. CARE welcomes the participation of staff, consultants, faculty and students in all areas of the field. If you would like to participate in the poster session, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words describing your study. The abstract should summarize the study, include procedures you followed to conduct it, and describe how the information is being utilized. Be sure to include who should be contacted for further information, the title of the study, and your organization's address and phone number. The deadline for poster proposals is January 20, 1997 to Lisa Hubbell Mackinney, Program Evaluator, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118; e-mail [log in to unmask]; tel. (415) 750-7011; FAX (415) 750- 7013. If you would like to submit an article of 3-7 pages on such a study for Current Trends, please request guidelines from Lisa Mackinney. The deadline for submissions to Current Trends (both hard copy and disk) is February 1, 1997 to Zahava Doering, Smithsonian Institution Office of Institutional Studies.