Dear colleagues, in responding to an inquiry on PUBLHIST I included
information on reaching my "Bibliography on Museums and Their Management"
on the Mary Washington College gopher.  In the hope that this may be of
interest to some MUSEUM-L folks too, I forward it herewith.
 
By the way I owe the list an apology for not signing an earlier message
of today.  When I posted a reference to the _Richmond Times Dispatch_
report of resignations at the Valentine Museum, I forgot to add my title
block.  Please accept this apology as supplying that (see bottom of
forwarded messages).
 
John
John Pearce
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 09:12:14 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Museum management bibliography
 
Eddie Woodard, regarding "a book" on museum management, I'm afraid your
instructor is correct--there isn't one, simple, good one.  I teach an
introductory course for our undergraduates, called The History Museum,
and I use the "ancient" 2nd edition of G. Ellis Burcaw's _Introduction to
Museum Work_.  But I supplement with other items, and I also give our
students a bibliography I have prepared, on "Museums and Their
Management," with a selected list of about 300 titles.
 
In my bibliography the bulk of the "management" titles are actually drawn
from the larger, more general world of management of non-profit
institutions and/or the more recent bibliography in "cultural resources
management."  (A number of such titles are for sale through the fine
bookstore of the American Association of Museums, and if you do not have
a copy of their current catalog, you ought to contact them for a copy
[free].)
 
Should you (or anyone else) want to consult my bibliography, we have
posted it to our Mary Washington College gopher.  If you have Gopher
access you can point to us with
 
     gopher gopher.mwc.edu
 
Otherwise we are available through the University of Minnesota gopher
which carries a very long list of world-wide gopher servers.  Go to their
gopher, then to list for North America, then USA, then Virginia, then
Mary Washington College.
 
If you use a WWW browser the URL for our gopher is
 
     gopher://gopher.mwc.edu
 
Once in our Mary Washington College gopher, go to Academic Programs, then
to Historic Preservation, then to Bibliographies, then to History Museums.
 
And--to you or anyone else using my bibliography--_please_ let me know of
any errors I may have typed in, and also any titles you would
particularly recommend for me to add--a process I expect to carry out
during the summer, as I prepare to give that course again in the fall.
 
I hope this will lead you to some useful books.
 
John Pearce
Director, Center for Historic Preservation
Mary Washington College
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Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5358
 
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