Subject: Local History List Serve - new book titles Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:05:22 -0500 Message-ID: <B46BC0C8F6373F43B0A84089442FE921014D96B4@MEWMAD1P0129.enterprise.wistate.us> From: "Seymour, Janet I - WHS" <Janet.Seymour@wisconsinhistory.org>
List Serve Members,
Below are some new titles from Alta Mira Press. For those of you with
questions about collections management, especially cataloging and
accessioning, you'll find "Registration Methods for the Small Museum" to
be very helpful.
Find out more about these and other books at:
http://www.altamirapress.com/
Janet Seymour
Field Services Representative - Northern Region
Wisconsin Historical Society
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NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOKS
Registration Methods for the Small Museum
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o/1045295323/941659/34534174/goto:http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/07591
11308>
Fourth Edition
By Daniel B Reibel
Registration Methods for the Small Museum has been the definitive guide
to registration methodology since 1978. The new fourth edition brings
the classic handbook up-to-date with the electronic registration
techniques that are available for today's museum.
Bones of the Ancestors
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o/1045295323/941659/34534172/goto:http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/07591
11596>
The Ambum Stone
By Brian Egloff
Bones of the Ancestors tells the shadowy story of the Ambum Stone, a
3,000-year-old carving from Papua New Guinea that found its way onto the
antiquities market and then into an important modern museum.
Lost in the Museum
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o/1045295323/941659/34534170/goto:http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/07591
10697>
Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell
By Nancy Moses
Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the
public never sees. In Lost in the Museum, Nancy Moses takes the reader
behind the employees only doors to uncover the stories buried--along
with the objects--in the crypts of museums, historical societies, and
archives.
School-University Partnerships
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o/1045295323/941659/34534168/goto:http://www.rowmaneducation.com/ISBN/193
57125>
The Journal of the National Association of Professional Development
Schools
Roger Brindley,, University of South Florida
School-University Partnerships disseminates the research of PDS
practitioners nationwide. It is published by the National Association of
Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) with the mission to serve as a
means for validating P-12/higher education partnerships and the
processes and work of these collaborative ventures.
Spirited Encounters
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o/1045295323/941659/34534166/goto:http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/07591
10883>
American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices
By Karen Coody Cooper
Spirited Encounters provides a foundation for understanding museums,
examines how museums collect Native materials, and explores protest as a
fully American process of addressing grievances. Now that museums and
American Indians are working together in the processes of repatriation,
this book can help each side understand the other more fully.
Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens
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o/1045295323/941659/34534164/goto:http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/07591
10638>
By Timothy C. Hohn
This book introduces public garden professionals and students to a range
of both standard and specialized museological concepts and practices
useful for the management and curation of botanical collections.
Mastering a Museum Plan
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o/1045295323/941659/34534163/goto:http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/90732
39990>
Strategies for Exhibit Development
By Dirk Houtgraaf and Vanda Vitali with Peter Gale
Mastering a Museum Plan provides an optimal structure for successful
planning, one that allows a museum to articulate its message, organize
its development activity, avoid the need for crisis management, and
prevent the loss of human and material resources.
Museums in Motion
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o/1045295323/941659/34534162/goto:http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/07591
0509X>
An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums
SECOND EDITION
By Edward P. Alexander and Mary Alexander
In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a
much-needed addition to the museum literature. Now, Mary Alexander has
produced a newly revised edition of the classic text, bringing it the
twenty-first century with coverage of emerging trends, resources, and
challenges.
Handbook of Oral History
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o/1045295323/941659/34534161/goto:http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/07591
02295>
Edited by Thomas L. Charlton, Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless
(Institute for Oral History, Baylor University)
In recent decades, oral history has matured into an established field of
critical importance to historians and social scientists alike. Handbook
of Oral History captures the current state-of-the-art, identifies major
strands of intellectual development, and predicts key directions for
future growth in theory, research, and application.
Exhibit Makeovers
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o/1045295323/941659/34534160/goto:http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/07591
09974>
A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums
By Alice Parman and Jeffrey Jane Flowers
A hands-on workbook to guide staff and volunteers through exhibit
planning, design, fabrication, and installation using limited resources.
On Drawing
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o/1045295323/941659/34534159/goto:http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/ISBN/0
742559157>
FOURTH EDITION
By Roger Winter
This new edition of On Drawing introduces the main elements and domains
of drawing throughout history, including seminal topics such as letter
design, geometry, and subjects, but also drawing for picture books and
graphic novels, as well as providing practical information of how one
learns to draw professionally.
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