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Art Institute of Chicago - Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
"Merged in 1957, the Libraries hold a research collection of 320,000 scholarly works, including 1,200 current serials subscriptions and 70,000 auction sales catalogs."

• Institutional Archives of The Art Institute of Chicago

Art Museum Network News
"The AMN News Site is the official news site of the Art Museum Network, an online art museum portal..."
Sections include: General News ; Events & Exhibitions ; Buildings & Spaces ; Collections ; People in the News

The Art Newspaper
International Edition. "Events, Politics and Economics"
Includes a Museum section.

AATA Online
Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
"...enhances the preservation of our global cultural patrimony by providing high quality, peer-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management in a free online database. Updated quarterly, AATA Online currently includes abstracts of over 100,000 citations, enabling practitioners from many fields of heritage preservation to identify and select resources relevant to their work."
- The Getty

Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN)
"...is the Web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property...A worldwide network of libraries and documentation centres contribute data on their combined holdings, including previously unavailable material from private sources, to the BCIN database...BCIN is a trusted resource for professionals, museums and other heritage organizations. It now contains nearly 200 000 citations, including the first 34 volumes of the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA), published between 1955 and 1997."

Canadian War Museum - (dead link) - Bibliography

• Selected Publications on Visitor Studies, Evaluation, Market Research and Performance Measurement - (dead link)
  Collected by Friedrich Waidacher, Jan Sas and Harry Needham

Cultivate Interactive
"...a Web magazine which is funded under the European Commission's DIGICULT programme."

Cultivate United Kingdom
"...is establishing a European Cultural Heritage Network linking countries across Europe through a network of National Nodes. It is providing a single point of information on the opportunities, success stories and results arising from the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme which are of interest to libraries, museums and archives across Europe."

The Getty Provenance Index
"...accumulates and disseminates information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art. Maintaining several electronic databases as well as nonautomated material on the history of ownership of works of art (primarily European paintings) gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files, the Getty Provenance Index provides scholars and museum curators with important information about the history of taste and collecting."
Getty Research Institute

Institute of Museum and Library Services

• State of Technology and Digitization In the Nation's Museums and Libraries

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) (English or French)

• ICOM Code of Professional Ethics
• ICOM Curricula Guidelines for Museum Professional Development
  • Selected Resources for Developing Museology Curricula
• Museums and Cultural Diversity: Draft ICOM Policy Statement

Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies

Museums and the Web 2001
Seattle - March 14-17, 2001
"...The conference program for Museums and the Web 2001 was exciting and informative for participants at all levels of museum web design. This year's program featured speakers from more than 25 countries."

• Online Papers
• Proceedings from Past Conferences

Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal
"...to provide a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945)... There are currently 9908 objects from 92 participating museums listed in the Portal."
- American Association of Museums

PALMM (Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials)
"...is a program of the libraries of the State University System of Florida (SUS) designed to provide support to individual and cooperative digital library initiatives...Currently under construction, the PALMM website will contain...a searchable database of PALMM collections and related collections belonging to SUS institutions or geographically or thematically pertaining to the state of Florida."

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS)

• Museum Studies Database
  "This database contains bibliographic citations to theses and dissertations on museum theory and practice, and to articles indexed from the ALI-ABA proceedings and course of Study in Museum Administration, and from the Journal of Museum Education (JME)."
  Database is part of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)
• CMS Bulletin
  • "Museum Careers in the Next Millennium."
    By Beverly Sheppard.
    CMS Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2000)

Smithsonian Institution

• National Museum of American History
  • Building a National Collection
    150 Years of the National Print Collection
    "...this exhibition focuses on the process of collecting--how private collectors and public attitudes have influenced the collection's development and direction."
• Wonder Bound - Rare Books on Early Museums
  Sections include: Introduction ; Crocodiles on the Ceiling ; Collecting Wonders ; One Part Arsenic ; Suggested Reading ; Complete Exhibition Gallery.

Academic Discussion Lists

H-Museum
H-Net List of Museum Professionals
"...The list addresses themes and questions primarily relating to museums and museum studies. Museums are intended to be interdisciplinary, so that archaeological, historical, cultural and artistic information can be posted."

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