Recommended Books for Your Library
Let's face it there are a lot of books out there designed to help us manage our institution. This is a list of books we think every institution should have in their library. These books are go to resources on a regular basis and you will want to have them at hand.
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies, Second Edition
Simmons, John E. 2017. Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies, 2nd Ed. American Association of Museums, Washington, DC, iv + 210 pages.
A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections
Malaro, Marie C., DeAngelis, Ildiko 2012. A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition. Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 560 pages.
Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections
Kipp, Angela 2016. Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections. Rowman & Littlefield, 150 pages.
On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling Exhibitions, Second Edition
Rebecca Buck and Jean Gilmore, On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling Exhibitions, 2nd Ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 116 pages.
Right & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions, Second Edition
Young, Anne M., ed., Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions, Second Edition, American Alliance of Museums, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, 404 pages.
Museum Registration Methods, Sixth Edition
John E. Simmons, Toni M. Kiser, Museum Registration Methods, Sixth Edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, 604 pages.
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach, Second Edition
Beverly Serrell, Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach, Second Edition, by Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology
Jo-Ann Archibald, Jenny Lee-Morgan and Jason De Santolo, Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology, ZED Scholar, 2019, 304 pages.
decolonizing museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
Amy Lonetree, Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums, UNC Press, 2012, 248 pages.
Preventive Conservation: Collections Storage
Lisa Elkin and Christopher A. Norris, Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage, Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections, 2019, 944 pages.
Leadership Matters
Anne W. Ackerson and Joan Baldwin, Leadership Matters: Leading Museums in an Age of Discord, Second Edition, Rowman & Littlefield, AASLH, + 282 pages.
Museum Administration 2.0
Hugh H. Genoways and Lynne M. Ireland (revised by Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko), Museum Administration 2.0, Rowman & Littlefield, AASLH, 296 pages.New Paragraph