Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

What museum does not want insight into what its visitors and potential visitors are looking for? Nearly every function within the museum benefits f...

What museum does not want insight into what its visitors and potential visitors are looking for? Nearly every function within the museum benefits f...

Traditionally, city museums have been keepers of city history. Many have been exercises in nostalgia, reflecting city pride. However, a new generat...

First published in 1928, the ASLIB Directory is the leading information sources reference work on organizations of all kinds. Now published in its ...

In this new title in Scalas popular Directors Choice series, Colin B. Bailey introduces the Morgan Library & Museums outstanding collection, in...

Ancient Salt Roads of China is the most comprehensive book to date on the transportation routes of the ancient Chinese salt industry and offers com...

The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting: Who were they professionally and ...

Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specif...

This Handbook provides a transnational reference point for critical engagements with the legacies of, and futures for, global archaeological collec...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Exhibitions have been in a state of constant transformation since the...

Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact institutional change by impleme...

There has been a rebirth of interest in bringing community back into social work, but what does community social work mean when applied to practice...

The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway....

The European People's Party, the largest political party in Europe, has roots that run deep in history. Founded in 1976 as a Christian Democratic f...