Museum Studies Library books and reference material

This is a guide to some of the material available on Museum Studies held by the University of Sydney Library. The list is not comprehensive but will give you an indication of what is available to assist with your research.

Much of this information is now also available on the World Wide Web and you should also look at the Internet links section of this Guide.

Bibliographies and Catalogues

A bibliography of museum studies / compiled and edited by Simon J. Knell.
Aldershot, Hants., England: Scolar Press: Brookfield, Vt., USA: Ashgate Pub. Co., 1994. 11th ed.
Fisher Short Loan 016.069 7

Bibliography: an extensive listing of published material on the subjects of museology, museography amd museum and art gallery administration / Canadian Museum Association = Bibliographie : un inventaire considérable de publications portant sur la muséologie, la muséographie et l'administration de musées et de galeries d'art / Association des musées canadiens.
[Ottawa] : The Association, [1976-], vol 1 and 12 supplements.
Fisher Research 016.069 9

Dictionaries

The British Museum materials thesaurus / compiled by Collections Data Management Section.(CDMS) ; edited by Tanya Szrajber.
Cambridge: Published by MDA in association with the British Museum, 1997.
Fisher Research 069.52 25

Dictionarium museologicum = Dictionary of museology / [editors-in-chief, István Éri, Béla Végh].
Budapest: Hungarian Esperanto Association, 1986.
Fisher Ref 069.03 1

Revised nomenclature for museum cataloging: a revised and expanded version of Robert G.Chenall's system for classifying man-made objects / James R. Blackaby, Patricia Greeno, and the Nomenclature Committee.
Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 1995.
Fisher SR and Ref 069.52 13 A

Terminology for museums : proceedings of an International Conference held in Cambridge, England, 21-24 September 1988 / the second conference of the Museum Documentation Association; edited by D. Andrew Roberts.
Cambridge: Museum Documentation with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program Association, 1990.
Fisher SR 069.52 11

Directories

The Cambridge guide to the museums of Europe / Kenneth Hudson and Ann Nicholls.
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Fisher Reference 069.0254 1

The Official museum directory.
Washington, D.C. : American Association of Museums, 24th ed.1994.
Fisher Ref 069.0257 1

Museums of the world / [editorial staff, Bettina Bartz, Helmut Opitz, Elisabeth Richter].
München; New York : K.G. Saur, 1992. 4th rev.& enl. ed.
Fisher Research 069.025 5

Museums yearbook.
London: Museums Association, 1976-
Fisher Ref 069 2, 1997/98
Fisher Research 069 2, 1976-1985 ; 1994/95-1996/97

W.H.A.T.: what's here and there: the first comprehensive guide to Australia's cultural collections.
Roseville, NSW: Campbell Publishing, 1988.
Fisher Ref 069.0994 4

Guides and Handbooks

Keyguide to information sources in museum studies / Peter Woodhead and Geoffrey Stansfield.
London: Mansell; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1994. 2nd ed.
Fisher Ref 069.5 10 A

Manual of curatorship: a guide to museum practice / [edited by] John M.A. Thompson ... [et al.].
Oxford ; Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992. 2nd ed.
Fisher Ref 069.5 4 A

Museum: a reference guide / edited by Michael Steven Shapiro, with the assistance of Louis Ward Kemp.
New York: Greenwood Press, c1990.
Fisher Ref 016.069 4

Code of ethics for museums / American Association of Museums.
Washington, DC: The Association, 1994.
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SPECTRUM : the UK museum documentation standard / compiled and edited by Alice Grant.
Cambridge: Museum Documentation Association, 1994.
Fisher Research 069.52 20

Starting right: a basic guide to museum planning / Gerald George and Cindy Sherrell-Leo.
Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, c1986.
Fisher Ref 069.0973 10

Print Indexes and Abstracts

Bibliographie muséologique internationale. International museological bibliography.
Paris, Unesco - ICOM Documentation Centre, 1968-1985.
Fisher Research 069.016 1

Museum abstracts.
Edinburgh : Scottish Museums Council,Vol. 9, no. 1 (Apr. 1993)-v. 12, no. 3 (June 1996).
Fisher Ref 016.069 3

British Humanities Index.
London: The Library Association. 1962+
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Humanities index.
New York, H. W. Wilson Co.
v 1(1974/75)-v 24(1997/98)
Fisher Ref 016.0013 1

Social Sciences Citation Index.
Philadelphia : Institute for Scientific Information.
1965 - 1999
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NB Also available as the electronic database, Web of Science from 1985+