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Institutional trauma : major change in museums and its effect on staff /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Association of Museums
Other Authors: Gurian, Elaine Heumann, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : American Association of Museums, 1995.
Subjects:
Museums > United States > Management > Social aspects.
Museums > Philosophy.
Social change > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Elaine Heumann Gurian
  • Introduction / Rina Bar-Lev Elieli and Laurence J. Gould
  • Moving the museum / Elaine Heumann Gurian
  • Mitigating staff stress in a natural disaster / John R. Brumgardt
  • The Unionization of the Exploratorium / Joseph G. Ansel, Jr.
  • The Illness and death of the chairman / Marcia White and Talbert Spence
  • The Syndrome of the first paid director / Rowena Stewart
  • The Long march to the new museum: a work in progress / Patrick Norris
  • Life on a fiscal precipice / Holly Hotchner
  • A Merger in limbo / Judith Hansen O'Toole
  • Remaking the museum / Kathleen McLean and Suzanne LeBlanc.