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Exhibits Matter posts a variety of resources we hope will be of interest to our readers. These change periodically so please visit us from time to time. Thanks.

Article Gallery:

• Jane Kalagher, MA. (2006): Back to the Future of Museum Exhibit Development.
• Jay Rounds, Ph.D. (2004): The Best of Practices, the Worst of Times in Are We There Yet?  Conversations about Best Practices in Science Exhibition Development, (Edited by Kathleen McLean and Catherine McEver), pp. 5-10, San Francisco: The Exploratorium.
  
  

• Russell L. Ackoff (1998): A Systemic View of Transformational Leadership, Systemic Practice and Action Research, 11(1), pp 23-36.
  

Links:

To view terrific kinetic sculptures by well-known kinetic sculptor, Arthur Ganson, click onto http://www.arthurganson.com.

To experience what Historic New England has to offer, visit http://www.historicnewengland.org It is a regional preservation organization. 

Looking for a great graduate program in Museum Studies to recommend? Check out: http://www.umsl.edu/~museums.

For information on conferences that focus on pattern reading themes, go to http://www.assisiconferences.com.

For multiple articles on the Meaning-making paradigm, go to the 1999 edition of the Exhibitionist at http://www.n-a-m-e.org/exhibitionist.html.

For the American Association of Museums (AAM), click on http://www.aam-us.org

For the National Association for Museum Exhibition (NAME), click on http://www.n-a-m-e.org

Books (Ah, so many books, so little time…):

Career/Business/Teams:

• Bohm, David (2003): On Dialogue. London; New York: Routledge.
• Eppler, Mark (2004): The Wright Way. New York: AMACOM.
• Maurer, Rick (1996): Beyond the Wall of Resistance. Austin: Bard Press.
• Senge, Peter, et. al.,  (2004): Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. Cambridge, MA: SoL.
• Wheatley, Margaret J. (1999): Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

 

Personal Development:

• Appiah, Kwame Anthony (2005): The Ethics of Identity. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Block, Peter (2003): The Answer to How is Yes. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
• Bridges, William (1980): Transitions. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books
• Edinger, Edward F. (1972): Ego and Archetype. Boston & London: Shambhala.
• Greene, Liz & Sharman-Burke, Juliet (2000): The Mythic Journey. Simon & Schuster.
• Zander, Rosamund Stone & Zander, Benjamin (2000): The Art of Possibility. New York: Penguin Books.

 

Science:

• Combs, Allan & Holland, Mark (1996): Synchronicity. New York: Marlowe & Co.
• Conforti, Michael, Ph.D. (2003): Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind Nature & Psyche. Louisiana: Spring Journal, Inc.
• Doczi, Gyorgy (1981): The Power of Limits. Boston, MA; Shambhala Publications, Inc.
• Rubik, Beverly (1996): Life at the Edge of Science. The Institute for Frontier Science.
• Talbot, Michael (1991): The Holographic Universe. New York: HarperPerennial.