Current efforts by The City at 42nd Street and the Office of Midtown Planning and Development have focused attention on the two facing blocks on Forty-second street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues as a possible site for a dance center. These two blocks contain a total of ten theatres, all built between 1899 and 1920 for live performance, which have, since the nineteen thirties, been used for film presentation.

Initial investigation by the staff of IMS has shown that one significant obstacle in improving the professional standards and assisting cooperation between museums is the lack of information, communications, and library resources. One way IMS sought to meet its Congressional mandate to improve museum services was to award a contract to the American Association of Museums to conduct a ten-week study to determine the informational needs of the museum profession, IMS and other federal agencies with museum related programs. The objectives of this study were to document the existing informational

The author presents the many community forces and personalities encountered ... (business and media people, educators, public officials), the search for a definable philosophy for the enterprise, the identity and nature of the program that must be housed in the new facility, the physical spaces needed to accommodate the program, and the personnel, equipment and money necessary to make it all happen.

This report contains few generalized discussions or theoretical statements and puts forward no fixed standards, guidelines or formulas for aesthetics. Rather, it is based on observations of the aesthetic problems and opportunities in different transportation-related situations. The report relies heavily on built examples and lessons that can be drawn from them.

This report has been prepared to assist Hartford-based arts organizations in their search for suitable space to operate their programs in the city.

The basic procedures for the registration of objects set forth in the first edition of Museum Registration Methods have not changed; they have proved their effectiveness through time and their adaptability to the requirements of many kinds of museums. One book, however, cannot be comprehensive in the treatment of procedures for all institutions. [This book] continues to be directed primarily to art museums, but in this edition significant efforts have been made to address the needs of registrars in history and science museums and to demonstrate an understanding of the special requirements of

This book examines the rise of museums since the eighteenth century in the fields of art, natural science, science and technology, history, botanical gardens, and zoos. The chief functions of museums are defined, from the traditional collection, conservation, and research to the more modern exhibition, interpretation, and service to communities, and the state of the museum profession in the today is examined.

The purpose of this handbook is to provide art museum trustees, directors, administrators, curators, and registrars with a general introduction to fine arts insurance and a concise guide to its use and management. It is part of an overall effort undertaken by the Fine Arts Insurance Committee of The Association of Art Museum Directors.

Although a licensing agreement covering art reproductions will contain features common to all licensing agreements, there are certain provisions unique to this field. The appendix to this article contains a Model Licensing Agreement (Model Agreement) which was drafted to meet the special needs of museums intending to license their works for reproduction. The text of the article discusses and analyzes the major features of the Model Agreement: The rights and obligations of the respective parties, the maintenance of quality control, the payment of royalties, tax considerations, and termination