The author examines the training of arts managers and emphasis the need in arts management training for managers to develop a democratic perspective and managers who are opened to a plurality of views on arts and culture. The author focuses on the Cultural Services, now Arts and Administration Program, at the University of Oregon, which has a culturally democratic perspective in its program.

The only careers book to embrace the performing, visual, and media arts as a single industry. It is the first comprehensive guide to the job market and to career development that embraces theatre, music, dance, opera, museums, galleries, film, telecommunications, and the many types of managers and support personnel who earn a living by working at a desk behind the scenes.

This report, in French, describes the teaching of arts management and profiles programs at universities around the world. It also details research on sociological, economic and other aspects of the arts. It includes lists of arts management education programs, organizations and conferences in these areas, and bibliographies of arts research.

The present paper focuses on studies about administrators of the live performing arts organizations in the nonprofit (tax-exempt) sector of the economy with only occasional mentions of museums and the for profit (taxable) sector. The results of the several studies reviewed show that the potential income of arts organizations is unlikely to provide the means of paying competitive salaries and that there are several serious challenges in the views of the present arts administrators.

The publication of the first edition of An Independent Sector Resource Directory of Education and Training Opportunities and other Services provided readers with a wealth of information on some of the excellent educational opportunities that offer training for current and future non-profit leaders. In response to many requests, we have provided in this new edition a section of career vignettes from professionals practicing in the non-profit sector.

Listing of 86 arts information centers.

Published by the Arts Extension Service, Division of Continuing Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Massachusetts. A cursory review of arts administrators' resumes reveals a broad range of credentials and experiences. Arts managers are as likely to come from the artist's studio as from education, journalism, public relations, recreation, public administration or an M.B.A. program. For some, volunteer work has provided entry to the field.

By matching educational needs and graduate program offerings, this study was designed to produce a guide to individuals committed to professional arts management, and in particular for use by three separate groups: directors of arts administration graduate training programs, their potential students, and individuals with the authority and responsibility to hire graduates of such programs.

The purpose of this roundtable discussion was to discuss arts consulting as a profession: what does it do, what does it mean, and where is it going? Joseph Wesley Zeigler, a consulting editor of the Journal of Arts Management and Law, lead the discussion with four other art consultants.

The 1984 edition of Museum Studies International was compiled by the Office of Museum Programs of the Smithsonian Institution and produced in cooperation with the International Council of Museum Committee for the Training of Personnel.