Borun, Minda & Dritsas, Jennifer, Developing Family-Friendly Exhibits. Contact: Altamira Press, Susan Walters, 925-938-7243 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Campbell, Eileen, & Hutchinson, Melissa & Ramberg, Jenny-Sayre & Tomulonis, Jaci, “Spinning Fish Tales: Telling Marine Biology,” Exhibitionist, 14/1: Spring 1995, 41-44. Contact: Whitney Watson This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ($10)

Chambers, Marlene, “Is Anyone Out There? Audience and Communication,” Museum News, June 1984. Contact: AAM Bookstore, 202-289-9127 or www.aam-us.org

Csikszentmihalyi, M. & Hermanson, K. “Intrinsic Motivation in Museums: What makes visitors want to learn?” Museum News, 74/3: 34–37, 59–61. 1995. Contact: AAM Bookstore, 202-289-9127 or www.aam-us.org

McDermott-Lewis, Melora & Williams, Patterson, The Denver Art Museum Interpretive Project. 1990. Contact: Denver Art Museum website: www.denverartmuseum.org (Click on “Resources.”)

McManus, Paulette, Oh, Yes, They Do: How Museum Visitors Read Labels and Interact with Exhibit Texts. 1989. Contact: AAM Bookstore, 202-289-9127 or www.aam-us.org

Melton, Arthur W.(1935) Problems of Installation in Museums of Art. Reprinted by AAM (1988) 269 pp. Contact: AAM Bookstore, 202-289-9127 or www.aam-us.org

Monterey Bay Aquarium. Graphics Standards Manual: Editorial Guidelines (1997); Label-testing Study for Family/Kids Area (1994). Contact: Elizabeth Labor, Monterey Bay Aquarium, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940, Tel: 831-648-4843, Fax: 831-644-7583 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Morrell, Roger W. and Katharina V. Echt. “Presenting Information to Older Adults,” Journal of Museum Education, Volume 26, No. 1. Contact: AAM Bookstore, 202-289-9127 or www.aam-us.org

Contact: mail self-addressed 9x12 envelope with $1.25 postage to  Judy Rand, Rand & Associates, 2584 Fifth Ave. West, Seattle, WA 98119

Renner, N. O. “The bilingual dilemma: Should we or shouldn’t we?” Exhibitionist, 22 (1), 13-15. 2003; “Taking the bilingual leap: You’ve made the decision to go bilingual,” Exhibitionist, 22 (2), 27-30. 2004. Contact: Whitney Watson This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ($10)

Serrell, Beverly. Exhibit labels: An interpretive approach. 1996. Contact: Altamira Press, Susan Walters, 925-938-7243, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or AAM Bookstore, 202-289-9127 or www.aam-us.org

Screven, C.G., (Ed.) Visitor Studies Bibliography and Abstracts, Fourth Edition. 1999; “Motivating Visitors to read labels,” ILVS Review: A Journal of Visitor Behavior, 2/2 183-211; “Uses of Evaluation Before, During and After Exhibit Design,”  ILVS Review. 1990. Contact: Screven & Associates, Su. 1203, 1700 E. 56th St., Chicago, IL 60637, Tel: 773-752-5615, Fax: 773-752-7277, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Taylor, S.  (Ed.) Try it!  Improving Exhibits through Formative Evaluation. 117pp. 1991. Contact: Association of Science-Technology Centers, Washington, D.C., 202 783-7200 

Yellis, Ken. “Getting it Down on Paper,” Journal of Museum Education: Roundtable Reports, 10/2, 18-22. Contact: AAM, see above

Yenawine, Philip. Writing for Adult Museum Visitors; Thoughts on Writing in Museums. Contact: www.vue.org (check under downloads)

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To obtain copies of the display panel “script” for In the Beginning (And the End) Is the Word: Best Practices in Museum Exhibition Writing, please contact Brian H. Peterson, James A. Michener Art Museum, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it