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The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.

Seton Hall University, located in South Orange, NJ, is home to the Institute of Museum Ethics.

Link to the MA program in Museum Professions

Call for Papers

Institute of Museum Ethics, Seton Hall University
First Biennial Graduate Student Conference:
New Directions in Museum Ethics
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Call for Papers
Abstracts due Monday, June 8, 2009 to
Janet Marstine, Director, Institute of Museum Ethics
marstija@shu.edu

Recent social, economic, political, and technological trends have presented novel ethical challenges and opportunities across all areas of museum activity. What are these challenges and opportunities and what do they tell us about the changing roles and responsibilities of museum professionals and of diverse stakeholders? The Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University invites the submission of abstracts for its “New Directions in Museum Ethics” Graduate Student Conference. Submissions are welcome from graduate students in museum studies, curatorial studies, heritage studies, legal studies, and discipline-based studies.

Keynote talk by Dr. Glenn Wharton, Conservator, Museum of Modern
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Please send abstract of no more than 300 words, along with cover
letter and 1-2 page c.v. For those presenting, final papers will be due
September 15, 2009.