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• Blueprint for the future (The Institute, 1999), by Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.) and Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.). Office of Museum Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• The role of the research museums : hearing before the Task Force on Science Policy of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, April 17, 1985 (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Task Force on Science Policy (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Museum and Popular Culture (New York: American Association for Adult Education, 1939), by Thomas R. Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual for museums (National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior ; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by Ralph H. Lewis and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to early American homes (Bonanza Books, 1956), by Dorothy Pratt and Richie Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museums: their new audience. A report to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development by a special committee of the American Association of Museums. - (Washington, 1972), by American Association of Museums and United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A report on American museum work (T. and A. Constable ltd., 1928), by Edwin Ernest Lowe and Carnegie United Kingdom Trust (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Museums USA. ([For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by National Endowment for the Arts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Educational work in museums of the United States (The H. W. Wilson company, 1938), by Grace Ramsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of the national scientific and educational institutions of the United States (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1890), by G. Brown Goode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Attendance at museums in the United States and Canada (1924-1928) ... (Washington, D.C., 1930), by American Association of Museums (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nature and level of federal support for museums in fiscal years 1985 and 1986 : a federal study mandated by Congress and conducted by the Institute of Museum Services on behalf of the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, submitted to Congress February 1988. (Institute of Museum Services], 1988), by Institute of Museum Services and Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum program survey, 1979 (National Center for Education Statistics, 1981), by Lewis C. Price, Lisa DiRocco, Janice D. Lewis, inc Macro Systems, and National Center for Education Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oversight of the Smithsonian Institution : hearing before the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, March 57, 2001 [ie. March 5, 2003]. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United States House Committee on House Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pharmacy museums and historical collections. (American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1999), by George B. Griffenhagen, Beth D. Fisher, Ernst Walter Stieb, and American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The museum and the community, with a chapter on the library and the community; a study of social laws and consequences (The Science Press, 1932), by Paul Marshall Rea and Carnegie Corporation of New York. Advisory Group on Museum Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• A directory of American museums of art, history, and science (Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1910), by Paul Marshall Rea and American Association of Museums (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new relations of museums and industries : the story of the first ten years of a group of experimental museums (Newark Museum Association, 1919), by John Cotton Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museums USA : a survey report (National Endowment for the Arts : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by National Research Center of the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organization and minutes of the meeting held in the city of New York, May 15-16, 1906 : including the constitution adopted and the minutes of the first meeting of the council, held May 17, 1906. (American Association of Museums, 1906), by American Association of Museums (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organization and minutes of the meeting. ([New York], 1906), by American Association of Museums (page images at HathiTrust)
• The museum and the public (Boston, 1923), by Morris Gray and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum ... (Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901), by Carnegie Institute of Technology. Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über Museen des Ostens der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika. Reisestudien. (R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1900), by Adolf Bernhard Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Statement to the Smithsonian Board of regents on ten years of Smithsonian affairs / by C.G. Abbot. (Smithsonian Institution], 1937), by C. G. Abbot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Museums and libraries : gateways to discovery (Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2000), by Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Publications (American Association of Museums) no. 17 (1957)- (The Association, 1926), by American Association of Museums (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grantmaking policies and employment profile of the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums (London and New York: Routledge, c2019), by Patricia Ann Banks (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• The Smithsonian Institution. (The Institution, 1954), by Smithsonian Institution (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Museum Journal (partial serial archives)
• Proceedings of the American Association of Museums. (The Association, 1907), by American Association of Museums (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publications. (Washington., 1926), by American Association of Museums (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Museum journal (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1910), by University of Pennsylvania. University Museum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Payroll for the nation's museums and botanical and zoological gardens totaled $294.6 million in 1977. (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Public Information Office, [1980], 1980), by United States. Bureau of the Census. Public Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uinta Research and Curatorial Center : report (to accompany S. 1678). (U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uinta Research and Curatorial Center Act (U.S. G.P.O., 2005), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief account of the more important public collections of American archaelogy [!] in the United States (s.n., 1883), by Henry Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)

• Art Museums in America, by George Fisk Comfort (page images at MOA)
• Engines of culture: philanthropy and art museums. (State Historical Society of Wisconsin for the Dept. of History, University of Wisconsin, 1963), by Daniel M. Fox and Wisconsin. University. Dept. of History (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Art museums in America (H. O. Houghton and company, 1870), by George F. Comfort (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American renaissance (A.A. Knopf, 1928), by R. L. Duffus and Carnegie Corporation of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some problems of American art museums : a paper read at the meeting on 18 March 1953 (Club of Odd Volumes ;, 1953), by John Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalog of copyright entries. Musical compositions (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1891), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The M. H. de Young memorial museum, Golden Gate park, San Francisco, California. (Published under the auspices of the Park commission, 1921), by M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, Marjorie Charles Driscoll, and San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Park Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of books, manuscripts, maps, &c. added to the library of the New-York Historical Society, since January, 1839. (J.W. Harrison, Printer, 1840), by New-York Historical Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. (Philadelphia., in the 19th century), by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Open-air school, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Summer School, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Committee on Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (The Museum, 1906), by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of reproductions of works of art in the Western Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Mo. : paintings, sculpture, photographs. (Kansas City Art Association, 1897), by Mo.) Western Gallery of Art (Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson, and Kansas City Art Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• The nature and level of federal support for museums in fiscal years 1985 and 1986 : a federal study mandated by Congress and conducted by the Institute of Museum Services on behalf of the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, submitted to Congress February 1988. (Institute of Museum Services], 1988), by Institute of Museum Services and Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field hearings on the reauthorization of the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities act and the Museum services act : hearings before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1980), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reauthorization of the National foundation for the arts and the humanities act and the Museum services act hearings before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session .... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1980), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum and Library Services Act of 2003 : report (to accompany H.R. 13) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2003), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum and Library Services Act of 2003 : report (to accompany S. 888). (U.S. G.P.O., 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal funding of museums : hearing before the Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, April 5, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by Government Information United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grant and award opportunities (Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2007), by Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• General operating support grant application and guidelines (Institute of Museum Services, in the 20th century), by Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.) and Institute of Museum Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal support for our nation's museums. ([Institute of Museum Services, 1993), by Institute of Museum Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• IMS access (The Institute, 1990), by Institute of Museum Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reauthorization of the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities act and the Museum services act : hearings before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session ... held in Washington, D.C. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off. :, 1980), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reauthorization of the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities Act Institute of Museum Services : hearing before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session on examining proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanitities, focusing on the Institute for Museum Services : March 23, 29, April 5, and 27, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by Arts United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum and Library Services Act of 2002 : report (to accompany H.R. 3784) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impact of the administration's proposed fiscal 1984 budget on arts, humanities, and museums : hearings before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, hearings held in Washington, D.C., on March 3 and New York, N.Y., March 18, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1983), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Budget allocation for the endowments for the arts and humanities, and museums and libraries : hearings before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, hearings held in Washington, D.C., on February 25 and New York, N.Y., on March 2, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1981), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Future directions of the Institute of Museum Services : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, October 26, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• America's museums (National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997), by National Endowment for the Humanities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museums and libraries : gateways to discovery (Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2000), by Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humanities projects in museums and historical organizations (National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of General Programs, in the 20th century), by National Endowment for the Humanities. Division of General Programs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Equipping museums and libraries for the 21st century : hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 14, 2002. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Select Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum and Library Services Act (U.S. G.P.O., :, 2002), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Support for museums and historical organizations. (National Endowment for the Humanities, 1983), by National Endowment for the Humanities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humanities projects in museums and historical organizations : guidelines and application instructions. (Division of General Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984), by National Endowment for the Humanities. Division of General Programs (page images at HathiTrust)

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