American Association of Museums (AAM). Code of Ethics for Museums. Washington DC: AAM, 1991. The 1993 amendments to this ethical code are included.

American Association of Museums (AAM). Registrar's Committee. Code of Ethics for Registrars. Washington DC: AAM, 1984.

American Association of Museums (AAM). Registrar's Committee. Code of Practice for Couriering Museum Objects. Washington DC: AAM.

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). Statement of Professional Ethics. Nashville: AASLH, 1992.

American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AZA). Code of Professional Ethics. AZA, 1993.

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for Conservators. AIC, 1994.

American Library Association. Association of College and Research Libraries. (ACRL) Standards for Ethical Conduct for Rare Books, Manuscript, and Special Collections Librarians. 2nd ed. ACRL, 1994.

Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). Professional Practices in Art Museums. New York: AAMD, 1992. Includes the Code of Ethics for Art Museum Directors.

Bloom, Joel N. "Operating in Hard Times." 21st Annual Ali-Aba Course of Study: Legal Problems of Museum Administration. (1993): 189-204. This article is a discussion of the American Association of Museum's Code of Ethics for Museums.

Brown, Ellsworth H. "Code of Ethics for Museums." 20th Annual Ali-Aba Course of Study: Legal Problems of Museum Administration. (1992): 145-158. This article is a discussion of the American Association of Museum's Code of Ethics for Museums. Council of the Society of American Archivists (SAA). Code of Ethics for Archivists. SAA, 1992.

International Committee of Museums. "Code of Professional Ethics." http://www.icom.org/ICOM/ethics (2 May 1997).
Lester, Joan. "A Code Of Ethics for Curators." 18th Annual Ali-Aba Course of Study: Legal Problems of Museum Administration. (1990): 537-541. This includes both the Code of Ethics for Curators created by AAM and an article by Joan Lester regarding the code.

United States. Department of Health and Human Services. National Endowment for the Humanities. Code of Ethics for Native American Research. Washington DC: NEH, 1981. This is an ethical code "to be followed by NEH grantees whose projects relate to American Indian, Aleut, Eskimo or Native Hawaiian peoples."

The Newark Museum. Institutional Code of Ethics. Newark: The Newark Museum, 1997.

O'Neill, Michael. Nonprofit Management and Leadership. "Ethical Dimensions of Nonprofit Administration." Vol.3, number 2. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.,1992.

Rose, Cordelia. "A Code of Ethics for Registrars." 18th Annual Ali-Aba Course of Study: Legal Problems of Museum Administration. (1990): 542-546. This is a reprint of an article first published in the February 1985 issue of Museum News.

*Roth, John K., ed. Ethics. 3 vols. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994. An encyclopedia-type reference material.

Stitt, Susan. "AASLH Code Of Ethics: Study Materials." 21st Annual Ali-Aba Course of Study: Legal Problems of Museum Administration. (1993):181-187.

AASLH stands for American Association for State and Local History. This article includes the history of creating the AASLH ethical code and a copy of the code itself.

Ullberg, Alan D. and Patricia Ullberg. "A Proposed Curatorial Code of Ethics." 18th Annual Ali-Aba Course of Study: Legal Problems of Museum Administration. (1990): 523-527.

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