SPRING 2013
Meaning Making Revisited

• From the President, Douglas Simpson
• From the Editor, Gretchen Jennings
• The NAME Lifetime Achievement Award for Janet Kamien
• Exhibits Newsline, by Beth Redmond-Jones
• What Do Visitors Mean By "Meaning"?, by Beverly Serrel, Matt Sikora and Marianna Adams
• Making Sense of Experience: A Model for Meaning Making, by Ted Ansbacher
• Museum Authority and Meaning Making in a Digital Era, by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
• Breaking Out of the Norm: Meaning Making in the Context of Everyday Museum Experience, by Dr. Joan M. E. Gaither and Genevieve Kaplan
• Entrance Icons: Visual Meaning-Making in Museum Entrance Galleries, by Darcie MacMahon
• Meaning Making Through Conversations about Science and Society, by R. Ostman, B. Herring, A. Jackson, I. Bennett and J. Wetmore
• Object Lessons: Making Meaning from Things in History Museum, by Laura Burd Schiavo
• Meaning Making in Nine Acts, by Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson
• Commentary: Reflections on the Adolescence of Meaning-Making, by Lois H. Silverman
• Nuts and Bolts: Enhancing Accessibility by Crowdsourcing an Exhibit App, by Beth Ziebarth and Nancy Proctor
• Exhibition Studies: The Construction of Meaning, by Julianne Snider
• Exhibition Critiques: MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Australia by T. Roberts, E. Rodley and B. Jensen
• Book Review: The Museum Experience Revisited by John Falk and Lynn Dierking, reviewed by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
• Sessions of Interest to NAME Members at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Alliance of Museums, Baltimore MD