Extinct Monsters to Deep Time

Diana E. Marsh is an Assistant Professor of archives and digital curation at the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies (iSchool) who studies how heritage institutions share knowledge with communities and the public. Her current work focuses on improving discovery and access to colonially-held archives for Native American and Indigenous communities.

List of Illustrations and Table
Foreward
Jennifer Shannon
Prologue: Fieldnotes from the Badlands
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chronology A: Lists of Relevant Leadership
Chronology B: Geologic Time Scale
Chronology C: Fossil Exhibits Timeline
Introduction
Chapter 1. Increase and Diffusion: Early Fossil Exhibits and a History of Institutional Culture
Chapter 2. Group Dynamics: Exhibit Meetings and Expertise
Chapter 3. Group Dynamics: The Roots of Team Frictions and Complementarities
Chapter 4. Content Development: Debates about Interconnected Processes and Static Things
Chapter 5. Content Development: The Roots of Interpretive Frictions and Complementarities
Chapter 6. Diffusion and Increase: Shifts in Institutional Culture from Modernization to Now
Chapter 7. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Coda: The Nation's T-rex
Appendix A: Consent Form
Appendix B: Interview Questionnaires
Sample Team Interview Questionnaire
Sample Oral History Interview Questionnaire
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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From Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.