It's rather easy to locate books on a topic especially if you have an example of one on hand: check out the subjects assigned and click them to see more content sharing those assigned subjects. When searching the Library platform you can use a combination of them however you like, even as keywords - for example try this search: material culture handbook.
In the advanced search you can try a combo of fields searched, such as keyword and subject, title and author, etc.
Including the term Museum in the subject field or something similiar should help narrow down too many results.
You can browse virtually by Library of Congress Call Number. Choose "Browse" and select "by LC Call Number". Enter a call number and view adjacent call numbers, which can replicate shelf browsing. (It's not possible to browse within a particular library location, however - all locations across the LIbraries are included.) I've started the browse for these classes below:
AM1-(501) Museums. Collectors and collecting
AM10-100 By country
AM111-160 Museology. Museum methods, technique, etc.
AM200-(501) Collectors and collecting
CD921-5000 Archives
Following are some examples of Library of Congress subject searches for various aspects Museum Studies:
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
Art and state
Benson Latin American Collection
Cultural policy
Cultural property
Cultural property -- protection
Cultural property -- repatriation
Culture and law
Digital exhibition
Ethnological museums and collections
Ethnological museums and collections -- Social aspects
Indians of North America -- Museums
Intellectual property
Libraries -- Special collections -- Latin America (or sub out geographic interest, or institution of interest)
Material culture
Museums -- Acquisitions
Museums-Exhibits
Museums -- Social aspects
Museums and community -- United States
Museums and Indians -- United States
Museum exhibits -- Social aspects
Museums -- Management
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