Reading Room

Here's a list of books and articles that are recommended for learning or teaching about metric and metrication.

Advancing Metrication Through Social Change

These books and sites are more to do with how to get things done or how to go about lobbying. They're very useful for helping with metrication.

Getting Things Done

This is a good book if you want to get more things done with the small amount of time you've got and do so with less stress.

Stick Your Neck Out: A Street-Smart Guide to Creating Change in Your Community and Beyond

Stick Your Neck Out is about exactly what we're doing here. Making positive change in your community.

Made To Stick

An excellent investigation into what makes some ideas stick and others not. More importantly it talks about how we can generate a message that will have a positive effect and be easy for people to remember.

Influence: Science and Practice

Influence examines how and why people are influenced. For those who want or need to understand why people do the things they do (for example, why you can sell more of something by putting the price up rather than down), this is an excellent read.

Books and Articles About Metric and Metrication

Childrens

Millions to Measure

Millions to measure is a wonderful book on the history of measurement. It walks through the history of measurement discussing why it is important to have standard measuring systems and why the metric system replaced the rest.

Adults

NIST Metric Publications

This page contains the NIST metric program publications including the original report to congress "A Metric America - A decision whose time has come"

NIST Fair Packaging and Labeling Act Forum

The NIST forum on the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act page has the official NIST report as well as various letters from interested parties about the FPLA.

Wikipedia Articles of Interest

Wikipedia articles on metric, metrication and the history of measurement: