Art museum libraries are thinking about their audiences, object-based learning, and the needs of researchers in the age of digital art history. By embracing changes in technology, research, and a shifting information landscape, these libraries are positioning themselves at the nexus of digital preservation, access, and radical experimentation.
Here's a concise, easy-to-understand guide to the objective of the philanthropic gift. This book emphasizes endowment building and eliminates the confusion built into the terms "gift planning", "legacy giving" and "planned giving". It focuses on the ultimate goal of the gift - to build the endowment of the respective not for profit organization.
In this unconventional management book, author Susan Carol Curzon presents a different take on traditional library management tools. Through personal narrative and anecdotes from other working professionals, Curzon presents the many everyday challenges one meets as a library manager
Here is a comprehensive guide to financial management and stability for museums that provides context for the financial issues faced by museums and offer suggestions to mitigate them. It will help the reader understand why finances are chronic issues, provide perspective to see challenges more clearly, and offer advice to fix them.
Interpreting Sports at Museums and Historic Sites provides a step-by-step guide for museums and historic sites developing an interpretive plan inclusive of sports.
This book takes the readers behind the scenes to learn how the American Museum of Natural History innovated visitor digital engagement through a public-facing iterative design process while highlighting design techniques used both there and at museums around the world.
The Practice of Sustaining Higher Performance in Business Merger & Acqui
The scope of the book is multi-disciplinary in business curricula and research discourse. It provides a valuable business curricula resource in courses such as organizational behavior, leadership decision-making, knowledge management, business information systems, business management, marketing, social sciences, and other business-related courses.
A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects
The Preparator's Handbook is an invaluable resource for emerging museum professionals or anyone working in galleries and collections with little-to-no previous preparatory experience or training. It explores, explains, and demonstrates object preparation and installation techniques.