Publication date:
22 September 2017Length of book:
356 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781442271371
The Museum Manager’s Compendium: 101 Essential Tools and Resources helps you make and implement your decisions as a museum manager and strategic planner. This book’s 101 sections present a treasure trove of definitions, diagrams, processes, choices, and worksheets, in major areas of museum management.
Collectively, they reflect the literature and contributions of some of the field’s best thinkers. The resources distill half a century of museum experience over hundreds of projects done by scores of talents and experts internationally for all types of museums.
The Museum Manager’s Compendium can be used as:
The Museum Manager’s Compendium is for museum professionals—leaders, managers, coordinators, professional counsel, contractors, evaluators, supporters, and policy makers— to use often. It is a must-own reference book for every museum professional responsible for decisions and implementation.
Collectively, they reflect the literature and contributions of some of the field’s best thinkers. The resources distill half a century of museum experience over hundreds of projects done by scores of talents and experts internationally for all types of museums.
The Museum Manager’s Compendium can be used as:
- A frequent reference book to consult when facing decisions or planning for the future
- A source of examples and templates of common museum reports
- A source of answers and options for strategic planning questions
- A crib book to extract text when drafting internal proposals and plans
- A primer when welcoming new partners and Board members
- A quick study and refresher of key aspects of museum practice
- An orientation to new staff
- A glossary for building shared definition among team members
The Museum Manager’s Compendium is for museum professionals—leaders, managers, coordinators, professional counsel, contractors, evaluators, supporters, and policy makers— to use often. It is a must-own reference book for every museum professional responsible for decisions and implementation.
This compendium. . . is an extraordinarily useful tool for museums of all sorts at all stages of their institutional lives. It is a very clear result of the hundreds of projects that White Oak Associates have engaged in over their four decades of consulting and advisory services to the museum profession. . . . this is an immensely useful book for a variety of museum personnel, advocates, contractors, supporters, and board members. If not there already, it should be on your bookshelf.