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The museum manager's compendium : 101 essential tools and resources
Title:
The museum manager's compendium : 101 essential tools and resources
Author:
Jacobsen, John W., author.
ISBN:
9781442271371
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Physical Description:
xxxiv, 321 pages ; 29 cm
Contents:
Architect Search Process -- Architectural Considerations -- Architectural Design Phases -- Architectural Functional Adjacencies -- Architectural Planning -- Architectural Room Book -- Architectural Standards and Green Resources -- Attendance Potential Estimates -- Audience Research and Evaluation Methodologies -- Audience: Non-users -- Audience: Program Participants -- Audience: Visitors: Categories (Visitors by Category) -- Audience: Visitors: Segments (Key Visitor Segments) -- Best Practices Research -- Bibliography for Museums -- Branding: Naming Process -- Building: Design Criteria and Operational Characteristics -- Building: Sample Program -- Capital and Long-term Assets -- Capital Project: Budgets -- Capital Project: First Steps -- Capital Project: Planning Principles -- CEO Profile and Budget -- Collections: Categories and Uses -- Collections: Environmental Specifications -- Collections: Policies -- Community Needs Assessments: Process -- Community Needs and Museums: Rationale -- Concept and Strategic Master Plans -- Conceptual Framework -- Content Development -- Education: K-12 Strategy -- Education: Learning Theory -- Education: Social Learning Concepts -- Education: Strategies -- Exhibit Evaluation Filters -- Facility and Security - Governance -- Guiding Principles: Core Values -- Guiding Principles: Credos and Beliefs -- Human Resources -- Impact and Performance: Definitions -- Impacts & Benefits: Category Summary -- Impacts & Benefits: Descriptions -- Implementation Phases, Schedules and Milestones -- Institutional Evaluation Concepts -- Insurance Menu -- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) -- Market Demographic and Population Analysis -- Marketing -- Membership -- Multi-Mode Operations -- Multiple Mission Museums -- Museum Categories (Types) -- Museum Definitions -- Museum Engagements: Definitions -- Museum Field Counts -- Museum Planning: Conceptual Diagrams -- Museum Planning: Frameworks -- Museum Planning: Process and Scope -- Servant of Four Masters Models -- Theory of Action: Definitions - Theory of Action: Rationale -- Operating Budgets -- Operating Data Standards -- Peer Performance Assessments -- Policy Choices -- Programming: Categories -- Programming: Changing -- Programming: Delta Approaches -- Programming: Feature Theater -- Programming: Menu of Options -- Public Spaces: Categories -- Public Spaces: Entry and Galleries -- Public Spaces: Program Center -- Public Spaces: Retail and Functions -- Public Spaces: Theater Options -- Purposes and Impacts: Definitions -- Purposes: Samples and Options -- Revenues: Categories -- Revenues: Earned Business Lines -- Revenues: Overview -- Site Selection -- Space Use Analysis -- Stakeholders: Definitions -- Stakeholders: Categories -- Support Facilities -- Support Systems -- Support Technology and Networks -- Supporters: Collectors -- Supporters: Public and Private Funders -- Supporters: Partners -- Advice on Partnerships from the Institute of Museum Library Services -- Supporters: Volunteers -- Ticket Prices: Calculating Average Ticket Price -- Value Exchanges: Definitions -- Venue Capture Rates -- Visitor Experience: Concepts -- Visitor Experience: Factors -- Visitor Services: Capacity Calculations -- Visitor Services: Seasonality and Utilization.
Abstract:
"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."--Publisher's description.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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