Museum Administration: An Introduction (American Association for State and Local History)
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0759102945 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Love it! A book with the right things to learn about museums.. Amazon Customer said Five Stars. a good book for my graduate course. A bit outdated B. Cromer This was an assigned text so probably one of the better texts available in the opinion of my professorbut it was published in 2002 and has too much outdated information. The general principles and theories are well covered and exercises are interesting. The writing is very clear and relatively jargon-free. A minor quibble is the layout: pages of widely spaced chapter endnotes which
Has authored or edited many books and articles, primarily in the areas of mammalogy and museology.Lynne M. from the University of Kansas. Genoways is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Paul Getty Trust's Museum Management Institute. from Nebraska Wesleyan University and an M.A. He was a founding member and president of the Nebraska Museums Association (1992-1994), later ser
Wondering what a museum director actually does? About to start your first director's job? Looking for guidance in starting up a museum or working with a museum director? Hugh Genoways and Lynne Ireland have taken the mystery out and put common sense and good guidance in. Learn about everything from budgets and strategic planning to human resources and facilities management to collections and programming. Case studies and exercises throughout help you review and practice what you are learning, and their extensive references will be a welcome resource.. Genoways and Ireland also help you tackle legal documents, legal and ethical issues, and challenges for the modern museum
Museum Administration makes an excellent text for any museum studies program.Well written and concise in the treatment of each subject area, Museum Administration offers the proverbial twenty pounds of potatoes in a ten pound sack. (Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society)Deserves a place on the reference shelf of every historical organization. (The Public Historian) . It would be helpful to anyone training interns or to staff new to museum work. Muse, May/June 2004)One of the best books on the subject, Museum Administration easily finds relevance in any senior-level museum studies course.