Museum Volunteers : Good Practice in the Management of Volunteers EPUB
by Sinclair Goodlad, Stephanie McIvor
Part of the Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management series
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Museum Volunteers is a practical handbook on the use of volunteers as interpreters within museums. Drawing on key examples of outstanding practice from the UK and North America, this book forms a unique resource on volunteerism.
This book:
* reviews research on the changing priorities of museums
* examines a form of volunteering that has provided benefits to all participants in an activity similar to museum interpretation - student tutoring
* describes and analyses the strengths of five exceptional volunteer programmes in Canada and the USA
* reports the finding of five volunteer programmes set up and managed by the authors in the Science Museum, London
* examines the development process of the pilot studies and the consequent establishment of a permanent volunteer programme in the Science Museum, London
* discusses the mutual benefits that volunteer programmes can bring to museums and volunteers
* offers suggestions on the practical day-to-day management and administration of volunteers.
This book is essential reading for anyone involved with the management and administration of a museum, or, is thinking of offering their services to a museum as a volunteer.
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- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:08/08/2005
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- ISBN:9781134674558
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Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:08/08/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9781134674558
