The Museum Manager's Compendium

101 Essential Tools and Resources

John W. Jacobsen

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781442271395
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Museum Administration
• Index: Business

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:
A frequent reference book to consult when facing decisions or planning for the futureA source of examples and templates of common museum reportsA source of answers and options for strategic planning questions A crib book to extract text when drafting internal proposals and plansA primer when welcoming new partners and Board membersA quick study and refresher of key aspects of museum practiceAn orientation to new staffA 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.

Table of contents

• Cover-Page
• HalfTitle
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Architect Search Process
• 2 Architectural Considerations
• 3 Architectural Design Phases
• 4 Architectural Functional Adjacencies
• 5 Architectural Planning
• 6 Architectural Room Book
• 7 Architectural Standards and Green Resources
• 8 Attendance Potential Estimates
• 9 Audience Research and Evaluation Methodologies
• 10 Audiences: Nonusers
• 11 Audiences: Program Participants
• 12 Audiences: Key Visitor Segments
• 13 Audiences: Visitors by Category
• 14 Best Practices Research
• 15 Bibliography for Museums
• 16 Branding: Naming Process
• 17 Building: Design Criteria and Operational Characteristics
• 18 Building: Sample Program
• 19 Capital and Long-Term Assets
• 20 Capital Project: Budgets
• 21 Capital Project: First Steps
• 22 Capital Project: Planning Principles
• 23 Chief Executive Officer Profile and Budget
• 24 Collections: Policies
• 25 Collections: Categories and Uses
• 26 Collections: Environmental Specifications
• 27 Community Needs Assessments: Process
• 28 Community Needs and Museums: Rationale
• 29 Concept and Strategic Master Plans
• 30 Conceptual Framework
• 31 Content Development
• 32 Education: K–12 Strategy
• 33 Education: Learning Theory
• 34 Education: Social Learning Concepts
• 35 Education: Strategies
• 36 Exhibit Evaluation Filters
• 37 Facility and Security
• 38 Governance Policy Statements
• 39 Guiding Principles: Core Values
• 40 Guiding Principles: Credos and Beliefs
• 41 Human Resources
• 42 Impact and Performance: Definitions
• 43 Impacts and Benefits: Category Summary
• 44 Museum Impacts and Benefits
• 45 Implementation Phases, Schedules, Milestones, and Tasks
• 46 Institutional Evaluation Concepts
• 47 Insurance Menu
• 48 Key Performance Indicators
• 49 Market Demographics and Population Analysis
• 50 Marketing
• 51 Membership
• 52 Multimode Operations
• 53 Multiple-Mission Museums
• 54 Categories (Types) of Museums
• 55 Museum Definitions
• 56 Museum Engagements: Definitions
• 57 Museum Field Counts
• 58 Museum Planning: Conceptual Diagrams
• 59 Museum Planning: Frameworks
• 60 Museum Planning: Process and Scope
• 61 Servant of Four Masters Model
• 62 Theory of Action: Definitions
• 63 Theory of Action: Rationale
• 64 Operating Budgets
• 65 Operating Data Standards
• 66 Peer Performance Assessments
• 67 Policy Choices
• 68 Programming: Categories
• 69 Programming: Changing
• 70 Programming: Delta Approaches
• 71 Programming: Feature Theaters
• 72 Programming: Menu of Options
• 73 Public Spaces: Categories
• 74 Public Spaces: Lobby and Galleries
• 75 Public Spaces: Program Center
• 76 Public Spaces: Retail and Functions
• 77 Public Spaces: Theater Options
• 78 Purposes and Impacts: Definitions
• 79 Purposes: Samples and Options
• 80 Revenue: Categories
• 81 Earned and Support Revenue: Checklist
• 82 Earned Revenue: Business Lines
• 83 Site Selection
• 84 Space Use Analysis
• 85 Stakeholders: Definitions
• 86 Stakeholders: Categories
• 87 Support Facilities
• 88 Support Systems
• 89 Support: Technology and Networks
• 90 Supporters: Collectors
• 91 Supporters: Public and Private Funders
• 92 Supporters: Partners
• 93 Advice on Partnerships from the Institute of Museum Library Services
• 94 Supporters: Volunteers
• 95 Ticket Prices: Calculating Average Ticket Price
• 96 Value Exchanges: Definitions
• 97 Venue Capture Rates
• 98 Visitor Experience: Concepts
• 99 Visitor Experience: Factors
• 100 Visitor Services: Capacity Calculations
• 101 Visitor Services: Seasonality and Utilization
• Index
• About the Authors