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Much has changed in the fields of museology and folklife during the past 30 years, when Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings was first published by AASLH Press in 1987. Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives is a brand new collection of cutting-edge essays...

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Alongside a general introduction to website development and design, this book features instructional guides for four of the most popular WYSIWYG editors. With an eye to the specific needs of museums and historic sites, Free and Easy Website Design for Museums and Historic Site...

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Alongside a general introduction to website development and design, this book features instructional guides for four of the most popular WYSIWYG editors. With an eye to the specific needs of museums and historic sites, Free and Easy Website Design for Museums and Historic Site...

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Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational public history textbook for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies.

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Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational public history textbook for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies.

(Hardback, Second Edition)

This is your guide to assessing readiness to attract grants, understanding how grant funders work, learning how to design highly-fundable projects and programs, and writing and submitting proposals. The tips, charts, models, and examples will help you create a manageable and rewarding grant program, or update and strengthen your present program.

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This is your guide to assessing readiness to attract grants, understanding how grant funders work, learning how to design highly-fundable projects and programs, and writing and submitting proposals. The tips, charts, models, and examples will help you create a manageable and rewarding grant program, or update and strengthen your present program.

(Paperback, Third Edition)

Forty years after its initial publication, this new edition features over 150 revisions, including case studies from the authors experiences, complete look with color images of the archaeological excavation at Bacons Castle and Monticello in Virginia, 74 illustrations and new chapters based on emerging information in the field.

(Hardback, Third Edition)

Forty years after its initial publication, this new edition features over 150 revisions, including case studies from the authors experiences, complete look with color images of the archaeological excavation at Bacons Castle and Monticello in Virginia, 74 illustrations and new chapters based on emerging information in the field.

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In this book, readers learn about leadership theory in both for profit and nonprofit worlds and how to effectively master the role of both leader and follower. It explores the reality of change in the workplace, the standards and best practices of businesses and museums, and innovative approaches to creating a nimble and responsive organization.

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In this book, readers learn about leadership theory in both for profit and nonprofit worlds and how to effectively master the role of both leader and follower. It explores the reality of change in the workplace, the standards and best practices of businesses and museums, and innovative approaches to creating a nimble and responsive organization.

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Leading the Historical Enterprise presents new ideas and strategies for leading and innovating in museums, historical societies, historic sites, and other state and local history programs. The book blends insights from the best practices of model historical programs and museums with themes from the best recent studies of leadership.

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Leading the Historical Enterprise presents new ideas and strategies for leading and innovating in museums, historical societies, historic sites, and other state and local history programs. The book blends insights from the best practices of model historical programs and museums with themes from the best recent studies of leadership.

(Hardback, Second Edition)

In the second edition of their 2000 book, John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking offer an updated version of the Contextual Model of Learning, as well as present the latest advances in museum research, theory, and practice in order to provide readers an inside view of how and why people learn from their museum experiences.

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In the second edition of their 2000 book, John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking offer an updated version of the Contextual Model of Learning, as well as present the latest advances in museum research, theory, and practice in order to provide readers an inside view of how and why people learn from their museum experiences.

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Here, David Allison, who has worked at several museums known for effective enactments, provides the fascinating stories of three large living history museums as they adapt to changing audience expectations; a solid overview of the types of interpretation that living history mu...

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Here, David Allison, who has worked at several museums known for effective enactments, provides the fascinating stories of three large living history museums as they adapt to changing audience expectations; a solid overview of the types of interpretation that living history mu...

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Managing People and Projects in Museums is a practical guide about the intersection of projects and individuals in the museum workplace. Chapters contain the experiences of the author and other museum professionals and literature from the field. Case studies and an Appendix with templates, tools, and hypothetical class exercises are included.

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Managing People and Projects in Museums is a practical guide about the intersection of projects and individuals in the museum workplace. Chapters contain the experiences of the author and other museum professionals and literature from the field. Case studies and an Appendix with templates, tools, and hypothetical class exercises are included.

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Here's a one-stop marketing guide just for small museums and historic sites. In an age when many local historical associations and museums take money from their marketing budget because resources are tight, which can start a vicious cycle of reduced marketing reach, lower vi...

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Here's a one-stop marketing guide just for small museums and historic sites. In an age when many local historical associations and museums take money from their marketing budget because resources are tight, which can start a vicious cycle of reduced marketing reach, lower vi...

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Membership Marketing In The Digital Age: A Handbook for Museums and Libraries is a membership manager's reference book to what works and how on relevant topics such as member acquisition, membership planning and projections, membership retention and renewals, membership servic...

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Membership Marketing In The Digital Age is a membership manager's reference book to what works and how on relevant topics such as member acquisition, membership planning and projections, membership retention and renewals, membership servicing, engagement and loyalty. It featur...

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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, Lynne Ireland, and Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko have taken the mystery out and replaced it with e...