The HRC thanks Julia Baldini, museum educator at the Windsor Historical Society and steering committee member for the Connecticut Museum Educator Roundtable, for serving as guest author for the following entry. With each passing year, more and more museums are evaluating and increasing the roles museum educators and education departments play in the overall mission of the museum. Colleges and universities offer degrees and certificates in museum education and museum educators are expanding their workload...
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Many of you may follow Reach Advisors' blog, Museum Audience Insight (discussed in a recent HRC post by Liz Shapiro). The blog provides information about audience, cutting edge techniques for marketing and audience development, and trends we should know more about. Susie Wilkening and James Chung have now taken the results of their on-going research into the museum visitor and produced a lively, easy to read book that delves more deeply into some of their...
Hi everyone and greetings from the 2009 AASLH Annual Conference in Indianapolis. More info to come from the conference later today, but I wanted to let everyone know that the HRC has taken advantage of the conference sale special--50% off all Altimira publications--and has just added some great new titles to the HRC Library. These books will be available for CT museums to borrow from the HRC on September 1: The Museum Educator's Manual: Educators...
After hearing a short interview on NPR with author Michael M. Kaiser about his work on saving arts organizations on the brink of disaster, I was intrigued enough to buy his new book The Art of the Turnaround.Although his book was written before our current era of bailouts and mortgage meltdowns, I hoped his work experiences from the mid-1980s to around 2007 might offer some assistance to arts organizations facing the current economic crisis.In a...
Ever wonder what happened to the "strategy" in strategic plan?If you have ever lost any sleep pondering how your supposedly strategic plan is going to address this current financial mess, then you will be overjoyed to find David La Piana's 2008 book, The NonProfit Strategy Revolution: Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World.This little book (that comes with a very useful CD) offers a new way of creating a strategic plan that begins with...
