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Primers
The Museums and Collections Management Primer
What is a museum? What are museum jobs? What is a museum collections management system? Learn the basics of museums, what they do, and what makes them successful.
Museum Collections Management System Primer
Museum collections management systems (CMS) like Argus are used to make collections accessible to digital visitors and improve museum workflow.
eBooks
A Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing
Rachael Cristine Woody
A Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing takes a pragmatic approach to such topics as seeing each grant application as an opportunity, learning and moving on from inevitable failures, using grant acquisition to provide valuable financial sustenance to the museum without negatively impacting staff, and applying a systematic, common sense methods that builds the necessary skills to survive the grant writing process and thrive within it.
Demystifying Data Preparation for a New CMS
Rachael Cristine Woody
Learn how to prepare museum data for a new CMS.
This book outlines how to prepare museum content (data and assets) for migration to a new museum collections management system through a process of data evaluation, data remediation (cleanup), and data preparation—demystifying what can be an intimidating process and leading to the other side, where your data awaits you in a shiny new CMS.
Grants Workbook & Templates
Lucidea Press
Grant funding is increasingly important to the future of heritage institutions. We know how challenging it can be to apply for grant funding, especially when time and expertise are hard to come by. This workbook provides an introduction to grant application elements, an overview of information to prepare for each application section, and four sample project templates.
How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS
Rachael Cristine Woody
How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS explains how to search for, select, buy, implement, and maximize the value of a museum collections management system. In order to deliver the best return on investment in a collections management system, staff need to know:
How to begin the search for the right CMS; how to navigate the procurement process; how to prepare for what migration will entail; what workflows, standards, and tools they should be aware of, and how to use a CMS to its maximum potential.
Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin?
Rachael Cristine Woody
Digital projects are critically important to a museum’s mission of caring for and providing access to its collections. With that in mind, Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin? covers the components of a successful museum digital project, how to create and manage a successful digital project, how to choose the right tools for museum digital projects, evaluating the museum DAMS vs CMS, how much museum digital projects cost, and creating a museum digital project workflow that works.
Prepare for Takeoff: Getting Your Museum Digital Project Off The Ground
Rachael Cristine Woody
Learn the secrets of successful museum digital projects
Museum digital projects require personnel who are subject-matter experts, technologists, and project managers. Once you have knowledge, skills, and abilities accounted for, it is time to learn the strategies necessary to create and execute your project. Prepare for Takeoff: Getting Your Museum Digital Project Off The Ground will guide you through all aspects of the initiative and help set you up for success.
