Ready to Read: Funding Your Archives’ Future: How to Secure Support and Budget for Success
Margot Note
We are pleased to announce that Margot Note’s newest title, Funding Your Archives’ Future: How to Secure Support and Budget for Success, is now available from Lucidea Press. If you are an archives professional who wants to balance passion with planning, this book is for you!
Archivists work in environments where financial stability is as critical as managing collections. Addressing economic challenges requires more than budget oversight; it demands advocacy, innovation, and planning.
The principles outlined in Funding Your Archives’ Future enable archivists to manage resources efficiently. This book provides adaptable approaches to integrating financial management with strategic planning, whether for small institutional archives, community collections, or large repositories.
What’s Inside?
Book Chapters:
- Foundations of Strategic Planning: Thinking Big, Acting Smart
- Budgeting Basics: Managing the Money Maze
- Advocating for Resources: Making the Case for Funding
- Forecasting the Future: Planning for Sustainability
- Data-Driven Decisions: Using Metrics to Measure Success
- Strategic Partnerships: Leveraging Internal and External Allies
- Bridging the Gap: Connecting Strategy to Daily Operations
- Leadership in Financial Stewardship: Becoming a Resource Advocate
- Automating Efficiency: Harnessing Technology for Collections Management
Funding Your Archives’ Future is a must-read for archivists who want to build resilient archival programs. Sustaining archives requires safeguarding collections and implementing strategic planning and advocacy approaches. Archives expert Margot Note’s book serves as a comprehensive guide to navigating these challenges and establishing a foundation for future-ready archival work.
Download Your Free Copy
We at Lucidea are delighted to offer you free access to this eBook, which you can download here. For more information about ArchivEra, our unrivaled archival CMS, please explore our client stories, email sales@lucidea.com, or contact us online.
Margot Note
Margot Note, archivist, consultant, and Lucidea Press author, is a frequent blogger and popular webinar presenter for Lucidea—provider of ArchivEra, archival collections management software for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. Download a free copy of Margot’s previous book, The Archivists’ Advantage: Choosing the Right Collections Management System, and explore more of her content here.
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