Prepare Your Archives for a Vibrant, Sustainable, Resilient Future
Funding Your Archives’ Future: How to Secure Support and Budget for Success is archivist and consultant Margot Note’s comprehensive guide to strategic planning, advocacy, and budgeting in archives.
Successful Strategic Planning and Budgeting Practices for Archivists
Funding Your Archives’ Future: How to Secure Support and Budget for Success offers advice from Margot Note, a seasoned expert and consultant with significant experience in archives and heritage organizations as both a practitioner and advisor.
This book is a must-read for archivists who want to build the resources that support resilient archival programs. Sustaining archives requires safeguarding collections and implementing strategic planning and advocacy approaches. Funding Your Archives’ Future serves as a comprehensive guide to navigating these challenges and establishing a foundation for future-ready archival work.
Inside the book
Chapters:
Strategic Planning: Thinking Big, Acting Smart
Budgeting Basics: Managing the Money Maze
Making the Case for Funding
Forecasting the Future: Planning for Sustainability
Data Driven Decisions: Using Metrics to Measure Success
Leveraging Internal and External Allies
Connecting Strategy to Daily Operations
Financial Stewardship: Becoming a Resource Advocate
Automating Efficiency: Harnessing Technology
Prosperity through Preparation
About the Author
Margot Note has 25 years of experience in the national and international sectors as an author, a consultant, a Certified Archivist, a Certified Records Manager, and an Information Governance Professional. Margot is also a popular guest author for Lucidea’s Think Clearly Blog, and regularly presents Lucidea-sponsored webinars on topics highly relevant to archivists. Her previous books for Lucidea Press include: The Digital Decisive Moment: Transformative Digitization Practices, Demystifying Archival Projects: Five Essentials for Success, The Archivists’ Advantage: Choosing the Right CMS, Digital Preservation Without Tears and Perserve, Promote, Persevere: The Archivists’ Guide to Internal Advocacy.
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