Technical Help: Management

Archives and libraries

• EAD: Encoded Archival Description: Version 2002 Official Site (Library of Congress)
• "Introduction to Archival Organization and Description" (J. Paul Getty Trust)
• "Managing Your Government Records: Guidelines for Archives and Agencies" (Minnesota State Archives)
• "Organizing Archival Material" (Archives Association of British Columbia)
• Organizing Congregational Archival Material (Luther Seminary, Saint Paul MN)
• "Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook" (Society of American Archivists)

Digitizing

• Imaging
  • Digital Imaging Guidelines for Small Organizations
  • Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices
  • Scanning Negatives and Slides
  • Minnesota Historical Society Tech Talk: "Putting Digital Images Online"
• Audio
  • CDP's Digital Audio Best Practices
  • Using your iPhone/iPad to Record Oral History
• Metadata
  • Minnesota Digital Library Metadata Entry Guidelines
  • Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices
• Web and Social Media
  • Cloud Computing for Small Museums
  • Web Site Development Comparison
  • Social media/Web Guidelines and Strategy Worksheets
• General
  • Minnesota Digital Library
  • Guide to Digital Projects (MINITEX/LDS Joint Standards Review Task Force)
  • Northeast Document Conservation Center:
    • "Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access"
    • Preservation Leaflets (scroll down to 6: Reformatting)

Photographs and film

• "The Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries and Museums" (National Film Preservation Foundation) - click on "preservation basics" and then "The Film Preservation Guide"
• Minnesota Historical Society Tech Talk: "Care of Photographic Materials"
  • Part 1: Components, Environment, and Negatives
  • Part 2: Framed Photographs and Albums
• Northeast Document Conservation Center Preservation Leaflets (scroll down to 5: Photographs) 
   

Policies

• Minnesota Historical Society's "Long-Range Preservation Plan" (updated 2007)
• Minnesota Museum Property Act:
  • Information on the Minnesota Historical Society's Central Registrar webpage
  • "Putting the New Minnesota Museum Property Law to Work" (Minnesota Historical Society Tech Talk)
• "MIT Museum Collections Manual"
• National Park Service's "Museum Handbook"
• Northeast Document Conservation Center Preservation Leaflets (1: Planning and Prioritizing, includes preservation assessment and planning, and collections policies)
• "Standards for Community Museums in Ontario" (Ontario Ministry of Culture) 
   

Storage

• "Exhibits and Storage Materials Handbook" (Minnesota Historical Society)
• Northeast Document Conservation Center Preservation Leaflets (scroll down to 4: Storage and Handling)
   

Facilities management

• "Getting a Handle on the Museum Environment" (Minnesota Historical Society Tech Talk)
• "Historic Housekeeping Handbook" (Minnesota Historical Society)
• Northeast Document Conservation Center Preservation Leaflets (scroll down to 2: The Environment, and 3: Emergency Management) 
   

Finance

• "Financial Management for the Local Historical Society" (Ohio Historical Society's Local History Notebooks)
• "Fund Raising for Beginners" (Ohio Historical Society's Local History Notebooks)
• Alliance for Nonprofit Management, FAQs on fundraising 
  http://www.allianceonline.org/FAQ/fundraising 
   

Governance

• "How to Start a Historical Organization in Minnesota" (Minnesota Historical Society)
• Board Cafe is a regular column in the Blue Avocado, an electronic magazine for people who work and volunteer in the non-profit sector; Board Café articles can be read on the Blue Avocado website or you can sign up for a free subscription and receive it via e-mail
• BoardSource, formerly National Center for Nonprofit Boards, "building effective nonprofit boards"
   

Membership

• "Ideas on Membership Development For Local Historical Societies" (Ohio Historical Society's Local History Notebooks) 
   

Personnel

• "Developing a Staff Training Policy" (Ontario Museum Notes Online #10)
   

Planning

• "Strategic Planning Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Revised and Updated" ($34.95 from Fieldstone Alliance, formerly a Amherst H. Wilder Foundation publication) 
   

Publicity

• MAP for Nonprofits online management library: All About Marketing

Security, health, safety

• Minnesota Historical Society Tech Talk on Museum Security: "Thinking Ahead about Museum Protection: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure"
• Museum Security Network
• "Tamper-Resistant Fasteners For Museum Exhibit Cases" (National Park Service Conserve O Gram no. 2/9, July 1995)(PDF)

Volunteers

• "Volunteers Are People Too," by Carmen Christy Nickel (Ohio Historical Society Local History Notebooks)