Museum Volunteers: Good Practice in the Management of VolunteersMuseum Volunteers is a practical handbook on the use of volunteers as interpreters within museums. Drawing on key examples of outstanding practice from the UK and North America, this book forms a unique resource on volunteerism. This book: * reviews research on the changing priorities of museums * examines a form of volunteering that has provided benefits to all participants in an activity similar to museum interpretation - student tutoring * describes and analyses the strengths of five exceptional volunteer programmes in Canada and the USA * reports the finding of five volunteer programmes set up and managed by the authors in the Science Museum, London * examines the development process of the pilot studies and the consequent establishment of a permanent volunteer programme in the Science Museum, London * discusses the mutual benefits that volunteer programmes can bring to museums and volunteers * offers suggestions on the practical day-to-day management and administration of volunteers. This book is essential reading for anyone involved with the management and administration of a museum, or, is thinking of offering their services to a museum as a volunteer. |
Contents
1 Making knowledge accessible | 1 |
2 The functions of museums and the role of volunteers | 9 |
3 The development of student tutoring as a form of volunteering | 21 |
4 Case studies of five exemplary programmes in Canada and the USA | 30 |
5 Pilot volunteer programmes in the Science Museum London | 58 |
6 Some principles of good practice in and working documents for the management of museum interpretation by volunteers | 82 |
Origins and developments of student tutoring | 89 |
Manager of Volunteer Programmesan aide memoire | 94 |
Briefing for student museum chaperones | 102 |
Appendix E2 | 104 |
Volunteer recruitment information and forms | 109 |
Template for induction training programme for volunteers | 114 |
Introduction to Volunteers Handbook | 115 |
Appendix H | 118 |
References and further reading | 120 |
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Science Museum agreement with Trade Union Side January 1993 | 96 |
Volunteer deployment The procedure questions answers and volunteer forms | 98 |
Other editions - View all
Museum Volunteers: Good Practice in the Management of Volunteers Sinclair Goodlad,Stephanie McIvor No preview available - 1998 |
Museum Volunteers: Good Practice in the Management of Volunteers Sinclair Goodlad,Stephanie McIvor No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
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