Technical Help: Management
Collections
Digitizing
- NDCC Handbook for Digital Projects
http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm - Minnesota Digital Library Project
http://www.mndigital.org/
Library and Archives
- Central New York Library Resources Council, Documentary Heritage Program: How to Create Finding Aids
http://www.clrc.org/dhp/dhpfind.shtml - Introduction to Archival Organization and Description
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introarchives/index.html - Managing Your Government Records: Guidelines for Archives and Agencies
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/recordsguidelines/guidelines.html - Organizing Archival Material
http://aabc.bc.ca/aabc/msa/4_organizing_archival_material.htm - Organizing Congregational Archival Material
http://www.luthersem.edu/archives/memorywork/organize.asp - Society of American Archivists Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook
http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/index.html
Photographs and film
- National Film Preservation Foundation: The Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries and Museums
http://www.filmpreservation.org/sm_index.html
Policies
- Ontario Museum Notes Online #3: Writing a Collections Management Policy for the Museum
http://www.culture.gov.on.ca/english/culdiv/heritage/munote3.htm - National Park Service Museum Handbook
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/handbook.html - MIT Museum deaccessioning policies
http://web.mit.edu/museum/policies/deaccession.html - Minnesota Museum Property Act
http://www.mnhs.org/registrar - Minnesota Historical Society Long Range Preservation Plan
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/reports/2004long_range_plan.pdf
Storage
- Northeast Document Conservation Center Technical Leaflet: Storage Furniture: A Brief Review of Current Options by Sherelyn Ogden
http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf42.htm - Minnesota Historical Society Exhibits and Storage Materials Handbook
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/reports/exhibits_handbook.pdf
Facilities Management
- Minnesota Historical Society Historic Housekeeping Handbook
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/reports/manual-0102.pdf
Finance
- Ohio Historical Society Local History Notebook: Financial Management for the Local Historical Society by Michael D. Clevenger
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/oahsm/notebook/julaug1986.html - Ohio Historical Society Local History Notebook: Fund Raising For Beginners by Jeffrey E. Smith
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/oahsm/notebook/marapr1987.html - Alliance for Nonprofit Management, FAQs on fundraising
http://www.allianceonline.org/FAQ/fundraising
Governance
- How to Start a Historical Organization in Minnesota
http://www.mnhs.org/mn_shpo/how/start.htm - Board Café, an electronic newsletter for members of nonprofit boards of directors
http://www4.compasspoint.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=652 - BoardSource, formerly National Center for Nonprofit Boards
http://www.boardsource.org/
Membership
- Ohio Historical Society Local History Notebook: Ideas on Membership Development For Local Historical Societies by Eric Cardinal
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/oahsm/notebook/novdec1992.html
Personnel
- Ontario Museum Notes Online #10: Developing a Staff Training Policy
http://www.culture.gov.on.ca/english/culdiv/heritage/munote10.htm
Planning
- Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Strategic Planning Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Revised and Updated
https://www.wilderpubs.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=39
Publicity
- MAP for Nonprofits online management library: All About Marketing
http://www.managementhelp.org/mrktng/mrktng.htm
Security, Health and Safety
- Minnesota Historical Society Tech Talk: Thinking Ahead about Museum Protection: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure by Diane Adams-Graf and Claudia J. Nicholson
http://www.mnhs.org/about/publications/techtalk/TechTalkMarch2000.pdf - Museum Security Network
http://www.museum-security.org/frameengels.html
National Park Service Conserve O Gram: Tamper-Resistant Fasteners For Museum Exhibit Cases
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/02-09.pdf
Volunteers
- Ohio Historical Society Local History Notebook: Volunteers Are People Too by Carmen Christy Nickel
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/oahsm/notebook/sepoct1988.html
