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The care and keeping of cultural facilities : a best practice guidebook for museum facility management / Angela Person-Harm and Judie Cooper.
Penn Museum Library AM121 .P473 2014
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Person-Harm, Angela, author.
- Cooper, Judie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--Management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Museums.
- Facility management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Facility management.
- Public institutions--Management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Public institutions.
- Museums--Planning--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Museums--Planning.
- Public institutions--Management.
- Museums--Management.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
- Summary:
- Museum facility management is a vital part of running a museum, but can involve special challenges that even knowledgeable facility managers have not encountered before. The target audience for this book is both museum administrators who need to learn more about facility management and facility managers who are stepping into the museum environment for the first time. This book fills a gap in museum administration literature by providing best practices guidance that can be used to increase efficiency, save money, and improve the guest experience.
- Contents:
- An introduction to museum and cultural institution facility management
- An overview of cultural facility management
- Cultural facility strategic planning
- Managing cultural facility systems
- Managing cultural facility maintenance and operations
- Capital improvement planning and implementation
- Sustainable cultural facility management
- Risk management and safety in cultural institution facilities
- Special events in cultural facilities
- Training cultural facility personnel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0759123608
- 9780759123595
- 0759123594
- 9780759123601
- OCLC:
- 860394478
- Publisher Number:
- 99958482054
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