Donor work and fundraising is essential for any vibrant archival program. Without new collections and new funding, archives programs can stagnate, and their operations can become vulnerable to economic downturns. Archivists spend a lot of time managing collections, other archivists, and researchers in their reading rooms, but often not enough time considering the stuff that makes up their collections, where that stuff comes from, and how that stuff-and the sources of that stuff-can be valuable tools for advocacy, promotion, and fundraising for their archival programs. Donors and Archives: A Guidebook for Successful Programs reviews the complex landscape of donor work, archival donations, and institutional fundraising for today's archivists. It provides practical approaches to enhance donor relations for all types of archival programs, such as academic, government, private, and corporate archives. The book covers the planning, the process, and the partners needed for successful donations and donor programs. Arranged into four sections, the book offers practical advice and best practices in a number of areas including: how donations work, who donates to archives, how to prepare for donors, how to evaluate and manage the stuff from potential donors, how to work with an institution's development office, what are the obligations and expectations of archivists and donors, how to develop donor strategies, how to work with friends and supporters of the archives program, what happens after the donation is complete, and what is the overall value of donors to archival programs. Donors and Archives: A Guidebook for Successful Programs highlights the importance of development and fundraising for archives, while focusing on the donor and potential donor. Their interest, their support, their enthusiasm, and their stuff are vital to the success of archival programs. Archivists involved in donor work and fundraising will find the practical advice and best practices in this book applicable, replicable, timely, and valuable.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-13
9780810892170
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209216092
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Information Management
Author
Aaron D. Purcell
Publication Name
Donors and Archives: a Guidebook for Successful Programs
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
238 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
227mm
Item Width
145mm
Item Weight
331g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Aaron D. Purcell
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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