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Museums: A Place to Work: Planning Museum Careers (Heritage)by Jane Glaser
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The definitive guide to the museum profession, this book provides descriptions of more than 30 positions and the skills and education recommended for each one. The importance of ethics, training, and preparation are discussed, as well as information on how to find jobs in the field. Book News Annotation:A guide to the museum profession, surveying the latest trends in
museum work. Outlines the duties of some 30 museum positions,
incorporating extracts from interviews with experienced museum
professionals, and provides information on the origins and history of
museums, ethics, and how to find jobs in museums. Includes an
extensive bibliography, and lists of professional museum-related
organizations, sources of funding for internships and research, and
sample mission statements and organizational charts. For those
starting a museum career, and career counselors.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Museums: A Place to Work is the definitive guide to museum practices, to professional positions, and how to prepare, look for and find jobs. Designed to aid both the uninitiated and the professional, it is an extremely useful tool that uniquely projects museum career information in the total context of what a museum is and does. World-wide, museums have become the central cultural and educational resource for preserving and interpreting cultural and natural history, making it extremely important that they attract the best, brightest and most creative people to work in them. This book, as no other, provides the guidance prospective museum professionals need to encourage them, to provide understanding and to assist them in pursuing a museum career. Museums: A Place to Work covers all the issues involved in museums: the importance of ethics and professionalism, legal concerns, the descriptions and requirements of thirty professional positions, support positions, staff/volunteer relations and training and preparation. Its most unique feature are interviews with noted museums professionals who share their views of their museum careers. With societal changes, advanced technologies, cultural diversity, gender issues, wider audiences, environmental problems, social change, and people with disabilities--all affecting the collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting, and interpreting operations of museums--this book educates the vast potential readership as to museum career for today and tomorrow. Co-published with the Smithsonian Institution Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-266) and index. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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