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Genre/Form: | Handbooks and manuals Manuals (Handbooks) Handbooks, manuals, etc Guides, manuels, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sinclair Goodlad; Stephanie McIvor |
ISBN: | 0415182093 9780415182096 9780203976456 0203976452 |
OCLC Number: | 37464539 |
Description: | ix, 133 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Making knowledge accessible -- 2. The functions of museums and the role of volunteers -- 3. The development of student tutoring as a form of volunteering -- 4. Case studies of five exemplary programmes in Canada and the USA -- 5. Pilot volunteer programmes in the Science Museum (London) -- 6. Some principles of good practice in, and working documents for, the management of museum interpretation by volunteers -- A. Origins and developments of student tutoring -- B. Manager of Volunteer Programmes -- an aide memoire -- C. Science Museum agreement with Trade Union Side, January 1993 -- D. Volunteer deployment: The procedure, questions & answers and volunteer forms -- E.1. Briefing for student museum chaperones -- E.2. Sample volunteer job descriptions -- F. Volunteer recruitment information and forms -- G.1. Template for induction training programme for volunteers -- G.2. Introduction to the Volunteers' Handbook -- H. Volunteers' agreement. |
Series Title: | Heritage. |
Responsibility: | Sinclair Goodlad and Stephanie McIvor. |
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Abstract:
Museum Volunters 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.
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'A valuable contribution to those with an interest in the subject.' - C. Duffy, Museum National

