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  title info:
    title: National Standards & best practices for U.S. museums
  title info:
    title: National standards and best practices for United States museums
  name:
    name part: American Association of Museums
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Merritt, Elizabeth E.
  name:
    name part: EBSCOhost
  type of resource: text
  genre: handbook
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (92 pages.) :
  table of contents: Preface / Ford W. Bell -- Section 1: Introduction. Who should use this book and how ; What is a museum? ; Why Standards? ; What are "Standards and best practices"? ; Where do Standards come from? ; How can museums use the Standards? ; Who else uses the Standards, and how? -- Section 2: Standards and best practices. Core questions ; Commentary ; Characteristics of excellence for U.S. museums ; Characteristics of excellence for U.S. museums "in translation" -- I. Public trust and accountability. Standards regarding public trust and accountability ; Commentary ; Standards regarding ethics ; Commentary ; The AAM code of ethics for museums ; Standards regarding an institutional code of ethics ; Commentary -- II. Mission and planning. Standards regarding institutional mission statements ; Commentary ; Standards regarding institutional planning ; Commentary -- III. Leadership and organizational structure. Standards regarding governance ; Commentary ; Standards regarding delegation of authority ; Commentary -- IV. Collections stewardship. Standards regarding collections stewardship ; Commentary ; Best practices regarding loaning collections to non-museum entities ; Commentary ; Standards regarding the unlawful appropriation of objects during the Nazi era ; Best practices regarding the unlawful appropriation of objects during the Nazi era ; Commentary -- V. Education and interpretation. Standards regarding education and interpretation ; Commentary ; Standards regarding exhibiting borrowed objects ; Commentary -- VI. Financial stability. Standards regarding financial stability ; Commentary ; Standards regarding developing and managing business and individual donor support ; Commentary ; Standards regarding retrenchment or downsizing -- VII. Facilities and risk management. Standards regarding facilities and risk management ; Commentary -- Section 3: Completing the picture. The universe of museum standards and best practices ; Other major sources of standards relevant to museum…
  note: the American Association of Museums ; Commentary by Elizabeth E. Merritt.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Museums
    geographic: United States
    genre: Handbooks, manuals, etc
  subject:
    topic: Museums
    topic: Standards
    geographic: United States
    genre: Handbooks, manuals, etc
  subject:
    topic: Museum techniques
    geographic: United States
    genre: Handbooks, manuals, etc
  subject:
    topic: Museums
    geographic: United States
    topic: Management
    genre: Handbooks, manuals, etc
  subject:
    topic: Musées
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Guides, manuels, etc
  subject:
    topic: Musées
    topic: Normes
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Guides, manuels, etc
  subject:
    topic: Muséologie
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Guides, manuels, etc
  subject:
    topic: Musées
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Gestion
    genre: Guides, manuels, etc
  subject:
    topic: Museum techniques
  subject:
    topic: Museums
  subject:
    topic: Museums
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Museums
    topic: Standards
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: AM11 .A63 2008
  classification: 069/.068
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    title info:
      title: National Standards & best practices for U.S. museums
    name:
      name part: American Association of Museums.
    origin info:
      publisher: Washington, DC : American Association of Museums, ©2008
    identifier: (OCoLC)742391049
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2008010792
    identifier: (OCoLC)213765658
  identifier: 9781493082926 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1493082922 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781933253114
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    record creation date: 240321
    record change date: 20240321150013.7
    record identifier: in00005657757
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng