Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists
Now in Paperback! As institutional budgets become tighter and information sources wider and more complex, archivists, manuscript curators and staff of special collections seek ways to broaden the use of their materials, bringing their services and their story to wider publics. Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists presents practical advice on how to find and relate to these publics: how to better serve the client in person, launch a fund-raising campaign, work with the media, market programs, organize programs around historical events, train and successfully use volunteers, and avoid the most common public relations errors by planning. Written by archivists with previous professional or practical experience in these fields, Advocating Archives offers simply written, practical guidelines for the professional or manager who either develops their own public relations program or works with public relations professional in their institution. Three studies in archival public relations, taken from the daily experience of their writers, provide material for the instructors in archival management courses. Part of a long-term public relations initiative undertaken by the Society of American Archivists, the book aims to make public relations skills an integral part of archival management, and to help the archivist, curator, or special collections professional direct the public's response to their work.
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Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists
Now in Paperback! As institutional budgets become tighter and information sources wider and more complex, archivists, manuscript curators and staff of special collections seek ways to broaden the use of their materials, bringing their services and their story to wider publics. Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists presents practical advice on how to find and relate to these publics: how to better serve the client in person, launch a fund-raising campaign, work with the media, market programs, organize programs around historical events, train and successfully use volunteers, and avoid the most common public relations errors by planning. Written by archivists with previous professional or practical experience in these fields, Advocating Archives offers simply written, practical guidelines for the professional or manager who either develops their own public relations program or works with public relations professional in their institution. Three studies in archival public relations, taken from the daily experience of their writers, provide material for the instructors in archival management courses. Part of a long-term public relations initiative undertaken by the Society of American Archivists, the book aims to make public relations skills an integral part of archival management, and to help the archivist, curator, or special collections professional direct the public's response to their work.
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Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists

Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists

by Elsie Freeman Finch
Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists

Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists

by Elsie Freeman Finch

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Now in Paperback! As institutional budgets become tighter and information sources wider and more complex, archivists, manuscript curators and staff of special collections seek ways to broaden the use of their materials, bringing their services and their story to wider publics. Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists presents practical advice on how to find and relate to these publics: how to better serve the client in person, launch a fund-raising campaign, work with the media, market programs, organize programs around historical events, train and successfully use volunteers, and avoid the most common public relations errors by planning. Written by archivists with previous professional or practical experience in these fields, Advocating Archives offers simply written, practical guidelines for the professional or manager who either develops their own public relations program or works with public relations professional in their institution. Three studies in archival public relations, taken from the daily experience of their writers, provide material for the instructors in archival management courses. Part of a long-term public relations initiative undertaken by the Society of American Archivists, the book aims to make public relations skills an integral part of archival management, and to help the archivist, curator, or special collections professional direct the public's response to their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781461656142
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 01/01/1994
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 186
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Elsie Freeman Finch has been a leader in the development of public relations and education programs for archives since she began her career in the mid-1960's. Recently retired as manager of public education programs for the National Archives and Records Service, she also taught in secondary schools, university and adult education programs and worked in advertising and public relations firms.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1. TALKING TO THE ANGEL
Part 3 Beginning Your Public Relations Program
Chapter 4 2. MONEY TALK
Part 5 An Introduction to Private Sector Fund Raising for Archives
Chapter 6 3 IN PRINT, ON AIR
Part 7 Working with the Media
Chapter 8 4. MODEST PROPOSALS
Part 9 Marketing Ideas for Planning Public Programs
Chapter 10 5 .ANNIVERSARIES
Part 11 A Framework for Planning Public Programs
Chapter 12 6.VOLUNTEERS AND FRIENDS
Part 13 Recruitment, Management, and Satisfaction
Chapter 14 7.TROUBLESHOOTING
Part 15 STUDIES IN PUBLIC RELATIONS
Chapter 16 Politicians and the Press in the Archives Milwaukee
Chapter 17 The Pope and the Archives
Chapter 18 Once in a Hundred Years
Part 19 APPENDICES
Part 20 Appendix 1 Working with the media
Part 21 Appendix 2 Fund Raising
Part 22 Appendix 3 Planning Special Events
Part 23 Appendix 4 volunteers
Part 24 ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Part 25 INDEX
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