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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788029803321

Autore

Purcell Aaron D. <1972->

Titolo

Donors and archives : a guidebook for successful programs / / Aaron D. Purcell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8108-9323-1

0-8108-9218-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Disciplina

025.2/814

Soggetti

Archives - Collection management

Archival materials - Collectors and collecting

Manuscripts - Collectors and collecting

Appraisal of archival materials

Archives - Public relations

Fund raising

Benefactors

Gifts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- PART I. THE PLANNING -- Donor preparedness and the archival program -- Archival obligations and shared expectations -- Developing donor strategies -- PART II. THE PROCESS -- Negotiating and reviewing a potential donation -- The details of a donation -- The days following a donation -- PART III. THE PARTNERS -- Donor types -- The development office and the archives -- Friends, lovers, and supporters of archives -- PART IV. THE PAYOFF -- The value of a donor program.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--