Guide to managing historical societies
Links to resources
Museum Management
Fact sheets on museum management (Museums & Galleries NSW)
Museum methods (sections) (Collections Australia Network)
National standards for Australian museums and galleries (National Standards Taskforce)
MAP forward planning template (Museums Australia (Victoria))
Museums and galleries collections law (Shane Simpson)
Legal information for community organisations (pilchconnect)
Guide: Community organisations and Victoria's occupational health and safety laws (pilchconnect)
Collection management
Information sheets - caring for collections (Museums Australia (Victoria))
Caring for collections (Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material)
Preserving Australia's documentary heritage (National Library of Australia)
Conservation information guides (State Library of Victoria)
reCollections: caring for collections across Australia (Collections Australia Network)
Preventative conservation fact sheets (Museums & Galleries NSW)
Guidelines for environmental control of cultural institutions (Collections Australia Network)
Safe in the shed: caring for historic farm machinery (Collections Australia Network)
Conservation standards, policies, strategies and guidelines (Collections Australia Network)
MAP collection policy template (Museums Australia (Victoria))
Developing a conservation plan (Museums Australia (Victoria))
Cataloguing
Small museums cataloguing manual (Museums Australia (Victoria))
Cataloguing guidelines for historical societies (blog)
Indexing
Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
Significance
Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of collections (Collections Australia Network)
Significance training (Collections Australia Network)
Digitisation
Creating and keeping your digital treasures - a user guide (State Library of Western Australia)
Image digitisation of local history collections (State Library of Victoria)
Guidelines for digitization projects (International Federation of Library Associations)
Copyright and cultural institutions: guidelines for digitisation (Centre for Media and Communications Law - University of Melbourne)
Electronic media collections care for small museums and archives (Canadian Conservation Institute)
Capture your collections - a digitisation course for remote and regional museums and galleries (Collections Australia Network)
Information technology for local history - digitisation (blog)
Copyright
Copyright and cultural institutions: guidelines for digitisation (Centre for Media and Communications Law - University of Melbourne)
Copyright in cultural institutions
Websites
Designing and maintaining websites
Exhibitions
Creative volunteering: work with collections (Volunteering Australia)
Exhibition fact sheets (Museums & Galleries NSW)
Significant events (Collections Australia Network)
MAP interpretation policy template (Museums Australia (Victoria))
Display interpretation and writing (History Trust (South Australia))
Box making
Box making fact sheet (Museums & Galleries NSW)
Volunteers
Victoria's Volunteering Portal
Volunteers fact sheets (Museums & Galleries NSW)
Willing and able (Museum & Gallery Services Queensland)
Disaster preparedness
Be prepared: guidelines for small museums for writing a disaster preparedness plan (Collections Australia Network)
DISACT - disaster recovery planning weblinks (DISACT)
Disaster support
Arts Victoria's Disaster Response Protocol (pdf 243 kb)
Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material
Bushfires ... Protect your precious possessions
How do I salvage flood-damaged records National Archives of Australia
Networking
Building a better relationship with your local council (Chris Brophy - MA Conference 2004)
Tourism
Tourism with integrity (Collections Australia Network)
Successful tourism at heritage places (Collections Australia Network)
Access
Fact sheets on access (Museums & Galleries NSW)
Improving access to heritage buildings (Australian Heritage Commission)
Aboriginal items in collections
Information for Victorian museums with Aboriginal collection items (Museums Australia (Victoria))
Resources for Victorian museums with Aboriginal collection items (Museums Australia (Victoria))
Conservation of indigenous objects (Collections Australia Network)