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Advocacy Guide: Tools and Tips
The Advocacy Guide is a self-directed learning resource designed for first-time advocates. This basic guide to advocacy includes key information and concepts to build your skills and knowledge and tips and exercises to apply your learning in practical ways. The guide will help you become an effective advocate for your museum and community. If you are already doing advocacy this guide will provide you with new ideas, inspiration, and tools to enhance your advocacy. 122 pgs; 2010
Member Price: $10 Non-Member Price: $15
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Collections Documentation Manual
This manual covers a range of topics split into three parts, including Registration, Cataloguing and Use. Each of these three parts describes the processes museums should follow in documenting their collections, some of the issues that need to be considered, and the forms and files that are to be used for each process. 65 pages; 2014.
Member Price: $10 Non-Member Price: $15
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Collections Stewardship Self-Assessment Workbook
The Collections Stewardship Self-Assessment Workbook was developed to provide a series of simple questions to help our members to determine where their institutional ranking is in various areas
of collections stewardship (Collections Policy, Collections Documentation, Collections Storage and Conservation). Members can then use their scores to help to identify areas of weakness and to strengthen their collections management and preservation practices. The self-assessment workbook also provides our members with the opportunity to record and track their individualized changes and improvements made over time. The workbook’s secondary purpose is to aid MAS in screening organizations for readiness to participate in our ongoing SaskCollections Database Project. 128 pages, 2017.Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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Evaluation Workbook: A Basic Understanding of the Program Outcome Evaluation Model
Increasingly, public organizations are being called upon for clearer evidence that the resources they expend actually produce results - are the activities really making a difference? Effective evaluation improves activities by feeding information back about how well they are doing, and helps planners make decisions on what needs to be changed or what is working well. This publication has a new look as of 2011. 46 pgs; 1999.
Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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Exhibits Self-Assessment Workbook
The Exhibits Self-Assessment Workbook was developed to provide a series of simple questions to help our members determine to what degree they meet the MAS standards for how exhibits should be planned, designed, programmed and evaluated. Members can use their scores to identify areas in which their exhibition practices can be improved. The selfassessment workbook also provides our members with the opportunity to record and track changes and improvements over time. 104 pages, 2018.
Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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How to Train Your Summer Staff: A Practical Manual for Training Seasonal Staff for Your Museum
Initially, this material is a workbook for trainers of summer staff in community museums. When the trainers have completed the workbook, it becomes a manual to be used by the trainers of summer staff. As a manual it is a permanent museum resource. 48 pgs; Copyright 1997, Second Edition 1997, Third Edition 2018.
Member Price: $12 Non-Member Price: $16
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Making the Connection between Museums and Education: A living document for educators
Making the Connection between Museums and Education was developed to help museums and educators to connect between the curriculum and social justice issues that are affecting your world today. This workbook was created to connect museums with educators through fun, engaging activities discussion and resources that link the two entitles together to help education and inform today’s youth. 60 pgs; 2018
Member Price: $15 Non-Member Price: $20
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Museums and Sustainability: Cultural Sustainability
Cultures of Sustainability, the fifth publication in the series, looks at what museums can do toward nurturing cultures of sustainability – not just within the walls of museums themselves, but in the broader communities that they are part of. In it, you’ll find thought-provoking essays and interviews, as well as stories and photos showcasing sustainability work in Saskatchewan museums. 20 pgs; 2015
Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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Museums and Sustainability: Sustainable Collections
Until now, Museums and Sustainability has looked at different facets of sustainability – economic, environmental, social, and cultural – and how they relate to museums. We’ve developed a better understanding of what sustainability means, both for museums and for the communities they’re a part of. However, we haven’t had the chance to explore how sustainability impacts specific domains of museum practice, such as collections, education, or research. That’s why, for the next few issues, we’re taking a different approach, looking at how different aspects of museum operations relate to sustainability. We’re starting with collections. Collections have long been at the centre of museums. It’s hard to imagine a community history museum without artifacts, a natural history museum without specimens, or a gallery without art works. If our goal is museums that embody and promote sustainability, we need to understand how collections fit into that picture. 24 pages, 2016
Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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Museums and Sustainability: Sustainable Communities
Sustainable Communities, the fourth publication in the series, looks at what museums can do toward social sustainability- not just ensuring that they remain relevant to constantly evolving communities, but contributing to the cohesion and vitality of surrounding communities more broadly. 25 pgs, 2014.
Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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Museums and Sustainability: Sustainable Economies
Sustainable Economies, the third publication in the series, looks at what museums can do toward economic sustainability—not just paying their own bills, but also supporting sustainable economies in their communities. In it, you’ll find thought-provoking essays and interviews, as well as stories and photos showcasing sustainability work in Saskatchewan museums. 20 pgs; 2013
Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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Museums and Sustainability: The Art of Storytelling
Education is a vital part of what museums do. When someone mentions museums, exhibits and interpretive programs — museums’ traditional approach to education — are often among the first things people think of. Education is also critical for building sustainable communities — so much so that a whole subfield of education has emerged to focus on sustainability education.
Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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Museums and Sustainability: The Environment
This edition of Museums and Sustainability focuses on museums and the environment. This resource explores the many ways Saskatchewan museums are leading the way in environmental sustainability. Whether its through renewable energy, public education programs, or establishing biosphere reserves, many of Saskatchewan museums are making the effort to toward promoting environmental sustainability. 28 pgs; 2012
Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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Museums and Sustainability: The Sustainability Challenge
This resource focuses on the broad definition and application of sustainability in all areas of a museum and community life. It provides practical information, Saskatchewan museum-based case studies, resources, and an evaluative framework to help guide your institution's planning and decision-making. 36 pgs; 2011
Member Price: $5 Non-Member Price: $10
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Standards for Saskatchewan Museums (Fifth Edition, 2016)
In articulating a comprehensive set of operational standards based on these principles, the presumption is not that all standards are relevant to every institution. Rather, the assumption is that museums will find relevant, useful, practical information within this document which will help them to be the best they can be, given their resources and goals. 118 pgs; 2016
Member Price: $20 Non-Member Price: $25
