What do we mean by staff?
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Staff in museums and archives carry out a wide range of different roles.
For museums:
The Museums Association’s Salary Guidelines 2017 categorise museum roles into 7 job areas:
- Museum attendants/front of house
- Museum technicians and buildings management
- Fundraising and marketing
- Learning, programming and outreach
- Conservators
- Curators and collections management
- Directors/museum managers
For archives:
The Archives & Records Association lists:
- Salary Recommendations for the Record-Keeping Sector
- Competency framework
- Job role outlines for archivists, archive conservators and records management
Archives also commonly employ staff covering similar roles to museums.
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- Our toolkit
- Welcome to the toolkit
- How to use this toolkit
- Governance
- Financial planning
- Income generation
- Fundraising
- Collections
- What do we mean by collections?
- The difference between the museum and archive approach
- Things to consider before you start
- Accreditation schemes
- Collections at risk
- Digitising your collection
- Collection management
- Collection care
- Hear it from an expert – Brian Worrell
- Hear it from an expert – Dave Smith
- Audiences
- Learning
- Evaluation
- Access
- Staffing and volunteers
- Community engagement
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