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• Managing Volunteer Projects

  • Start
    07 Jul 2025
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  • End
    14 Jul 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
  • Registered
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  This two-part workshop will explore ways to apply project management skills to volunteer recruitment and management. 
  
  Knowing that museums and archives are often heavily reliant on volunteers, and sometimes entirely volunteer-run, it’s important to think about strategies for creating projects that your volunteers can contribute to that utilize their skills to the advantage of the organization. We’ll practice identifying key needs and recruitment opportunities, mapping out channels of communication, and laying out timelines for a project of your choosing. It’s a great opportunity to collaborate with other volunteer-driven organizations and develop some project management skills in a humanities context.

  
  The first session (July 7) will consist of a presentation that will be recorded and can be sent to anyone not available to participate live. The second session (July 14) will include breakout rooms and be "hands on" in a way that builds on the earlier material.

  About the Presenter:
  Sarah Sharpton is the Outreach Manager at Pejepscot History Center. Originally hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, Sarah Sharpton spent the last 3 years living in England, where she got her M.A. in Museums and Galleries from the University of Westminster. Sarah has held a variety of positions working for heritage sites and nonprofits in the US and UK (including a very strange four months giving tours on a pirate ship!). Her favorite experiences include internships with the City of Westminster Archives Centre in London and the Canterbury Shaker Village just down the road in New Hampshire.

  
  

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• Not Just a Gift Shop: Activating Your Retail Store

  • When
    19 Aug 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  More than just a gift shop, your organization's store can provide visitors, volunteers, staff, and other stakeholders the opportunity to directly support your mission while offering unique, highly-curated, and mission-related items. But where to start?
  

  Using examples from the Maine Maritime Museum store, we'll review existing resources and easy-to-implement ideas to start or improve your organization's retail experience—in person and online. 

  About the presenter:
  Amanda Pleau is the Marketing & Communications Manager at Maine Maritime Museum. She graduated from University of Southern Maine with a BA in Media & Communications and an MFA in Creative Writing. Amanda is a boomerang—she left Maine after graduate school, and after a number of years in western Massachusetts and Los Angeles, she is happy to have settled in Bath with her partner and their four-legged friends.

  Registration for this event closes Friday, August 15.

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• Records Management for Repositories

  • When
    17 Oct 2025
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    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Any repository, be it an archive, historical society, manuscript collection, or museum, creates and uses records to execute their mission. Good records management increases efficiency, lowers stress, and forestalls legal conflicts— basically it is vital to operations. 

  This workshop will address organizing, filing, naming, and retention of records, as well as back up, access, and vital records.

  Presented by Susie R. Bock, who has a master’s degree in European history and a Master of Library Service and almost 40 years of professional experience in academic special collections.

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