Collections Management

• Grantwriting for collections
• Inventory planning/projects
• Conservation troubleshooting (not CAP-level but general identification of potential problems)
• Cataloging
• Collections surveys (identifying what you have, what it represents, and where you might go in collecting)
• Connecting collections (10,000-foot survey with recommending on putting collections together—what are the various relationships between the objects in your collection?)

Exhibitions Development

• Initial concept
• Research
• Exhibition interpretive statement
• Finding material for an exhibit
• Organizational schemes
• Label writing
• Supervising installation
• Training docents
• Grantwriting

Mentoring First-Time Directors

• What to do first
• Working with a board
• Planning
• Problem-solving