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"Donors and Archives: A Guidebook for Successful Programs highlights the importance of development and fundraising for archives, while focusing on the donor and potential donor. Their interest, their support, their enthusiasm, and their stuff are vital to the success of archival programs. Archivists involved in donor work and fundraising will find the practical advice and best practices in this book applicable, replicable, timely, and valuable"--
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Planning
Chapter 1: Donor Preparedness and the Archival Program
Chapter 2: Archival Obligations and Shared Expectations
Chapter 3: Developing Donor Strategies
Part II: The Process
Chapter 4: Negotiating and Reviewing a Potential Donation
Chapter 5: The Details of a Donation
Chapter 6: The Days Following a Donation
Part III: The Partners
Chapter 7: Donor Types
Chapter 8: The Development Office and the Archives
Chapter 9: Friends, Lovers, and Supporters of Archives
Part IV: The Payoff
Chapter 10: The Value of Donors and a Donor Program
Index
About the Author
About the author
Aaron D. Purcell is professor and director of special collections at Virginia Tech. He frequently works with donors, potential donors, alumni, development officers, and fundraisers to acquire new collections and funding for his archival program. Purcell earned his PhD in history from the University of Tennessee, his master's of library science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and his master's degree in history from the University of Louisville. He previously served as university archivist at the University of Tennessee, and he also worked at the National Archives and the National Library of Medicine.
Purcell is an active scholar, writing in the fields of history and archives. In early 2012, he published Academic Archives: Managing the Next Generation of College and University Archives, Records, and Special Collections. He has written articles on archival topics for journals such as the American Archivist, Archival Outlook, IMJ, and the Journal of Archival Organization.
