MUSIC MANAGEMENT

 

BN500

 

 

REFERENCE WORKS AND OTHER PRINT SOURCES:

 

Business plans handbook: a compilation of actual business plans developed by small businesses throughout North American.

REF HD62.7 .B865duPont-Ball Library

Library has 1995, 1998, 2000, and 2001 volumes

 

Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising.

REF HF5415 .R577duPont-Ball Library

 

Developing your case for support.

HG4027.65 .S45 2001 (InProcess – soon to be available)

 

Facts on File dictionary of nonprofit organization management.

terms, concepts, laws, codes, practices used by managers in nonprofits

REF HD62.6 .O88 1986duPont-Ball Library

 

Financial and accounting guide for not-for-profit organizations.2002 cumulative supplement.

HF6886 .G76 2002 duPont-Ball Library (circulating book)

 

Harvard Business School guide to careers in the nonprofit sector

REF HD2769.2 .Ur L68 2000 duPont-Ball Library

 

Wiley non-for-profit GAAP [generally accepted accounting principles]

periodical, library has current issue only

 

 

SEARCHING WEBCAT:

 

Note Subject Heading:Nonprofit organizations – United States

subdivisions:Accounting; Finance

 

Note that many of these sources are Government Documents, shelved by SuDoc numbers

Ask at duPont-Ball's reference desk if you need help locating them.

 

SEARCHING DATABASES:

 

ABI/Inform Complete (Business)

search example:nonprofit and music and management

Books Index with Reviews

Business

Gale Business Resource

Hoover's Company Records

Lexis-Nexis Business

note: "financial statements" link to Excel documents

5-year summaries, Assets, Liabilities, Income, Cash flow

Regional Business News

current 30 days only

 

WEBSITES:

Note:To aid in evaluating the plethora of websites, use an evaluation tools such as:

Evaluation Criteria

http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

 

Degree programs of interest:

 

Arts Management

master's program at Carnegie-Mellon

http://www.artsnet.org/mam/

 

Arts Management Program

Franklin Pierce College

http://www.franklinpierce.edu/academics/ugrad/programs_of_study/div_busadmin/arts_management/index.htm

note links to area venues and organizations; career links

 

 

PLANNING (venues, area events)

 

News-Journal Online Music

http://www.three8six.com/tunes/tabid/69/Default.aspx

 

DeLand Area Chamber of Commerce

http://www.delandchamber.org/

 

DeLand-Deltona Beacon

http://www.delandbeacon.com

 

Boston Symphony Orchestra

http://www.bso.org

note seating charts

 

TRAINING:

 

Not-for-Profit Leadership Program

Executive Master's Degree, Seattle University

http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/npl/

 

Master of Arts in Arts Management, George Mason University

http://artsmanagement.gmu.edu/content/careers

 

ORGANIZATIONS:

 

American Symphony Orchestra League

http://www.symphony.org

 

Artsnet

http://www.artsnet.org/databases

information on arts resources

 

Association of Performing Arts Presenters

http://www.apap365.org/

 

CAMI (Columbia Artists Management)

http://www.cami.com

 

Chorus America

http://www.chorusamerica.org

 

IMG Artists

http://www.imgartists.com/

 

MusicVista.org

information and resources for nonprofits

 

NAPAMA

North Americna Performing Arts Managers and Agents

http://www.napama.org

 

National Assembly of State Arts Agenices

http://www.nasaa-arts.org/

follow Arts Over America link to Florida

 

National Endowment for the Arts

http://www.nea.gov

 

New York Foundation for the Arts (was Artswire)

http://www.nyfa.org/

 

 

GRANTS:

see also under organizations above

 

The Foundation Center

websites of corporate grantmakers

http://fdncenter.org/

 

State of Florida.com

http://www.stateofflorida.com/Portal/

note links to grant sites

 

 

PLANNING A PROGRAM:

 

Biographies of composers

library's database,XReferPlus for brief entries from reference works

 

Program notes

many performing ensembles, especially orchestras, put them on the Web -- search by orchestra name and 'program notes'

 

PUBLICITY:

 

Guide to Writing Successful Press Releases

Stetson professor's site:

http://www.stetson.edu/~rhansen/prguide.html

 

PRWeb

http://www.prweb.com/pressreleasetips.php#format

 

 

SPONSORSHIP:

 

Santa Rosa Symphony

example of solicitation for support

http://www.santarosasymphony.com/support/business_donor.asp

 

Information on companies:

See DeLand Chamber of Commerceunder Planning section

See Business Databases for financial summaries, annual reports, articles

 

UNIONS:

 

American Federation of Musicians

http://www.afm.org/public/about/index.php

 

TOURING:

 

Business Travel Abroad

http://www.unzco.com/basicguide/c14.html

extensive information on documentation, visas, vaccinations, customs, planning itineraries, checklists, assistance from embassies,

 

Destination USA

http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_1750.html

the official government information site, focus on foreigners

working or traveling in the U.S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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