This text aims to show conservators and other professionals in museums and libraries that professional management information can be as useful to them as their own specialist expertise. It reviews the climate in which museums operate today, and describes the most up-to-date and relevant management techniques. Explanations are illustrated with examples drawn from real-life conservation management in major museums in the UK and abroad. Through applying the techniques described to their own circumstances, museum and library specialists should be able to enter the areas of high-level management in their organizations with added confidence.