Organisational Needs and Priorities of Heritage Areas in the USA

Academics and practitioners alike know relatively little about the core competencies that are transferable from one heritage-area initiative to another. Often those new to the field have had to look to consultants or peers for advice regarding the essential core competencies needed to make their emerging organisations a success.This research surveyed the executive directors of the known universe of 154 heritage areas in the USA for the purposes of identifying the essential core skills they feel are needed to create and sustain a multi-jurisdictional heritage-tourism initiative. In addition, the importance-performance methodology employed in the survey instrument made it possible to assess their critical needs and priorities for training. Results of this study contributed to the design of the Heritage Development Institute, recently created to serve the executive staff of the nation's heritage areas at the College of Charleston on behalf of the Alliance of National Heritage Areas (www.cofc.edu/~heritage).     

The Alexander‐gosling expedition

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Wild Life in Scotland. By J. H. Crawford, F.L.S. Illustrations by John Williamson. London: John Macqueen, 1896. Pp. 280. Price 8s. 6d.

Annals of Garelochside: Being an Account, Historical and Topographical, of the Parishes of Row, Rosneath, and Cardross. By William Charles Maughan, author of Bosneath Past and Present, etc., etc. With Illustrations by Alexander M'Gibbon, Esq., Architect. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1897. Pp. xii + 331.

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Bohemia. By C. Edmund Maurice. ("Story of the Nations Series.”) London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Pp. 533. Price 5s.

Madagascar before the Conquest—the Island, the Country, and the People. With Chapters on Travel and Topography, Folk‐lore, Strange Customs and Superstitions, the Animal Life of the Island, and Mission Work and Progress among the Inhabitants. By the Rev. James Sibree, F.R.G.S. With Maps and Illustrations from Photographs. London: Fisher Unwin, 1896. Pp. 382 and Map. No Index. Price 16s.

Blandt Nordpolen's Naboer. Af Eivind Astrup. Kristiania: H. Aschehoug and Co.’s Forlag, 1896.

The Work of the Tibetan Expedition, 1889–90, under the Command of M. V. Pievtsof. Part III. (In Russian.) St. Petersburg: Tipografia M. Stasiu‐levich, 1896. Pp. 126.

Grundzüge der Pflanzenverbreitung auf der iberischen Halbinsel. Von Moritz Willkomm. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1896. Pp. xiv + 395. Price 12 M.; bound 13.50 M.

Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot. By George Wherry, M.A., M.C. Cantab., F.E.C.S., etc. Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1896. Pp. xi + 174. Price 5s. net.

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