To the excellent previous suggestions providing much food for thought, I'd
like to add one thing: assigning reasonable priorities to tasks. We'd all
like to be able to do everything by yesterday, but setting unreasonable
expectations, or no priorities at all is only counter-productive, confusing,
and sure to set up future, unnecessary conflicts.

In consultation with your staff who may have a better idea of
micromanagement difficulties of doing something which, at first glance,
seemed so simple (just ask me about my on-going tribulations of figuring out
how to get our small foreign publishing house books listed in Amazon.com,
for example!), in the end, I believe it is management's responsibility to
analyze needs and possibilities (including time and money constraints), then
to set clear and reasonable priorities.

Coming from the "part-time staff perspective," clear and reasonable
priorities allow me to contribute concretely to the museum with chosen tasks
completed in a timely manner (especially given the real time restraints of
working part-time), and also to have a great personal sense of satisfaction
in "a job well done," so important in our poorly paid field.

Best regards,

Star
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