The management of the society includes supervising five programs of the society. To serve as a spokesperson and fundraiser for the agency. To maintain fiscal management and personnel management of the society. Security includes maintenance of the intrusion security system, passive observation of visitors, crowd control etc.
Information is provided to the visiting public.
To Channel encouragement and technical assistance to all community museum, archives and preservation efforts. To provide National Register signs to persons, organizations and agencies that own properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition, historical markers for the Old Forts Trail and other markers for designated Montana Heritage properties, erected for the education of the visiting public are included. To maintain specific state owned Montana historic sites. To assist the public in the use and enjoyment of the program's collections by providing courteous, timely and accurate reference assistance to visitors in the public reference room, to requests for information received by mail, telephone, and E-Mail by providing copy prints of photographs, and through the loan of selected materials via interlibrary loan.