 LIS 2214 - LIBRARY AND ARCHIVAL PRESERVATION
Introduces the preservation and conservation of library
and archival collections. Basic foundation in theoretical,
managerial, analytical, and practical applications
of preservation.
LIS
2215 - PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT
Methods of integrating and implementing preservation
activities and programs in library and archival settings,
based on a knowledge of preservation history, operations,
and current issues. Understanding the complexities
of practical applications; combining management ideals
with less-than-ideal institutional environments. (Prerequisite:
LIS 2214)
LIS
2216 - COLLECTIONS CONSERVATION
Students learn to execute conservation treatments
for endangered research materials, prepare materials
for outsourcing and protect paper, photograph, and
moving image collections.
LIS
2220 - ARCHIVES AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT
Introduction to the essentials
of records and knowledge management in diverse organizational
settings. Organizational theory and
how this relates to the history and development of
record keeping systems, electronic records management
and the advent of new technologies, and the place of
records and knowledge management in the information
professions. Theoretical
principles, methodologies, and practical administration
of archives, records, and other information sources
from print to oral (encompassing explicit and implicit
knowledge) contributing to the management of knowledge
necessary for organizations and society. Required
for students declared in the Archives & Records
Management Specialization.
LIS 2222 - ARCHIVAL APPRAISAL
Advanced analysis of the basic theories, principles,
techniques, and methods that archivists and records
managers use for identifying and selecting (appraising)
records with continuing or enduring value to records
creators, researchers, and society. Comparison and
contrast to related activities in other fields, such
as library collection management and development, museum
artifact selection, and the analysis of documentary
evidence by historians and other researchers. (Prerequisites:
LIS 2220)
LIS
2223 - ARCHIVAL ACCESS, ADVOCACY AND ETHICS (ARCHIVAL
ACCESS AND ADVOCACY)
Orientation to the ways in which archivists and other
records professionals provide access to their holdings,
advocate for their programs and societal mission, and
the ethical and other challenges they face in carrying
out such functions. Provides historical, theoretical
and practical orientation to access, advocacy, and
ethical matters. (Prerequisites:
LIS 2220) - Only students declared in the Archives & Records
Management Specialization can fulfill the information
retrieval requirement with this course. Other students
may take this course as an elective.
LIS
2224 - ARCHIVAL REPRESENTATION
Introduction to the theoretical foundations, history,
principles, and research surrounding the representation
of archival materials. Examination and analysis of
issues of effectiveness, economics, and audience surrounding
different types of surrogates for archival collections
including: guides, calendars, finding aids, (in paper
form and on-line), bibliographic records themselves,
issues of context, appropriate levels of control, selection,
and interpretation. (Prerequisites: LIS 2220)
- Only students declared in the Archives & Records
Management Specialization can fulfill the information
organization
requirement with this course. Other students may take
this course as an elective.
LIS
2225 - MUSEUM ARCHIVES
Overview of the evolution of the purposes of museums;
history and development of museum record keeping systems,
with particular emphasis on changes in those systems
in transition from paper-based to electronic records,
use of functional analysis to identify principle functions
of museums and to guide the appraisal of records that
document those functions.
LIS
2226 - MOVING IMAGE AND SOUND ARCHIVES
This course will introduce you to the various contexts moving image media occupies in collecting institutions and the basic procedures in archiving and preserving these works. Motion picture film will be of primary focus, but other moving image media types such as video as well as the convergence of moving images on the Internet will also be explored. Throughout the semester archival functions will be approached using a range of theoretical frameworks as a way to interrogate the histories, technologies, preservation processes and accessibility of moving image media. Refer to instructor's syllabus for more information.
LIS
2280 - HISTORY OF BOOKS, PRINTING, AND PUBLISHING
The development of the book in its many forms in relation
to contemporary society, education, and culture. Manuscript
origins, the nature and development of the printing
process, the reading public, the book trade, binding,
and book illustration.
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