May enter this specialization in the Fall Semester.

The Preservation Management specialization requires students to take 36 units of coursework. All students, whether full- or part-time, should plan on starting their studies in the Fall term.

• Core Requirements
• Highly Recommended Electives
• Cognate Electives
• Cognate Electives Offered Outside of Department
• Designing Your Program in Preservation Management
• List of Preservation Management Courses and Links to Descriptions and Syllabi

Preservation Management students must take the following five MLIS core requirements:

• LIS 2000 - Understanding Information
• LIS 2001 - Organizing Information
• LIS 2002 - Retrieving Information
• LIS 2215 - Preservation Management (satisfies core requirement in
  management)
• LIS 2663 - Technologies for Information Management or LIS 2674 -
  Digital Preservation (satisfies core requirement in information technology)

Preservation students are also required to take:

• LIS 2214 - Library and Archives Preservation
• LIS 2921 - Field Experience
  

Archival Studies:

• LIS 2220 - Records and Knowledge Management
• LIS 2222 - Archival Appraisal (2220 is prerequisite)
• LIS 2223 - Archival Representation (2220 is prerequisite)
• LIS 2224 - Archival Access and Advocacy (2220 is prerequisite)
• LIS 2225 - Museum Archives

History of Books and Printing:

• LIS 2280 - History of Books, Printing, and Publishing

Preservation:

• LIS 2216 - Collections Conservation
• LIS 2226 - Moving Image and Sound Archives
• LIS 2674 - Digital Preservation (if not taken to satisfy core requirement in information technology)

Miscellaneous:

• LIS 2663 - Technologies for Information Management (if not taken to
  satisfy core requirement in information technology)

Research Methodology and Information Policy:

• LIS 2110 - Action Research: Methods and Applications
• LIS 2184 - Legal Issues in Information Handling
• LIS 2194 - Information Ethics

Information Technology:

• LIS 2653 - Digital Image Collections
• LIS 2670 - Digital Libraries
• LIS 2675 - Digitizing Library and Research Collections for Access
• LIS 2680 - Database Design and Applications
• LIS 2970 - Special Topics (XML)

Management:

• LIS 2700 - Managing Libraries and Information Systems and Services
• LIS 2830 - Marketing and Public Relations for Libraries

Independent Studies:

• LIS 2901 - Individual Research

There are many courses outside the department which students may find useful for their course of study. Please note that many of these classes may be offered infrequently. Courses taken outside of the department must be offered at the graduate level in order to fulfill LIS degree requirements, and you may use a maximum of six credits of coursework taken outside the department to apply toward degree requirements:

Anthropology:

• ANTH 2538 - Cultural Resource Management
• ANTH 2589 - Archaeological Patrimony, Preservation, and Politics

Information Science (note that most courses in this department require college-level coursework in statistics, mathematics, and/or a structured programming language such as C or C++ as prerequisites):

• INFSCI 2140 - Information Storage and Retrieval
• INFSCI 2510 - Information Systems
• INFSCI 2610 - Data Structures
• INFSCI 2710 - Database Management

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs:

• PIA 2170 - Management of Non-Profit Organizations
• PIA 2172 - Fundraising for Non-Profit Organizations
• PIA 2173 - Project Development and Proposal Writing

Film Studies (interdisciplinary program):

• Course(s) in the history and theory of film (check Film Studies
  program website for particular course offerings)

History:

• Course(s) in history and/or historical methods (check for currently
  offered courses)

History of Art and Architecture:

• HA&A 2230 - Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

The field of preservation is interdisciplinary, thus the Preservation Management specialization has been designed with some flexibility so that students may focus in particular areas, such as: preservation of
paper-based media, preservation of electronic media, archival preservation, or preservation of moving images. The following charts offer suggestions for sequencing coursework over three terms for those four areas. (We suggest that students begin in the Fall term since many courses which are prerequisites to more advanced courses tend to be offered only in the Fall). Students may also design their program to focus on other
areas in consultation with their advisor.

Preservation of Paper-Based Media

Archival Preservation

Preservation of Electronic Media

Preservation of Moving Images