[BCMA] Online course starts September - Managing Archival Collections

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Managing Archival Collections  Sep 14-Dec 20, 2015
Cultural Resource Management Program, UVic

Note: To participate in HA488U, students must have a professional or voluntary role in an organization with an archival collection.
Registration Deadline: August 17, 2015, late registrations accepted if space permits.
Fee: $655.82 CDN

Visit the course description online: https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/Section/Managing-Archival-Collections/HA488U-2015F-D01/50181/

This course focuses on archives as an important component of museum collections and develops your understanding of ways in which archival materials should be organized, managed, preserved, and shared. While there is common ground between the management of artifacts and the management of archives, recognizing the distinctions is important to caring effectively for documentary materials and increasing their role in the museum environment. Regardless of the kind of institution you work in, this course strengthens your understanding of

  *   the nature of archival materials
  *   theories, principles, and practices governing archival management
  *   legal, administrative, and professional frameworks
  *   appraisal, acquisition, and accessioning of archives
  *   archival arrangement and description, including the application of archival descriptive standards
  *   physical processing and storage
  *   the importance of preventive conservation
  *   reference services and access issues
  *   using archives to enhance exhibits, educational offerings, and outreach initiatives
  *   the impact of digital technologies on the management of records and archives
  *   the role of archives in culture, heritage, and society.
Instructor: Jennifer Douglas completed her PhD in December 2012 in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation interrogates traditional ideas about how archives accumulate and how foundational archival principles apply to them through the study of several Canadian and American writers' archives. Jennifer has published articles on the archival principle of provenance, on the archives of different writers, including L.M. Montgomery, Alice Munro, Marian Engel and Douglas Coupland (in press), and on the 15th-century letters of the Paston family. She has taught archival description in the Master of Archival Studies program at UBC, has been a teaching assistant for numerous courses on archival concepts and issues at the University of Toronto, and has participated in a variety of research projects, including the InterPARES 2 project and, most recently, a study of the history of archival description at Library and Archives Canada and The National Archives UK.

What Participants Are Saying:

  *   "The content has allowed me to gain more work with the collections and archives."
  *   "I feel as though I can use every single thing we learned in this course in my profession."
  *   "This has been the best course."
  *   "Gave a good outline of an archives and the problems they face."
  *   "(The best part was) the connections we made with other students/ and professionals in the field. the instructor, the format being online."
  *   "(Instructor Jennifer Douglas brings) passion and knowledge on the subject matter."
  *   "(Jennifer Douglas) was an accommodating, positive and inspiring teacher."
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