THEORY AND METHODS OF ARCHIVAL ACQUISITION, SELECTION AND APPRAISAL

Catalog description

(Slashed with LIS 60657 ) This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory, methods and traditions employed by records professionals to form and shape archives as societal memory. This course focuses primarily on acquisition, selection, documentation and appraisal theory and methods. Students will also examine contemporary records frameworks and approaches and issues faced by archivists, special collections librarians and manuscript curators employed to identify, evaluate, acquire and dispose of records.