L-60. Introduction to Archives for Special Collections Librarians
Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis
Libraries with special collections increasingly collect, curate, and service many forms of rare and archival materials within one integrated environment. Managers, curators, catalogers, and reference librarians whose education and experience have focused on published materials must therefore be conversant with archival techniques and issues. This course, intended for those without significant archival education or experience, will explore archival approaches to appraisal, acquisition, description, and access to personal papers and organizational records. Challenges associated with digitization and born-digital materials will be addressed. Aspects of professional culture, terminology, education and history will be compared to those of rare book librarianship. The course will include lectures, readings, discussion, practical exercises, and field trips to the Library of Virginia in Richmond and the Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.
In their personal statements, applicants should describe their professional education, work experience, archival responsibilities, and any topics they would particularly like to address in the course.
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Introduction to Archives for Special Collections LibrariansCourse History
2010
This course is renamed “Introduction to Archives for Special Collections Librarians.”
2008
Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis teach this course for the first time as “Introduction to Archives for Rare Book Librarians.”