Mid-Atlantic

   Maryland

   UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
College of Information Studies
4105 Hornbake, College Park, MD 20742
Contact: Diane Barlow, phone: (301) 405-2033, fax: (301) 314-9154

LBSC786: Library and Archives Preservation
Preservation, conservation, and restoration activities in archives and libraries.  Physical aspects and structure of print and other media.  Environmental conditions and selection of treatment methods.  Ethical and administrative questions in preservation program management.

Required for Graduation: ?  No   
Frequency:  ?   
Credit Hours: 3

LBSC708B: Contemporary Challenges in Preservation
Theoretical underpinnings of preservation and application of strategies.

Required for Graduation:  No   
Frequency:  ?   
Credit Hours: 3

   New Jersey

   RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
4 Huntington St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071
Contact:  Pat Leventhal, Administrator, phone: 732-932-7500, fax: 732-932-6919   

Preservation of Library and Archival Materials
The physical nature and the causes of deterioration. Techniques for promoting longevity; environmental control, storage and handling practices, reformatting. Disaster planning and recovery. Visits to conservation studios and archives.

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: Every Spring   
Credit Hours: 3

Internship—Field Experience
To be arranged by the instructor.

Required for Graduation:  No   
Frequency: Every Semester       
Credit Hours: 3

Manuscripts and Archives
Introduction to theory and practice of manuscript and archival administration.  Focus on accepted methodology and current issues relating to the collection, organization, preservation, and use of historical materials.

Required for Graduation:  No   
Frequency: Annually   
Credit Hours: 3

Continuing Education

Contact: Karen Novick, Director of Professional Development Studies, 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071, phone: (732) 932-7169, fax: (732) 932-9314

Preservation Management Institute
Three week-long sessions held over a year. The sessions include full-day class meetings, hands-on exercises, and field trips.  Between class sessions, participants work on developing preservation surveys and plans for their own institutions.

Frequency: Biennially   
Credit Hours:  10 continuing education units

   Pennsylvania

    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
College of Information Science and Technology
3141 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104
Contact: Anne Tanner, Associate Dean, phone: (215) 895-2474, fax: (215) 895-2494

INFO651: Academic Library Service
Examines the role of library service in higher education, with emphasis on the problems of organization, administration, services, and the relationship of the library to the overall educational program.

Required for Graduation:  No   
Frequency: Annually   
Credit Hours: 4

INFO663: Technical Processes in Libraries
Focuses on management, policy, and organizational issues related to the administration of technical services in libraries.  Includes copy cataloging, original cataloging, serials control, circulation, and preservation where traditional methods and organizational structures are being supplanted by new technologies and related organizational changes.

Required for Graduation:  No   
Frequency: Annually   
Credit Hours: 4

INFO669: Curatorship of Special Collections
Focuses on the functions of a curator of special collections.  Such collections include both modern and historical collections of printed materials, manuscripts, and archival collections, and of collections of allied materials, including works of art.  Gives special attention to the research of uses of such materials together with reference to exhibitions, departmental publications, specialized reference sources, collection management, acquisitions, conservation, preservation, funding development, and donors.

Required for Graduation? No   
Frequency: Annually   
Credit Hours: 4

   UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Department of Library and Information Science
School of Information Sciences, 135 N. Bellefield Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Contact: Richard J. Cox, Professor, phone: (412) 624-3245, fax: (412) 648-7001

LIS2214: Library and Archival Preservation
Introduces the preservation and conservation of library and archival materials. Basic foundation in theoretical, managerial, analytical, and practical applications of preservation.

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: 3 

LIS2215: 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: LIS2214)

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: 3 

LIS2674: Digital Preservation
Focus on format, media, and preservation aspects of maintaining digital resources over time. Preservation of materials "born digital" and those transformed into digital format.

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: 3 

Preservation is also included in the following related courses:

LIS2220: Records and Information Resources Management
This course provides an introduction to the essentials of records and information resources management  in diverse organizational settings.  Students study the basics of 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 management in the information professions (especially its relationship to archival administration, information resources management, and the information and library sciences).

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: 3 

LIS2221: Archives and Manuscripts Management
Theoretical principles, methodologies, and practical administration of archives and manuscripts, the institutional programs that care for these materials, and the professional community that supports this work; the importance of records in the modern information age and the relationships of archives administration and records management; history and development of archives; archives programs in a variety of institutional settings (government, corporate, college and university, and non-profit).

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: 3

LIS2222: 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.

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours:  3

LIS2223: Archival Access and Advocacy
Making current and archival records accessible is a central part of the mission of records professionals.  Providing access to records and archives is challenging, including understanding the needs of varying constituencies, managing the reference function, being aware of legal and other restrictions to access, and promoting the use of records and archives.  Provides historical, theoretical, and practical orientation to access and advocacy matters.

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours:  3

LIS2224: Archival Representation
The purposes of the course are to introduce students to the theoretical foundations, history, principles, practices, and research surrounding the representation of archival materials. Students will examine and analyze issues of effectiveness, economics, and audience surrounding different types of surrogates for archival collections, including guides, calendars, finding aids (in paper form and online), bibliographic records, and encoded archival description, as well as images of the records themselves.  Issues of content and context, appropriate levels of control, selection, and interpretation are also studied.

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: 3

LIS2280: 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.

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: 3

LIS2281: Introduction to Bibliography
Introduction to historical, descriptive, and analytical bibliography. Includes history of printing and publishing, history of bibliography, book collecting, bibliographical institutions, and the biographies of leading figures in the book world.

Required for Graduation: ?  
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: 3

LIS2675: Digitizing Library and Research Collections for Access
Introduction to the processes and skills necessary to digitize existing research materials to make them accessible via the Internet.  Development of selection criteria, legal and ethical concerns, management and costs of digital projects, system and user interface design, preservation concerns, metadata collection and creation, and integration of digital projects into institutional goals and objectives.

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: 3

LIS2921: Field Placement
3 credits/150 hours per term of supervised professional work in an approved information environment is offered and supported by DLIS. These placement positions allow students the opportunity to apply their learning to a practical work experience.

Required for Graduation: ?   
Frequency: ?   
Credit Hours: ?

   Washington, D.C.

   CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
School of Library and Information Science , Washington, DC 20064
Contact: William L. Turner, Jr., Assistant Dean, phone: (202) 319-5085,
fax: (202) 319-5574.

LSC609: Preservation
Introduction to the preservation of library and archival collections, including the nature of book and paper materials and how they deteriorate, options for dealing with deteriorated and vulnerable items, and management approaches to preservation, including disaster preparedness, preventive maintenance, microfilming, and computer image management.

Required for Graduation: No   
Frequency: Biennially   
Credit Hours: 3

LSC833: Music Librarianship
Survey of management, organization, and services in music libraries, including those in public, academic, conservatory, and research settings.  Includes acquisitions, cataloging, indexing, processing, and preservation of music materials, with special attention  to the handling of music scores and sound recordings; also fiscal management, collection appraisal, and the evaluation of services.

Required for Graduation: No   
Frequency: Biennially   
Credit Hours: 3

LSC906: Practicum
Supervised professional training in a library, archives, or other library/information service agency approved by the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science.  Minimum of 120 hours per semester.  Written goals and evaluation of practicum experience required.  Requests for practicum should be made toward the end of the preceding semester to allow sufficient time to make arrangements.  May be taken twice. 

Required for Graduation: No   
Frequency: Every Semester   
Credit Hours: 3

LSC883: Religious Archives Institute
Designed for keepers of religious records who must manage information and handle materials covering a wide time span and several languages in a non-profit institution, and understand the complexities of modern communication and computer systems.  Geared to neophyte archivists as well as seasoned practitioners and records administrators.

Required for Graduation: No   
Frequency: Biennially   
Credit Hours: 3

LSC603: Technical Services
Survey of current options and techniques associated with the acquisition, organization for access, physical processing, and maintenance of library materials.

Required for Graduation: No   
Frequency: Every Semester   
Credit Hours: 3

LSC608: Collection Development
Principles and practices in selecting, evaluating, and managing collections in all types of libraries and information formats.  Survey of factors affecting collection building, institutional goals, user characteristics and needs, the publishing industry, special characteristics of materials in particular subject fields, formats, and genres.  Consideration of such topics as collection development policies, resource sharing and digital collections.

Required for Graduation: No   
Frequency: Every Semester   
Credit Hours: 3

LIS630: Archives Management
Survey of archival principles and practices, with emphasis on accessioning, arrangement, description, preservation and reference service, and special attention to computer applications.  Focuses on differences among archives, manuscript repositories, and libraries. Required for Archives Management Specialization.

Required for Graduation: No   
Frequency: Annually   
Credit Hours: 3

LIS841: Rare Book Librarianship
Introduces the issues and topics in the administration of rare book collections, whether constituted as separate libraries or as special collections within libraries.  Attention to understanding the nature of rare materials as well as to their acquisition, housing, conservation, and servicing.

Required for Graduation: No   
Frequency: Biennially   
Credit Hours: 3

Preservation Education Directory, 8th Edition