Preservation Education Directory: Graduate Courses in North Carolina

COURSES: Information and Library Science (INLS)

INLS 525: Electronic Records Management Explores relationships between new information and communication technologies and organizational efforts to define, identify, control, manage, and preserve records. Considers the importance of organizational, institutional and technological factors in determining appropriate recordkeeping strategies. Prerequisites: None. Frequency: Fall and spring. Credit Hours: 3.

INLS 550: History of the Book and Other Information Formats The history of the origin and development of the book in all its formats: clay tablets to electronic. Coverage includes scientific and other scholarly publications, religious works, popular literature, periodicals, and newspapers. Prerequisites: None. Frequency: Fall and spring. Credit Hours: 3.

INLS 556: Introduction to Archives and Records Management Survey of the principles, techniques, and issues in the acquisition, management, and administration of records, manuscripts, archives, and other cultural and documentary resources in paper, electronic, and other media formats. Prerequisites: None. Frequency: Biennally. Credit Hours: 3.

INLS 621: Personal Information Management This course focuses on issues in PIM research and practice, including information organization, human cognition and memory, task continuity across devices, preservation, usability, and the role of technology in PIM. Prerequisites: None. Frequency: Biennally. Credit Hours: 3.

INLS 752: Digital Preservation and Access Focuses on best practices for the creation, provision, and long‐term preservation of digital entities. Topics include digitization technologies; standards and quality control: digital asset management; grant writing; and metadata. Prerequisites: None. Frequency: Annually. Credit Hours: 3.

INLS 753: Preservation of Library and Archive Materials An introduction to current practices, issues, and trends in the preservation of materials for libraries and archives with an emphasis on integrating preservation throughout an institution's operations. Prerequisites: None. Frequency: Annually. Credit Hours: 3.

INLS 755: Archival Appraisal Explores the history, theories, techniques, and methods that archivists use to identify documents and other materials of enduring value for long‐term preservation. Prerequisites: None. Frequency: Annually. Credit Hours: 3.

INLS 842: Seminar in Popular Materials in Libraries Selected topics relating to the roles of various types of libraries in the provision and preservation of popular materials (light romances, science fiction, comic books, etc.) existing in various forms (print, recorded sound, etc.). Prerequisites: None. Frequency: Annually. Credit Hours: 3.

INLS 857: Seminar in Rare Book Collections A study of the nature and importance of rare book collections; problems of acquisition, organization, and service. Prerequisites: None. Frequency: ?. Credit Hours: 3.