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Coursework and Professional Development

Access and Privacy Issues for Archivists and Librarians

Concepts included access and privacy ethics, privacy rights, and digital records access and privacy issues.

Archiving Audiovisuals

Concepts included identification methods, preservation and obsolescence issues, and digitisation.

Endbands with Karen Hanmer

Concepts included a variety of different endband styles and techniques.

History and Theory of Museums

Concepts included the history of museums and the museum profession, museology, and museum trends.

Introduction to Paper Conservation

Concepts included mending, adhesive removal, fills, washing, surface cleaning, deacidification, HVAC, object housing, media identification, paper and ink history, paper creation processes, ink identification, reprographic processes, photorepographic processes, illustrative processes, artistic media identification, deterioration types, inpainting, humidification, and integrated pest management.

Museum Collections Management and Curation

Concepts included object care and handling, collection policies and procedures, collection regulations and ethics, collection cataloging and storage, environmental monitoring, conservation, exhibits, digitization and access, risk management, and integrated pest management.

Professionalism Capstone in Museum Studies

Concepts included professionalism, employment skills, and mentorship.

Administration and Organization of Museums

Concepts included business models and organizational culture, strategic planning, and leadership development.

Arrangement and Description

Concepts included arranging and describing archival collections, writing and evaluating finding aids, EAD, and DACS.

Even More Simplified Binding with Fish Parchment Spine

Concepts included folding, signature sewing, rounding, backing, end sheets, and fish parchment creation.

History of Books and Printing

Concepts included the history and development of writing systems, books, printing, and papermaking.

Leather Bookbinding I

Concepts included leatherwork, sewing, rounding, and backing.

Museum Fundamentals

Concepts included governance and management, legal and ethical issues, collections and curation, exhibits, educational programming, and marketing.

An Introduction to Modern Archives Administration

Concepts included ethical responsibilities of archivists, record management principles, appraisal, arrangement and description, access issues, preservation, researcher services, outreach, legal and ethical issues, and community archives.

Binding Fundamentals

Concepts included folding, signature sewing, end bands, rounding, backing, end sheets, and paper cases.

Foundations of Library and Information Science

Concepts included information ethics, the history of libraries and librarian profession, information services, and information policies.

Information Access and Retrieval

Concepts included information retrieval systems and interfaces, analyzing information-seeker needs, and information system evaluation.

Leather Working for Bookbinding

Concepts included working with leather and leather tools specific to bookbinding practices.

Organization of Information

Concepts included cataloging, classification, indexing, abstracting, bibliographic systems, and collection organization methods.

Archival Outreach: Programs and Services

Concepts included virtual exhibition development, reference interviews, outreach strategies, program development, and audience development. Developed a virtual StoryMaps exhibition.

Copyright Legal Issues for Archivists and Librarians

Concepts included copyright regulations, risk management, copyright reviews, and digital access.

Fundamentals of Collections Management

Concepts included collections organization, collections access, and policy development, community outreach and engagement, and labelling.

Introduction to Legal Issues for Archivists and Librarians

Concepts included legal and ethical issues in archives and libraries and risk mitigation.

Metadata

Concepts included Dublin Core, controlled vocabularies, XML, MODS, VRA Core, RDF, JSON, Schema.org, designing metadata schemas, metadata harvesting and cleaning.

Papermaking 1

Concepts included recycled papermaking, terminology, equipment, papermaking processes, and pulp painting.

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