
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.