LS67C—Archive and Record Management

(3 credits)
This is not intended as a course for teaching archivists, but as an introduction to the subject for librarians and other information specialists. It deals with the nature of archives and records management, the function of Records Offices and Archive Departments, and the basic principles of the physical care and organization of archival material. Given such a foundation, librarians in the region will be able to render useful service to scholarship by assembling and preserving archives and local history material in those countries where archival institutions do not yet exist.