INTRODUCTION TO ARCHIVES

588-002

SUMMER, 2004

( 1) Jun 14 Morning Nature of the course; Fundamentals of Archival Enterprise: Read: O’Toole, Understanding Archives

Afternoon Concept of “record”: Read: Levy, Scrolling Forward¸7-38, 59-77; Livelton, Archival Theory, Records, and the Public, pps. 59-92

Arrangement: Read: Miller, Arranging and Describing, chs, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7

Description: Read: Miller, Arranging and Describing, chs, 8, 9, 10

( 2) Jun 15 Morning Brewers’ Institute arrangement exercise in class

Afternoon Description: Read: Dooley, Encoded Archival Description, chs by Dooley, Pitti, Ruth, Fox, Kiesling, Meissner; Review: http://www.loc.gov/ead/ and Understanding MARC Bibliographic Machine-Readable Cataloging web site - http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/umb/

( 3) Jun 16 Morning Appraisal: Read: Ham, Appraisal and Selection, chs, 2, 3, 6, 7

Afternoon Customer Service: Read: Pugh, Providing Reference Services

Acquisition: Read: Ham, Appraisal and Selection, ch, 5; Stewart, "A Primer on Manuscript Field Work"

( 4) Jun 17 Morning Acquisition (cont’d)

Advocacy: Read: Wilsted, Managing Archival and Manuscript Repositories, ch, 9; Gracy, “Reference No Longer is a ‘P’ Word”

Afternoon Space and Administration: Read: Wilsted, Managing Archival and Manuscript Repositories, ch, 7

( 5) Jun 18 Morning Digital and Electronic Records: Read: Gilliland-Swetland, Enduring Paradigm at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub89/contents.html

Afternoon Comparative Archives

Review of course

JUNE 25: SYNOPSIS OF HIRTLE, “ARCHIVAL AUTHENTICITY…” DUE IN AUSTIN

JUNE 29: INVENTORY ANALYSIS DUE IN AUSTIN IN HARD COPY

JULY 2: FINAL EXAMINATION DUE IN AUSTIN