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LIS 653: Seminar in Archival Management

Andrew B. Wertheimer, Ph.D. / Fall 2007

Syllabus [PDF]

(Wedesdays: 1:00 - 3.40 PM) Bilger 319

• Prerequisite: I'm allowing students to enroll in the class without the LIS 652 prerequisite as long as you read Gregory S. Hunter's Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-to-do-it Manual (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2003).
• Textbooks:
  • Randall Jimerson, American Archival Studies: Readings in Theory and Practice (Chicago: SAA, 2000);
  • Nicholas A. Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (New York: Holt, 1999).

Links

Archival Repositories

• Directory of Historical Records Repositories in Hawaii (Updated Links Archives in Hawaii)
• Online Archive of California
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
• "Archives and Archival Studies: A Selected List of Electronic and Print Resources for Archives Students” (University of Maryland, includes an expanded list of archival journals, some of them not at UH)
• UNESCO Archives Portal

Encoded Archival Description

• Official EAD Version 2002 Web Site (Library of Congress)
• EAD Help Pages (SAA)

Archival Education

• Directory of Archival Education (SAA)
• Archival Education at UH

Professional Associations

• Association of Hawaii Archivists
• Society of American Archivists
• SAA Employment Online Bulletin
• SAA Code of Ethics for Archivists
• International Council on Archives
• Academy of Certified Archivists

>> Rev. 6 Dec. 2007.