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Dr. JA Pryse, Summer 2025
Syllabus_LIS_5463_Summer_Pryse.pdfCourse Description
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of managing archival documents, such as personal papers, institutional records, photographs, and other unpublished material. The theoretical principles, methodologies and practical administration of the responsibilities of archivists working in today's business, government, and non-profit environments will be discussed. Included are aspects of classification, metadata creation, and facilitating access. The goals of this course are to define challenges of long-term digital archive management, implement standards and best practices when caring and curating digital archival materials, and to utilize the skillsets acquired within this course in the archival setting. Students will be able to apply knowledge directly into their everyday archival and library working environments (SLO 4, ALA 5, PLG 1).
Analysis
Analysis
This course gave me my first practice writing policies and procedures for a collection (ALA 2B, SLO 3). This experience helped me dive deeper into different aspects of archival processes, identify field standards, outline issues that may arise, and illustrate best practices in order to write a clear collection development policy. I learned not only how to outline these procedures, but also how to create archival representations on Archive Space (SLO 4). Policy development is a large part of library leadership, and I made it one of my program goals to strengthen this aspect of my leadership skills (PLG 1.2). Through creating my own policy, I was able to put this to work and felt proud of my first ever policy. There is room to grow, but this assignment allowed me to identify my strengths and weaknesses.
Reflection
Reflection
While I have had experience managing a database before, I was able to explore other information systems and practice hands-on in this course (ALA 9A). Through practicing creating representations of archival materials, I was able to connect description to accessibility and understand how these two concepts play hand-in-hand. Previously, I hadn’t utilized description to amplify the accessibility of objects, but now I have been able to apply description techniques from this course to my cataloging work and will be able to utilize these new skills in archival or cataloging jobs in the future (ALA 6A). One aspect of librarianship I have been striving to improve is the development of policies and procedures (PLG 1.2) and I was able to research various processing and description policies and craft my own through the final project I included as my artifact (SLO 5). This project required me to create a thorough archival processing and arrangement instruction manual and I felt very proud that I had created such a large procedure and policy manual by myself and I feel these skills will be very transferable.
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