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First Do No Harm: Basic Strategies for Administering Archival Materials in Health Science Libraries

This course will provide basic strategies for how library staff can arrange, protect, and make use of archival items and collections. Course instructors will discuss the physical arrangement and processing of items found within archival or manuscript collections, basic protection procedures to preserve original items, handling and administration of archival materials during reference and research use, and how to make holdings known to the broader library and archives community. This course will help improve the quality of health sciences library services. It will help librarians to acquire new knowledge and skills in health sciences librarianship; transition from one area of library practice to another; acquire a greater depth of knowledge in an area of health sciences librarianship; and improve their ability to manage health science information resources.

Keywords

Archives; Archival practices; Archival Procedures; Preservation

Languages

English

Contents

Other

Formats

Class

Audiences

Information Professionals

Contacts

Pennycuff, Tim L. : Author,Instructor

Theerman, Paul : Author,Instructor

Publication Date:

September 14, 2007

This record was added on May 28, 2008 and last modified on May 28, 2008.