Archival Processing Course
Gain expertise in processing civil rights and sensitive archival collections. The course covers arrangement, foldering, finding aids, metadata creation, preservation strategies, and ethical access practices, enabling you to develop clear, discoverable, and responsible archives suitable for any library or repository environment. Ideal for building professional skills in archival management.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course provides a practical guide to mastering archival arrangement, description, and access for complex collections. Key principles such as provenance, original order, and DACS are taught, with hands-on application to mixed donations, civil rights records, and audiovisual items. Participants will create series, folder lists, and finding aids, while handling preservation, privacy, and ethical access confidently.
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Develop skills
- Design archival series by organising mixed civil rights collections logically.
- Create detailed folder lists with labels, box arrangements, and notes for quick researcher use.
- Write compliant finding aids using DACS standards with robust subject indexing.
- Manage sensitive materials through restrictions, redactions, and ethical access protocols.
- Plan preservation and digitisation efforts for audiovisual items, selecting formats and tracking files.
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