Archival Processing Course
Gain expertise in processing archives, especially civil rights and sensitive materials. The course covers arrangement principles, creating folder lists and finding aids, metadata standards, preservation techniques, and ethical access protocols. This equips you to establish organised, accessible, and trustworthy archives suitable for any library or repository environment, ensuring materials are preserved and discoverable for researchers.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Archival Processing Course provides a straightforward, hands-on guide to expertly arranging, describing, and providing access to challenging collections. You'll grasp essential concepts such as provenance, original order, and DACS standards, then put them into practice with diverse donations, civil rights documents, and audiovisual items. Develop skills to create structured series, detailed folder lists, and comprehensive finding aids, while confidently handling preservation needs, privacy concerns, and ethical access choices.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Design archival series by establishing clear structure in mixed civil rights collections.
- Create detailed folder lists with precise labels, box arrangements, and notes for quick researcher use.
- Write compliant finding aids using DACS standards with robust subject indexing.
- Manage sensitive records through restrictions, redactions, and ethical access guidelines.
- Plan preservation and digitisation strategies for audiovisual items, selecting formats and tracking files.
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