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LIS-S 584 Archival Arrangement and Description

3 credits

  • Prerequisites: LIS-S 500, LIS-S 507 and LIS-S 503 or LIS-S 581
  • Delivery: Online
  • Semesters offered: Spring
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  • This course explores the concepts, theories, and methods of arrangement and description of documents and materials in archives. Students are introduced to the principles of archival description and their implementation through encoded archival description (EAD) and machine-readable cataloging (MARC) structures.

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