Arrangement and Description Instructors

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Every LIS archival program teaches arrangement and description, often in an introductory course with other basics of the profession. When covered in these courses, the focus tends to be narrow and chiefly describes large manuscript or analog collections. The on-the-job reality is that archival material is unique, and collections can range from a single letter or email to an album of photographs. This expertise is gained through exposure to different formats and standards, as addressed in the SAA A&D curriculum.

The SAA Arrangement & Description certificate program allows archivists to gain more experience and knowledge in this single topic than is generally available in graduate archival programs. This approach provides archivists with extended descriptive training to expand the skill set they gained in graduate school, and it also can facilitate career shifts within the archival field (e.g., moving from public services to processing/cataloging).

The A&D curriculum accounts for horizontal and vertical transfers of knowledge through a structure of tracks and tiers. Courses structured by tracks are not solely for archivists but also for those who work closely with them, such as IT, general counsel, librarians, records managers, and other stakeholders. The tiers of study in the program allow for instruction that is built upon subsequent courses that address specialized, advanced studies and tactics and tools useful for arrangement and description, management, organization, and preservation.

Taken as a whole, these courses provide an integrated programmatic framework for archivists and others at various levels within their institutions whose areas of practice include arrangement and description.

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Course Content: Foundational

Foundational courses focus on the essential skills archivists use to perform arrangement and description tasks/activities. These focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the needs of archivists who are or will be working directly with institutional holdings. Courses in this category present information and strategies that an archivist can implement immediately.

Appraisal for Arrangement and Description: Part 1

Course Description
PowerPoint

Attachment	Size
Webinar handouts.pdf	31.71 KB
Appraisal Evaluations (2016) pdf	64.63 KB

Arrangement & Description: Fundamentals

Course Description
Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation Day 1 Day 2
Pre-Readings

Attachment	Size
0 - Directions for A&D Materials.docx	13.97 KB
1 - ADF course outline and readings.docx	16.88 KB
2 - A&D workbook pages 1 – 41.docx	2.02 MB
2 - A&D workbook pages 42-82.docx	147.34 KB
2 - A&D workbook pages 83-99.doc	85 KB
3 - Arrangement exercise 1.docx	15 KB
3 - Arrangement exercise 2.docx	16.04 KB
3 - Arrangement exercise 3.docx	15.1 KB
4 - Arrangement exercise 1 answers.docx	17.41 KB
4 - Arrangement exercise 2 answers.docx	11.88 KB
4 - Arrangement exercise 3 answers.docx	12.64 KB
5 - Description exercise 1.doc	26 KB
5 - Description exercise 2.doc	34 KB
5 - Description exercise 3.doc	26.5 KB
6 - Description exercise 1 answers.doc	25 KB
6 - Description exercise 2 answers.docx	14.69 KB
6 - Description exercise 3 answers.docx	12.27 KB
ADF Room Setup & AV Requirements.doc	31.5 KB
A-A&D Fundamentals - Arrangement_Final_Day 1 2016.pptx	14.17 MB
B- A&D Fundamentals - Description_Final_Day 2 2016.pptx	3.09 MB
ADF 1679 Boston, MA 6.21-22.16.pdf	85.14 KB
ADF 1748 Notre Dame, IN 10.3-10.4.16.pdf	80.49 KB

Arrangement and Description of Electronic Records: Part 1

Course Description
Agenda and Pre-Readings
PowerPoint (slides and bibliography)

Attachment	Size
ADER 1657 New York, NY 1.28-29.16.pdf	74.87 KB
ADER 1665 Milwaukee, WI 3.3-3.4.16.pdf	81.81 KB
ADER 1735 Highland Heights, KY 9.15- 9.16.16.pdf	81.97 KB
ADER1 1633 Portland, ME 3.31.16.pdf	71.85 KB

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Course Description
PowerPoint
"Pre-Readings"

Attachment	Size
0. DirectionsforDACSMaterials.docx	12.66 KB
1. DACS workbook.pdf	1.95 MB
2. DACS Exercise1.pdf	94.72 KB
3. DACS Exercise2.pdf	19.08 KB
4. DACS Exercise4.pdf	54.38 KB
DACS Instructor letter.docx	103.86 KB
SAA DACS Workshop 2016-07-31 slides.pptx	4.95 MB
5. DACS Exercise5.pdf	204.06 KB
DACS 1684 Seattle, WA 4.28.16.pdf	70.68 KB
DACS 1705 Atlanta, GA 8.16.pdf	82.53 KB

Encoded Archival Description (EAD3)

Course Description
Workbook

Special note: instructors ask that participants bring both a flash drive to save work and a copy of a finding aid (preferably on paper, but a Word file or html file on a flash drive will also work)

Attachment	Size
EAD Room Setup and AV Requirements.doc	37 KB
EAD3workbook2016 - corrected table.pdf	6.78 KB
EAD3workbook2016.docx	222.83 KB
EAD 1642 New York, NY 2.22-2.23.16.pdf	80.74 KB
EAD3 1671 Minneapolis, MN 3.24-25.16.pdf	79.23 KB

Ethics in Action

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

Attachment	Size
Ethics Handouts_Final.ppt	1.37 MB
Ethics Evaluations (2016) pdf	66.11 KB

Forming Names According to RDA: Part I

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

No evaluation data as of 1/5/2017

Attachment	Size
RDA Presentation Final.ppt	1.33 MB

MARC for Archival Description

Course Description

No evaluation data as of 1/5/2017

Attachment	Size
MARC_first draft.ppt	3.03 MB
MARC Agenda	11.78 KB
MARC Proposal	14.16 KB

Metadata Overview for Archivists

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation
Bibliography

Attachment	Size
MOA Evaluations (2016) pdf	68.79 KB
MOA Evaluations (2016) xls	37 KB

Rights and Confidentiality

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

No evaluation data as of 1/5/2017

Attachment	Size
A_D_Rights and Confidentiality Presentation Final.pptx	695.02 KB
A_D_Rights and Confidentiality_Handout.pptx	1.02 MB
Rolling Slides_Rights and Confidentiality.pptx	938.69 KB
SAA-RightsInDigitalEra-Excerpts_Handout.pdf	954.47 KB

Course Content: Tactical and Strategic

Tactical and Strategic courses focus on the skills archivists use to identify organizational adjustments needed to support an archival program. Courses in this category focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the needs of archivists who manage other professionals and/or who oversee programmatic operations.

Architectural Records: Managing Design and Construction Records

Course Description
Agenda
PowerPoint 1
PowerPoint 2
PowerPoint 3
PowerPoint 4
PowerPoint 5
PowerPoint 6
Bibliography

No evaluation data as of 1/5/2017

Arrangement and Description for Outreach

This course is still in development.

Course Description

Arrangement and Description of Audiovisual Materials

Course Description
Case Study Exercises
PowerPoint Presentation
Case Study Collection
Bibliography

Attachment	Size
ADAV 16B2 Austin, TX 6.28.16.pdf	75.59 KB
ADAV 1714 Atlanta, GA 8.2.16.pdf	68.89 KB

Arrangement and Description of Electronic Records: Part II

Course Description
Pre-Readings/Agenda
Workbook
Digital Processing Handout
Description Cheat Sheet Handout
Reviews and Audits

Attachment	Size
ADER 1657 New York, NY 1.28-29.16.pdf	74.87 KB
ADER 1665 Milwaukee, WI 3.3-3.4.16.pdf	81.81 KB
ADER 1735 Highland Heights, KY 9.15- 9.16.16.pdf	81.97 KB

Arranging and Describing Ephemera

This course is still in development.

Course Description

Copyright Issues for Digital Archives

Course Description
Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation — Briston
PowerPoint Presentation— Dryden
Bibliography
Other course documents

Attachment	Size
CIDA 1688 Plattsburgh, NY 6.8.16.pdf	79.21 KB
CIDA 1689 Ogden, UT 5.11.16.pdf	69.76 KB

Essential Coding for Archivists

This course is still in development.

Course Description

Fundamentals of Project Management for Archivists

Course Description
Agenda
PowerPoint
Pre-Readings
Bibliography

Attachment	Size
FPM 1658 Cleveland, OH 3.10.16.pdf	71.9 KB
FPM 1670 Denton, TX 3.7.16.pdf	67.17 KB
FPM 1690 Ogden, UT 5.11.16.pdf	71.02 KB

Grant Proposal Writing

Course Description
Agenda
PowerPoint
Bibliography

Attachment	Size
GPW 1765 Houston, TX 10.28.16.pdf	68.89 KB

Photographs: Archival Principles and Practices

Course Description

Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Digital Archives

Current materials (added/updated 10/27/2016)

Course Description
Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation
Supplemental Materials

Old materials

Case Studies
Workbook Contents (old)

Attachment	Size
PIDA 1649 College Park, MD 12.1.15.pdf	75.2 KB
PIDA 1676 Tallahassee, FL 5.4.16.pdf	64.18 KB

Course Content: Tools and Services

Tools and Services courses focus on specific tools and services that archivists use to support arrangement and description tasks/activities in their institutions. These are practical courses focused on specific software products and other tools. These courses focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the needs of practitioner archivists. Courses in this category present information and strategies that an archivist could implement immediately.

Crosswalking Metadata

This course is still in development.

Course Description

Determining Options for and Selecting Tools

This course is still in development.

Course Description

Forming Names According to RDA: Part II

Course Description

No evaluation data as of 1/5/2017

Attachment	Size
RDA2 PowerPoint	957.5 KB

How DACS Fits with TEI, METS, MODS, and MARC

This course is still in development.

Course Description

Style Sheets for EAD: Delivering Your Finding Aids on the Web

This course is in redevelopment.

Course Description

Course Content: Transformational

Transformational courses focus on the skills that archivists use to change their working life dramatically. They focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the strategic needs of archivists with oversight over the entire archival enterprise of an institution. Courses in this category present information that an archivist might implement over time.