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

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Webinar handouts.pdf31.71 KB
Appraisal Evaluations (2016) pdf64.63 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)

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EAD Room Setup and AV Requirements.doc37 KB
EAD3workbook2016 - corrected table.pdf6.78 KB
EAD3workbook2016.docx222.83 KB
EAD 1642 New York, NY 2.22-2.23.16.pdf80.74 KB
EAD3 1671 Minneapolis, MN 3.24-25.16.pdf79.23 KB

Forming Names According to RDA: Part I

Course Description
PowerPoint Presentation

No evaluation data as of 1/5/2017

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RDA Presentation Final.ppt1.33 MB

MARC for Archival Description

Course Description

No evaluation data as of 1/5/2017

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MARC_first draft.ppt3.03 MB
MARC Agenda11.78 KB
MARC Proposal14.16 KB