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Current Problems in Information Science: Archival Representation

University at Albany, State University of New York
Dept. Code: 
IST
Course Number: 
666
Course Credits: 
3
Course Instructor: 
Donghee Sinn
Offered Online: 
No

An introduction to the history, theory, and practice of the representation of archival collections for access by users. Students will examine different types of surrogates for archival collections, including subject guides, finding aids, MARC records, and Encoded Archival Description, as well as web representation of archival metadata. Current research and the implementation of archival description programs will also be examined.