Sessions 4-6 are asynchronous. Lectures are available below under “review.” Sessions 5 and 6 involve practicums that are due by 7/17, listed below.

Session three: Archives building

7/8

Readings

Required reading, PICK ONE:

Terry Cook’s “Building an Archives: Appraisal Theory for Architectural Records”
Cynthia Sauer’s “Doing the Best We Can? The Use of Collection Development Policies and Cooperative Collecting Activities at Manuscript Repositories“

Recommended foundational reading:

Laura Millar’s “Archives: Principles and practices; Chapter 10″

Society of American Archivists’ “SAA Core Values Statement and Code of Ethics“

Assignments Due

None

Review
Session 3 lecture slides
Session 3 practicum slides

Session four: Making the appraisal decision

7/13

Readings

Required reading, PICK ONE:

Christine A. Lutz’s “Making a Scene: A Scenes Approach to a Local Music Archives“
Geoff Wexler’s and Linda Long’s “Lifetimes and Legacies: Mortality, Immortality, and the Needs of Aging and Dying Donors“

Recommended foundational reading:

Aaron Purcell’s “Donors and Archives: A Guidebook for Successful Programs; Chapter 1″

Assignments Due

None

Review

Lecture: Making the Appraisal Decision

Session 4 slides

Session five: Archives and the law: copyright, licensing, and intellectual property

7/14

Readings

Required reading, PICK ONE:

Katherine Fisher’s “Copyright and Preservation of Born-digital Materials: Persistent Challenges and Selected Strategies”
Christine Anne George’s “Archives Beyond the Pale: Negotiating Legal and Ethical Entanglements after the Belfast Project”
Judy Tsou’s and John Vallier’s “Ether today, gone tomorrow: 21st Century sound recording collection in crisis“

Recommended foundational reading:

Jean Dryden’s “Just Let It Go? Controlling Reuse of Online Holdings“
Nicola Wilson, Claire Battershill, Helena Clarkson, Matthew N. Hannah, Illya Nokhrin, and Elizabeth Willson Gordon’s “Digital critical archives, copyright, and feminist praxis”

Georgia Harper and Colleen Lyon’s “Copyright Crash Course” at University of Texas Libraries

Assignments Due

none

Review

Lecture: Archives and the Law

Session 5 slides

Archives and the law practicum (due 7/17)

Session six: Archival relationships: Donors, Users, and Donor-Users

7/15

Readings

Required reading, PICK ONE:

Elliott Kuecker et al’s “Teaching Community Archiving”
Laura Millar’s “Archives: Principles and Practices; Chapter 12: Making Archives Available“
Caryn Radick’s “Romance Writers’ Use of Archives“
Laura Treat’s and Julie Judkins’ “‘First there is the creative decision, then there is the dollar decision’: Information-Seeking Behaviors of Filmmakers Using Moving Image Archives“
Susan Tucker’s “Doors Opening Wider: Library and Archival Services to Family History”
Travis L. Wagner, Allan A. Martell, and Shannon M. Oltmann’s “’It’s Not the Materials Themselves, It’s the Attitude of the Donors:’ The Role of Community Accountability in the Sustainability of Queer Archives.”
Assignments Due

Assignment #1

Review

Lecture: Donors and Users

Session 6 slides

Donors and users practicum (due 7/17)