Archives & Records: Practices & Principles
LIS-572LEC-OA1
University at Buffalo
- Semester
- Fall 2025
- Instructor
- Marie E Elia
- Start Date
- 08-25-2025
- Total Credits
- 3
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This course is a survey of the principles and practices of archives and records management and will address how the fields of archives and records management complement each other, how they differ, and how they function within the larger field of information science and with allied professions. This course will also address how archival practice informs and is informed by society, emphasizing the history and development of records and recordkeeping systems and the institutions and communities responsible for them. Through lectures, foundational readings, discussion, independent research, and hands-on practice, students will learn how archivists and records managers apply complex theoretical concepts in their work to preserve and provide access to materials.
Course Area: Library Science
Level: Graduate
Dates: 08-25-2025 - 12-08-2025
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