• INLS 556: Introduction to Archives and Records Management (3). Tibbo. Survey of the principles, techniques, and issues in the acquisition, management, and administration of records, manuscripts, archives, and other cultural and documentary resources in paper, electronic, and other media formats.


• INLS 525 Records Management (3). Staff. Introduces the principles of records center design, records analysis and appraisal, filing systems, reprographics and forms, reports and correspondence management. Legal issues and the security of records are also covered.


• INLS 752 Digital Preservation and Access (3). Tibbo. Focuses on best practices for the creation, provision, and long-term preservation of digital entities. Topics include digitization technologies; standards and quality control: digital asset management; grant writing; and metadata.


• INLS 756 Advanced Issues & Practices in Archives and Manuscripts Administration (3). Tibbo. Prerequisite: INLS 145 or equivalent. Examines issues in the administration of archival, manuscripts, and records programs. Explores how theory relates to professional practice. Students process a collection from appraisal through creation of an electronic finding aid.


• INLS 753 Preservation of Library and Archive Materials (3). Hart. An introduction to current practices, issues, and trends in the preservation of materials for libraries and archives with an emphasis on integrating preservation throughout an institution’s operations.


• INLS 795 Professional Field Experience (3). Daniel. Prerequisite: completion of at least twenty-one (21) semester hours and permission of advisor. Supervised observation and practice in an information setting. The field experience typically takes place in a library or another information agency. Faculty-led seminars and a paper enhance the experience.

Special Topics Courses on archives, Spring 2006

• INLS 210-046 Archival Appraisal (3). Tibbo. Prerequisite: INLS 145. This course will explore what has been termed the archivist's "first" and arguably most important responsibility, appraisal. Students will investigate the theories, techniques, and methods that archivists use to identify documents and other materials of enduring value for long-term preservation.


• INLS 210-112 Archival Approaches to Content Management (3). Conway. This seminar draws on basic archival principles to develop ways of understanding the management of digital content from three different perspectives: digital files as surrogates of original source materials; Web content delivery systems; and repositories for digital preservation.


• INLS 210-131 Principles and Practices in Archival Description (3). Wisser/Holdzkom. Pre-requisite: INLS 145. Recommended:INLS 151. Explores the principles of archival description as expressed in Describing Archives: A Content Standard Implementation of those principles through Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and MARC structures will form the largest portion of the semester. Other practices will include authority and subject analysis work.

Cooperative archival program with NCSU

Today's marketplace frequently demands that archivists, manuscript curators, and records managers have both historical knowledge and advanced information management skills. Neither a master's degree in history nor one in information and library science is ideal, by itself, to prepare the new archival workforce that must be able to appraise and describe historical records, create World Wide Web sites, and preserve electronic documents.

To meet the needs of the archival profession, the School of Information and Library Science, in conjunction with the Department of Public History of the North Carolina State University (NCSU), offers a cooperative archival program. Students who enroll in this program can earn either an M.S.L.S. or M.S.I.S. degree and an M.A. in public history in 69 credit hours. If taken individually, these degrees would require eighty-four credit hours.

Students must be admitted to both universities independently and comply with all requirements of each program. Selected elective courses can be shared across both degrees with advisor approval. Although students do not have to matriculate in both degree programs during the same semester, they must maintain concurrent registration at some time during their course work. Students must abide by all inter-institutional registration policies as well.

Students may apply only three credits toward their SILS degree when they take the following pairings of SILS and NCSU public history courses due to content overlap:

INLS 753 - Preservation of Library and Archive Materials
HI 688 - Conservation of Archival and Library Materials

INLS 795 - Supervised Field Experience
HI 691 - Practicum in Public History

It is unusual for any SILS student to apply more than three hours of field experience/practicum toward the SILS degree.

For more information concerning the NCSU public history program, contact:

Graduate Administrator
Department of History
Box 8108
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8108
(919) 515-2483
Fax: (919) 515-3886

Dr. Helen R. Tibbo may be consulted for information about this cooperative program: (919) 962-8366.