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Archives Management

LIS610

  • Level 6
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
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This online archives management course gives you an overview of the principles and key practices associated with managing community, private and public sector archives and archival tāonga in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This course covers:

  • What archives are, and how they are managed and used to ensure continuing memory and accountability.
  • A detailed overview of archives management practices in Aotearoa New Zealand, and how these practices are adapted to fit different organisational and cultural contexts.
  • The varied roles of the archivist and the assorted definitions, theories, methodologies and strategies that are applied to archives management.
  • Cultural protocols that may need to be considered and introduces issues that impact the ongoing management and use of archives.

For more information watch the course introduction video below.

 

What you will learn

When you successfully complete this course you will be able to:

  • Identify the characteristics of archives and archival repositories and discuss the role and purpose of archives, archival tāonga and archivists.
  • Explain key aspects of archives management practice in various organisational and cultural contexts.
  • Analyse issues that impact the management of archives, determine their effect, and propose fitting solutions that recognise cultural protocols.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

Textbooks

No textbooks are needed for this course.

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.

For online learning you need:

  • Access to a laptop or desktop computer
  • Reliable broadband internet and a data plan

Find out more about online learning

If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.

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