Intro to Archival Collections Management Systems
4-Week Course Starts FEB 10, 2025
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Describe the range of collection management systems and their applications
- Identify the required skills and competencies needed for selecting and maintaining a CMS
- Evaluate basic factors you should consider when selecting a collection management system
- Recall and understand important steps that occur after selecting a CMS
Total Course Hours: 10 Hours/ 1 CEU
"I'd highly recommend this course for anyone questioning their CMS. The course was very well structured [and] the support materials were excellent, providing valuable resources that complemented the lessons. Additionally, the feedback from the instructor was prompt and constructive, helping me tremendously in the learning process. An investment in a CMS is very costly, both in financial and personnel resources. This four-week course should be a first step in that investment to help you and your institution break down what best suits your needs. "
- Chris White, Archivist, Los Altos Hills, CA
Your Instructor
Selena Chau received an MLIS with a focus on archives after a career in web and database development. She has over 10 years of experience in archives and libraries and has applied her diverse set of archival and technical skills in museum, research library, and broadcast environments. She has experience in metadata management, audiovisual archiving, as well as content and asset management. Her work as a digital archivist included the evaluation and implementation of archival collection management systems.
Memorable projects include developing a Peter Paul Rubens online exhibition while at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, rights clearance of archival moving image dance works and quality control testing of the new NYPL digital collections interface, and crafting an audio preservation and access plan for KBOO 90.7 in Portland, Oregon. Selena is currently a Collection Strategist Librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is on the planning committee for the Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge.
"This is a really useful course. It provides a clear explanation of the role of a CMS and then guides the participant through a really practical approach to assessing different CMSs. Whilst it is inevitably a high level approach it provides a clear framework into which an organisation or individual can plan and assess systems with a view to choosing a CMS. Really useful resources including checklists and articles of real life experience. A coherent, relevant course that was not onerous to undertake alongside the day job.
- Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowan, Consultant Archivist, United Kingdom
Frequently Asked Questions
It is an asynchronous online course designed to be completed in 4 weeks.
Participants will spend approximately 2.5 hours each week on viewing lectures, answering quizzes, and completing discussion, reading, and written assignments.
It is recommended that you complete each week's work within that week to stay in sync with other learners.
1. View all lectures
2. Answer all quizzes
3. Complete all assignments
When you complete these three items you can expect to receive you certificate within 2 weeks.
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2. Email us at [email protected] for an invoice. This will be emailed to you and you can pay through the link provided in the invoice.
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