Jeannette Allis Bastian

Archival Education in North American Library and Information Science Schools.

American archival education at the graduate level developed gradually throughout the twentieth century. In the past decade, however, its development has accelerated, and firmer foundations were built in graduate library and information science (LIS) programs throughout North America. Our findings indicate strength and individualization in graduate level archival education programs, a dramatic increase in full-time, tenure-track faculty, a growing number of course offerings often eclipsing the LIS offerings in an archival students course of study, and the nascent development of degrees acknowledging the archives and records field. Despite the substantial growth of archival education within the LIS schools, there is confusion or lack of understanding about the archival field by these schools as well as a lack of commitment by archival professional associations to advocate for specific changes in archival education.

Out of the classroom and into the laboratory: Teaching digital curation virtually and experientially

As graduate LIS/IS education seeks to respond to intensifying virtual information and preservation environments, it becomes increasingly clear that innovative teaching tools and methods are required. These teaching tools must complement and enhance state-of-the-art curriculum offerings in subjects such as digital curation. The digital curation courses offered in the LIS School at Simmons College, Boston illustrate an innovative virtual and experiential approach. At the heart of these courses is the Digital Curriculum Laboratory, a virtual archives and preservation laboratory. This paper discusses and demonstrates the relationship between a digital curriculum laboratory, the successful delivery of a digital curation curriculum and its wider international implications.

From Teacher to Learner to User: Developing a Digital Stewardship Pedagogy

Addressing how the education of library, archival, and museum professionals influences the ways in which practitioners incorporate technology into user service environments, this article focuses on digital stewardship as a developing pedagogy. Digital stewardship encompasses, but is not limited to, the creation, maintenance, preservation, dissemination, and exhibition of a trusted body of digital information for current and future use. Pedagogy in this emerging area offers opportunities for experimentation and innovation that should have an impact on the ability of practitioners to interact with users and on the ways that users can become involved with and integrated into the construction of digital stewardship activities. The authors explore how this pedagogy can be applied in the classroom, in the laboratory, and in internships.

'Are We There Yet?' Professionalism and the Development of an Archival Core Curriculum in the United States

This study of graduate-level archival education identifies core curricula and evaluates these programs in Library/Information Schools as well as in history departments. It uses the Society of American Archivists Guidelines for a Graduate Program in Archival Studies to construct a mapping of courses and an analysis of the intensity of topic coverage in syllabi in order to address the issues of core curricula and professional identity. By focusing on core topics as well as core courses it also examines differences among programs and measures the breadth and intensity of core offerings.

Measuring the success of internships in an archives education program

An assessment of the value of internships in an archives education program is examined through questionnaires administered to graduates and currently enrolled archives students in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. The survey supports anecdotal evidence of the vital part played by internships in the professional education of archivists and identifies those aspects of particular significance to the intern. These include the primary role of the intern supervisor, the importance of the project, the need to create a product, the importance of support at the internship institution, and the guidance of the educational program.

Educating archivists in library and information science schools : KALIPER project: Final report

The development of graduate level archival education has been slow. In the past ten years, however, this process has accelerated, and firmer foundations have been created in universities throughout North America. The strength of these graduate-level archival education programs can be seen in the diversification and increased visibility of archival programs; greater numbers of full-time and tenure-track faculty; a broader array of course offerings specifically in the archives and records area; and the nascent development of degrees acknowledging the archives and records field. This article traces the development and the status of archival programs within library and information science (LIS).

Building a virtual archives and preservation curriculum laboratory at Simmons GSLIS

This demonstration showcases the Simmons GSLIS Digital Curriculum Laboratory (DCL), a collaborative teaching and learning environment to support the archives, preservation and cultural heritage informatics curricula. The Digital Curriculum Laboratory is a virtual space comprised of digital content, scenarios describing archival and preservation processes, metadata standards, and a set of digital asset management applications, where students problem-solve, experiment, evaluate and gain hands-on experience with digital materials in a classroom context.