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Continuing Professional Education Course Catalog

 

The Society of American Archivists has developed a wide array of professional continuing education programs available for co-sponsorship by repositories and other institutions. The major benefits of co-sponsorship? Bringing a high-quality SAA workshop to your location, plus savings on time and resources!

All SAA programs follow the Guidelines for Archival Continuing Education (the ACE Guidelines), which were developed by the Committee on Education, vetted through broad discussion with the SAA membership, and adopted by the SAA Council in 2006. The Guidelines are intended to encourage creation of opportunities for lifelong learning within the archives community.

The ACE Guidelines document identifies eight “standard areas of archival knowledge,” which serve as the basis for organizing SAA’s course offerings. If your institution is interested in co-sponsoring an SAA workshop, just click on a topic area below for a complete list of offerings in that area.

For more information about education policies and the co-sponsorship process, contact us at education[at]archivists.org.

  1. General Archival Knowledge
  2. Selection, Appraisal, and Acquisition
  3. Arrangement and Description
  4. Reference Services and Access
  5. Preservation and Protection
  6. Outreach, Advocacy, and Promotion
  7. Managing Archival Programs
  8. Ethical and Legal Responsibilities

 


General Archival Knowledge

Understanding Archives: An Introduction to Principles & Practices

Basic Electronic Records

Introduction to Digital Libraries and Digital Archives

Digitization of Archival Materials

Understanding Photographs: Introduction to Archival Principles & Practices

The Essentials of Digital Repositories

Implementing "More Product, Less Process"

Association Archives...Managing Your Institutional Memory

 


Selection, Appraisal, and Acquisition

Advanced Appraisal for Archivists

Managing the Digital University Desktop

 


Arrangement and Description

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

MARC According to DACS: Archival Cataloging to the National Content Standard

Applying DACS to Single-Item Manuscript Cataloging

Arrangement and Description of Manuscript Collection

Implementing DACS in Integrated CMS: Using the Archivists' Toolkit™

Encoded Archival Description

Style Sheets for EAD - Delivering Your Finding Aids on the Web

Implementing DACS in Integrated CMS: Using Archon™

Digital Object Modeling and Representation: Using the Archivists' Toolkit™

 


Reference Services and Access

Building Digital Collections

Real World Reference: Moving Beyond Theory

 


Preservation and Protection

Preservation of 20th Century Visual Materials

Moving Images: An Introduction for Archivists

 


Outreach, Advocacy, and Promotion

Analyzing and Improving Archival Web Sites

Designing Usable Web Sites

An Introduction to Archival Exhibitions

Using Oral Histories: Publications, Exhibits, Internet

Advanced Electronic Records: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

 


Managing Archival Programs

Business Archives...Establishing and Managing an Archives

Grant Proposal Writing

Management of Cultural Institutions

Oral History: From Planning to Preservation

Security in Archives & Manuscript Repositories

Project Management for Archivists

Planning New and Remodeled Archival Facilities

Financial Management Basics for Archivists

Managing Literary Manuscripts: Identification, Arrangement, and Description

 


Ethical and Legal Responsibilities

Copyright: The Archivist and the Law

Ethical Problem Solving

Archivist's Guide to Balancing Legal Issues in Photographic Collections

 

 

Last updated on: December 8, 2008