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Conservation and Preservation
Postgraduate | CUR-INFM335 | 2018
Course information for 2018 intake
Cover the strategies employed by information professionals to conserve decaying materials.Explore digital preservation issues. Update your knowledge of copyright law. Compile a list of practices used on local, national and international levels.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Conservation and Preservation
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- describe current practices and techniques used to counteract deterioration of media and content in information centres
- evaluate the preservation needs of an information centre and develop a program
- understand the issues involved in the transition from paper assets and objects to digital information, and the long term preservation of digital information
- develop an understanding of copyright law and digital preservation
- research and contextualise the practical application and theoretical issues raised by evolving technological tools in the long term preservation of corporate information.
- Introduction
- Preservation and conservation
- Digital preservation
- Designing a preservation program
Explores the strategies and practices that information professionals use to cope with the problem of deteriorating materials. These range from practical low-cost actions that may be implemented by information professionals in every kind of working environment, to strategies that can only be administered at a national, sometimes even international, level.
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- Test (25%)
- Exercise (45%)
- Presentation (30%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:
one of
- CUR-INFM570-Archives Concepts and Practice
- CUR-INFM210-Collection Management
CUR-INFM270 (Not currently available)
- CUR-LIM215-Archives Concepts and Practice
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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