Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $260 (nonmember, $310)
Attendance Maximum: 30

Instructor(s): Paul Theerman, head, Images and Archives, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, and Tim Pennycuff, assistant professor and university archivist, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Offered: Saturday, May 20, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

This course will provide basic strategies for how library staff can arrange, protect, and make use of archival items and collections. Course instructors will discuss the physical arrangement and processing of items found in archival or manuscript collections, basic protection procedures to preserve original items, handling and administration of archival materials during reference and research use, and ways to make holdings known to the broader library and archives community. The course will help improve the quality of health sciences library services and help librarians to acquire new knowledge and skills in health sciences librarianship, transition from one area of library practice to another, acquire a greater depth of knowledge in an area of health sciences librarianship, and improve their ability to manage health sciences information resources.