Safeguarding Non-Digital Collections

Postgraduate | 2026

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INFO 5042
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Course ID
203974
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Adelaide City Campus
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Level of study
Postgraduate
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Unit value
6
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Course owner
Adelaide University
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Course level
5
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No
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University-wide elective course
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Course overview

The aim of this course is to give students the skills to analyse and critically evaluate the complex challenges and the key principles and strategies to safeguard non-digital collection assets throughout their lifecycle, across different formats.

Course learning outcomes

  • Critically analyse the complex challenges and risks in preserving non-digital collection assets.
  • Critically analyse and synthesise the key principles in selecting what to preserve.
  • Critically analyse and interpret the current major international strategies and systems used in non-digital preservation programs.
  • Identify and critically analyse the complex issues relating to the ongoing management and resourcing of non-digital preservation programs.
  • Interpret the inter-relationships with broader preservation risks across the information environment, including information systems and interconnections with digital preservation programs.
  • Synthesise and apply preservation principles and strategies in an industry context to identify key risks and make appropriate recommendations to develop preservation plans and strategies for non-digital collections.

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