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.