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Library
Schools in Canada and the United States: Educational Opportunities for
Careers in Fine Arts and Visual Resources Librarianship, ARLIS/NA
NOTE: November 1995 with 1999 Addendum.
Directory of Institutions Offering Accredited Master's Programs in Libary and Information Studies, ALA (American Library Association)
Advanced Residency
Program in Photograph Conservation (ARP), George Eastman House
Rochester, New York
The Advanced Residency Program was conceived to advance the field of photograph
conservation.
During the two-year
program, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellows become equipped for positions of
leadership in the photograph conservation profession and the conservation
field at large through a combination of expert classroom instruction,
advanced treatment experiences at George Eastman House, and exposure to
advanced research techniques at the Image Permanence Institute. The curriculum,
facilities, and staffing of the Advanced Residency Program have been designed
specifically to teach what is essential and unavailable anywhere else
in the world.
Campbell Center for Historic
Preservation Studies, Campbell Center
Mount Carroll, Illinois
The Campbell Center offers continuing education in historic preservation,
museum studies, preventive collections care, and conservation. The Center
offers the participant a scholarship-supported program of certification
in preventive collections care for the beginning, mid-career, and senior-level
heritage professional. All
course offerings are “material-based.” Each course focuses on
the inherent chemical and/or physical properties and limitations of the
artifact material(s), the role environmental factors play in material(s)
degradation, and conservation/preventive conservation strategies, which
mitigates and/or slows degradation.
The Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies is offering a Collections
Preventive Care Certificate Program beginning in 2005. The purpose
of the certificate program is to offer continuing education to those who
work to preserve objects of material culture. The course of study will
consist of six courses and culminate in a certificate. Three different
certificates will be awarded depending on a participant’s career
level and their training needs. These three certificates levels are: Beginning
Professional, Mid-Career Professional and Senior Professional. The six
courses combine core and elective courses for the first two professional
levels, while the third professional level is composed entirely of electives.
Participants may earn all three levels of certificates if they so desire.
Course work for each of the professional levels can be completed in as
little as one or as long as three years.
Historic
Information Management, Southeast Community College
Cumberland, Kentucky
The Historic Information Management Program consists separate certificate
programs in each of three concentrations: Archival Management, Museum
Management, and Records Management.
They are designed
to deliver a fundamental technical grounding in each profession. They
are not intended to be a short cut or substitute for undergraduate or
graduate professional education in these areas. The Historic Information Management program is responding to a need that
has arisen as organizations preserving and presenting Appalachian cultural
legacy to the public mature – a shortage of trained, homegrown professional
staff. The program is also designed to serve cultural workers at smaller
institutions throughout the country, so that shorthanded staffs, limited
budgets, and the absence of local training facilities need not make professional
training for staff an impossible dream. Designed to meet the needs of
busy people who work or want to work in museums, archives, or records
management, the Historic Information Management Program delivers most
of its courses through the Internet. Single parents, part-time students
or those currently employed in archives, museum, or records management
desiring to further their education and training will find this unique
on-line delivery approach a fast, convenient, and economical approach
to career development.
Image Permanence
Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a university-based, nonprofit
research laboratory devoted to scientific research in the preservation
of visual and other forms of recorded information. It is the world's largest
independent laboratory with this specific scope. IPI was founded in 1985
through the combined efforts and sponsorship of the Rochester Insitute
of Technology and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
The
L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, George Eastman
House
Rochester, New York
The school is the first in North America to teach the restoration, preservation,
and archiving of motion pictures. The certificate program offered by the
school provides students with a comprehensive education covering the theory,
methods, and practice of archival work and film preservation. Students
work closely with George Eastman House staff, receiving practical, hands-on
training in the maintenance, care, and storage of motion pictures.
Master
of Arts, Photographic Preservation and Collection Management, Ryerson
University and George Eastman House
Rochester, New York
The joint graduate program provides an integrated program of academic
study and professional education that will equip students to meet current
responsibilities and future demands in photographic preservation and in
managing and preserving photographic collections. Its faculty includes
photographic historians, scientists, practitioners, curators and other
museum professionals. The first year of the program is given at Ryerson
University in Toronto. The second year is in Rochester at the George Eastman
House, while the six-week internship is carried out at a museum or archive
during the summer months between the first and second years. The program
is the only one of its kind in the world. Its curriculum is specifically
designed to deepen students' understanding of the history of the photographic
medium, particularly its social, cultural, and instrumental uses, and
the purposes and functions of photographs and photographic collections.
