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Librarianship: A Directory of Library Science Degree Programs in North America (PDF, 2008), ARLIS/NA
Directory of Institutions Offering Accredited Master's Programs in Libary and Information Studies, ALA (American Library Association)
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.
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.
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.
