Digital Information Mgmt

The Graduate Certificate in Digital Curation provides students with the theoretical knowledge, conceptual frameworks and practical skills required to create, maintain and curate collections of digital information in libraries, archives and records management departments.

Student Outcomes
Through a combination of required courses and electives chosen to augment and extend the student's knowledge of digital information management in his/her areas of career interest, students will:

• Understand the conceptual approaches to collection creation, curation and management underlying digital libraries, digital archives and digital records management, including how they are similar and how they differ;
• Understand the issues in designing, developing, organizing, providing access, and preserving digital collections in the domain of the student's choice;
• Understand the elements of technological practice underpinning digital libraries, digital archives and digital records management;
• Have practice experience in digital collection creation and curation.

Evaluation in coursework, reflected in grades, assesses the achievement of these outcomes. The capstone course includes an electronic poster integrating academic knowledge with the practical experience of the internship.