[Asis-l] Simmons SLIS Summer Travel Course in South Korea - Apply Now!

[Alisa Libby]

Simmons SLIS has engaged in a unique exchange program
<http://slis.simmons.edu/blogs/dispatches/category/korea/> with Yonsei
University in Seoul, South Korea since 2009. Students from SLIS study
abroad in Seoul while students from Yonsei visit SLIS to study on our
Boston campus. Join us on this distinctive learning abroad experience.


Summer Semester Travel Course in South Korea
LIS 456 – Records Management (3 credits)

Travel Dates: July 26, 2018 - August 13, 2018


Price: Approx. $3,000-$3,200 (includes airfare, shared accommodation, most
meals, travel health insurance, and all co-curricular excursions) + tuition
costs


Students need to have completed 12 credits of courses before this course
starts next summer 2018.


Watch our Yonsei Information Session
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q24-xKuLtSA&feature=youtu.be> for an
overview. To apply, visit the Colleges of the Fenway Global Education
Opportunities Center
<http://cof.studioabroad.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10297#DATES>
.


Course information: LIS 456 - Records Management

This course addresses the theories and methodologies associated with
managing institutional records, both paper-based and electronic. It
introduces the set of activities required for systematically controlling
the creation, distribution, use, maintenance and disposition of recorded
information maintained as evidence of business activities and transactions.
With an emphasis on case studies, students will learn about records
appraisal, scheduling and disposition, functional analysis and records
management program implementation and policy. Prior experience working with
institutional records and/or LIS438 is recommended.


Faculty information: Rebecka Sheffield

Rebecka Sheffield is a senior lecturer in the School of Library and
Information Science at Simmons College <http://slis.simmons.edu/> (Boston).
She previously served as Executive Director and Archives Manager at
the Canadian
Lesbian and Gay Archives <http://www.clga.ca/> (CLGA), where she first
began as a volunteer archivist in 2007. She has previously served as the
Chair of the Community Engagement Committee (CEC) and helped establish the
Digital Collections Working Group to develop a digitization strategy for
the Archives. She is associated with the LGBTQ+ Digital Oral History
Collaboratory <http://lgbtqdigitalcollaboratory.org/>, which brings
together a team of researchers across four community archives and five
research institutions. Rebecka holds a graduate degree in archives and
records management and completed a PhD at the University of Toronto's Faculty
of Information <http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/>, in collaboration
with the Mark
S Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
<http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/sexualdiversity>. She is passionate about LGBTQ+
archives and finding innovative ways to bring researchers and collections
together. Areas of Specialization: Community Archives & Cultural Heritage,
Management & Administration of Archives, Archival Exhibitions, Digital
Stewardship, Social Movement Theory, Managing Organizational Records
(Records and Information Management), LGBTQ History.

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Alisa M. Libby
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Simmons College, SLIS
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