Minimum of 54 credit hours required for MSIS and CAS in Conservation.

Required School of Information Courses (13 hours):

• Introduction to Information Studies (INF 180J)
• Organizing and Providing Access to Information (INF 384C)
• Understanding and Serving Users (INF 382C)
• Intro to Research in Library and Information Science (INF 397C)
• Managing Information Services and Organizations (INF 387C)

Required Certificate of Advanced Study Courses (minimum 35 hours):

• Management of Preservation Programs (INF 392G)
• Technology and Structure of Records Materials (INF 392E)
• Protection and Care of Records Materials (INF 392F)
• Book Lab I (INF 393C.1)
• Book Lab II (INF 393C.2)
• Book Lab III (INF 393C.3)
• Paper Lab I (INF 393C.6)
• Paper Lab II (INF 393C.7)
• Conservation Science Laboratory I (INF 393C.8)
• Conservation Science Laboratory II (INF 393C.9)
• Fieldwork in Conservation (INF 394C.1)
• *Conservator Internship I (INF 394C.2 or 994C.2)
• *Conservator Internship II (INF 394C.3 or 994C.3)

Suggested Electives (6 hours):

• Survey of Digitization (INF 385R)
• History of Printing (INF 386.8)
• Treatment Lab IV (INF 393C.4)
• Introduction to Electronic and Digital Records (INF 389G)
• Historical Museums (INF 388E)
• Introduction to Audio Preservation and Reformatting (INF 392L)
• Cultural Representations of the Past (INF 389C)
• Introduction to Archival Enterprise (INF 389D)
• Problems of Permanent Retention of Electronic Records (INF 392K)
• Introduction to Issues in Records Information (INF 389C)
• Lifecycle Metadata for Digital Objects (INF 389K)
• History of Library and Information Studies: Library History in the Modern Era (INF 386)
• Bibliography and Methods in Historical Research (INF 397.1)
• Seminar in Forged Historical Documents (INF 389C)
• Independent Studies (INF 181, INF 281, INF 381)

*INF 181 may be substituted when appropriate.