Archives Management Certificate

The Archives Management Certificate program prepares students for careers in both digital and physical archives. This degree is specifically designed for students who have already earned a Master's degree from an ALA-accredited library school.
We offer three ways for students to earn the Archives Management Certificate: Face-to-face in Boston; Face-to-face in South Hadley; and Online.

All SLIS Alumni admitted to the post-master's program receive a 50% discount off current Simmons tuition.

The program consists of 5 courses (15 credits). Students will take four core courses and one elective. Individual programs will be determined between the certificate student and the program director depending on student course work already completed during the earned Master's degree. Students who have already taken a core course are not required to repeat it. They would substitute it with an elective.

Certificate Requirements

Core Courses

LIS 438Introduction to Archival Theory and Practice

3.00

LIS 440Archival Access and Use

3.00

One of the following courses

LIS 439Preservation Management

3.00

LIS 444Digital Preservation

3.00

LIS 448Digital Stewardship

3.00

One of the following courses

LIS 433Oral History

3.00

LIS 441Appraisal of Archives and Manuscripts

3.00

LIS 443Archives, History and Collective Memory

3.00

LIS 456Records Management Environments

3.00

LIS 471Photographic Archives

3.00

LIS 472Moving Image Archives

3.00

LIS 476Archives & Cultural Heritage Outreach

3.00

LIS 505MGovernment Archives

3.00

One Elective from the SLIS Curriculum

Some relevant electives include:
LIS 442Establishing Archives and Manuscript Programs

3.00

LIS 445Metadata

3.00

LIS 449Rare Book and Special Collections Librarianship

3.00

LIS 462Digital Libraries

3.00

LIS 512Advanced Field Experience in Library and Information Science

3