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Managing Plans and Drawings

BC150 Distance Education Series

The BC150 Distance Education Series honours of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Crown Colony of British Columbia through training to assist archives and heritage institutions preserve and make accessible our documentary heritage. 

The AABC gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through BC150, a Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts initiative and the Heritage Legacy Fund of British Columbia.      

Managing Plans and Drawings (Distance Education)

Architectural records are perhaps the least understood medium in the archival world.  There are many different types of drawings, from blueprints to renderings, sketches to CADs.  What should you accept, what is valuable, how are they best preserved?  Using the publication Architectural Records:  Managing Design and Construction Records (SAA, 2006), students will be introduced to the management of plans and drawings in seven modules that cover:

Module 1:   History of architecture

Module 2:   Understanding the creation process

Module 3:   Appraisal

Module 4:   Arrangement and Description          

Module 5:   Preservation

Module 6:   Providing Access

Module 7:   Digitization

Students will receive, by electronic mail, a self-study guide which includes instructions, supplementary reading where applicable, self-study questions, and projects.  Self study questions and projects will be submitted to the instructor for evaluation. Upon completing all the projects within the allotted time students will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course.

Students can expect to work about 4-6 hours per week on the coursework for the duration of the course. The textbook will be mailed directly from the Society of American Archivists.

Instructor:  Kelly Stewart, AABC Education and Advisory Service Coordinator


When:       TBA

Cost:         AABC member $300 / Non-member $400   (includes textbook and/or study materials)

Limit:         30 participants

Registration begins:  TBA

Registration closes:  TBA

For more information on this course, please contact:


Kelly Stewart

AABC Education and Advisory Service Coordinator

689 MacIntosh Street


Coquitlam, BC    V5J 4Y4


Tel: 604.931.1285 


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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through BC150, a Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts initiative and the Heritage Legacy Fund of British Columbia

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