The Advanced Certificate in Conservation and Digital Curation features hands-on experiential learning for which students work in conservation labs and on digital curation projects in NYC's leading institutions, such as Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Art Reference Library, MoMA, American Museum of Natural History and Brooklyn Historical Society, among others. The program is designed to meet the needs of today's information society through its cutting-edge approach that integrates physical and digital conservation and digital curation across media and collections. This integration has become inextricably linked through the ubiquitous use of digital tools and emerging technologies for best practices in the conservation of rare books, manuscripts, art on paper, photography, film and video, and the digital curation of collections and exhibitions focusing on their organization, description, access, digitization, and use.