Archive Consultant, American Folklore Society, Boston, MA

Posted February 6, 2015

Qualifications: Professional archivist with a specialty in digital assets management and a background in cultural archives (as opposed to government or corporate records). Knowledge of best practices in audio-visual preservation is a must. The consultant would determine best practices for long term access to and preservation of MCC’s folk archival collection. The work would need to be completed by May 31, 2015 with a report relevant to other public folklore programs whose field-generated materials are already catalogued.

Draft work plan:

1. Explore some kind of mutually beneficial partnership with a university special collections or other repository that has both trained staff and a stated mission supporting preservation and access
2. Draft MOA between MCC and potential repository for the transfer of the collection
3. Address deterioration and format obsolescence of analog and digital holdings
4. Develop priority lists for the digitization of materials
5. Work with archival partner to prepare metadata (so it can be hosted by www.digitalcommonwealth.org)
6. Produce detailed, multi-media finding aid for the Web
7. Make [curated selection of] archival collection itself available on the Web.

Contact:

Maggie Holtzberg, Ph.D.
Folk Arts & Heritage Program Mgr.
Massachusetts Cultural Council
10 St. James Ave, 3^rd Floor
Boston, MA 02116-3803
617.858.2713
[email protected]