Visual Materials Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

Posted March 7, 2018

Job Announcement Code(s): 18-00601
County(ies): Dane

Job Working Title:

ARCHIVIST 18-00601
Visual Materials Archivist

Type of Employment:
Full Time (40 hrs/week)

Salary: This position is 13-04 and will pay an hourly wage between $17.25 to
$28.46/hour.

Special Qualifications:
A criminal background check will be conducted prior to an offer of
employment to determine if the circumstances of any conviction may be
related to the job.

Contact:
John Obligato, HR Specialist Senior, 608-264-6409,
john.obligato@wisconsinhistory.org

Bargaining Unit:
Non-Represented

Area of Competition: Open

Deadline to Apply: 3/25/2018

The Wisconsin State Historical Society <http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/> is considered one of the nation’s finest historical institutions. The Wisconsin Historical Society is looking for an Archivist to arrange, described, and catalog their leading visual materials collections housing significant local and national collections.

Position Summary:
The Society, located in beautiful and livable Madison, Wisconsin, and
situated next to the University of Wisconsin campus, has an iconographic
collection numbering more than 3,000,000 photographs, engravings, woodcuts, posters, cartoons, drawings, architectural collections, and ephemera. The collections include local photographers H.H. Bennett, Charles Van Schaick and Angus McVicar, with images focusing on daily life in Wisconsin and the Midwest. Moreover, the collection has exceptionally strong collections national in scope: Civil Rights, such as records of the Congress of Racial Equality and the Highlander Folk School; Labor Movements, such as the Socialist Labor Party and American Federation of Labor; and 19th century expeditionary photography. The Archivist is responsible for arranging and describing, improving the intellectual control through catalog records and online finding aids, for all visual materials. Additionally, the Archivist will serve as the subject expert in all aspects of visual materials use and care to university faculty, local historians, authors, genealogists, archivists, librarians and museum professionals, and other clienteles. Other major duties include team lead descriptive work in the digital lab, giving workshops and presentations, mounting online and physical exhibits, and assisting with acquisitions of visual materials and reference duties.

Qualifications:
A minimally qualified candidate will have experience:

• Appraising and arranging visual materials
• Working with the photographic process within the history of American photography

A well-qualified candidate will have experience:

• Selecting, appraising & acquiring visual materials
• Presenting to groups on the subject of photography and on the care, handling and storage of photographs
• Working with donors