Manuscript End Processing Assistant, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA

Posted September 27, 2019

Job Description:

The Schlesinger Library has an immediate opening for an assistant to end process collections processed by the 9 members of the manuscript department. 

 

Duties Include:

• Reboxing collections

• Numbering folders and entering those numbers into EAD finding aid

• Quality assurance of preservation photocopying

• Separating and filing fragile (photocopied) materials, restricted materials, and photographs

• Labeling and barcoding boxes

• Shelving collections or preparing them for transfer to the Harvard Depository

 

Requirements:

• Completion of graduate-level introductory archives course (Simmons LIS 438 or equivalent)

• Proven attention to detail

• Ability to lift boxes up to 40 pounds on a regular basis

• Ability to effectively communicate and work with many members of a large department

 

Hours:

• 14 hours a week

• Hours must be completed in two 7-hour days, Monday-Friday, between 9am and 5pm

 

Salary: $14.50/hour

 

About the Schlesinger:

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, located just outside of Harvard Square, is one of the world’s premier repositories of materials documenting the lives and work of American women. For more information, go to: http://radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library.

 

To Apply:

Please submit resume, cover letter, and 3 references to Johanna Carll at [email protected] by October 15, 2019.