Seasonal Archives Assistant Summer 2022, Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation, Boston, MA
Posted February 25, 2022
Description:
Under supervision of the Plans Archivist, the seasonal employee will help arrange and describe engineering and architectural drawings of Massachusetts parks’ buildings, landscapes, parkways, bridges, recreational facilities, and watershed resources dating from the 1890s to the present. This work is in preparation for a comprehensive scanning project for the plans held in DCR’s central Plans Library in Boston.
Specific duties include:
Help prepare plans in the DCR central Plans Library for a major scanning project.
- Locate, organize into sets, and folder unprocessed large-format architectural and engineering drawings recently transferred to DCR’s central Plans Library in Boston from parks offices throughout Massachusetts.
- Compare retrieved plans with plans already held in the central Plans Library in Boston, identify best copies, and set aside duplicates for recycling.
- Identify drawings that are ready for scanning by an outside vendor and separate out drawings that will need conservation work before scanning.
- Catalog drawing sets by inputting data into a spreadsheet.
- Help prepare drawings to be sent out for scanning, conservation treatment, or transfer to the Massachusetts State Archives.
Provide assistance to the Plans Archivist on the overall management of the DCR Plans collection.
- Work with the Plans Archivist to create an efficient organizational arrangement of all plan cabinets, cabinet drawers, and plan sets.
- Sort, arrange, and folder plan sets and contract documents.
- Catalog plan sets and input data into spreadsheets.
- Perform quality control checks on cataloging data and digital files.
- Scan large-format plans for reference requests.
- Supervise interns.
- Other duties as requested.
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