Processing Archivist (part-time), Private Collection, Boston, MA

Posted July 22, 2022

Description:

Salary and hours: Up to $30 per hour; 8 hour hours per week over two days per week.

Term: Summer position, July and August 2022, with potential to extend into the fall.

Description: A journalist of distinction in many media — newspapers, magazines, public television, public radio, blogging and podcasting — seeks an advanced student in modern archiving to review and sort a substantial collection of writing and broadcast production, photographs, correspondence and personal records of a 60-year career through an era of continuous upheaval in American “public conversation.”

The initial phase of the project will be to make an inventory of the collection now gathered in file cabinets and cartons; to sort it by media (published work, private letters, photos, assorted memorabilia, and such)
and see it “whole.” Further steps will turn on distilling and threading the stories through the record. It will entail scanning and otherwise digitizing the essential documents in the life. It will want to consider also the final disposition of one man’s archive in an appropriate permanent / public collection.

Qualifications: The archivist working with the collector should have done formal course work in Archives, and be initiated in the work of digitization, scanning, electronic searching, archive appraising and digital stewardship in general. A taste for contemporary history and journalism would be a big plus.

How to Apply:

Please submit a resumé and cover letter to Katherine Wisser at Simmons’ School of Library and Information Science. Email: [email protected].