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Audiovisual Archivist, Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, MA

Audiovisual Archivist Position Documentary Educational Resources NEH-Funded Project   DER is seeking a Audiovisual Archivist with experience in metadata and cataloging for a short-term project funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities’ HCRR (Humanities Collections and Reference Resources) foundations grant. The NEH grant provides funding for the planning of an online user- and expert-generated union catalog for ethnographic and…


Head Archivist, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI

Open & closing dates:10/03/2017 to 10/10/2017 Salary: $79,488 to $103,337 per year Pay scale & grade: GS 12 Work schedule: Full-Time Appointment type: Permanent Responsibilities The successful selectee will perform the following duties: Develop recommendations regarding the retention of records based on their informational values. Develop digital finding aids, descriptive, administrative, technical, and preservation metadata for archival records. Develop policies pertaining…


Project Archivist, Harvard Library, Cambridge, MA

Harvard Library is currently seeking candidates for the position of Project Archivist.     Reporting to the Head of the Manuscript Section, the Project Archivist joins the library’s archives processing program, and works as part of a team of archivists responsible for arranging and describing at a baseline level the archives, manuscripts, prints, and other materials collected…


Archive Engineer, Buddhist Digital Resource Center, Cambridge, MA

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center, Inc. is seeking an Archive Engineer to help maintain and improve the technological infrastructure of our digitization and archiving systems. About BDRC The Buddhist Digital Resource Center, Inc. (BDRC) applies the transformative power of technology to the digital preservation of Buddhist texts from around world. The organization has created a…


Temporary Inventory Specialist, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Temporary Inventory Specialist   Working with the Director of Archives and Special Collections, the Temporary Inventory Specialist will inventory, describe, and box up rare and fragile historical materials held by the Phillips Academy Archives to facilitate efficient intellectual and physical control of collections during a move as part of a library renovation. Collections include archival…


Contract Archivist, Winthrop Group, New York, NY

Contract Archivist (full-time) The Winthrop Group has an immediate opening in New York City for an archivist to work on a content appraisal project for a nonprofit. The position requires a detail-oriented individual who has experience working with records retention schedules, can make accurate and quick appraisals of records, and is comfortable balancing and carrying…


Photo Archivist, Undergraduate Communications, Simmons College, Boston, MA

Job title: Photo Archivist (Student) Description: Graphic Design Associate Professor Judith Aronson is seeking candidates to help move her photo archive from iPhoto 9.6.1 (note this is not Photos) into Lightroom 5 or 6. While candidates who have experience with these programs are desirable, others who are quick learners, comfortable confronting new software, and familiar…


Digital Archivist, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV

The Digital Archivist is a newly created position that preserves and makes accessible a wide-range of historically significant digital materials found in the many small and large manuscript collections and University records. Preeminent among the collections and an early priority for this position is the sizeable digital component of the Senator Harry Reid Papers. The…


Audiovisual Archives Intern, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, MA

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Part Time Audiovisual Archives Internship LISTING NUMBER 17-AV-03 Posting Date: 11 September 2017 Closing Date: 22 September 2017  Interns in the Audiovisual Archives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library primarily assist staff in answering reference requests and making reproductions of audiovisual materials. The intern’s primary responsibility will…


Archive Technician, LibGig, Los Angeles, CA

LibGig, a LAC Group company, seeks an Archive Technician for a large corporate archive in the West Los Angeles area. The position will have archive responsibilities including access, preservation, arrangement, digitization, and storage of historical matter. As well as identifying, collecting and preserving historical documents for future use. This is a full-time benefitted position. RESPONSIBILITIES…