Posted December 18, 2019
The Town of Winchester seeks a Processing Assistant for a short-term project in its Archival Center. Responsibilities Duties include formatting finding aids and inputting them into the Center’s Past Perfect online database, scanning and cataloging photographs, and assisting with other processing tasks as directed. Schedule This is a short-term project position (65 hours)…
Posted December 14, 2019
Utah State University (USU) Libraries seeks a collaborative, innovative, and service-minded Librarian to manage the MARC and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) metadata creation for the Library’s archival collections. Working with curators, catalogers, and other stakeholders, this position will be primarily responsible for overseeing the data ingest and management of ArchivesSpace as well as original and complex MARC cataloging for Special…
Posted December 5, 2019
General Purpose Manuscripts and Archives (MSSA) holds a premier assemblage of collections documenting American diplomatic history (1790-Present), including the papers of five former secretaries of state (http://guides.library.yale.edu/american-diplomacy-primary-sources). Reporting to the Head of Arrangement and Description, leads the selection, appraisal, and description of related manuscript and archival materials and supports teaching and research in the field…
Posted December 4, 2019
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (“Foundation”) is a not-for-profit, grantmaking organization that seeks to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies. It makes grants in four core program areas (higher education and scholarship in the humanities;…
Posted December 3, 2019
The June M. Guertin Archives at Barrington Stage Company is seeking a 2020 summer intern. We are looking for a flexible and motivated individual to assist with a variety of projects in the newly founded archives. Job Responsibilities: Assisting the archivist with ongoing digitization initiative and ongoing acquisition of BSC records Processing acquisitions and…
Posted December 3, 2019
The Atlanta University Center – Robert W. Woodruff Library supports the teaching and learning missions of four institutions of higher learning that comprise the world’s largest consortium of HBCUs–Clark Atlanta University, the Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, and Spelman College. Conveniently located and easily accessible to the campuses, the Woodruff Library is the center of…
Posted December 2, 2019
Job Summary Harvard Law School Library seeks a half-time (17.5 hours per week) twelve-month term archivist to complete two complex projects. The first project is implementing new Minimum Level Processing (MLP) guidelines for unprocessed Modern Manuscript collections. Part of the implementation will be the development of internal standards, metrics, and repeatable processes to apply across…
Posted November 27, 2019
Professor Elizabeth Setren at the Tufts University Economics Department is looking to hire several full- or part-time archival assistants to work on a project that studies desegregation busing program that promotes racial integration in the Boston-area public schools. Archival assistants will digitize historical student applications and other documents to update a database that will be…
Posted November 25, 2019
The Archival Processing Intern will work under the direction of the Archivist to reprocess the papers of noted Arctic explorers Donald and Miriam MacMillan. The project will physically and/or intellectually reunite dispersed materials into one comprehensive collection and bring its collection guide up to current archival descriptive and cataloging standards. The intern will refine and…
Posted November 25, 2019
Title: Student Worker II, University Archives Department: Library Reports to: Archivist & Digital Initiatives Librarian Status: Part Time Pay: $16 an hour Time: 10-15 hours per week Starting: January 2020 Job Summary: Under the direction of and in collaboration with the Archives staff, the Student Worker II position will support digital initiative endeavors…
