project archivist
Posted February 16, 2024
Project Archivist (term-limited, 24 months) Historic New England seeks a full-time Project Archivist for a 24-month term-limited position. Detail oriented with experienced knowledge of MARC cataloguing practices, the Project Archivist works with project staff cataloguing a collection of 125,000 glass-plate and film negatives for Capturing New England: Digitizing Historic New England’s Negative Collection, a two-year…
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Posted October 30, 2023
Job Summary As part of a three-year Mellon grant-funded project to expose underutilized and underdescribed materials, the Archivist for Enhanced Description will survey, analyze, and create new or enhance existing description for single-item objects currently held in artificial topical collections. Topics are broad and include women’s rights, slavery and anti-slavery, suffrage, education, music, and abortion….
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Posted January 11, 2023
Description The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is hiring a Project Archivist. Primary assignment would be to process recently acquired collections, creation of detailed inventories, transfer of materials to archival boxes, and implementation of preservation protocols. Work assignments may vary depending upon library and archival project needs. Work under the supervision…
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Posted June 2, 2022
Description: Status: Part time, non-exempt (up to 20 hours per week; schedule to be determined) Scope of WorkThe projects archivist assists with the extensive cataloging of the Society’s archival and library collections, development of the Society’s digital resources, and supports library operations. Responsibilities Create original and edit catalog records for the Society’s printed, manuscript, photographic,…
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Posted June 2, 2022
Description: The Whitney Library of the New Haven Museum seeks an experienced archivist for a short-term projectto arrange, describe, rehouse and create a finding aid for a newly acquired collection related to theTownsend/Townshend family of New Haven, Connecticut. The collection consists of sixty linear feet ofdocuments, photographs, books and ephemera. Scope of Work: Review collection…
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Posted February 2, 2022
Description: Shady Hill School seeks a Project Archivist to conduct a semester-long survey of our documents, organizational records and photographs, which span the School’s 106-year history. By the end of the semester, the Project Archivist will provide us with (1) a solid estimate of how much space we should devote for our archives, and (2)…
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Posted January 3, 2022
Description: The Opportunity. This Project Archivist will be working with materials from the Fruitlands Museum collection. Fruitlands’ name comes from a short-lived, but historically significant utopian experimental community founded by Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane and centered at the Fruitlands farmhouse. The site was later preserved by Clara Endicott Sears, a Boston-born writer, preservationist, and…
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