The Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel/Archives Department
(http://libmma.org/portal/museum-archives/) seeks a Senior Associate for
Archival Processing. Under the direction of the Archivist, the Senior
Associate will be responsible for arranging, describing and cataloging the
records of former Museum Directors, Curators and select senior administrative
staff. Incumbent will prepare processing plans; perform background research on
collections; arrange, re-house, and describe the records; create detailed
online finding aids and catalog records; draft collection announcements; and
seek out additional methods for advertising availability of collections to the
public. This position will end on 3/31/15.
Primary Responsibilities and Duties:
* Prepare processing/arrangement plans
* Process materials and arrange records to file-level and re-house records in archival folders
* Enter folder titles and other collection metadata into Archivists' Toolkit database
* Generate, proofread, and edit finding aid and catalogue records
* Load archival finding aid and catalogue record to the Museum's website
* Write announcement of the availability of the records for distribution to art history, museum studies, and archival list-servers and blogs
Other related duties
Requirements
Experience and Skills:
* 1-3 years of professional experience processing archives, personal papers or manuscripts
* Succesfully demonstrated experience creating archival finding aids utlizing Archivists Toolkit
* Successfully demonstrated experience applying processing and descriptive standards including DACS, EAD and MARC-XML
* Basic knowledge of the preservation and conservation practices for historical records
* Strong writing and historical research skills
Knowledge and Education:Master Degree in Library Science,
Information Science, Art History or History/Archival Management, with
coursework or equivalent experience in archival processing
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