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NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Regional History Center & University Archives Archivist/Curator of Manuscripts Anticipated: April 1, 2013 Position Type: Supportive Professional Staff Term of Appointment: Twelve-month, full-time Reports to: Director of Regional History Center and University Archivist Position Description: See http://www.ulib.niu.edu/aboutus/employment.cfm Summary of Job Responsibilities: The Regional History Center is a multifaceted research center containing three related sets of historical records available to researchers: Regional Collections, University Archives, and Local Government Records. The Center's goal is to acquire, preserve, and make available to the public the most significant historical records of the northern Illinois region. The job will entail reference work including staffing the reference desk, processing and writing inventories for manuscript collections, performing field work and donor relations, providing technical support for automated information systems, managing preservation of and creating of best practice solutions for the acquisition, ingest, and storage of electronic and digital born records, and help with archival bibliographic instruction. Required Qualifications: Archival reference skills, processing manuscript collections, experience in donor relations, field work and collections development, experience in automated information systems, archival bibliographic instruction experience, work with the director and Library, University-wide, and Center's director in finding best practice solution for the acquisitions, ingest, and storage of electronic records, and the ability to maintain dialog with faculty and staff to promote and schedule archives instruction. Educational requirements include a master's degree in history, political science, library science, or related field and two years library experience with emphasis in reference and archival processing. Application: To be considered for an interview, send letter of interest, resume, and thename/address/phone number/e-mail address of three professional references: Kathy Sherman, Administrative Assistant Archivist/Curator Search, University Libraries Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 Email: [log in to unmask] Review of applications will begin March 13, 2013; applications accepted until position is filled. Northern Illinois University is an AA/EEO institution. A state-mandated pre-employment criminal background check is required. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/6407/