The Project Archivist for Johns Hopkins PublicHealth
Collections is a one year project position at the Alan Mason
ChesneyMedical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions ("Medical Archives")in Baltimore, MD. The
successful candidate will demonstrate familiarity with
theissues related to processing large 20th century
collections in an academicarchives setting, and knowledge
of current descriptive standards in the libraryand archival
professions. Position is part of a one year Council on Library
andInformation Resources (CLIR) funded project entitled
"Private Practices, PublicHealth: Privacy-Aware Processing
to Maximize Access to Health Collections." Thisproject is
in collaboration with the Open Knowledge Commons, the
MedicalHeritage Library and the Center for the History of
Medicine at the CountwayLibrary at Harvard University. Will
work with Medical Archives project staff increating finding
aids for personal paper collections of 4 individuals who
wereaffiliated with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg
School of Public Health.Will be responsible for overseeing
the processing and creation of finding aidsfor collections
totaling 171 cubic feet. Position involves archival
description,supervision of processing, and creation of
finding aids of public healthcollections. Collections
document the historical evolution of public health overthe
course of the twentieth century.
The primary duties andresponsibilities of the job: Will
appraise the intellectual and cultural valueof the
collections, assess the risk that individual series contain protected
orconfidential information, and establish processing plans
based on the relativevalue and risk associated with the
individual series. The successful candidatewill prepare
Public Health Collection descriptions for presentation on
theMedical Archives website and for use by patrons and
Archives staff. Willparticipate in regular staff meetings
to provide updates on the status ofcollections in process
and to assist reference staff with inquiries related
tothose collections. Position involves creation of web-
based privacy awarecollection finding aids utilizing MPLP
processing practices and DACS, EAD, andEAC-CPF standards
within Eloquent archival management system. Processing
timeand labor data will be tracked using Microsoft Access-
based processing MetricsDatabase. Will have oversight of
collection processing, including supervisoryrole with
student processing staff, authorship of higher level
descriptivecontent, design of collection arrangement plans,
and publication of findingaids. Individual will research
and write biographical and administrativehistories related
to the Public Health Collections. Descriptive records
willalso include Library of Congress Subject Headings
(LCSH), Library of CongressNames Authority Files (LCNAF)
and local authorities. Privacy aware finding aidswill
adhere to compliance requirements based on HIPAA, FERPA and laws
andpolicies related to personnel and other confidential
information. Incollaboration with Collections Management
Archivist and legal counsel, willcreate processing
guidelines for the security of Protect Health
Information(PHI) and other confidential information. The
position will involve supervisionof up to 10 part time
(equivalent to 3 full time) undergraduate studentemployees
and collaboration with archivists with processing and
referenceexpertise in personal paper collections,
institutional records, imagecollections and material
culture.
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