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About the Role
The Senior Archivist processes archival collections, serves as the first point of contact for reference services, and coordinates activities in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections reading room. This role provides guidance to student staff engaged in archival work.
Responsibilities
- Provides in-person and remote reference and research support to a diverse range of students, scholars, and visitors.
- Coordinates reading room activities, including researcher and classroom visits.
- Supports imaging services, including on-demand and project-based digitization.
- Provides introductory primary source instruction sessions to orient students and faculty to the Archives and archival research.
- Contributes to compiling statistics about archival collections and their use.
- Arranges and describes archival records in all formats in accordance with established archival theory and standards.
- Publishes and edits finding aids in Barnard’s archival discovery platform (ArchivesSpace).
- Catalogs and publishes digitized historical materials in Barnard’s Digital Collections platform (Archipelago).
- Periodically appraises and accessions institutional records, in accordance with existing records retention and disposition schedules.
- Educates campus partners on identifying and saving institutional records of enduring historical value for transfer to the Archives.
- Assists in accessioning manuscripts and personal papers from sources external to the college.
Requirements
- Expertise in archival accessioning, processing, and description practices.
- Experience with managing complex processing projects or programs.
- Experience with archival management software such as ArchivesSpace.
- Experience with digital collections software such as Archipelago or Islandora.
- Experience with web archiving software such as Archive-It.
- Experience with other archival platforms.
- Experience with library and archival descriptive and content standards, including DACS, EAD, MARC, LCSH, and LCNA.
- Experience with processing digital materials and digital preservation.
- Experience performing archival reference.
- Ability to work with a diverse range of students and other scholars.
- Knowledge of rights administration and management issues for archival collections.
- Flexibility and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively.
- Demonstrated enthusiasm and strategies for making archives collections more broadly accessible.
- Demonstrated critical analysis of archives or the archives profession.
- Evidence of effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Master’s degree in library and information science or equivalent program.
- 5-7 years of experience with archival or related work.
- Experience with instruction, reference, programming, and/or outreach.
- Experience working in a university, college, cultural heritage institution, non-profit, or comparable setting.
- Experience teaching archival workshops in an academic environment.
- Experience supervising student staff.
Skills
- Archival accessioning
- Archival processing
- Archival description
- ArchivesSpace
- Archipelago
- Islandora
- Archive-It
- DACS
- EAD
- MARC
- LCSH
- LCNA
- Digital preservation
- Archival reference
- Rights administration
- Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- In-person
- Remote
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5-7 years
Education Level
- Master's degree in library and information science or equivalent program
Salary/Compensations
- $78,000 - $86,000
About the Company
- Barnard College