Job Opening Title: Assistant Archivist
Institution/Organization Name: Glenstone
Job Location (City, State, Province, Country): Potomac, MD USA
Application Deadline: August 8, 2014
Years of experience required: 1-3
Job Purpose: To assist in the management of daily business operations of the archives in a not-for-profit cultural institution.
Job Duties:
– Apply professional standards to the processing, arrangement, and preservation of electronic records.
– Adhere to metadata standards, provide appropriate metadata to records in Collective Access.
– Catalog digital photography on accession, series, and item levels.
– Manage the workflow of digital images.
– Maintain statistics on reference requests, catalog records created, and volume of data accessioned into the archives.
– Address reference and research requests provided by internal staff.
– Develop and sustain archives outreach programs.
– Interview, hire, train, and supervise archives interns.
– Assist in the administering of a Records Management program.
– Related archives tasks as assigned.
Required
Qualifications:
– ALA accredited MLS, or MLIS in library, archives, and/or information science, with an emphasis on electronic records.
– One to two years of experience in archives administration.
– Knowledge of archival principles and practices, archives access techniques, information organization, and archival appraisal of records.
– Familiarity with audio-visual assets, and metadata standards, including EAD, DACS, Dublin Core, PB Core, VRA Core.
– Familiarity with thesauri including Library of Congress (LC), and Getty Vocabularies (ULAN and AAT in particular).
– Knowledge and use of archives databases.
– Experience conducting reference requests.
– Proficiency with PC, Microsoft Office tools.
– Strong written and oral communication skills.
– Strong service skills.
– Ability to work independently and especially in a team-oriented environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
– Experience implementing and testing Collective Access database.
– Familiarity with museum records and museum experience.
Salary and Benefits: Glenstone offers a competitive salary and total compensation package that includes health care and a 401(k) matching program.
Application Process:
Electronically submit a cover letter, resume, list of three professional references, to HR@glenstone.org, or mail to:
Human Resources Generalist
Glenstone
12002 Glen Road
Potomac, MD 20854
Date Posted: July 29, 2014
Deadline:
August 8, 2014
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