Title of Position Archivist
Requisition Number 20150342
Department Posting Name Special Collections
Location Main Campus
Benefits Eligible? This is an Administrative & Professional (A&P), benefits eligible, position.
Hours per week 40
If employee will be working a schedule other than Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm, specify hours and days to be worked: Ability to drive to donor location or other UTSA campuses and pack and transfer collections.
Recruiting Rate $43,104/Annualized
Beginning Salary Flexibility Yes
Security Sensitive (Requires a criminal background check) Yes
Required Education Master’s Degree
Do you want to allow additional experience to substitute for required education? No
Preferred Education Master’s Degree
Field of Study ALA accredited MLS degree with advanced course work in archival theory and methodology OR a Master’s degree in archival administration OR a Master’s degree in history OR another humanities field with an emphasis on archival administration.
Preferred: Archival certification.
Experience and Other Skills Required
– Minimum six months demonstrated experience with standard archival processing, finding aid preparation and reference service as related to archival material.
– Minimum of six months experience with providing research and reference services, and outreach with different user groups.
– Ability to evaluate materials as to historical/research value.
– Knowledge of current archival descriptive practices including SMARC and electronic access tools including HTML, Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and XML.
– Organizational abilities to manage diverse projects.
– Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Other Skills Preferred
– One full year of full-time professional archives experience.
– Experience with EAD encoding and creating and maintaining web pages and digital projects.
– Knowledge and experience with scanning equipment.
– Instruction/presentation experience in an academic setting.
– Knowledge of trends in digital preservation management and preservation reformatting.
– Knowledge of CONTENTdm or other digital repository platforms.
Description of Job Duties
– Manages the identification, appraisal, acquisition, description, storage, access, and preservation of the manuscript collections, regardless of format.
– Collaborates with the Digital Archivist and other Libraries staff in planning, creating, and managing digitized and born-digital material.
– Provides reference assistance in support of the academic and research uses of the collection, assisting patrons find materials relevant to their research.
– Initiates outreach and instruction to teach library users how to effectively and efficiently locate information, use appropriate research methodologies, and specific resources and discovery tools.
– Engages in outreach activities, products, and events that encourage faculty, staff, and the researchers to use the manuscript collections and services. Prepare and update print and on-line reference tools.
– Coordinate and supervise special projects.
– Supervises interns and volunteers, providing training and oversight for the fulfillment of patron duplication requests, processing, and scanning.
– Perform additional duties as assigned.
Posting Open Date: 06-12-2015
Posting Close Date at midnight on: 06-30-2015
This is an edited version of the announcement. Please read the complete announcement and apply here.
Archives Gig 