Month: September 2016

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Cincinnati, OH: PT Archival Assistant, American Jewish Archives

Job Opening Title: Archival assistant

Institution/Organization Name: American Jewish Archives

Job Location (City, State, Province, Country): Cincinnati, Ohio

Years of experience required: 1

Job Description (if URL to posting not available). Please include instructions for how to apply.: The American Jewish Archives is seeking an archival assistant for the purposes of digitization of materials and the development of online resources.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Digitization of various archival papers, photographs, and objects
• Assisting archivists with stack maintenance, preservation and conservation
• Re-boxing and labeling of archival materials
• Reference desk and research duties may be required
• Work on the AJA online catalogue may be required

Qualifications:

• Experience in digital imaging
• Basic knowledge of computers and Adobe Acrobat
• Good organizational skills
• Attention to detail
• Previous work in a library or archives preferred
• Coursework in library science with emphasis on archival procedures preferred
• The applicant must be able to handle archival boxes weighing up to 30 pounds and be able to push archival carts.

This is a permanent, part-time position.

For further information please contact: Kevin Proffitt, Senior Archivist at Kproffitt@huc.edu or by phone at 513.487.3004.

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Cincinnati, OH: PT Processing Archivist, American Jewish Archives

Job Opening Title: Processing archivist

Institution/Organization Name: American Jewish Archives

Job Location (City, State, Province, Country): Cincinnati, Ohio

Application Deadline:

Link to job posting:

Years of experience required: 1

Job Description (if URL to posting not available). Please include instructions for how to apply.: The American Jewish Archives (AJA), a division of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, seeks a positive, service-oriented individual for the position of part-time Processing Archivist. Primary duties include:
• arrangement and description of archival collections
• creation of finding aids
• collection inventory and stack maintenance
• pull and re-file archival materials
• some reference duties including assisting researchers with reference requests
• some work in the AJA online catalogue

The successful candidate will have excellent organizational skills, pay close attention to detail, have ability to work in a team setting as well as independently, be comfortable in the care and handling of library and archival material, and be willing to work in a team setting with other archivists and professionals of the AJA as well as work independently in specific situations.

Qualifications:

Experience in arranging and describing archival collections required. Partial or full completion of Master’s degree, with emphasis in archival studies, as well as experience working in an archive required. Knowledge of cataloging and metadata standards preferred. The applicant must be able to handle archival boxes weighing up to 30 pounds and push archival carts. Basic knowledge of American history and American Jewish history preferred.

This is a permanent part-time position.

For further information please contact: Kevin Proffitt, Senior Archivist at Kproffitt@huc.edu or by phone at 513.487.3004.