Job Opening Title: Curator of Rare Books (Garden and Landscape Studies)
Institution/Organization Name: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Job Location (City, State, Province, Country): Washington D.C.
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Job Description (if URL to posting not available). Please include instructions for how to apply.: Dumbarton Oaks is an institute of advanced research affiliated with Harvard University and located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. It supports research in the areas of Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape Studies through a residential fellowship program, as well as a rich program of scholarly events and publications (print and digital), while also welcoming the public to its museum and historic garden.
The Dumbarton Oaks Rare Book Collection, originally known as the Garden Library, was founded in the early 1950s by Mildred Bliss in consultation with renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand to promote historical scholarship of garden history and landscape architecture. The collection now encompasses over 9,000 rare books, prints, drawings, and manuscripts on garden design and ornament, and landscape architecture. In addition to its recognized strengths in European and North American garden representations, treatises, herbals, and floras, the collection seeks to expand its scope by developing new subject area concentrations, especially through acquisitions of rare Chinese, Japanese, and South American materials. Another recent focus concerns material on historic cities, with attention to landscape design. Over the years the collection has also developed strengths in the other areas of specialization at Dumbarton Oaks, notably manuscripts and early printed materials in Pre-Columbian Studies, and facsimiles of Byzantine manuscripts. We are seeking to make the collection more broadly accessible through an active digitization program as well as through physical and online exhibits, study days, and scholarly programs for researchers at all career stages.
The Curator of Rare Books has responsibility for developing, interpreting, promoting, and managing the Dumbarton Oaks Rare Book Collection. The Curator will develop deep knowledge of the collection, including its history, strengths, and areas for further development, and will advise on and lead projects pertaining to cataloguing, digitizing, and promoting the collection through active support of fellows and visiting researchers. The curator will also function as the Garden and Landscape Studies subject librarian, and will collaborate with the GLS program director in developing exhibitions and scholarly events that showcase the institution’s rich resources.
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Dumbarton Oaks is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
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