Job Opening Title: Part-Time Cataloger
Institution/Organization Name: La MaMa ETC Archive
Job Location (City, State, Province, Country): New York, NY
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Job Description (if URL to posting not available). Please include instructions for how to apply.: Job Opportunity: Cataloger at La MaMa Archives, New York, NY
The La MaMa Archives seeks a part-time Cataloger at a community-based performing arts archive, using CollectiveAccess.
The Cataloger will be responsible for supporting the continued project of creating access to La MaMa’s institutional and production history through item-level cataloging and digitization of the Archives’ existing core collection. This will be building off previous cataloging work done as part of an effort to digitize documentation from La MaMa’s early years. The Cataloger will catalog a wide-range of cultural objects (a/v, paper, three- dimensional artifacts) using the open-source cataloging platform CollectiveAccess. The Cataloger must be willing to work in a shared office-space with the project team; and be able take direction on a variety of cataloging, processing and arrangement projects. This is a temporary position (approximately 5 months), with the possibility of extension.
Qualifications
Required:
• Enrollment in or recent completion of graduate program in library science, moving image archiving, public history, or a related field;
• Familiarity with performing arts/performing arts organizations, and/or an ability to understand and synthesize La MaMa’s place within performing arts history in New York City and abroad, focusing on the full spectrum of La MaMa’s output as a cultural institution;
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills;
• Familiarity with standard metadata schema and vocabularies;
• Strong organization and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently;
• Enthusiasm for delving into technologies that may be unfamiliar.
Preferred:
• Working knowledge of databases and/or cataloging platforms, preferably CollectiveAccess;
• Experience working with audiovisual archival collections;
• Working knowledge of national and professional standards pertaining to copyright, intellectual property, and Fair Use.
Hourly rate: $12.50
Hours/week: 15-20 hours per week. Hours are flexible, but must be regularly scheduled in at least 4-hour blocks Monday-Friday between 11am-6pm.
To Apply: Submit a cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information of two professional references to Sophie Glidden-Lyon at sophie@lamama.org.
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