Job Opening Title:
Processing Archivist
Name of Employer:
University of North Texas
Job Site Location (City AND State):
Denton, TX
Application Deadline:
Minimum Degree Requirement:
Bachelors Degree
Years of experience required:
Bachelor’s degree and three years of progressively responsible full-time library experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Salary Range:
Depending on qualifications with a minimum of $39,600.00.
Job Opening URL:
https://careers.untsystem.edu/jobs/processing-archivist-denton-texas-united-states
Job Description (if URL to posting not available). Include instructions for how to apply:
The University of North Texas is seeking a Processing Archivist for a unique opportunity to process and create descriptive tools to facilitate preservation and access to archival materials held by The UNT Special Collections department. The Processing Archivist will work primarily at the Research Collections Library, located a short distance from the UNT Denton campus. Under the supervision of the Archival Processing Coordinator, the Processing Archivist will perform work on a variety of collections, including archives, manuscripts, photography and other types of unique materials.
Responsibilities:
Implements activities of the Archival Processing Unit, including project planning, archival processing, archival description and preservation of collections
Supervise archival projects: Acting as project manager direct the work of project teams, survey collection to discern context, size and scope of project. Determine level of processing needed based on anticipated use of collection. Assign preservation, digitization, born digital and other areas of work as needed. Determine series and sub-series. Write processing plan.
Archival processing: Determine arrangement of collection based upon provenance, original order and needs of collection. Re-arrange materials as necessary. Re-house materials according to archival standards and perform basic preservation duties.
Arrange and describe unique collections of archival material. For physical materials, rehouse materials in archival boxes and folders, separate oversize materials and apply intellectual order to materials to facilitate research use of archives. For digital materials, assign file identifiers, create file derivatives and apply descriptive metadata. Create finding aids collections utilizing professional standards for description (DACS) and encoding (EAD).
Research and writing. Conduct historical research necessary to understand the context in which a collection was created, or to fill-in information necessary for the public to understand the historical significance of collection. Write biographical histories and administrative histories to describe collections
Participate as a leader and instructor for graduate students taking part in the Summer Archives Institute
Collaborate with staff and librarians at UNT
Create metadata for digital archival materials as required
Supervise student assistants as required