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Works with library staff, faculty, and external donors to accession, curate, describe, and preserve collections of print and born-digital materials in multiple formats, including legacy a/v media. Collaborates with faculty to enrich born-digital collections with additional information such as linked datasets. Provides leadership for the library's critical engagement with new and established technologies that impact discovery, inquiry, and innovation; specifically researches workflows, productivity, and engagement with library collections and data. Develops programs and designs services supporting digital scholarship and digital andragogy across disciplines to promote next-century literacies, connect library resources and expertise to campus learning, and empower researchers, scholars, and learners. Manages OER development, implementation, and promotion. Serves as Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights liaison to faculty and students.
- Maintains legal, physical, and intellectual control over dispersed municipal archives and collected manuscript, photograph, and oral history collections. Develops and updates essential policies, plans, procedures, and guides for collection care, processing and emergency planning and public access. Manage collections policy to appraise, acquire, preserve, and process archival records as well as determine how to integrate and cross-reference multiple city collections and databases. Monitors and assesses space and environmental needs and plans for future growth and overall storage needs. Ensures accurate accession and collection records are captured in the collection management systems and preserved in paper formats. Appraises and acquires archival collections that fit within the department’s collections policy while also cultivating and maintaining donor relationships. Develops and implements a plan for tangible and digital public access to archival records. Processes collections in accordance with professional standards. Identifies and carries out rehousing and preservation treatments. Researches historical and biographical information relevant to the collection and creates DACS finding aids. Helps curate exhibits, supports the preservation and exhibit, or other internal or public outreach/community engagement opportunities. Updated the department's website with digital collections.
- Creates original and copy MARC bibliographic records for digitized auction catalogues by applying cataloging rules as found in AACR2 or RDA in OCLC Connexion software. Assists the WPI’s team on current digital archival projects, drafting blog and Instagram posts on the WPI’s archives. We request a commitment of 15 hours a week, which will be compensated at a rate of $21.00/hour. The internship will be predominantly held virtually/remotely through Summer 2021, therefore, having access to high speed internet and a laptop/desktop computer is required. Please note that there may be periodical meetings held in-person at our office in Manhattan. The selected applicant is welcome to begin the internship as early as May 2021. We expect the internship to last approximately three months or 180 hours.
- Responsible for the research, metadata writing, and preparation of associated digital files for artifacts within the museum's Early Hip Hop Collection. Works with the Collections team and Curators to ensure ingestion of metadata to the online portal. Ensures data standardization across a selection of early hip-hop collection. Researches artifacts and ensures complete and accurate metadata for each TMS record. Ensures adequate photographs are associated with each record, appropriate to the level of copyright. Works alongside the Collections Team to capture appropriate images if needed. Digitizes 80 oral history film recordings. Conducts at least two remote donor lectures/discussions about the museum's early hip-hop collection.
- Works in the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) of the Library of Congress performing digital restorations of motion picture film utilizing software packages and other tools following the highest industry standards. Digitally preserves and restores images using multiple appropriate software and hardware tools to address specific problems in original footage such as instability, flicker, analog damage, missing frames, etc. Oversees the preparation for and archiving of the digitized materials in a secure and stable repository. Coordinates projects with appropriate personnel, insuring timely delivery of digitized materials, sometimes under tight deadlines. Provides training on the creation, preservation, restoration, and use of digital images.
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Tenure-track position that supports the university and the community by building, preserving, and providing access to historically significant collections that represent the region’s history, culture, literature, and geography. Coordinates the planning, implementation, maintenance, expansion, and promotion of digital content, including the creation of new digital collections and digital preservation strategies. Engages students with archival collections, including teaching class groups and coordinating digital humanities projects with groups or individuals, including student interns. Stays abreast of trends in special collections and archives, digital library technologies, curation practices, preservation formats and standards.
- Oversees the management and organization of the library’s electronic resources, including actively researching emerging trends and new developments. Collaborates with colleagues to select electronic resources that meet the collection mandate of the library. Proposes and implements solutions for the effective management of electronic resources. Acts as a liaison librarian for the Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media and the Masters of Design program and works with faculty to plan and provide library resources and services that support the delivery of university curriculum. Plans and delivers library research instruction, both in person and online, including workshops, orientations and tours. Contributes to the planning, content, and implementation of web-based resources and participate in the preparation and revision of library policies, procedures, documentation, and reports.
- Oversees research in one of four regional areas in New England and identify all possible historical repositories within that region. Engages with these repositories, thoroughly assess their collections, and notate the underrepresented stories along with all available resources to support researching those stories further. Collaborates with the other researchers to build a comprehensive resource databank that lists the stories and the available resources from which Historic New England staff can continue to work with in the future. Participates in and contribute to Historic New England’s culture through staff training, blogs and vlogs, and public programs.
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Manages, develops and evaluates archival or records management programs. Preserves, develops, and interprets collections, museum and archives items. Develops and performs special collections management projects. Engages KSU and the community with collections and programs by developing workshops, lectures, exhibit openings and other public programs. Manages critical collection information in management systems. Develops policies and procedures for records and collection management workflows and processes. Oversees archive and records management vendors and systems. Develops promotional and outreach content for distribution and provides outreach for educational programming. Manages researchers and reference requests from internal and external constituents. Supervises and coordinates volunteers, interns, student assistants and docents. Develops and implements targeted outreach strategies for archival and records management programs. Manages and delivers instruction sessions for KSU students and faculty.
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