Librarian​/Archivist

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LIBRARIAN / ARCHIVIST

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Looking for a project worth your expertise — at a place where preservation, scholarship, and a real instinct for order actually matter? Read on.

We're Laudisi — the people behind , Peterson of Dublin, Cornell & Diehl, and a handful of other brands you've probably never heard of (but our customers are obsessed with). Here's something that surprises people: a great deal of what's actually known about pipes, pipe tobacco, and — increasingly — cigars doesn't live in any university library. It lives in out-of-print books, trade catalogs, decades of magazines, and company records that exist in only a few places in the world.

As one of the oldest and largest names in this industry, we've become a steward of much of that record — including a growing archive centered on Kapp & Peterson, our pipe factory in Dublin, Ireland, whose history stretches back more than 160 years.

The scholarship is here. The organization isn't — most of it lives in boxes, on shelves, and in folders that make sense only to whoever last touched them. That's the project: to preserve it, make it findable, and become the person everyone turns to when they need to find something in it.

Your role? You're the steward of a small but genuine field of scholarship. You turn a scattered, genuinely important collection into a preserved, searchable archive — and you're the reference desk that internal teams, journalists, authors, and researchers come to when they need an answer and need it to be right.

Catalog and preserve what we have, design the system that keeps it findable, and serve as a standing reference resource for the whole company — and for the researchers, writers, and enthusiasts doing serious work in a field that doesn't have many other archives to draw on.

• Catalog our physical collection — roughly 300–500 books and magazines, plus a Peterson-focused archive of real research value — in Tiny Cat, our Library Thing-hosted catalog. It's open and public by design, so outside researchers can search and self-serve without going through you: a small library serving a field that's short on them.

• Design a digital taxonomy from scratch for our digital assets in Google Drive, using Workspace Labels — dropdowns, dates, people fields. This is the judgment work, and it's what makes everything after it easy.

• Field reference requests from teams across the company and occasionally from external parties — press, industry researchers, and the authors and enthusiasts who care about this history as much as we do, and who often can't find what they need anywhere else.

• Tag assets as they're created and keep the taxonomy current as the collection grows, so the work stays ahead of the pile instead of behind it.

You don't look at a pile of old books and trade catalogs and see clutter. You see a record worth preserving — and a system waiting to be built.

Maybe you've retired, or stepped back, and found that a mind trained to organize and preserve knowledge doesn't simply switch off because the career did. This is a real project for exactly that mind: not shelving and clock-watching, but the genuinely interesting work of taking a body of scholarship that exists in only a few places and making sure it survives, coheres, and can actually be used.

You take satisfaction in order and retrieval — in the difference between a collection that technically exists and one that anyone can actually use. You can design a taxonomy that other people understand, not just one that makes sense to you. And you like being the person people come to: the one who hears a half-remembered description…