Education ​/ Teaching, Education Administration, Library

Position: 0.0
Department

Libraries-General

Primary Campus

University of Kansas Lawrence Campus

Job Description

70% - Manuscripts Processing:

This position primarily handles more complex and/or larger archival and manuscript collections. Collections may require specialized technical expertise, including processing foreign language materials, an ability to read older forms of English, or working with special formats such as born-digital materials.

Key responsibilities include:

* Surveys, arranges, and rehouses original primary source materials as assigned by supervisor. This work ranges from minimally processing collections through detailed and complex processing of archival and manuscript collections, following national best practices and locally developed procedures specific to KSRL's levels of processing.

* Describes collections using national and local best practices, including Describing Archives: A Contents Standard (DACS) and relevant metadata standards, in the collections management tool, Archives Space, to generate online, publicly available finding aids.

* Conducts research online as well as within collection materials and other readily available resources to write biographical and historical notes and other contextual information for finding aids.

* Creates finding aids for undescribed or under-described legacy collections in an online environment.

* Consults with conservation and curatorial staff as appropriate.

* Suggests subject headings and identifies relevant agents to be associated with finding aids and catalog records.

* Creates agent records in Archives Space following national and local metadata standards.

15% - Special Projects:

Assists with one or more special projects within the Department. Special projects may be long-term or short-term depending on departmental and library priorities at any given time. Also included here are activities that occur on an infrequent basis. This position currently works on the following projects:

* Creates finding aids for undescribed or under-described large legacy collections requiring extensive organization and research to process.

* Cleans up standard and complex legacy metadata/EAD finding aids to facilitate better access to manuscript collections housed at KSRL.

* Serves as a resource to other processors particularly when Archives & Manuscripts Coordinator is not available.

* Participates in departmental and cross-unit projects to clean-up and enhance the metadata of digitized collections.

10% - Project Management:

This work requires in-depth knowledge of local and national standards, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to improve and/or re-engineer practices from previous projects to streamline workflows for optimal efficiency.

* Monitors and adjusts workflows for complex collection processing projects.

* Frequently resolves and/or proposes solutions to archival processing problems.

* Keeps supervisor and team members informed of progress for each project.

* Maintains internal documentation about processing and preservation decisions to collection materials.

5% - Teamwork and Professional Development:

* Attends and participates in Libraries, Department and Unit meetings along with other team building activities. Engages in ongoing professional development related to the position and commits to positive, solution-oriented problem solving.

Req  (Ex: 10567 )

33086

Disclaimer

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Work Schedule

M-F, 8-5

FLSA Status

Nonexempt

Contact Information to Applicants

Tonia Morgan - morgt

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree and three years of library or related experience OR high school diploma and five years of library or related experience.

Employee Class

U-Unclassified Professional Staff

Advertised Salary Range

Starts at $40,000

FTE

1.0

Preferred Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in library science, public history, museum science or related field.

* At least one year's experience working in an archival setting (this may include paid and unpaid internships).

* Demonstrated knowledge of DACS, EAD, and other descriptive and metadata standards as evidenced by application materials and required by previous experience.

* Experience with Archives Space and/or other collections management or database systems.

* Excellent written and verbal communications skills with an ability to organize and…