Assistant Curator, Music Division​/Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

Submitted by Richard Ranft on Tue, 14/04/2015 - 12:20

Under the Direction of the Chief of the Music Division and the Curator of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, the Assistant Curator serves as the primary contact, resource, and advocate for all researchers working with Music and R&H materials. The Assistant Curator coordinates all onsite and remote access to materials and provides sustained individual service to researchers, including the timely fulfillment of researcher requests and orientation to LPA’s catalogs, finding aids, electronic resources, and services.

The Assistant Curator oversees collection management best practices for Music and R&H and serves as the primary liaison with the Theatre and Dance Divisions, LPA Print Delivery, NYPL Document Delivery, Permissions, Preservation, Book Ops, and Metadata units and maintains proper bibliographic records and oversees the timely processing of new acquisitions and backlogs.

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Music or Musicology
• Doctoral degree in Musicology and/or a Masters in Library Science degree preferred
• A minimum of five years’ experience in a supervisory capacity in a large research library
• Ability to be conversant with readers about all aspects of music, music history, and musicology. There will also be opportunities to research and write about the collections in the form of blog posts, grant applications or presentations at scholarly conferences where institutional visibility is essential to gauging and carrying out the ongoing mission of fostering successful reader experiences
• Fluency with the history and development of sound recordings, including a working knowledge of audio and moving image formats
• A reading/working knowledge of German and French preferred