Archival Processing Assistant, Library

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Job No: 503934

Work Type: Staff

Location: Newark, DE

Categories: Libraries & Museums, Full Time

Pay Grade: 27N

The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press inspires the intellectual, scholarly and creative achievement of our community. We are strongly committed to fostering safe, welcoming,and inclusive spaces and opportunities where everyone has an equal opportunity to learn, create, and grow. We collaborate with strategic campus partners to achieve these priorities, as well aswith a host of national professional organizations.

The Division of Special Collections and Museums holds a broadlybased collection and works in response to the growing interest incollaborative interdisciplinary research, and also supports research of primary sources, rare books and other publications,minerals and artwork. As a department in the Division of Special Collections and Museums, its holdings include manuscripts, rarebooks, maps, prints, photographs, broadsides, periodicals,pamphlets, and ephemera from the fifteenth century to the present.

Manuscript collections span more than 10,000 linear feet and printed collections number more than 200,000 titles. The collections complement the University’s teaching programs and the Library’s general collections with particular strengths in the subject areas of the Arts;
English, Irish, and American literature;

African American history and Delawareana; politics; and printhistory. Special Collections actively engages with the University’sfaculty and students, and communities more broadly to make use ofits collections through its instruction, exhibition, and researchservices programs. Additional information about the Special Collections is available online at: http://.

Under the general supervision of the Political and Public Policy Papers archivist, the Archival Processing Assistant will participate in archival processing activities for the analog andborn digital records of Senator Thomas R. Carper ). The incumbent will assist the members of the Senate Preservation Partnership Grant team to appraise, arrange, describe, and performpreservation activities on analog, digital, and audiovisual recordsfound in the Carper collection.

The Archival Processing Assistant position is an eighteen-month grant-funded appointment.

• Complete select processing activities of archivalcollections
• Perform audiovisual appraisal and reformatting
• Perform electronic record survey, ingest, file comparison, anddata clean-up
• Perform file reproduction and review for access, including redaction
• Perform rehousing of archival collections
• Contribute to finding aid and other metadata work
• Other duties as assigned

• High school diploma or GED and three to five years of related experience, or Bachelor’s degree and one to three years relevant experience in research libraries, museums or cultural/historicalinstitutions handling special materials and related records.
• Familiarity with archival standards and best practices forappraisal, arrangement, description, and preservation of archivalrecords in multiple formats.
• Ability to use technologies to perform daily work including butnot limited to word processing, spreadsheet, database and Web-based applications.
• Ability to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality in carrying out archival responsibilities.
• Strong organizational skills and problem-solving skills.
• Strong…