Assistant to Associate Librarian, University Archivist, Non Tenure-Track, Texas Collection

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides vision and direction in curating, managing and making accessible University Archives material.
• Oversees the appraisal, acquisition, preservation, and digitization of university records of enduring value in all formats.
• Physically organizes, processes and re-houses University Archives material.
• Creates finding aids using DACS and keeps informed of national archival standards.
• Responds to reference and research requests from faculty, staff, students, alumni, scholars, and the public.
• Identifies university archival resources for digitization and coordinates with colleagues in the Riley Digitization Center to implement digitization projects.
• Fosters successful relationships with faculty, staff, student organizations, university colleges and departments, university committees, and alumni for acquiring important university records and history.
• Promotes the visibility and use of Baylor’s historic archival collections and assists with Texas Collection outreach.
• In collaboration with the Director of The Texas Collection, develops policies, procedures, and schedules for all phases of University Archives and records management.
• Collaborates with fellow archivists, librarians and teaching faculty to design and teach instruction sessions for graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, local K-12 students, and the public.
• Partners with Digital Archivist to facilitate web archiving program to document the university’s activities using Archive-It, and to develop electronic record preservation.
• Along with the Director, leads Baylor University’s records management program and provides input on records retention.
• Participates in planning, policy development, and Texas Collection decision making.
• Trains and supervises student assistants.
• Works collaboratively and creatively with library faculty and staff on assigned projects.
• Participates in Libraries and University organizations, committees, and task forces.
• Meets University expectations for scholarship and service, including active participation in local, regional, national, and international organizations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Master’s degree in library and information science from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent, archival studies, or a related field with a focus on archives management.
• 3–5 years’ experience working in a special collections or archives setting with an emphasis on reference services and processing collections.
• Demonstrated knowledge of archival theory, trends, standards, and practices and a basic knowledge of preservation techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership in establishing procedures and developing outreach efforts for the University Archives.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively to complete projects within an established time frame.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Supervisory experience.

• Certification by the Academy of Certified Archivists.
• Experience with Archives Space or other archive management system.
• Experience with Archive-It or similar web-archiving tool.