Archivist – Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

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by CARL Web Coordinator

Special Collections/Archives

Position title
:
Associate Librarian, Career Status or Potential Career Status

Salary range
:
The UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and salary point at appointment. A reasonable full‑time salary estimate for this position is $80,349 to $107,708.

Percent time
: 100%

Anticipated start
:
As early as June 2026. Start date is flexible.

Position duration
:
This is a full‑time potential career appointment.

Open date
:
April 21, 2026

Next review date
:
Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) – apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date
:
Monday, Aug 24, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) – applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The University of California, Berkeley is seeking a collaborative, innovative, and user‑oriented archivist to join the technical services team in The Bancroft Library. Reporting to the Head of Technical Services and working under the leadership of the Head of Archival Accessioning and Processing, the archivist performs access‑forward accessioning and processing for collections in a range of formats and sizes. The archivist collaboratively explores innovative strategies for managing high‑volume archival work and directs a small team of student assistants in making the library’s collections discoverable to researchers.

The archivist works both independently and on team accessioning and processing projects, and serves as a key member of a team that develops, drafts, and regularly revises policies and guidelines for archival work and shapes the library’s local instance of Archives Space.

The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned research and teaching facility at one of the nation’s premier public universities. A diverse and intellectually rich environment serves a campus community of 33,070 undergraduate students, 12,812 graduate students, and 1,525 faculty. The library comprises 20 campus libraries, including the Doe/Moffitt Libraries, The Bancroft Library, The C.V. Starr East Asian Library, and numerous subject specialty libraries.

With a collection of more than 12 million volumes and a collections budget of over $15 million, the library offers extensive collections in all formats and robust services to connect users with the collections and build their research skills. The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the largest and most heavily used libraries of rare materials in the West.

• Accession and process new and existing archival collections in all formats (analog and born‑digital) assigned by the Head of Archival Accessioning and Processing and in accordance with national standards and best practices as well as local policies.
• Create collection‑level MARC records in OCLC and Alma.
• Create online finding aids and publish them on the Online Archive of California.
• Utilize relevant content and structural standards, including DACS, RDA, EAD, and MARC.
• Use tools used in special collections and archives (Archives Space, Alma/Primo, digital asset management systems, Bit Curator, Open Refine, Oxygen, Marc Edit).
• Participate with other staff in the iterative development and implementation of accessioning and processing policies, procedures, workflows, and best practices.
• Collaborate with staff in the management of the local instance of Archives Space.
• Direct and coordinate the work of student employees and assistants.
• Support curators and acquisitions staff in the field for collection appraisal and packing on occasion.
• Collaborate with The Bancroft Library’s Digital Collections Unit on metadata creation for digital materials.
• Apply project management strategies to accessioning and processing work.
• Contribute to gathering metrics, tracking progress, and regularly reporting to ensure alignment with library operational and strategic goals.
• Serve regular shifts on the Bancroft Library’s reading‑room desks and collaborate on requests…