NON PROFIT DIGITAL MEDIA ARCHIVIST

The HistoryMakers
Chicago, Illinois
Full-time

The Non Profit Digital Media Archivist will :

  • Process, arrange and catalog the current collection of videotaped and born digital oral history interviews(each interview averages 3-6 hours in length.
  • Adhere to the policies and procedures for managing born-digital materials for ingest, storage, preservation, organization, description, and access.
  • Design and manage digital collections by establishing the metadata schema, controlled vocabularies, and exercising quality control of the software, equipment and metadata records.
  • Preserve the intellectual and artifactual value of physical archival material by determining the need for performing conservation procedures such as, document cleaning, repair, deacidification, and humidification.
  • Provide access to archival collections by compiling finding aids, creating collection-level records or metadata descriptions, creating finding aids or controlled vocabularies to assist online researchers, and maintaining a database on collections and storage space allocation.
  • Provide reference services for The HistoryMakers archival collections.
  • Assist in fundraising activities in doing research, writing and seeking external grant funding for processing projects, records surveys, online interpretive exhibits, and publications.
  • Promote knowledge and use of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive by making presentations, talks, and / or interviews to the media, library groups, historical societies, and elementary through college classes.
  • Performing all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a graduate degree in African American or American history, library science with a concentration in archival management, or other related field.

The candidate must have 3-7 years prior experience working in a non profit archive or library with video / AV material resources.

Qualifications

The candidate will have :

  • Significant experience with records management systems for organizational records.
  • Knowledge of standards in moving-image cataloging and the creation of finding aids including knowledge of EAD and EAC-CFP.
  • Experience with videotape formats, in particular Beta cam SP; and migrating collections using an encoding system like Samma Solo.
  • Strong project planning and time management skills;
  • Familiarity with computer databases (i.e. Microsoft Excel, FileMaker, Oxygen, Photoshop) and Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Ability to work in close cooperation with The HistoryMakers Founder & President and our Consulting Archivist.

Salary and Benefits

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The HistoryMakers

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