Archivist

5 days ago

Providence, Rhode Island, United States InsideHigherEd Full time
About the Opportunity

Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology is seeking a highly skilled Archivist to join its team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the museum's records and archives, ensuring proper arrangement, description, preservation, and access.

Responsibilities
  • Manage the museum's records and archives, including physical, digitized, and born digital holdings.
  • Process, document, and manage HMA's multi-media archive under the direction of the Collections Manager.
  • Arrange, inventory, catalog, house, digitize, and describe holdings according to current established standards and best practices.
  • Communicate with interested stakeholders and coordinate and supervise archival visits for viewing or research.
  • Perform and coordinate new archival production to current standards, including digitization of multiple types of media.
  • Work with the Collections Manager/Registrar to maintain records of ownership and transfer.
  • Ensure the physical care and proper arrangement of the HMA's archives and records collections.
  • Manage digital assets and rights and reproductions, including coordinating, responding to, processing, tracking, and reporting on all image use requests.
  • Produce prints or other surrogates of HMA archival holdings for use by HMA and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
  • Master's degree specializing in archival and/or library science or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Minimum 3 years of related professional full-time experience.
  • Experience working with historical or cultural archival collections, such as ethnographic, archaeological.
  • Working knowledge of metadata standards and relational collections management databases.
  • Working knowledge of rights and reproduction laws and policies.
  • Current knowledge of standards in the field, including ethics and practices of accessibility, diversity, and inclusion.
Benefits of Working at Brown

Brown University offers a comprehensive benefits package, including time off, annual paid holidays, health, dental, vision, tuition assistance, retirement, wellness, employee discounts, and more.

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