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Job Posting for Cataloger for Manuscripts and Visual Materials



NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Cataloger for Manuscripts and Visual Materials (search continued)

Mellon Foundation grant-funded project, based at the New-York
Historical Society Library. Position is funded until December 31, 2002.

Description: create collection-level and item-level MARC cataloging
records in NYU's GEAC Advance system for the New-York Historical
Society Library's manuscripts, archives, and visual materials
collections, using information from the card catalog, published guides
to the collections, and finding aids. Perform name authority research
and subject analysis as needed.

Qualifications: ALA accredited MLS or MA in the humanities with
archival concentration; 2 years archival or cataloging experience;
flexible, creative approach to providing bibliographic control over a
large and diverse collection. Preferred qualifications include
familiarity with the MARC AMC and/or VIM formats, RLIN or OCLC, and
automated cataloging systems, experience with the arrangement and
description of archival materials, and knowledge of American and/or New
York history.

Salary: commensurate with experience and background; minimum:
$35,000. Attractive benefits package.

Located next to Central Park on Manhattan's Upper West Side, The New-
York Historical Society is a principal resource for the study of
American history and life. It is home to the recently opened Henry Luce
III Center for the Study of American Culture, which showcases the
Society's museum collections, and to one of the oldest research
libraries in the country. The New-York Historical Society Library has
been affiliated with the New York University Libraries since 1997. The
Manuscript Department, with over two million manuscripts, has diverse
and rich collections relating to the political, military, legal,
cultural, mercantile, infrastructural, domestic and social history of
this country and New York in particular. A sample of the collections
includes Revolutionary War orderly books, African-American life before
1861, papers of most of this nation's leading political and military
figures from its early years and the Civil War era, records of
abolition societies, accounts of the California Gold Rush and the
westward expansion, and New York life in the Gilded Age all as found in
letters, diaries, business papers, ships logs, land patents,
institutional records, and other materials. The Society's visual
collections are strong in pre-1900 U.S. history and culture as well
as the development of photography and professional architecture in the
United States.

To apply: send resume and letter of application, including names,
addresses and telephone numbers of 3 references to Ms. Janet Koztowski,
Director of Human Resources, New York University Libraries, 70
Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. Applications received by
March 15, 2001 will be given full consideration.

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