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Job Posting (New York Historical Society)



NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Cataloger for Manuscripts and Visual Materials

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 August 15, 2001 will be given
full consideration.

NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN
AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS

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