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Position Announcement: Archivist, Rochester Institute of Technology



RIT Archivist

The RIT Library seeks a creative, service-oriented archivist to join a
dedicated team at a dynamic academic library in providing access to its
resources (paper and digital) by developing, managing and promoting the RIT
Archives.

The RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) Archives collects, organizes,
preserves and displays materials from the Institute's past. It forms the
primary source for the study of the history and development of the
Institute. The RIT Library Special Collections, housed within the RIT
Archives space, include a wide variety of published and unpublished
materials organized in distinct, but related collections, with greatest
strengths in graphic design and applied photography. The RIT Archives and
Special Collections Reading Room currently provides services to nearly 1000
visitors per year.

The duties of the RIT Archivist consist of managing all archival functions
and the maintaining of its collections, providing regularly scheduled
reading room hours of service, creating a records management system and
managing Institute records, performing liaison work with appropriate library
staff and campus agencies and personnel that stimulates and builds
connections within the RIT community, creating exhibits and websites that
promote the Archives' holdings, creating finding aids and catalog records
for the Archives collection, pursuing grants, providing reference desk
service, and supervising one part-time staff member and 3-4 student
employees. For more information, please go to
http://wally.rit.edu/information/openjobs/ArchivistFullJobDescription.html .


Requirements:

M.L.S. degree from an ALA-accredited program with emphasis on Archives or
professional experience with Archival Collections. Preferred: B.A. in
History.


1-2 years of professional archives work in a college or university archives,
including experience in:
--appraising, processing and describing paper-based records as well as
objects
--cataloging in MARC AMC and Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
--developing and presenting formal workshops and instruction
--developing exhibits and public programs
--utilizing computer applications, particularly those for web page creation

Strong interpersonal skills
Ability to lift 20 to 30 lbs.


Salary and Benefits: high $40,000's, commensurate with experience. Excellent
benefits.

Job Setting: Dynamic academic library with a great staff of 45 at a
progressive, technical university in upstate New York. Library services
approximately 15,100 students and 2,665 faculty/staff, maintains
approximately 400,000 volumes and over 150 electronic databases. Visit our
Library website at: http://wally.rit.edu/ .

Closing Date: Applications accepted immediately until position filled.

Send resume with cover letter and three references (with names, addresses,
phone numbers, email) by mail to:

Sue Roethel Gioia,
RIT Library,
Rochester Institute of Technology,
90 Lomb Memorial Drive,
Rochester, NY 14623-5604;

by email: srgwml@rit.edu ;

OR by fax: (585) 475-7007.

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RIT is an EOE/AA employer.

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