Dominguez Hills - California State University - Temporary Faculty Pool, CSU Archivist

 https://careers.csudh.edu/en-us/job/498513/temporary-faculty-pool-csu-archivist

Salary

Not Listed

Close Date

30 Jun 2021 Pacific Daylight Time

 

Position Description

The University Library fosters student success, scholarly research, and academic excellence through the provision of information resources, user-centered services, and learning experiences. The Gerth Archives collects, maintains, preserves, and makes accessible primary resources, archival materials, rare book, and digital objects to enhance research about CSUDH and the South Bay area of Los Angeles as well as Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Chicano/Chicana-o Studies, Labor Studies, and the history of education in California.

For more information: https://libguides.csudh.edu/archives-about-us

The Position

The temporary faculty pool is continuously open, and positions are filled as needed, based on student enrollment and funding. Candidates may need to be available to begin teaching on short notice. The Fall term begins in late August and ends in mid-December; the Spring term begins mid-January and ends in mid-May. Opportunities for teaching during the Summer Sessions may also be available. 

Responsibilities

• Participates in the development and implementation of workflows that facilitate the digitization, transcription and cataloging of CSU materials in accordance with emerging standards and best practices.
• Digitize materials and coordinate the arrangement and description workflows and participates in the integration of related metadata into systems for storage, discovery and display.
• Oversees the maintenance of content, cataloging, the flow and ingest of digital objects in digital asset management systems including ContentDM. Coordinates information related system-wide content management systems.
• Generate finding aids in Archives Space and the Online Archive of California.
• Coordinates with archives staff to plan, prioritize, and carry out projects to digitize CSU archival materials.
• Process digital objects across image, text, audio and video formats.
• Catalog and upload digital objects into the CSUDH digital collections.
• Provides advice and assistance for Archives researchers.
• Works collaboratively with Archives staff to evaluate, appraise and supervise transfer archival materials.
• Works with other Library personnel to ensure Archives website is updated.
• Updates policies needed for CSU Archives.
• Work with CSU personnel to transfer paper and born digital materials to the archives.
• Working knowledge of activities, policies, and procedures specific to the Archives and Special Collections and how Archives interacts with other departments within the Library and the campus community.
• Ability to create Lib-Guides, blog posts, website text, social media posts, online and physical exhibitions and other publicity related materials.
• Qualifications

Required Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in the field relevant to the curriculum or related discipline.

Preferred Desired Qualifications

ALA-accredited Masters’ degree in Library, Information Science, Archives Administration OR an advanced degree in an appropriate subject discipline with relevant special collections or archival training

Minimum of two years professional experience working in an academic library, historical society, archival institution, digitization setting or a research institution/company.

Knowledge of and experience with standards and best practices for digitization of archives, manuscripts, rare books, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and other special collections holdings.

Thorough knowledge of archival theory and practice as demonstrated through experience.

Demonstrated experience in archival appraisal, selection, arrangement and description, reference, and outreach activities.

Knowledge and understanding of library-based descriptive standards including Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) and Resource Description and Access (RDA);

Experience with oral histories.

Working knowledge of specialized applications and tools such as CONTENTdm, HTML, Adobe Acrobat, and OCR.  Additionally, working knowledge of standard computer office applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, computer operating systems, storage systems and file formats.

Excellent oral and written communication skills, organizational skills, and time management skills.

Knowledge of current best practices related access for born-digital collections