Digital Processing Archivist (Part-time) Job at North Park University, Chicago, IL

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  • North Park University
  • Chicago, IL

Job Description

About North Park

Founded in 1891, North Park University is a Christian university affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church of over 3,200 students from around the country and the world.

North Park University is located in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, one of the most ethnically diverse zip codes in the United States. It is nine miles from downtown Chicago. The North Park campus has often been referred to as an oasis in the heart of the city – a place where students from urban, rural, and suburban backgrounds alike can call home. And all of this within the major metropolitan backdrop of Chicago: one of the world’s largest and most diversified economies, renowned for its museums and music, and voted best large city in the U.S. for four years in a row by Condé Nast Traveler.

Mission

The mission of North Park University is to prepare students for lives of significance and service through education in the liberal arts, professional studies, and theology.

Vision

Building on our core institutional identity—Christian, city-centered, intercultural—our vision is to create a university of uncommon character and enduring excellence, where faith, learning, and service meet.

Position Summary
The Digital Processing Archivist will manage existing digital collections, coordinate the creation of new digital collections, assist in the creation of digital exhibits, and assist in the processing of new accessions in all formats with a focus on born digital material . This is a part-time position (15-20 hours per week) with flexible scheduling during normal working hours.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Manage digital collections and exhibits including image, text, and audio collections
  • Coordinate the digitization of historical materials and associated metadata creation
  • Develop standards and workflows for archival processes related to collections of digitized and born digital materials
  • Coordinate arrangement and description of archival collections according to professional
  • standards, current archival procedures, and the MPLP approach
  • Assist with fulfilling patron requests for archival material
  • Prepare original collection descriptions in EAD using ArchivesSpace
  • Assist with supervision of student workers in archives

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree, MLIS with archival emphasis preferred
  • Attention to detail and accuracy
  • Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively
  • Oral and written communications skills
  • Ability and willingness to master evolving computer software and upgrade workflows as technology changes
  • Experience with relevant technologies, standards, and practices such as Dublin Core,
  • CONTENTdm, Microsoft Excel, EAD, DACS, ArchivesSpace, and Omeka preferred
  • Demonstrated knowledge of archival theory and practice preferred
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and push a full book cart
  • Personal commitment to North Park’s mission of Christian higher education

Salary: $22/hr. (15-20 hours per week)

Job Tags

Part time, Flexible hours,

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