Archives Student Assistant (2024-2025)

Job Title Archives Student Assistant (2024-2025) Job Description

Process archival materials, artifacts, and rare books in the Hess Archives. Provide support for reference requests, digitization projects, and exhibits. (#NOINDEED)

Job Duties

Rehouse archival materials and rare books in accordance with preservation standards; Write collection descriptions and prepare inventories and online finding aids; Complete digitization activities (e.g., scan materials, create cataloging metadata); Provide research assistance for archival reference requests; Design archival displays and exhibits; Abide by all health and safety protocols; Complete other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail; Excellent written communication skills; Ability to deliver a consistently high level of customer service to all patrons; Ability to preserve confidentiality; Willingness to participate in ongoing trainings to acquire specific archival knowledge and system/software skills; Interest in completing duties that involve a moderate degree of independent judgment

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with historical research methods and previous experience in a library, museum, or archives

Physical Demands

Regularly required to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time; Regularly required to type, pick up objects, and move objects; Occasionally required to move up to 25 pounds and transport a distance of 10 feet

Posting Detail Information

Posting Number SPV948P Open Date 05/08/2024 Close Date Open Until Filled Yes Special Instructions to Applicants About Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown College, located in south central Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than 60 health, science, engineering, political science business, communications, fine art and music, humanities, and education degrees. Discover more at etown.edu.

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Elizabethtown College is committed to valuing and fostering the diversity reflected in our life together and in the world beyond our campus. We strive to ensure that the members of the community-students, faculty, staff, and administrators-are diverse in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, ability, gender, gender identity and expression, age and national origin. We also seek to provide our community members, especially our students, with educational opportunities, programs, and services that are multicultural in content and expressive of a diverse life of experiences and worldviews that underrepresented groups bring to the learning environment.

EEO Statement

Elizabethtown College is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Status

Hours Per Week 5-10 Work Schedule Monday-Friday Salary per hour $10.25-$11.00 Annual Salary