Description:
Duties and Responsibilities: This position assumes a lead role in providing research and instructional services to a broad range of faculty, students, and the general public including doing so through overseeing the accessioning and processing of archival materials in all formats. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a team environment as well as working independently. Specific responsibilities include:
Research and Instructional Services:
- Oversee all aspects of the accessioning of archival materials, regardless of format, to support primary source research and instructional needs for a broad range of constituent groups
- Support instructional and research-related services for in-person and online inquiries through a multitude of methods
- Take a lead role in the archival arrangement and description of accessioned materials in both analog and digital formats according to standard archival research practices and provide oversight of other staff engaged in the same
- Conduct reference interviews and provide instruction explaining the archival research process and methods for locating and evaluating evidence found in archival materials
- Provide mediated access to archival materials
Digital Operations:
- Collaborate with Archives personnel in the development and implementation of archival policies, procedures, and services particularly as they relate to access and use of digital content
- Oversee the management of archival materials using archives collections management software and in alignment with the University of Illinois Library’s digital preservation environment
- Analyze archival use patterns and provide recommendations for expanding digital content so as to improve the Archives’ reach to known user communities