Description:
Work may include but not be limited to:
- Achieving the performance objectives set forth by NHPRC. (Project ED-104987-24), as well as maintaining quality control, and activity/ fiscal records for all grant-related deliverables;
- Creating a central historical and archival public repository with virtual and physical access to documents regarding the Crownsville Hospital;
- Establishing policies and procedures for managing archival and historical materials, digital materials and collections and related artifacts and ephemera for ingest, storage, preservation, organization, description,and access
- Setting standard operating procedures (SOPs) for accessioning, cataloging, curating, conserving and displaying materials;
- Ensure quality control for all deliverables and accessions;
- Determining the appropriate organization and digital storage structure, analyzing the intellectual content of the source material, and conducting historical research for the preparation of metadata descriptions;
- Compiling finding aids, creating collection-level records or metadata descriptions, creating finding aids or controlled vocabularies to assist online researchers, and maintaining a database on collections and storage space allocation.
- Promoting knowledge and use of the collections.
- Managing collections development activities (maintaining donor contacts, conducting field surveys, appraising potential collections, collaborating with staff from the Maryland State Archives, and acquiring/accessioning collections which meet collection development policies.)
- Preserving the intellectual and artifactual value of physical archival material by determining and making recommendations for conservation or treatment, such as document cleaning, repair, deacidification, and humidification. (The collections include large objects, furniture, artwork, and artifacts that will require special treatment.)
- Creating a robust, searchable web-based "Crownsville Hospital Digital Archive" to be housed on the Anne Arundel County website. This platform will be develop in coordination with other County staff, including the Office of Information Technology;
- Overseeing the work of consultants who are responsible for obtaining and processing up to 50 oral histories;, and
- Overseeing the work program of an Oral History Research Associate (staff member) who will be assisting the Oral History consultants, and who will plan and implement a series of public Oral History Workshops designed to build future capacity within the community to obtain additional oral histories using best practices.
The position will work under the direction of the Program Administrator for the Cultural Resources section in the Office of Planning and Zoning. The position is hybrid, with the primary work location being the Crownsville Archives and Collections warehouse and office in Annapolis, MD. Duties will require remote and off site work locations including the Hospital campus in Crownsville, the Maryland State Archives, and in the community.
Required Experience/Education: A Masters in Library Science (MLS) from an American Library Association (ALA) accredited program or a graduate degree in library information science, collections or archives management, museum studies, public history or a closely related discipline. Graduate-level coursework in archival administration and/or continuing education in the Digital Archives space preferred. Significant (10-plus years) of demonstrated experience in lieu of a degree will be considered.