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PT Digitization Asst., Northeastern

Filed under GSLIS Jobs and Opportunities
Posted by GSLIS, September 05, 2007
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Digitization Assistant (part-time)

An anticipated vacancy exists for a part-time digitization assistant to work with two other digitization assistants on a grant project funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners to digitize and make accessible via the Web 2,300 photographs from the Freedom House Collection in Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department.

Duties:

  • Scan photographs and negatives
  • Conduct research to identify images as necessary
  • Enter metadata into a database template
  • Perform quality control

Qualifications:

  • Enrollment in graduate program with concentration in archives management
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to work independently
  • Ability and willingness to lift boxes weighing up to 40 lbs.
  • Commitment to achieving and maintaining diversity in the workplace

Salary: $15 per hour

Hours: 10-13 hours per week during business hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Contact: Please send resum and cover letter to: Marisa Hudspeth, Assistant Archivist: m.hudspeth@neu.edu; (p) 617.373.7656; (f) 617.373.8132.