Archives Assistant | Yale University Job at Yale University, New Haven, CT

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  • Yale University
  • New Haven, CT

Job Description

1. Coordinates the work in a unit. 2. May perform a range of public and technical service functions. 3. Oversees, instructs and coordinates activities of staff. 4. Prepares, arranges, revises, photocopies, and distributes finding aids, guides, registers and other descriptive controls for manuscript collection. 5. Prepares and edits textual descriptions and other explanatory material for the registers, guides, inventories or lists. 6. Assists in establishing preliminary physical and bibliographic control of new accessions to a collection. 7. Performs clerical functions incidental to library activities.



Required Skill/ability 1: Ability to read and understand materials sufficiently to organize and describe collections, including hand-written texts.



Required Skill/ability 2: Excellent oral and written communication skills. Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities, including the proven ability to work independently and in a team.



Required Skill/ability 3: Demonstrated ability to work with automated systems and computers, especially word processing and database use.



Required Skill/ability 4: Demonstrated ability to work in an archival, library, or office setting. Demonstrated ability to organize and handle assignments and to plan and prioritize a range of daily assignments.



Required Skill/ability 5: Reliable attendance. Consistency and dependability in performing work assignments. Demonstrated ability to work efficiently and accurately in a detail- and deadline-oriented environment.



Preferred Education: Experience using Orbis, Voyager, ArchivesSpace, or other comparable bibliographic and/or archival control systems. Experience in an archive or special collections library, especially supporting archival processing of large collections.



Work Week: Flexible or Non-Standard (for anything other than Standard)



Posting Position Title: Archives Assistant 2



University Job Title: Archives Assistant



Preferred Education, Experience and Skills: Experience using Orbis, Voyager, ArchivesSpace, or other comparable bibliographic and/or archival control systems. Experience in an archive or special collections library, especially supporting archival processing of large collections.

Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and high school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate's degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor's degree

About Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

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Job Tags

Work experience placement, Flexible hours,

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