Job Opportunity #2
Doesn’t say if there will be a drug test.
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Rank: Associate Librarian or Librarian
Salary: Appointment Salary Range: Associate Librarian III- Librarian I, with an approximate salary range of $52,860-$68,892, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Position Available: March 1, 2010
Responsibilities:
Working with the Head of SC&A department, establishes plans and priorities for physically processing and housing of material in the Archive, including new contributions received as gifts or by purchase.
Following national standards and best practices for archival description, establishes policy standards for the arrangement and description of the GDA, and with assistance from SC&A processing team, prepares and generates an encoded finding aid for submission to the California Digital Library’s Online Archive of California.
Assesses preservation and conservation needs of collections; refers items as necessary for treatment.
Identifies material and develops content for publishing to the Library’s CONTENTdm-based digital collections. Provides descriptive metadata for items that are to be scanned.
Working with the Head of the Digital Initiatives department, establishes plans for digital content building and continued sustainability of Virtual Terrapin Station.
Identifies and resolves rights clearance and permission issues, and obtains documentation for contributed material offered to the collection via Virtual Terrapin Station’s social networking and data contribution features.
Promotes, publicizes, and creates awareness of the GDA by maintaining productive academic relations as well as creating and maintaining ties with the community and potential donors. Acts as liaison with current Grateful Dead commercial and licensing entities Rhino Entertainment, Ice Nine Publishing, and Grateful Dead Productions.
Provides specialized reference assistance to scholars and general public using the Archive. Is responsible for maintaining GDA’s dedicated email account, responds to all inquiries and answers or makes referrals to reference questions.
Manages Dead Central’s open access hours, and curates exhibitions for display in Dead Central.
Acts as registrar for material that is loaned from the Archive; handles all risk management and exhibition loan form requirements.
Plans for and manages occasional GDA conferences and events held on campus or scheduled in other venues.
Maintains GDA Blog and Facebook accounts.
Participates with Library Development in cultivating donor support for the Archive and in stewarding friends and contributors. May develop grant proposals to further support GDA processing, access, or new acquisitions.
Directly supervises processing assistants, student assistants, and project archivists.
Works with the Head of Digital Initiatives and project-based staff in an advisory role for project activities (selection, workflow, priorities, metadata, etc).
Develops and manages a volunteer and intern program taking advantage of assistance of skilled and subject knowledgeable community volunteers/interns to meet production and promotional goals of the GDA.
Participates in the management of the SC&A department, developing policies, procedures, goals, and priorities.
Librarians are expected to be professionally active outside of the library, and participate in library-wide activities, including administrative committees and special projects.
Qualifications:
Required:
Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited program or accredited graduate archives management program.
Significant, demonstrated experience working with books, manuscripts, photographs, recordings, and other material in a special collections & archives environment.
Knowledge of the access tools for special collections and archival material and the standards and procedures for their preservation and conservation.
Demonstrated experience developing processing plans and creating finding aids in accordance with national standards.
Knowledge of and ability to maintain awareness of developments in archival processing, digital information technologies, and their uses in special collections and archives.
Expert knowledge in the history and scholarship of contemporary popular music and American vernacular culture, preferably the history and influence of the Grateful Dead.
Excellent analytical, organizational, and time management skills.
Oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills sufficient to promote and present the archive to multiple audiences.
Prior experience directing the work of others.
Strongly Preferred:
Demonstrated experience working in public services in academic environment.
Demonstrated experience working on outreach and other donor related activities.
This position reports to the Head Special Collections and Archives and is represented by the UC-AFT (American Federation of Teachers). All UCSC librarians are members of the Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC)....
All the dope you can smoke and all the crappy Dead music you can stand to listen to. If I am going to listen to really really awful hippy, dope music - I will listen to Hawkwind before I listen to the Dead.
Also, I'm sure that there are several VW buses out there with enough Dead paraphernalia to keep an archivist busy for several years (or decades, if they use some of the paraphernalia).
Cool job.
I've been listening to their station on XM/Sirius radio and they are playing some very laid back music. Not too much different than Crosby, Still and Young.
I've never taken a drug in my life.
What does this music have to do with drugs?
Also, does anybody know if the job has been filled yet?
The Dead have without question the best archive there is music wise....hands down
I think every show was recorded...many multiple recordings same show
It’s fantastic
On one I can hear myself scream I Know You Rider at the mic hanging above me mid section 20 rows back
‘77