Collections Assistant

Job Overview

This is a one year internship funded by the NOHFC workforce development program. The Collections Assistant will work closely with the Collections Supervisor to complete several ongoing cataloguing and inventory projects.

This position is full time, with a variable schedule.

Duties

• Conducting a physical inventory of archival material; scanning, labeling and recording locations of documents,
• Cataloguing Archival material into Collections database, and assisting with data transfer from an old system,
• Creating a physical space for the archival collection within the collections room,
• Dealing with found in Collection/No Number archival material,
• Creating list of archival material for Board of Directors to determine if material should be accessioned/deaccessioned,
• Removing archival material from photograph storage and adding to archival collection,
• Working with the Archivist to determ...