What: Fall 2018, 50% Graduate assistantship. The Graduate Research Assistant assists in researching, processing, describing, preserving and ensuring access for personal papers, organizational records, and photographic collections in the Special Collections Department. Responsibilities include:
- Assist in the arrangement and description of archival collections for the Special Collections Department. Describing collections requires research, organizational, and writing skills.
- Maintain collection data in the department’s content management system.
- Create metadata for digitization projects.
- Assist in implementing educational and promotional events and programs, and other activities related to the organization and preservation of the department’s manuscript collections.
- May have the opportunity to contribute to the exhibition program through research, writing and design of interpretive digital and physical exhibits.
- May contribute to writing grant proposals.
- Folder labeling, archival rehousing as necessary, and other clerical tasks as assigned.
