This is a one-year fellowship, 20-25 hours per week, paid but with no specific salary information. The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) is accepting applications for its Preservation Educational Resources Fellowship. The Fellow will work for a period of one year within the Preservation Department, assisting with the development of a suite of educational resources […]
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Interview: Starting a Student Chapter
We’ve talked before about the value of having professional-association student chapters on campus, whether it’s just general awareness of career options and extracurriculars or the impact on your resume of helping to manage and plan events, fundraisers, field trips, etc. There are no ARLIS/NA student chapters (yet), but that doesn’t mean you can’t start one! […]
Cataloguer, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project– MOMA
Cataloguer, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project Location: New York, NY Education Requirement: 4-Year Degree Description The Museum of Modern Art is currently accepting applications for a Project Cataloguer to assist with the Louise Bourgeois Archive Project. Based in the Museum’s Department of Drawings and Prints and reporting to the Chief Curator Emerita/Bourgeois Project Manager, the Project […]
Internship– Brooklyn Museum Archives
Internship in the Brooklyn Museum Archives The Brooklyn Museum is seeking an intern to assist with processing records in the Museum Archives. The intern will process a discrete portion of the institutional records: arrange, perform basic preservation measures, write folder-level descriptions, and enter descriptions into a Microsoft Access database. The intern will gain valuable experience […]
Museum archivist job openings
Archivist Librarian, The Witte Museum Archival Assistant (term), Carnegie Museum of Art
Advice, Alternative Careers, Archives + Special Collections, Collections Management, Digital Libraries, Interviews, Job Postings, Metadata + Tagging, Museum Librarianship, Organization types + roles
Job postings
Picture Library Assistant– The Granger Collection Archivist (theater)– Confidential Digital Asset Manager– Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archivist– The Felix Gonzalez Torres Foundation Library Assistant IV– The Getty Metadata Librarian I- The Getty
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Photo archives opportunities
Photo Archives Assistant, Pace Gallery Photography Archivist/Rights and Reproduction, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Archives + Special Collections, Cataloging & Catalogs, Collections Management, Job Postings, Metadata + Tagging, Technology + digitization, Visual Resources Association (VRA)
Library Collections Technician– Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
For those of you who are interested in photographic archives… Position Summary: The department manages a circulating collection of slides, videos, 16mm films, and pictures/clippings and an archival collection of bookplates, photographs, and design drawings. Under moderate supervision and with moderate latitude for independent judgment, the employee holding this position participates in the preservation, […]
Paid Archives Internship- Lawrence Schiller Archive / Wiener-Schiller Productions
Prominent photojournalist with immense body of work from the 1960s and 1970s seeks a reliable, enthusiastic intern to assist with organizational and archival duties. The intern will organize, digitize, and database original photographic material. Candidates must be extremely detail-oriented and quick learning new technologies. Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel is a must; basic knowledge of […]
Archivist– The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation
The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation is seeking a highly motivated, detail oriented, proactive and extremely organized individual for the position of part-time Archivist. The Archivist will conduct a comprehensive evaluation/assessment of the status and various locations of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation’s archival records and holdings, and advise on how to best consolidate and preserve its archives […]