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Librarian (Assistant Curator, Graphic Arts)
Library of Congress · Posted 12 days ago
About the Role
The Library of Congress shares its vast collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, audiovisual materials, and priceless artifacts to cultivate curiosity and spark imagination. We engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity. We seek highly talented professionals to join a vibrant and collaborative community. Your work here will have lasting impact on the Library and its users well into the future.
What You'll Do
- →The Prints and Photographs Division has one of the largest pictorial research collections in the world with more than 15 million pictures in a variety of visual formats contained in hundreds of individual collections and stored in several locations and remote sites.
- →The collections are among the most varied in subject, time-period, medium, format, physical condition, and intellectual property rights requirements, with attendant concerns regarding security, preservation, safe handling and service.
- →The collections are accessed by means of complex, diverse and often multi-layered intellectual controls in written, filmed and digital forms.
- →The Graphic Arts area has an estimated 500,000 artist prints, posters, documentary drawings, cartoons and comics, historical prints, and pictorial ephemera like trade cards.
- →Provides reference and research services of limited technical complexity to researchers where user needs are determined easily from interviews or written requests.
- →Provides accurate, competent research guidance on the use and technical aspects of the visual materials collections.
- →Examines publications, electronic resources, and trends in topics related to a specialized field.
- →Develops knowledge of collections for use in performing research tasks.
- →Assists in preparing finding aids and related written products describing collections.
- →Prepares basic and standard responses to written, telephone, or electronic media inquiries.
- →Assists with the full range of curatorial duties, including reference, processing, preservation, publication, and exhibition work.
- →Identifies and provides basic curatorial documentation on items and collections for purposes of preservation, processing, and cataloging.
- →Monitors condition and preservation needs of items in the collections.
- →Assists with special reference service, such as unprocessed collections.
Requirements
- ✓Library of Congress employees are prohibited from using illegal drugs, including marijuana.
- ✓The Library is part of the Federal Government and abides by federal law, so regardless of individual state or District of Columbia laws, marijuana use is illegal, considered criminal activity, and can affect your employment at the Library.
- ✓In addition, past or current drug use and activities (e.g., selling or distributing) may deem you ineligible for employment.
- ✓There are no education requirements for this posting.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 348bd338-558a-41cc-b29a-2c90f8e72502
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