[BCMA] Summer Employment Opportunity 2010 - Archives

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Hello Shelley: please re-post this summer YCW employment opportunity. 
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Delta Museum and Archives

Summer Employment Opportunity

Position: Archives Assistant

The Delta Museum and Archives is looking for a temporary (summer), full-time
(35 hours per week) Archives Assistant. This position is suitable for a
Master of Archival Studies student who has completed a year of study.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

The Assistant Archivist will help to address a backlog in processing
donations made to the archives, including: 

*        arranging and describing fonds using RAD,

*        describing a 200 item map collection according to RAD,

*        entering data into an Inmagic db/Textworks database and creating
finding aids, and

*        ensuring proper storage of the described records.

The Assistant Archivist will also assist in preparing the Archives
collections for relocation to the new Edgar Dunning Archives Facility. 

 

Qualifications

*        Applicant was a full-time student during the last academic year and
is returning to full time study in 2010;

*        Is registered with Young Canada Works;

*        Has completed first year of an archival program; and

*        Is familiar with Rules of Archival Description (RAD).

*        Familiarity with Inmagic database is an asset.

 

Term of employment: June 8th to August 21st , 2010, Tuesday to Saturday
(with occasional Sundays), 9am to 4:30 pm.

Rate of pay: $13.38 per hour, plus 4% in lieu of vacation (rate is subject
to change due to ongoing collective bargaining).

Grant funding has been confirmed for this position.

 

Send resume and covering letter by 4:30pm, Monday, May 10th to:

Mark Sakai, Executive Director

Delta Museum and Archives Society

msakai at deltamuseum.ca

 

We thank all applicants for their interest in the position, but only those
selected for interviews will be contacted.

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