News & announcements

Dear Fellow Archivists,

On behalf of the Portland Alliance for Response, you are cordially invited to an open house event on Monday, May 20^th at 6:00pm to learn more about collaborative disaster preparedness efforts in the Portland Metro area. 

According to a 2018 study, Oregon non-profits exhibited low levels of disaster preparedness. The Portland Alliance for Response (PAR) is a network of cultural institutions and emergency managers that aim to safeguard arts and cultural resources through effective communication and coordination of disaster preparedness and emergency response efforts. Thanks to a Performing Arts Readiness grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we’re ready to expand our network and are reaching out to local arts and culture organizations, including archives, museums, and libraries. We hope you’ll join us!

Immediately following the open house, attendees will also receive two complimentary tickets to attend the Monday evening Oregon Symphony performance featuring vocalist Storm Large performing Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins.

WHO: For Leaders or representatives of local arts organizations, archives, museums, and libraries

WHEN/WHERE: Monday, May 20, 2019

6:00pm Open House at Hatfield Hall, 1111 SW Broadway Ave

7:30pm concert, directly across the street at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

RSVP: Please RSVP by May 13^th via email to:  parsteeringcommittee@gmail.com

We hope you can join us!

Sincerely,

The Steering Committee for the Portland Alliance for Response

__________________

Shawna Gandy

Oregon Historical Society

shawna.gandy@ohs.org

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Part-Time Digital Archivist

Come be a part of the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) team. Our mission is to transform healthcare by educating highly skilled and compassionate practitioners, providing exemplary patient care, and engaging in innovative research within a community of service and healing.

A nonprofit founded in 1983, OCOM is the preeminent college of acupuncture and Chinese medicine in the United States, offering master’s and doctoral degree programs. OCOM consists of about 250 students and 100 full/part-time faculty and staff. Our state-of-the-art campus is a LEED Gold certified remodel of a historic hotel building in downtown (Old Town Chinatown) Portland. There is easy access to the MAX Light Rail, other mass transit, and bicycle routes. The beautiful Willamette River and Tom McCall Park are just a block away.

We are seeking a Digital Archivist. This is a half-time, temporary (1-year) grant funded position. The College is located in Portland, Oregon; the successful candidate may have the option of working remotely. Hourly pay rate is $24.50 - $27.50, depending on experience and abilities. This position is funded through the 2020 fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2019, and ending on June 30, 2020.

Position Summary

This position will oversee our LSTA-supported digital archive project, Kam Wah Chung: A Historical Archive of Chinese Medicine in Rural Oregon. This project includes creating an online archive of Chinese medical artifacts and other items from the Kam Wah Chung Heritage Site in John Day, Oregon, which have been cataloged and translated by OCOM students and faculty. Additionally, the Digital Archivist will manage the creation of a glossary, which will include Chinese characters, Pinyin, English, Latin (for herbs), and alternative spellings. This position will work closely with OCOM’s Director of Library Services, Integrative Medicine Practicum students and faculty, and work study employees in fulfilling this project.

Required Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in Library or Information Science from an ALA-accredited program or an equivalent educational degree;
• Professional experience in a research or academic library or related digital humanities environment;
• Professional experience managing a digital collection or other digital library-related work.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Experience working with Omeka or an equivalent collections management system.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficiency with cataloging and metadata standards, including Dublin Core and PMH-OAI harvesting methods;
• Knowledge of digital preservation theory, standards, and best practices;
• Familiarity with archival content management systems, and other relevant technologies and tools;
• Demonstrated experience in project management;
• Keen sense of curiosity and the ability to solve problems creatively;
• Excellent written and in-person communication skills;
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a diverse community.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Interest in or experience with Traditional Chinese Medicine or Chinese American history;
• Proficiency in reading Chinese text;
• Demonstrated experience processing archival records and born-digital content.

To Apply

Email cover letter and resume (.pdf format only) to HR@ocom.edu. Review of applications will begin on May 20th, 2019. 

Link to original post: https://library.ocom.edu/jobs

Oregon Historical Society has TWO Project Assistant-Library Move positions open in the Research Library!  

Are you interested in gaining experience to help launch your career in library and archives? The Project Assistant-Library Move is a task-focused, hands-on, physically demanding position supporting a large deadline-oriented project. This position offers great learning opportunities in library or archives-related work.

The Project Assistant-Library Move provides assistance to the Project Archivist-Library Move and Library Move Team in executing a major library collections move, following established professional standards and OHS library procedures.

This position is part-time, non-exempt with a schedule of approximately 15 hours per week for a fixed term of up to one year.  ($15/hour; no benefits).

Please see the full posting at https://ohs.applicantpro.com/jobs/1067306.html

Inquiries regarding this position should be directed to the Human Resources Manager,human.resources@ohs.org. Please do not contact other OHS staff.

Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPOPS) has featured NWA member Hannah Palin! Please check out their blog for the post.

Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPOPS) has featured NWA member Andrew Weaver! Please check out their blog for the post.

NWA Members!

Panelists for the upcoming session, Leading Outside the Archives, are soliciting questions in advance of their presentation on Thursday May 16th at the 2019 Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting in Bozeman, MT! The session will examine the experiences of mid-career archivists who recently moved into administrator roles outside archives as part of their career trajectories. Moderator, Crystal Rodgers, will pare down submissions into categories and compile a short list of questions that will guide a facilitated discussion during the session.

You can view the full session description and submit your questions via the following Google form: https://forms.gle/qW4giwzhZb8fbDRu7

Thanks in advance & see you in Bozeman!

Erin, Maija, Shawna, and Crystal – Leading Outside the Archives crew

PreserveIT! 2019: Disasters

Friday & Saturday, April 26th & 27th

People protect what they love most.  Whether it’s formalized in museums and archives or on an individual basis, societies have continued to develop ways to preserve and share their most treasured items. But what happens when disaster strikes? When an institution catches fire? A neighborhood floods? A website gets hacked?...

FRIDAY

10:30 AM – Dann Sears, Aberdeen Museum of History – Preparing for (& Surviving) Fire Disasters

11:30 AM – Carl Leon, Seattle Office of Emergency Management – Disaster Preparedness

12:30 PM – Demonstration (TBD)

1:00 PM – Keith Perez, Living Computers – Preserving BBN Systems

2:00 PM – Kurt Daviscourt, Belfor – Disaster Preparedness: Setting Up Your Toolbox

3:00 PM – Nives Mestrovic, Frye Art Museum – Roll Up Your Sleeves: Navigating Leaks in Museums

All Day – Disaster Movies & Board Games

SATURDAY

10:30 AM – Corey Nachreiner, WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. – Surviving a Digital Apocalypse: Why Lack of Cybersecurity Could Case a Real Disaster

12:00 PM –  Vicky de Monterey Richoux , Vashon Be Prepared – Preparation in the Community

1:00 PM – Dr. Peter Neff, University of Washington – Antarctic Ice Memory: Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate from Layers & Bubbles

2:00 PM – Megan Levy, University of Washington – Cascadia Coming: Earthquakes, Seattle, and the “Big One”

3:00 PM – Steve Malone, University of Washington – Documenting volcanic eruptions: The preservation of Mount St. Helens seismic data

All Day – Disaster Movies & Board Games 

Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2192873187462260/

BUY TICKETS: https://www.showclix.com/event/preserveit-2019-disasters

Summary: The Gates Archive seeks an intern to gain experience working with archival materials. This opportunity is designed for an intern to work with archivists to acquire the skills essential for professional practice while contributing to the work of the organization. This is a full-time, paid internship that will be five months in length, scheduled to begin in June 2019. The intern will have the opportunity to complete a bounded project and gain experience working in all archive services program areas, as well as with archive technology solutions.

Our archive is results driven - requiring creativity, collaboration and innovative thinking. The selected candidate will join a 21st Century archive - created from the ground up, with careful attention to best practices while embracing modern approaches to the delivery of core archival services - donor relations, accessioning, processing, preservation, and access.

Intern will be onsite in our Seattle, WA office. This position entails a background check.

Responsibilities: Work closely with and under the direction of Archivist(s) to:

• Survey, analyze, organize and describe records of archival collections
• Apply appropriate preservation and storage measures for archival materials (electronic and physical)
• Learn about workflows for the acquisition, processing, preservation, and access of audiovisual, digitized, and born-digital materials
• Maintain statistics, reports, and other metrics to improve collection management functions as necessary
• Fulfill other organizational duties as required

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Required Skills

• Familiarity with modern archival theory, standards, and practices and their implementation. This knowledge includes an understanding of appraisal methods, arrangement and description, preservation, and access (digital/physical)
• Understanding of and ability to apply controlled vocabularies and descriptive standards, (e.g. DACS, EAD, and AAT); familiarity with a variety of metadata standards
• Knowledge of information technologies appropriate to special collections and archives, and familiarity with database management, word processing, spreadsheet software, and web-based applications and technologies used in an archives environment
• Ability to work collaboratively and productively in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing

Preferred Skills

• Experience creating online finding aids and other descriptive tools
• Experience processing archival materials (digital/physical)
• Experience processing images and audiovisual materials 
• Experience handling digital media and born-digital files in archival collections
• Experience with digitization of archival materials and related delivery systems
• Experience interpreting and applying restrictions for access to and/or use of archival materials 
• Computer skills 
• MS Office 
• MS SharePoint
• Experience using database software and Internet search engines 

Education/experience/certifications 

Enrolled or a recent graduate of a program of graduate study in Archival Studies, Library & Information Science (ALA accredited), or related field such as History, Public History, or Computer Science.

Deadline for applications: Review of applications will begin on May 13, 2019.  Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but preference will be given to applications received by the date the review begins.

To apply submit a résumé and cover letter to careers@gatesarchive.com

The Resident Scholar Program at Oregon State University Libraries is accepting applications for the 2019-2020 funding cycle. Applications are due by April 30, 2019. 

The program awards stipends of up to $2,500 to researchers whose proposals detail a compelling use of the materials held in the OSU Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC). Historians, librarians, graduate, doctoral or post-doctoral students are welcome to apply, as are independent scholars.

SCARC is home to the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives, and more than 1,300 additional collections focusing on the history of the Pacific Northwest, the History of Science, multicultural communities of Oregon, and many other topics.

More about the Resident Scholar Program, including application materials, can be found on the program’s homepage.

The Alaska & Polar Regions Collections and Archives Department (APRCA) of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library is accepting applications for an Archivist to develop, manage, and promote manuscript and archival collections at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). This is a full-time, Grade 82, minimum $34.45 hourly, DOE, 12-month position complete with a competitive salary and UA employee benefits package. This position is open until filled with the initial application review taking place on 4/19/2019.   To ensure your application is considered, apply by 11:55 pm, 4/18/2019.  Applications received after this date may not be considered. A complete application will include a resume, cover letter, and contact information for three professional references.

Full description here: http://careers.alaska.edu/cw/en-us/job/512458/archivist