Archives Assistant
- Program stream:
- Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations
- Job title:
- Archives Assistant
- Organization name:
- Lac La Biche Museum
- Job location:
- Lac La Biche, Alberta
- Length of assignment:
- 2018-05-14 to 2018-08-31 (16 weeks)
- Hourly wage:
- $17.00
Duties:
The student will undertake a major project under the supervision of the Museum Manager and Museum Registrar, to catalogue and stabalise photographic archival material. The student will be required to accession and catalogue 4000 photographs from our collection, transfer photographs to archival quality storage as well as create a finding aid for future use.
Qualifications:
The successful candidate will be a post-secondary student majoring in a program related to Archives, Information Studies, Library Sciences, Museum Studies or similar. They will be required to have some experience with the Rules of Archival Description and Archival Conservation best practices, as well as experience with Past Perfect Software or equivalent. They must demonstrate strong attention to detail, have the ability to follow through on projects in an organised and efficient manner and work well both with co-workers and independently.
This is a Young Canada Works posting and applicants must be between 16 and 30 years of age.
Applications may be submitted to the Museum Manager, Lac La Biche Regional Museum, by mail PO Box 2570, Lac La Biche, AB T0A 2C0; email info@laclabichemuseum.com or fax 780-623-1733 by April 20th, 2018.
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