Digitizer-Archivist
Los Alomos National Laboratory Expired |
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Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA |
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What You Will Do
Come join a team of staff that is working to organize, digitize, and catalog the most mission-critical physical collections at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). You will be on a dynamic team, supporting the Weapons Program, working for the Weapons Research Services - National Security Research Center Digital Collections Group. The information you organize, digitize, and catalog will have an immediate impact to the Laboratory's mission.
You will be working with one of the largest libraries in the Federal Government, the National Security Research Center (NSRC). The NSRC is LANL's classified library, containing tens of millions of documents, films, books, and other archival material related to the development, testing and production of nuclear weapons, dating back to the first days of the Manhattan Project. The NSRC's collections contain a breadth of classified technical information related to physics, chemistry, engineering, material science, and national security.
As a Digitizer Archivist (Library Professional 2) you will be digitizing primary source materials and creating metadata/indexing information in support of a robust catalog/index in collaboration with the NSRC Digital Collections Team Leaders to assist in the retrieval of the material. You will provide quality control for digitized materials, metadata, and indexing and assist with the upload of digitized material and associated catalog information into the NSRC's Online Vault database and other WRS-supported repositories. This will also include actively seeking out improvements to the digitization processes and interfacing with customers to provide material assessments and acquisition support. You will serve as technical lead for at least one type of material digitized in our group and will be relied upon for coordinating projects and providing training and mentorship to junior staff.
What You Need
Minimum Job Requirements:
Technical Knowledge: You must have experience in operating multiple types of professional digitizing equipment for various media, such as paper, microfilm, microfiche, video, or other media. This experience must include developing indices/inventories of moderate to large collections. This position will also require experience in maintaining and working within metadata standards for archival materials and for developing a robust catalog that meets researcher needs.
Digitization Workflows & Processes: A qualified candidate will have experience with assessing collections and supporting or leading the development, implementation, and improvement of digitization workflows and processes.
Customer Relations: You will need experience handling sensitive situations, using sound and independent judgement. This position will require experience supporting customer requests and managing priorities and deadlines. This includes the creation and maintenance of digitization and indexing guides and digitization machine usage instructions. You must also have experience directly interfacing with customers.
Education/Experience: This position requires a master's degree in library and information science from a program accredited by the American Library Association and 5 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation. An American Library Association (ALA) accredited MLS degree; or a master's degree specializing in archives management, records management, or a related degree is preferred.
Desired Qualifications:
Come join a team of staff that is working to organize, digitize, and catalog the most mission-critical physical collections at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). You will be on a dynamic team, supporting the Weapons Program, working for the Weapons Research Services - National Security Research Center Digital Collections Group. The information you organize, digitize, and catalog will have an immediate impact to the Laboratory's mission.
You will be working with one of the largest libraries in the Federal Government, the National Security Research Center (NSRC). The NSRC is LANL's classified library, containing tens of millions of documents, films, books, and other archival material related to the development, testing and production of nuclear weapons, dating back to the first days of the Manhattan Project. The NSRC's collections contain a breadth of classified technical information related to physics, chemistry, engineering, material science, and national security.
As a Digitizer Archivist (Library Professional 2) you will be digitizing primary source materials and creating metadata/indexing information in support of a robust catalog/index in collaboration with the NSRC Digital Collections Team Leaders to assist in the retrieval of the material. You will provide quality control for digitized materials, metadata, and indexing and assist with the upload of digitized material and associated catalog information into the NSRC's Online Vault database and other WRS-supported repositories. This will also include actively seeking out improvements to the digitization processes and interfacing with customers to provide material assessments and acquisition support. You will serve as technical lead for at least one type of material digitized in our group and will be relied upon for coordinating projects and providing training and mentorship to junior staff.
What You Need
Minimum Job Requirements:
Technical Knowledge: You must have experience in operating multiple types of professional digitizing equipment for various media, such as paper, microfilm, microfiche, video, or other media. This experience must include developing indices/inventories of moderate to large collections. This position will also require experience in maintaining and working within metadata standards for archival materials and for developing a robust catalog that meets researcher needs.
Digitization Workflows & Processes: A qualified candidate will have experience with assessing collections and supporting or leading the development, implementation, and improvement of digitization workflows and processes.
Customer Relations: You will need experience handling sensitive situations, using sound and independent judgement. This position will require experience supporting customer requests and managing priorities and deadlines. This includes the creation and maintenance of digitization and indexing guides and digitization machine usage instructions. You must also have experience directly interfacing with customers.
Education/Experience: This position requires a master's degree in library and information science from a program accredited by the American Library Association and 5 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation. An American Library Association (ALA) accredited MLS degree; or a master's degree specializing in archives management, records management, or a related degree is preferred.
Desired Qualifications:
- Certification from the Academy of Certified Archivists is preferred.
- Understanding of the weapons program within LANL, along with experience working with classified material in a classified environment
- Experience working in a major archival organization, such as the National Archives and Records Administration, a museum, or a library with significant archival holdings. Experience assisting scientists and/or engineers search for relevant materials in a major university, government, or corporate library is desirable.
- Background in information technology, physics, chemistry, engineering, or material science.
- Experience with standard digital archival and library cataloging systems and metadata structures.
- Demonstrated experience in continuous learning to enhance knowledge and required skills.
- Active DOE Q clearance is highly desirable.