Archives Digitization Assistant

3 weeks ago

Truro, Canada Colchester Historeum Full time

**Job Title**: Archives Digitization Assistant
**Employer**: Colchester Historeum
**Approximate Start Date**: May 20, 2024
**End Date**: April 1, 2026

**Job Type**:Full-time, Fixed term contract
**Pay Rate**: $17.50/hr

**The Colchester Historeum**

The Colchester Historical Society continues to preserve and present Colchester County’s past by striving to offer an authentic and inclusive perspective of local history and culture through community and visitor engagement in its operation of the Colchester Historeum, a museum and archives located in Truro, Nova Scotia. Using contemporary methods of interpretation, collections management, and education, we encourage conversation, understanding, and meaningful connections between all individuals.

**The Opportunity**

**Responsibilities**
- Arranging, describing, and rehousing records
- Scanning/Digitizing records
- Data entry in the Historeum’s databases
- Following existing procedures for digitization
- Ensuring that record scans are high quality and that fragile records are handled
carefully
- Creating record descriptions or finding aids when necessary
- Assisting with other tasks in the Archives as required
- Have a degree or college certificate or diploma, ideally in History, Art History, Canadian
Studies, Collections Management, Museum Studies, or a related field
- Be a motived individual who possesses excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
- Be someone who can concentrate on repetitive tasks and stay accurate and motivated
- Be someone who takes pride in details and checks their work twice for possible
corrections
- Have experience scanning/digitizing
- Have strong computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite, E-mail)
- Have data entry experience
- Strong Written and verbal communication skills
- Possess the ability to independently and as part of a team
- Be fluent in English and have very legible printing
- Be eligible to work in Canada

**Assets**
- Knowledge of best practices in collections management
- Have experience working in an archival setting
- Experience handling archival documents
- Knowledge of Colchester County history
- Ability to read and transcribe cursive writing

**Resumes and Cover Letters can be sent to**:
Ryan McLellan, Archivist

**Application Deadline**: May 10, 2024

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 24 months

Pay: $17.50 per hour

Expected hours: 35 per week

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Education**:

- Secondary School (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2024-05-10
Expected start date: 2024-05-20

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