Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements October 5, 2011
To save wear and tear on the untershames, please comply with these four requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments. 3. Write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 4. To respond, contact the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* your ever-beleaguered untershames. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:23:40 +0000 From: Rachel C. Miller <[email protected]> Subject: Job announcement: Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History (NYC) -- Yiddish language skills needed Job Announcement Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History (New York City) Position description: The Center for Jewish History, a research center open to the public, seeks a part-time (20 hours/week) project archivist for a term ending September 30, 2012,with the possibility of extension. The project archivist will work on processing Yiddish-language archival collections and encoding finding aids in EAD (Encoded Archival Description). Responsibilities include: Converting the descriptive content of paper finding aids to EAD-encoded finding aids. This conversion consists of description enhancement, transliteration and translation of Yiddish descriptions into English, and the creation of EAD finding aids using an XML editor. Recomending basic preservation work. Assisting in the selection of which records will be digitized for a later digitization stage of the project. The archivist will work under the supervision of the CJH Senior Project Archivist and report to the CJH Director of Archive and Library Services. The archivist also will discuss practices and quality assurance with archivists from the Center's Partner organizations. Qualifications: Reading knowledge of Yiddish is required. Strong preference will be given to candidates with a master's degree in library and information science or history with archival coursework. Familiarity with archival theory and practice and metadata standards (especially DACS and EAD), knowledge of 20th century Jewish history and excellent writing skills are highly desirable. Must be able to work efficiently, independently and collaboratively. Compensation:$20/hour Review of applications will begin immediately. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Send cover letter, resume and three references to Laura Leone, Director of Archive and Library Services, at [email protected]. No phone calls please. ___________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. anouncements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: victor.bers at yale.edu (in the subject line write Mendele Personal) Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language,i.e.inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
