Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements April 17, 2012
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:10:11 +0000 From: Rachel C. Miller <[email protected]> Subject: Job announcement: Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History (NYC) Job Announcement : Part-time Processing Archivist, Yiddish language skills The Center for Jewish History, a research center open to the public, seeks graduate students to work as part-time processing archivists. Processing archivists will process Yiddish-language archival collections and encode collection descriptions into EAD. The archivists will arrange and describe collections in accordance with current professional standards. The descriptive work will often consist of transliteration and translation of Yiddish descriptions into English. The archivists will author and then encode finding aids using an XML editor. The archivists will work under the supervision of a CJH Senior Project Archivist and report to the CJH Director of Archive and Library Services. Reading knowledge of Yiddish is required. Strong preference will be given to candidates currently working towards a master's degree in library science or history with archival coursework. Familiarity with archival arrangement and description standards (DACS, EAD), knowledge of 20th century Jewish history and excellent writing skills are highly desirable. Must be able to work efficiently, independently and collaboratively. Review of applications will begin immediately. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Send cover letter, resume and references to Rachel Miller, Senior Project Archivist, at [email protected]. No phone calls, please. ____________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Responses to Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements should be sent directly to the person whom or organization which posted the item. Material for posting in Mendele Personal Notices & announcements,typically ,announcements of events, commercial publications, and questions not of general interest to the membership,should be sent to: [email protected] (IMPORTANT! 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:and likely to interest the membership in general, should be sent to [email protected] 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: [email protected] Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
