University Archivist

Naropa University

Application Deadline

Open Until Filled

Wages

$37,000.00 to $40,000.00 per Year   Calculate

Location

Boulder, CO

Hours

40.00

MLS

Preferred

Minimum Education

Not Specified

Library Experience

Not Specified

Supervisory Experience

Not Specified

Type of Library

Other

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The Community

The Naropa University Archives continues work on its nationally recognized Writing and Poetics Collections. Digital reformatting and access activities continue on the Audio Collection, called “one of the three most important literary audio collections in America” by the New York Times. Work is also progressing to expand the archival programs to include film and photo collections. Since its founding in 1974, by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, which includes the Department of Writing and Poetics and the Summer Writing Program, has recorded approximately six thousand hours of audio tapes documenting classes, performances, workshops and seminars conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S. literary avant-garde. The collection represents several generations of artists who have contributed to aesthetic and cultural change in the postmodern era. Archives staff have currently digitized two thousand hours of audio recordings from activities at the Kerouac School. Access to over five hundred hours of the collection is available online, via the generous support of the Internet Archive, at http://www.archive.org/details/naropa, and MARC21 catalog records are available on OCLC WorldCat. Among the recordings are historic lectures and performances addressing peace activism, gender issues, environmentalism, spirituality, freedom of speech and other social issues, as well as discussions on literatures ancient and modern, and the craft of writing. You'll hear Allen Ginsberg’s series of classes on Expansive Poetics, Anne Waldman lecturing on Poetics and Female Writers, Samuel Charters on Jack Kerouac and jazz, Amiri Baraka on Revolution and Art, Peter Lamborn Wilson discussing The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Bernadette Mayer teaching experimental writing techniques, Lorenzo Thomas on Racial Identity and Its Literary Representation, Peter Warshall on Biosphere and Noospher, Joy Harjo on Native American Women Writers, and many others. The Archives received three significant visual collections in 2005 and work is now progressing on those. The Bobbie Louise Hawkins Home Movie Collection is a visual record of Hawkins’s life with Robert Creeley and their activities with many prominent writers from the period 1959-1972. The preservation of this collection is being funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation. The Steve Miles Photo Collection contains visual documentation of Naropa events from the period 1974-1997, with a special emphasis on the activities of Allen Ginsberg, a close friend of Miles. Preservation and access to this collection is funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program. The Carol Pearlman Photo Collection contains a visual record of the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference. With generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Archives has developed audio support for literature courses, enabling teachers to bring literature to life with recorded voices of prominent literary figures in their classrooms. Please refer to our curriculum pages for more information on this project. Mission The mission of the Naropa University Archives is to collect, organize, preserve, and make available materials of enduring value related to Naropa University and its history, as well as unique, rare or fragile materials that support Naropa's curriculum programs. In support of its mission, the Department collects materials in all formats that are: * Created by Naropa faculty, students, administrators, and alumni. * Related to the history, programs, and goals of the University. * Require an archival level of preservation and security and are related to Naropa's curriculum programs, including: o Contemplative Education o Contemplative and Somatic Psychology o Environmental Studies o Performing and Visual Arts o Religious Studies o Traditional Eastern Arts o Writing and Poetics o Other subjects taught on a regular basis. The Archives Department encourages the use of its holdings by the Naropa community, and the public, by publicizing its collections and providing information services related to them, while preserving the materials safely according to current archival standards.

HR Info

University Archivist Position Title: University Archivist Reports to: Library Director Department: Allen Ginsberg Library Hire-In Salary Level: $37,000-$40,000 Hrs/Week: 40 FLSA Status: Exempt, A19 Start Date: September 15, 2007 Job Summary: Information about the Audio Archive Project can be found at http://www.naropa.edu/archive/index.cfm. Information about the Special Collections, which includes rare books, small press periodicals, Tibetan texts, chapbooks, photographs, audio-visual recordings, and other materials, can be found at http://www.naropa.edu/naropalibrary/specialcollections.cfm . Job Duties: * Plan for and manage the University’s Archives and Special Collections. * Administering a grant from the NHPRC for the purpose of establishing a University Archives and Records Program, including supervising a Processing Archivist under the terms of the grant * Managing existing audio materials and developing grant proposals for the continued development of the Naropa Audio Archives Project. * Managing the Library's existing special collections. * Developing and managing a digital institutional repository program for the University to preserve and make available theses and other materials created by Naropa faculty and students. * May include the supervision of work-study employees. * Develop and implement a comprehensive records management program for the University. * Ensure that University historical records and other archival collections are gathered together in one location, re-housed, arranged, and described and preserved according to accepted archival standards, including the creation of archival finding aids that comply with DACS to be made available on the University website using EAD. Qualifications: Minimum qualifications- * M.L.S. from an ALA-accredited institution * Thorough knowledge of DACS and EAD * Three years experience working with archival and special collections materials at a professional level, including some combination of manuscript, audio-visual, and digital collections. The ideal candidate- * Certified as an Archivist or Records Manager. * Background in literature, education, and/or religious studies, management experience including the administration of grants, a sense of humor, and the ability to think positively and creatively while working with limited resources. Application: Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until an individual is hired. Applications received by July 28, 2007will receive priority consideration. Please include a cover letter and curriculum vitae. Submit applications to: Naropa University Department of Human Resources 2130 Arapahoe Avenue Boulder, CO 80302 Fax: (303) 245-4634 E-mail: employment@naropa.edu

Posted Aug 13, 2007