Curator, Women in Politics Archives

California Academic & Research Libraries; Bancroft (WI); On-site; USD 83,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bancroft Library in Berkeley seeks a Curator for its Women in Politics collections to steward and develop holdings spanning the 19th century to present. The Associate Librarian, Temporary, will build relationships with donors and stakeholders and advance access, teaching, and public programs.

Reporting to the Bancroft Library Director, the role collaborates with Public Services, Technical Services, and UC Berkeley Library partners to ensure discoverability and impact of the collections.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with curatorial colleagues, Oral History Center staff, and partners across the UC Berkeley Library system to build and steward collections of lasting importance, relevance, and interconnectivity, identifying historic gaps and areas of strategic opportunity across the broad chronological and geographic scope of the library’s holdings that document women in politics.
• Appraise and select materials for acquisition through donation or purchase across manuscripts, archives, visual materials, digital media, and all formats of print materials.
• Keep abreast of evolving legal and ethical considerations for provenance, intellectual property rights, privacy, and respectful stewardship of cultural heritage materials.
• Apply resource-sensitive collecting practices through the understanding and use of Total Cost of Stewardship tools and frameworks.
• Foster collaborative relationships with communities and individuals whose histories are documented in the collections, including activists, elected officials, political organizations, and social and civil rights movements and organizations.
• Partner with Bancroft Library leadership, the Friends of The Bancroft Library, and UC Berkeley Library Development Office to build and nurture philanthropic support.
• Collaborate with Bancroft Technical Services on appraisal and accessioning, cataloging, archival processing, and appropriate levels of arrangement and description to ensure that collections documenting women’s political engagement are discoverable and accessible to researchers.
• Work with Bancroft Public Services colleagues to foster collection use by faculty, students, researchers, and the general public. Participate in the fellowship selection committee.
• Participate in public and research services activities, and ensure excellent service, friendly reception, and positive research interactions for all researchers.
• Draw on the library’s extensive holdings documenting women’s political history to prepare and lead instruction sessions, including material evaluation and selection, lesson plan development, and collaboration with faculty on assignments and learning outcomes.
• Promote inclusive teaching practices and accessibility in

Job description

The Bancroft Library in Berkeley seeks a Curator for its Women in Politics collections to steward and develop holdings spanning the 19th century to present. The Associate Librarian, Temporary, will build relationships with donors and stakeholders and advance access, teaching, and public programs.

Reporting to the Bancroft Library Director, the role collaborates with Public Services, Technical Services, and UC Berkeley Library partners to ensure discoverability and impact of the collections.