Librarian / Archivist

The Digital Asset Management Consortium, Inc.; South Carolina; On-site; USD 21,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

Laudisi in Loris, South Carolina, seeks a part-time librarian to catalog and preserve a small but significant collection. You will design a digital taxonomy, manage a public-facing catalog, and serve as a reference hub for internal teams and researchers.

You’ll work independently as the sole librarian in the building, ensuring accurate retrieval and enduring accessibility for scholars and enthusiasts alike.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cataloging experience with a SaaS catalog (TinyCat/LibraryThing).
• Ability to design a metadata taxonomy from scratch.
• Comfort using Google Workspace and Drive Labels.
• Strong public-service mindset to help researchers and writers.
• Appreciation for preservation of material, even if not requested.
• Curiosity about niche hobbies that enrich archival value.

Responsibilities

• Catalog physical collection (300–500 books/mags) and make it findable.
• Design a metadata taxonomy in Google Drive using Workspace Labels.
• Field reference requests from teams and external parties.
• Tag assets and keep the taxonomy current as the collection grows.

Skills

Cataloging experience

Taxonomy design

Google Workspace

Public service

Preservation

Hobby curiosity

Education

MLS/MLIS preferred

Tools

TinyCat/LibraryThing

Google Drive Labels

Job description

Your role? You're the steward of a small but genuine field of scholarship. You turn a scattered, genuinely important collection into a preserved, searchable archive — and you're the reference desk that internal teams, journalists, authors, and researchers come to when they need an answer and need it to be right.

WHAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY DO:

Catalog and preserve what we have, design the system that keeps it findable, and serve as a standing reference resource for the whole company — and for the researchers, writers, and enthusiasts doing serious work in a field that doesn't have many other archives to draw on.

• Catalog our physical collection — roughly 300–500 books and magazines, plus a Peterson-focused archive of real research value — in TinyCat, our LibraryThing-hosted catalog. It's open and public by design, so outside researchers can search and self-serve without going through you: a small library serving a field that's short on them.
• Design a digital taxonomy from scratch for our digital assets in Google Drive, using Workspace Labels — dropdowns, dates, people fields. This is the judgment work, and it's what makes everything after it easy.
• Field reference requests from teams across the company and occasionally from external parties — press, industry researchers, and the authors and enthusiasts who care about this history as much as we do, and who often can't find what they need anywhere else.
• Tag assets as they're created and keep the taxonomy current as the collection grows, so the work stays ahead of the pile instead of behind it.

YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF:

You don't look at a pile of old books and trade catalogs and see clutter. You see a record worth preserving — and a system waiting to be built.

Maybe you've retired, or stepped back, and found that a mind trained to organize and preserve knowledge doesn't simply switch off because the career did. This is a real project for exactly that mind: not shelving and clock-watching, but the genuinely interesting work of taking a body of scholarship that exists in only a few places and making sure it survives, coheres, and can actually be used.

You take satisfaction in order and retrieval — in the difference between a collection that technically exists and one that anyone can actually use. You can design a taxonomy that other people understand, not just one that makes sense to you. And you like being the person people come to: the one who hears a half-remembered description of a magazine from fifteen years ago and knows exactly where to look.

You work independently, because you'll be the only librarian in the building. But you're not tucked away in a back room — a good reference desk is a service, and you treat it like one.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

Formal library or archival training (an MLS/MLIS is welcome) is one path here — but a career's worth of demonstrated cataloging and reference experience matters more than any single credential. What we're really looking for is:

• Hands-on cataloging experience, and comfort learning a SaaS catalog like TinyCat / LibraryThing
• The judgment to design a metadata taxonomy from scratch — not just follow one someone else built
• Comfort working in Google Workspace, especially Drive and its Labels feature
• A genuine public-service instinct — you like helping people find things, and you're patient with the ones who don't quite know what they're asking for
• An appreciation for preservation for its own sake — you understand why a complete run of a defunct magazine matters, even when no one's asked for it yet
• Curiosity about pipes, cigars, or really any other \"deep hobby\" world where the minutiae matter — our Peterson archive rewards someone who finds this stuff genuinely interesting

Employer: Laudisi

Location: Loris, South Carolina, USA

Posted Date: 17/09/2026

Expiry Date: 17/01/2027

Type: Part-Time

Categories: Librarian / Collections / Digitisation / Archivist

Ref: DN-JB-3057

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