Temporary Digital Collections Assistant

CarnegieHall; City of Niagara Falls (NY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Carnegie Hall’s Archives department seeks a temporary, part-time Digital Collections Assistant to support the intake, cataloging, and access workflows for digital materials. The role will monitor and quality check assets in the digital asset management system, respond to access requests, and help prepare physical media for digitization.

The position requires a Master’s degree in Archival Management or Library and Information Science, strong metadata skills, and experience with digital asset

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Archival Management or Library and Information Science is required or completed.
• Understanding databases, digital content formats, and digital asset management systems.
• Thorough understanding of metadata standards, schemas, taxonomies, tagging, and file formats.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a general audience and document clearly.
• Experience with normalizing large and/or complex data sets.
• Understanding of file-based workflows and working with digital assets.
• Interest in archival processing, cataloging and description of collections.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, quality check, and catalog all incoming digital assets in Carnegie Hall’s digital asset management system (images, audio, video).
• Respond to internal and external requests for access to assets and process requests.
• Inventory and catalog physical media in preparation for digitization projects.
• Create authoritative keywords in the internal database following library science and archival metadata standards.

Education

Master’s degree in Archival Management or Library and Information Science

Job description

Department: Archives

Title of Position: Temporary Digital Collections Assistant

Reports to Position: Senior Manager, Digital Collections

Start Date: November 16, 2026 (approximate) – End Date: March31, 2027(approximate) – Rate: $25.00 hourly

Carnegie Hall seeks a temporary, part-time, 14-hours per week Digital Collections Assistant. This position will:

• Monitor, quality check, and catalog all incoming digital assets that are added to Carnegie Hall’s digital asset management system. This includes images, audio, and video files.
• Respond to internal and external requests for access to assets. Process requests and provide required materials.
• Inventory and catalog physical media in preparation for digitization projects.
• Create authoritative keywords in internal database following library science and archival metadata standards.

Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in or have completed a Master’s degree program in Archival Management or Library and Information Science.

• Understanding databases, working knowledge of digital content formats, and experience working with digital asset management systems.
• Thorough understanding of metadata standards and practices, schemas, taxonomies, archival tagging, cataloging and file formats and experience applying these practices in both historic and current digital asset management environments.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a general audience and create clear, consistent documentation.
• Experience with normalizing large and/or complex data sets.
• Understanding of file-based workflows and working with digital assets.
• Interest in working on other projects including archival processing, cataloging and description of collections in the Rose Archives.
• This position is in office at 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10019.