Archivist

Req ID: 36519
College/Division: UofT Mississauga
Division: UTM: Library
Campus: College of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Place Quantity: 00047547

Description:

About us:

U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked college and the one analysis college in Ontario’s booming Peel Area—is without doubt one of the world’s nice catalysts of human potential.

Our worker neighborhood hums with the vitality of three,400 college, librarians and workers, who energy our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work collectively to spark life-changing analysis and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by constructing equitable cities and societies, allow wholesome lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize pupil success, and search to present our 16,500 college students the carry of a lifetime by way of studying and discovery. We like to open alternatives out there nowhere else for our neighborhood to realize their ambitions and make their distinctive contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes collectively on a spectacularly inexperienced campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit score River), the place we search to honour fact, reciprocity and reconciliation on the normal land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit score First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those that need to be taught extra about us and to be a part of what we do.

The College of Toronto Libraries (UTL) system is the most important educational library in Canada and is persistently ranked among the many top-10 analysis libraries in North America. The system consists of 40 libraries positioned on three College campuses: St. George, Mississauga, and Scarborough that collectively present entry to greater than 12 million print volumes, hundreds of thousands of digital assets in numerous codecs, and nearly 30,000 linear metres of archival supplies. The Libraries’ information centre homes greater than 200 servers with a storage capability of 1.5 petabytes.

The U of T Mississauga Library (UTM Library), positioned within the award-winning Hazel McCallion Tutorial Studying Centre (HMALC), is a number one, world-class Library dedicated to offering college students with an open and collaborative atmosphere – one which embeds wealthy info and expertise assets, integrates professional providers right into a dynamic and imaginative expertise, and evokes and facilitates studying. The UTM Library provides inspiring examine and analysis areas, a devoted crew of Librarians and Library workers, and a collection of public, instruction and analysis help providers that help college, workers and college students. The UTM Library additionally supplies neighborhood entry to its uncommon and distinctive supplies within the Archives & Particular Collections’ Studying Room, together with the Syd Bolton Assortment of video video games and the Abualy Alibhai Aziz Assortment of South Asian literature.

Your alternative:

The UTM Library provides a dynamic {and professional} atmosphere that fosters a tradition constructed on respect, accountability, teamwork and a shared dedication to customer support. This place will collaborate extensively with numerous Library models in providing modern and complete options for a wide range of Library initiatives. Our core mission is to help the educational, educating and analysis wants of all UTM undergraduate and graduate packages.

Reporting to the Head, Collections & Digital Scholarship, the Archivist is accountable for contributing to and creating archival insurance policies, procedures, and requirements for the use, storage, and preservation of supplies for archives and particular collections belonging to the UTM Library. As a part of the Collections & Digital Scholarship Unit of the Library, the incumbent will help with the accession, association, description, preservation, storage, and digitization of the Library’s archives and particular collections, together with authentic descriptive cataloguing of assets and archive supplies, and supply related info for the event of promotional supplies. The incumbent will foster optimistic relationships in working with donors to amass supplies, together with probing for info, getting ready deed of present, and drafting present agreements. The incumbent may even course of objects within the bodily and digital collections and supply reference search actions for researchers and customers by way of the Library’s Studying Room and digital assortment web site.

Your duties will embody:

Implementing plans and course of enhancements for collections acquisition actions
Verifying that meta information has been entered in line with established trade requirements
Assembly with potential donors to evaluate supplies and attain settlement on the donation of fabric to the archives
Assessing and figuring out the situation of archival supplies
Creating discovering aids to make sure assortment supplies are accessible
Processing objects within the bodily and digital collections for researchers and customers
Performing reference search actions
Conserving well-informed on relevant copyright, entry and privateness legal guidelines

Important {Qualifications}:

Grasp’s Diploma with specialization in Archival Research, or acceptable mixture of equal expertise.
Minimal of 4 (4) years in knowledgeable atmosphere (e.g. Libraries, Museums, non-profit organizations, neighborhood organizations, or companies) together with work in archives or associated info and collections administration.
Expertise creating discovering aids to make sure assortment supplies are accessible by making use of established requirements (e.g., RAD, ISAD(G), and ISAAR(CPF))
Expertise in archives or associated info administration atmosphere utilizing web-based archival description software program (e.g., AtoM)
Demonstrated initiative and skill to current modern options to difficult issues
Efficient interpersonal abilities to develop good working relations amongst undertaking groups, workers, purchasers, friends and distributors
Demonstrated time administration abilities with capability to deal with and prioritize a excessive quantity of calls for and work underneath stress

Property (Nonessential):

Expertise with digital asset administration techniques and content material administration techniques in educational library environments (e.g., Drupal, Omeka, and Islandora)
Expertise with metadata schemes at the moment in use inside the educational neighborhood is fascinating (e.g., Dublin Core, MARC, RDA, RDF, MODS, VRA Core, and others)
Excessive degree of accuracy and a spotlight to element
Demonstrable productiveness and skill to cope with a big quantity of supplies
Demonstrable, superior organizational and time administration abilities
Demonstrable initiative, data of XML-based codecs

To achieve success on this function you’ll be:

Approachable
Meticulous
Organized
Possess a optimistic perspective
Drawback solver
Accountable

This function will not be at the moment eligible for a hybrid work association, pursuant to College insurance policies and tips, together with however not restricted to the College of Toronto’s Different Work Preparations Guideline.

Closing Date: 04/04/2024, 11:59PM ET
Worker Group: USW
Appointment Sort: Finances – Persevering with
Schedule: Monday to Friday 8:45 am to five:00 pm
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 12 — $78,308 with an annual step development to a most of $100,144. Pay scale and job class project is topic to dedication pursuant to the Job Analysis/Pay Fairness Upkeep Protocol.
Job Class: Library Providers

Lived Expertise Assertion
Candidates who’re members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, individuals with disabilities, and different fairness deserving teams are inspired to use, and their lived expertise shall be considered as relevant to the posted place.

All certified candidates are inspired to use; nevertheless, Canadians and everlasting residents shall be given precedence.

Range Assertion
The College of Toronto embraces Range and is constructing a tradition of belonging that will increase our capability to successfully tackle and serve the pursuits of our international neighborhood. We strongly encourage purposes from Indigenous Peoples, Black and racialized individuals, girls, individuals with disabilities, and other people of numerous sexual and gender identities. We worth candidates who’ve demonstrated a dedication to fairness, variety and inclusion and acknowledge that numerous views, experiences, and experience are important to strengthening our educational mission.

As a part of your software, you’ll be requested to finish a quick Range Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any info immediately associated to you is confidential and can’t be accessed by search committees or human assets workers. Outcomes shall be aggregated for institutional planning functions. For extra info, please see http://uoft.me/UP .

Accessibility Assertion
The College strives to be an equitable and inclusive neighborhood, and proactively seeks to extend variety amongst its neighborhood members. Our values relating to fairness and variety are linked with our unwavering dedication to excellence within the pursuit of our educational mission.

The College is dedicated to the ideas of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we attempt to make our recruitment, evaluation and choice processes as accessible as doable and supply lodging as required for candidates with disabilities.

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