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Position Title: Audio and Visual Media Conservator
Institution: Emory University
General Information: Emory University Libraries invites applications for a professional position from individuals with a background in a research library, archives, or museum to provide a range of preservation and reformatting services for sound recordings, moving images, and photographic materials held primarily in special collections but also in general circulating collections. The Conservator reports to the Preservation Officer and serves all of the Emory University Libraries which include the General Libraries and libraries for health sciences, law, theology, business and Oxford College. For more information see http://web.library.emory.edu/preservation/.
Responsibilities: The Audio and Visual Media Collections Conservator in consultation with curators, archivists, and librarians, will identify and prioritize materials in need of conservation, stabilization and/or reformatting; perform condition surveys; and develop action plans. The Conservator will advise on storage, care & handling, presentation/exhibition, and reformatting options. He/she will reformat or migrate materials using analog and digital technologies and will stabilize and re-house materials. Work will include the preparation of treatment and project reports and the creation or recording of relevant metadata. The Conservator will identify vendors and develop RFPs for equipment and services and will monitor contracts and budgets. He she will develop grant projects and participate in writing grant proposals. The Conservator will develop disaster preparedness and recovery plans and participate in other preservation and conservation initiatives.
Qualifications: Required: Master's degree in library science or related field and training in sound, moving image, photographic materials preservation or conservation. Experience in resolving preservation problems associated with magnetic media, digital media, motion picture film and/or photographic materials. Experience working with vendors/contractors and experience in at least two of the following areas: audio or video production or reformatting; motion picture film preservation; digital imaging; and treating or stabilizing photographic materials. Knowledge of common and emerging metadata standards and schemes. Proven project management skills. Excellent oral and written skills. Ability to work effectively as a member of team as well as independently. Preferred: Knowledge of library and archives collection management practices and issues. Supervisory experience. Experience developing databases. Experience developing web pages.
Salary, Rank & Benefits: Salary and rank dependent upon qualifications and experience. Comprehensive benefits package, including tuition benefits. Several retirement plan options, including TIAA/CREF. Generous support for moving expenses.
Deadline: Application review begins early November and continues until the position is successfully filled.
Application: Send letter of application, resume, and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three references to:

Dianne M. Smith
Library Human Resources Officer
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322-2870

Applications may be faxed to 404/727-0805 or e-mailed to libln@emory.edu.
Environment: One of the nation's leading research universities, Emory excels in scholarly production of faculty, strength of new faculty and administrative appointments, volume of sponsored research, academic achievement of entering students, racial and gender diversity of the faculty and students, endowment support, and national reputation of both the university and healthcare. The Libraries of Emory University include the General Libraries and Libraries for health sciences, law, theology, business and Oxford College. Holdings of the Emory Libraries total approximately 2.7 million volumes and 15,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archives. The libraries offer access to thousands of electronic information resources. The Woodruff Library's Center for Library and Information Resources provides an integrated service environment that brings together technology and media specialists with librarians in a facility that includes an information commons, electronic classrooms, a distance learning classroom, the Center for Interactive Teaching, a state-of-the-art language lab and classrooms, the high-tech Goizueta Business Library, the new Heilbrun Music and Media Library, the Electronic Services Data Center, group study rooms, and comfortable study space with data connections as well as wireless access throughout the building. The Emory Libraries are members of the Association of Research Libraries, OCLC, the Research Libraries Group, the Center for Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the Digital Library Federation (for more information about the libraries visit http://web.library.emory.edu).