History of Medicine Processing Archivist 24-month non-renewable

Posting Summary
Rutgers University Libraries RUL sees an innovative and serviceoriented History of Medicine (HoM) Processing Archivist at George F. Smith Library at Rutgers Health Newark. This individual will take a leadership role in the arrangement and description of HoMs holdings migrate legacy finding aids into the Rutgers Libraries ArchivesSpace repository establish a comprehensive collection management infrastructure and support the information and research needs of library users. This position will attain intellectual and physical control of the History of Medicine collection. This position will be responsible for developing and implementing plans to acquire arrange process describe and provide access to archival materials in analog and digital forms in consultation with the Smith Library and Special Collections and University Archives faculty librarians/archivists. This position reports to the Director of Special Collections and University Archives in New Brunswick but works on location at Smith Library and collaborates with Health Sciences Libraries faculty and staff. The HoM archivist is a member of the Libraries Faculty a team of librarians committed to providing firstrate public services to a diverse academic community. Rutgers University Libraries are committed to elevating historically excluded and dissenting voices from around the world including immigrant and diaspora populations in support of research teaching and learning. This Lecturer position is a twoyear appointment. RESPONSIBILITES Survey appraise arrange and describe HoM archives holdings. Provide reference access and outreach services for the HoM collections. Develop and implement plans to accession arrange describe and provide access to archival materials in analog and digital forms. Highlight and promote the HoM collection through displays social media and news articles. Performs other duties incidental to work described herein.

Overview
Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences RBHS : RBHS serves as the umbrella organization for eight schools and seven centers and institutes focused on improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University New Brunswick and collaborating with scholars and researchers throughout the university RBHS established Rutgers as one of the largest academic institutions in the United States providing health care education research and clinical service and care. RBHS is one of the few health centers in the country with schools in the full spectrum of human health: medicine dentistry nursing allied health pharmacy public health and biomedical science 6900 students 2300 undergraduate 4565 graduate) 1572 fulltime faculty with approx. 1500 degrees awarded annually. Rutgers health sciences research activity is the largest and most comprehensive in New Jersey with more than $450 million annually in research and development expenditures. More than 1300 providers comprise Rutgers Health our practice organization consisting of physicians dentists psychologists nurses pharmacists social workers and behavioral health and addiction professionals. The academic research and patient care programs at Rutgers Biomedical and Health are geographically dispersed as are the libraries which support them. The libraries which serve the RBHS community are the George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences RBHS Newark) the Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences RBHS New Brunswick) and the Library of Science and Medicine (Piscataway). In addition the libraries provide access to resources to clinical faculty and trainees which are part of Rutgers Health and the RWJ /Barnabas partnership. With the movement from print to digital and physical to mobile just in time access to library resources from classrooms laboratories and patient care settings is the expected standard. Our highly skilled librarians provide instruction in all of these settings and virtually using webenabled technologies for those in remote locations. Rutgers University Libraries: Rutgers University Libraries are the intellectual center of the universityserving all members of the university community supporting all disciplines and playing a key role in advancing student learning and faculty research. The Libraries serve all institutions that make up Rutgers The State University of New Jersey: Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick Rutgers UniversityNewark Rutgers UniversityCamden and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. The Libraries have a highly valued staff of about 180 who are committed to developing innovations in access services information literacy and digital initiatives. Rutgers University Libraries operate with a budget of $45 million and have outstanding collections especially in jazz and New Jerseyana. Collectively the Libraries holdings include more than 5 million volumes.