Illinois State Archives

Records Archivist

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Salary: $4,631 to $7,925 monthly commensurate with experience

Overview:

Independently performs professional archival duties as a specialist providing reference services to Illinois State Archives patrons, including the general public, attorneys, surveyors, historians, students, etc.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs professional archival reference work responding to walk-in patron visits, correspondence and telephone inquiries from government agencies, historians, the general public, etc.; researches archival holdings to fill reference requests; directs inquiries to other appropriate archives resources or other resources external to the Department.
• Assists patrons wishing to do research by explaining available resources; arranges for retrieval of material from the stack area for patron use; determines which records would be useful to the patron and instructs them interacting ways to consult such records assists reference room patrons interacting use of microfilm and microfiche readers; operates read/printers to make copies of records for walk-interacting, correspondence or phone requests; gives instructions to typist for preparation of form correspondence; may draft unique correspondence.
• Develops programs, exhibits, guides and other outreach activities to engage and educate the public regarding the Archives’ resources.
• Creates finding aids for patrons use by processing and transcribing archival holdings onto archival forms, documents; prepares indexes.
• Manages genealogical publication collection for easy retrieval for patron use.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Education and Experience:

Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to completion of four years college, preferably with coursework in public administration, history, business administration, political science, library science, archival management or records management, and one year of professional experience in archival, records management, or closely related experience.

Completion of an approved training program or possession of credentials as a certified archivist or records manager may be substituted for the experience requirement.