Ade Bethune Collection Graduate Assistant

Position Description

The Ade Bethune Collection, housed with the Archives in the lower level of the St. Paul campus library, represents the life work of a recently deceased liturgical artist, writer and architectural consultant. The collection consists of correspondence, original manuscripts of books, articles and lectures; original and published writings and over 2,000 drawings; memorabilia, sketchbooks, and photographs; approximately 250 architectural drawings; and artworks of wood, metal, paint, stained glass and clay. For more information about Ade Bethune and the Ade Bethune Collection, see the Collection's web page at http://www.stkate.edu/library/spcoll/bethune.html .

The primary responsibilities of the graduate assistant will be processing materials related to various organizations with which Ade Bethune was active.  These include national organizations such as the Catholic Art Association and Catholic Worker, as well as Newport, Rhode Island organizations such as the Church Community Housing Corporation.  This involves:

• identifying all pertinent materials from the collection
• tracking those materials in a spreadsheet
• determining an organizational scheme for the materials and arranging and re-housing them in archival containers according to that scheme
• entering the materials into a database using Archivists' Toolkit
• creating a finding aid

As necessary, additional duties may include:

• assisting researchers using the collection
• importing materials into the College's Digital Collections (http://contentdm.stkate.edu) and creating metadata for them
• creating displays or other promotions for the collection

Position Requirements

Requirements for All positions

In addition to the above requirements for all positions, special consideration will be given to applicants with coursework in archival administration or who have previous experience in an archives or special collection.

Applicants must be available to work during regular business hours (9am - 5pm).  Evening or weekend hours are not possible.

This position may be extended from the fall semester to the entire school year.

Contact Information

Contact Deborah Kloiber (dkloiber@stkate.edu) or 651-690-6599 with questions about this assistantship.

Application Deadline

Watch for info about our opening for Spring term, 2009. 

Application

A complete application should include a brief cover letter, MLIS grade report (unofficial is fine) and the following information:

• Name
• Mailing address
• Email address
• Phone number
• A brief (3-5 sentence response) to the following questions:
  1. What interests you about this graduate assistantship?
  2. What experience, qualities and strengths would you bring to the assistantship?
  3. What goals would you like to accomplish as part of this assistantship?
  4. In an average week, what days are you available to work?
• Please list one reference (from an academic or work setting -- no relatives, please)

Please submit applications to Deborah Kloiber using KatieClick.