Museum Library and Research Assistant

Responsibilities

• Organizes and maintains museum archival resources, including technical manuals, drawings, diagrams, and photographs.
• Maintains accurate records of the collection via a computerized cataloguing system.
• Typing and filing Museum correspondence, forms, and reports.
• Audits inventory locations of on-hand antiquities using in-house software.
• Assists with finding creative solutions to enhance museum efficiency and presentation.
• Organizes new exhibits and displays.
• Researches and documents museum antiquities utilizing various available resources.
• Willing to take direction from multiple management sources concurrently.
• Maintains tagging procedures for all inventory items.
• Locates inventory items upon request from management or another department.
• Assists with scheduled public tours and private events, occasionally outside normal business hours.
• Supports, communicates, and defends the mission, values, and culture of the company.

Qualifications

• High School education.

Physical Demands

• Seeing: Required
• Speaking: Required
• Hearing: Required
• Standing: Often
• Walking: Often
• Sitting: Frequently
• Lifting: Often, up to 50-pounds
• Carrying: Occasionally, up to 25-pounds
• Pushing: Occasionally
• Pulling: Occasionally
• Climbing: Rarely
• Bending: Frequently
• Twisting: Occasionally
• Reaching: Frequently
• Grasping/Handling: Frequently, for dexterity, fine finger handling
• Stooping/Crouching: Often
• Kneeling: Occasionally
• Crawling: Rarely
• Inside: 100%
• Outside: 0%