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University Archivist and Associate Professor 4 20%
each
10%
of 1 FTE
Reference, encoding, digitizing, collection
management, supervision of students,
reviewing metadata, copyrights and fees
information
Curator or Archivist 4 5%,
20%,
2%,
20%
5%,
10%,
n/a,
5%
Unit management, user services, outreach,
acquisition of collections, planning
Archivist for Records and Collections
Management, Curator
4 ~25% ~10% Field collection, book selection, reference
duty, records management, exhibit
development, reference inquiry responses,
preservation administration, arrangement
and description of university records
Archivist 5 50% 15% Reference, exhibits, instruction, collection
development
Assistant Archivist, Student Assistants 5 55% 5% The usual
Curator 6 20% 5% Acquisitions, reference, professional
development, creative works
Archivist 7 50–75% 25%
or more
Varies public services exhibitions and
programs supervisory
Senior archives specialist automations
operations archivist classified documents
officer
13 80% 10% Reference miscellaneous
Head of unit/department/library N=35
The head of the unit/department/library does not have responsibility for manuscript collections. N=29
Percentage of time spent on arranging and describing manuscript collections N=35
Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev
0% 50% 12.32% 10% 11.99
Percentage of time spent on adding manuscript collection information to the Web N=35
Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev
0% 50% 8.95% 5% 11.78
University Archivist and Associate Professor 4 20%
each
10%
of 1 FTE
Reference, encoding, digitizing, collection
management, supervision of students,
reviewing metadata, copyrights and fees
information
Curator or Archivist 4 5%,
20%,
2%,
20%
5%,
10%,
n/a,
5%
Unit management, user services, outreach,
acquisition of collections, planning
Archivist for Records and Collections
Management, Curator
4 ~25% ~10% Field collection, book selection, reference
duty, records management, exhibit
development, reference inquiry responses,
preservation administration, arrangement
and description of university records
Archivist 5 50% 15% Reference, exhibits, instruction, collection
development
Assistant Archivist, Student Assistants 5 55% 5% The usual
Curator 6 20% 5% Acquisitions, reference, professional
development, creative works
Archivist 7 50–75% 25%
or more
Varies public services exhibitions and
programs supervisory
Senior archives specialist automations
operations archivist classified documents
officer
13 80% 10% Reference miscellaneous
Head of unit/department/library N=35
The head of the unit/department/library does not have responsibility for manuscript collections. N=29
Percentage of time spent on arranging and describing manuscript collections N=35
Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev
0% 50% 12.32% 10% 11.99
Percentage of time spent on adding manuscript collection information to the Web N=35
Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev
0% 50% 8.95% 5% 11.78