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Department Head 10% 10% Donor relations, strategic planning, collection
development
University Archivist 10% 15% Reference, outreach, collection development for the
university archives, and supervisory, administrative, and
budgetary duties.
Head, Special Collections & University
Archives
10% 20% Administration, reference, instruction, collection
development
Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts 10% 20% Reference, instruction, collection development,
outreach, public service, supervision
Director of Special Collections, Archives
& Rare Books
10% 25% Administering the archives and the other department in
the Division
Head of Rare Books and Special
Collections
15% 15% Administrative, bibliographer, collection development
Program Manager 15% 25% 60%
Curator of Manuscripts 15% 30% Acquisitions, reference, teaching
Head, Archives & Visual Materials
Cataloging
20%
or less
25%
or more
Administrative; supervisory; training; policies and
procedures; quality control; database management;
grant-writing
Director 20% 0% Administration
Head of Historical Collections and
Labor Archives
20% 10% .7 FTE Administrative supervision, collection
development, reference, research, service
University Archivist (and unit 2 Head,
Rare Books & Special Collections)
25% 0% Administration
Head, Special Collections & University
Archives
25% 0% Manage department, supervise staff and students,
committee work for library and university
Head of Special Collections 25% 5% Administration, acquisitions, development, reference,
exhibits
Curator 25% 50% Supervising archivists’ processing; collection
development; digital projects/architecture development;
cataloging; institution-wide committees
Head, Archives & Manuscripts
Department
30% 0% The usual
Head, Collections Processing and Visual
Materials Section
45% 30% Supervision, training
Head Special Collections 50% 10%