106 · Survey Results: Survey Questions And Responses
descriptive standard framework. This last may be an innate trait — you may acquire #1 and #2 and still not be able to
perform #3.
1) Graduate Education in an Archival Program in accord with the Society of American Archivists Guidelines for a
Graduate Program in Archival Studies. 2) Proven experience processing manuscript and archival collections .3)
Personality traits including but not limited to: • Attention to detail • Honesty • Willingness to learn.
A respect for the intrinsic value of archival collections, to be detail oriented, and knowledgeable about archival theory/
practice.
Ability to be ruthless in completing work in a short time while not losing attention to detail ability to see broad
categories and establish “order out of chaos.”
Ability to organize work effectively, to set priorities, to analyze information from multiple sources, and demonstrated
ability to seek out, learn, and apply new technologies.
Ability to pay attention to detail be organized ability to persevere, ability to alphabetize experience in processing
ability to apply intelligence to determining an outline of arrangement skill in composing effective biographical sketches,
and scope and content notes.
Ability to process without inspecting every item, need good analytical skills in order to learn what they need to learn to
facilitate research use, but not to get immersed in details. Also need to be able to do research up front in order to place
the collection in historical content 3.
Ability to see big picture and apply it to whatever level of processing is being done mastering XML encoding.
Ability to see both the forest and the trees.
Ability to see the overall importance of a collection and to be able to use that vision to organize the material to make it
easily accessible to others.
Accuracy, attention to detail, knowing when to ask questions, flexibility, ability to acquire new skills quickly and, in
these trying times, a sense of humor.
An ability to challenge the way it’s always been done creativity the ability to take risks and question. WALLFLOWERS
NEED NOT APPLY! The days of sitting alone in a room judiciously scanning each piece of paper are so over. Archives is
about outreach, risk, and making material accessible by any means necessary—that means you not only process, but
you promote them and—in so doing—yourself and the institution for which you work.
An ability to work quickly, to be able to identify broad categories of material for arrangement, and — most important
— an aptitude for articulating in finding aids the contents and arrangement of a collection.
An understanding that the overall original order is important in efficient processing and not to create a new artificial
order at the processing stage unless extraordinary circumstance present themselves. Not every page must be read or
even handled and seldom is arrangement within the file folder level required. Also being able to identify a functional
records series is invaluable and saves time over creating new series.
Analytical skills based on content knowledge comfortable with using EAD.
Analytical skills, management skills, writing skills, computer literacy.
Attention to detail with awareness of whole scope of the project, self-motivation, ability to place materials in context at
micro and macro level, range of technical skills from encoding to digitization.
Attention to detail, wide general knowledge, languages.
descriptive standard framework. This last may be an innate trait — you may acquire #1 and #2 and still not be able to
perform #3.
1) Graduate Education in an Archival Program in accord with the Society of American Archivists Guidelines for a
Graduate Program in Archival Studies. 2) Proven experience processing manuscript and archival collections .3)
Personality traits including but not limited to: • Attention to detail • Honesty • Willingness to learn.
A respect for the intrinsic value of archival collections, to be detail oriented, and knowledgeable about archival theory/
practice.
Ability to be ruthless in completing work in a short time while not losing attention to detail ability to see broad
categories and establish “order out of chaos.”
Ability to organize work effectively, to set priorities, to analyze information from multiple sources, and demonstrated
ability to seek out, learn, and apply new technologies.
Ability to pay attention to detail be organized ability to persevere, ability to alphabetize experience in processing
ability to apply intelligence to determining an outline of arrangement skill in composing effective biographical sketches,
and scope and content notes.
Ability to process without inspecting every item, need good analytical skills in order to learn what they need to learn to
facilitate research use, but not to get immersed in details. Also need to be able to do research up front in order to place
the collection in historical content 3.
Ability to see big picture and apply it to whatever level of processing is being done mastering XML encoding.
Ability to see both the forest and the trees.
Ability to see the overall importance of a collection and to be able to use that vision to organize the material to make it
easily accessible to others.
Accuracy, attention to detail, knowing when to ask questions, flexibility, ability to acquire new skills quickly and, in
these trying times, a sense of humor.
An ability to challenge the way it’s always been done creativity the ability to take risks and question. WALLFLOWERS
NEED NOT APPLY! The days of sitting alone in a room judiciously scanning each piece of paper are so over. Archives is
about outreach, risk, and making material accessible by any means necessary—that means you not only process, but
you promote them and—in so doing—yourself and the institution for which you work.
An ability to work quickly, to be able to identify broad categories of material for arrangement, and — most important
— an aptitude for articulating in finding aids the contents and arrangement of a collection.
An understanding that the overall original order is important in efficient processing and not to create a new artificial
order at the processing stage unless extraordinary circumstance present themselves. Not every page must be read or
even handled and seldom is arrangement within the file folder level required. Also being able to identify a functional
records series is invaluable and saves time over creating new series.
Analytical skills based on content knowledge comfortable with using EAD.
Analytical skills, management skills, writing skills, computer literacy.
Attention to detail with awareness of whole scope of the project, self-motivation, ability to place materials in context at
micro and macro level, range of technical skills from encoding to digitization.
Attention to detail, wide general knowledge, languages.
