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The Library of Congress is seeking to fill the position of Digital Conversion Specialist for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Under the Direction of the Chief of the Music Division and the Curator of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, the Assistant Curator serves as the primary contact, resource, and advocate for all researchers working with Music and R&H materials.  The Assistant Curator coordinates all onsite and remote access to materials and provides sustained individual service to researchers, including the timely fulfillment of researcher requests and orientation to LPA’s catalogs, finding aids, electronic resources, and services.  The Assistant Curator oversees collection management

Europeana Sounds is a EC-funded project, running from February 2014-January 2017, which will greatly improve the discovery of and access to Europe’s rich digital sound and music collections by enriching metadata and by doubling the number of sounds and audio-related digital items on the Europeana web portal. The project has built a sustainable best practice network including 24 funded project partner institutions from 12 EU member states.

As the lead institution in this exciting project, we are recruiting two staff to the project team, based in London.

This past year The New York Public Library completed a year-long Mellon-funded comprehensive assessment of its audio and moving image (AMI) collections, which are among the largest and most important in the world. As part of a growing resource commitment to address the AMI challenges identified in that assessment (information may found at www.nypl.org/preservation), NYPL has created a new position for Head of Audio and Moving Image Preservation.