{"id":710,"date":"2008-09-05T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialcollections.wordpress.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-09-05T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:06:33","slug":"former-sca-graduate-research-assistant-accepts-archivist-position-at-gcsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Former SC&amp;A Graduate Research Assistant Accepts Archivist Position at GC&amp;SU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Joshua Kitchens, a former student employee in SC&amp;A, has accepted a position as Assistant Archivist in Special Collections (http:\/\/www2.gcsu.edu\/library\/) of the <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Georgia<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">College &amp; State<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">University<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcsu.edu\/\">http:\/\/www.gcsu.edu\/<\/a>) Library in <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Milledgeville<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Georgia<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialcollections.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/josh.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22\" title=\"josh\" src=\"http:\/\/specialcollections.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/josh.jpg?resize=166%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">His responsibilities will include: development and evaluation of Special Collections services, collections, and programs; acting as University Archives coordinator; acquiring and processing university archives, manuscripts, and books; specialized reference and research services; organizing, cataloging, and describing holdings, creating MARC, EAD and web-based descriptive records; production of digital projects; evaluating the preservation needs of the collections; promoting the use of collections by students, faculty, and scholars through instruction, exhibits, publications and other means; and participating in general reference and research services for the campus and community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">Josh, who was employed by SC&amp;A from August 2006 until April 2008, helped build the Planned Community Archives: Catherine A. Baum Digital Collection, (<a href=\"http:\/\/mars.gmu.edu\/dspace\/handle\/1920\/505\">http:\/\/mars.gmu.edu\/dspace\/handle\/1920\/505<\/a>) scanning digital objects, providing metadata for them, and maintaining the collection. Congratulations and good luck Josh!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Kitchens, a former student employee in SC&amp;A, has accepted a position as Assistant Archivist in Special Collections (http:\/\/www2.gcsu.edu\/library\/) of the Georgia College &amp; State University (http:\/\/www.gcsu.edu\/) Library in Milledgeville, Georgia. His responsibilities will include: development and evaluation of Special Collections services, collections, and programs; acting as University Archives coordinator; acquiring and processing university archives, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-bs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1441,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=1441","url_meta":{"origin":710,"position":0},"title":"The Copyright Slider","author":"admin","date":"January 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Jordan Patty, SC&A's processing archivist, recently introduced me to this cool online tool for figuring out copyright protection offered by the Copyright Advisory Network: The Copyright Slider Found at the url: http:\/\/www.librarycopyright.net\/digitalslider\/ The Copyright Advisory Network is a wonderful resource for librarians, scholars, students, and educators.\u00a0 I highly recommend the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;miscellaneous&quot;","block_context":{"text":"miscellaneous","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?cat=93"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":709,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=709","url_meta":{"origin":710,"position":1},"title":"Image from SC&amp;A&#039;s Arthur O. 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