Positions at NARA

Conservators
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

The National Archives and Records Administration Conservation Branch
wishes to hire two Conservators to work on a grant-funded, two-year
project to preserve and make available a collection of
flood-damaged, largely 19th-20th c Hebraic and Arabic books and
documents.

As a member of the project team, the successful candidates will
perform conservation treatments to stabilize and prepare selected
books and archival materials for digitization and exhibition, will
prepare treatment and related documentation, and will devise
approaches to housing and packing the collection among other project
activities. This position is a term federal appointment.  Knowledge
of Hebrew and/or Arabic is desirable but not mandatory.  The work
location is at the modern and well-equipped Archives II building in
College Park, MD, a close-in suburb of Washington, DC.

Job and application information is posted on the USAJOBS website.

The announcement closes Thursday, December 1, 2011

To access the vacancy announcement see

    <URL:http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/302870000>

If you are interested in this position, or seek additional
information, contact

    Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler
    Director, Conservation Branch
    marylynn.ritzenthaler<-a t->nara< . >gov
    301-837-2906

or

    Doris Hamburg
    Director, Preservation Programs
    301-837-1785.
    doris.hamburg<-a t->nara< . >gov


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