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Career Details :: Archivists

Description

Appraise, edit, and direct safekeeping of permanent records and historically valuable documents. Participate in research activities based on archival materials.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Directs activities of workers engaged in cataloging and safekeeping of valuable materials and disposition of worthless materials.
• Prepares document descriptions and reference aids for use of archives, such as accession lists, bibliographies, abstracts, and microfilmed documents.
• Establishes policy guidelines concerning public access and use of materials.
• Requests or recommends pertinent materials available in libraries, private collections, or other archives.
• Advises government agencies, scholars, journalists, and others conducting research by supplying available materials and information.
• Analyzes documents by ascertaining date of writing, author, or original recipient of letter to appraise value to posterity.
• Directs acquisition and physical arrangement of new materials.
• Directs filing and cross-indexing of selected documents in alphabetical and chronological order.
• Selects and edits documents for publication and display, according to knowledge of subject, literary expression, and techniques for presentation and display.

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Important Abilities

• Written Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Written Expression
• Near Vision
• Oral Comprehension

General Work Activities

• Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Processing Information
• Analyzing Data or Information

Important Skills

• Information Gathering
  
• Information Organization
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Writing
  
• Product Inspection
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
• Coordinate or Lead Others
• Indoors

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