I’m excited to share that McGoogan Library’s Special Collections and Archives is
recruiting for a 15-month temporary, full-time, salaried position of Collection
Specialist to care for and preserve the College of Nursing’s artifacts,
exhibits, archives, and oral history recordings. This position posting is now
live here University of
Nebraska Medical Center | Library Collections Specialist (Temporary Full-Time)
Job details and salary information is available at the above link.
About
us
The Leon
S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library, one of the nation’s major health science
libraries, serves the information needs of UNMC students, faculty, and staff,
as well as licensed Nebraska health professionals and residents of the state.
The Leon
S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library's Robert S. Wigton Department of Special
Collections and Archives collects information and archival materials on the
history of medicine, and the other health professions in Nebraska, and the
history of the UNMC campus community. It is Nebraska’s repository for
medical-related archival materials, artifacts, and rare books.
Since its
origins in the 1890s reading room of the Omaha Medical College, there has been
an effort to collect and preserve historical, rare, and special collections in
various forms—collectively known as the Special Collections and Archives.
Today, McGoogan Library houses 1,500 linear feet of physical university records
and archives, 10,000 rare books, 2,000 artifacts and art, and almost 4 TBs of
digitized and born-digital files.
https://www.unmc.edu/library/