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North Carolina State University

Graduate Digitization Assistant – Special Collections

🇺🇸 Raleigh, NC

🕑 Temporary

💰 $17 per Hour

💻 Other

🗓️ July 30th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

NC State University is hiring a Graduate Digitization Assistant – Special Collections. The role involves preparing archival materials for digitization, managing related equipment and software, creating metadata records, performing quality control, and communicating with production staff, with additional tasks such as transcribing audio-visual materials.

Highlights
  • Assist in providing access to digital archival materials.
  • Prepare materials for digitization and manage digitization equipment and software.
  • Create metadata records for scanned materials and perform quality control on images and metadata.
  • Communicate with production staff regarding projects.
  • Additional duties include transcription of audio-visual materials and description of archival materials.
  • Required skills: strong writing ability, careful independent work with fragile materials, and tolerance for dust or allergens.
  • Preferred experience with Adobe Creative Suite, digital production, or digital library work.
  • Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and current graduate student status; enrollment in graduate program in Library Science, Public History, or Design highly preferred.
  • Compensation: $17 per hour.
  • Department: Special Collections Research Center at NC State University.