The University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections seeks an archivist to process and provide access to the Barry Bingham Jr. Courier-Journal Photograph Collection.
The Barry Bingham Jr. Courier-Journal Photograph Collection comprises approximately three million images spanning the majority of the twentieth century and documenting a wide-ranging variety of events and topics relating to Louisville and Kentucky. Coverage of everything from the Kentucky Derby to the life of hometown hero Muhammad Ali are included, as are local politics and visits by national politicians; a variety of social justice movements; high school, collegiate, and professional sports; celebrities, disasters, and scandals; an extensive variety of intimate local-interest stories, and much more. The collection consists of photographic prints, negatives of various sizes, glass plate negatives, and slides that were shot for the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times newspapers from the early 1900s to the early 2000s (the bulk being post-1937). The material is labeled and mostly in order by date and photographer.
The CJ Collection Archivist will oversee the processing of the collection to a completed finding aid with a full print folder list and negative assignments list. This work will include culling prints, putting boxes in order, refiling out of order materials, rehousing materials into custom boxes, and providing reference services to the Courier-Journal staff and other researchers. Subsequent work will include a digitization project and the creation of programming around the collection.
This is a full-time term faculty position at the rank of Instructor or Assistant Professor. The minimum starting salary for this position at Instructor is $46,000/year and at Assistant Professor is $50,000.
An online information session to learn more about the position and working environment will be held on February 10, 2023 at 3:00-4:00 PM EST. We welcome broad participation and will be available to answer any questions you have. Please use this link to join us on Feb. 10. A recording of the session will be posted at our Job Opportunities web page after the live event.
The complete job description is available on our Job Opportunities page; applications can be submitted through UofL's Human Resources site https://uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UofLCareerSite (R100236).
If you have questions about the position or the application process, please contact: Elizabeth Reilly, Archivist of the Photographic Archives, Archives & Special Collections, eereil01@louisville.edu.
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| Carrie Daniels (she/her) University Archivist and Director Archives & Special Collections University of Louisville |