The Iowa State University Library seeks an engaging leader to serve as Head of Preservation. The Head of Preservation provides vision and leadership for a well-established preservation program for the Library’s collections across formats, facilities, and functional areas. The Head is responsible for overseeing staff who ensure immediate and long-term access to a wide variety of resources in a manner that both safeguards materials and promotes their use through collections care, preventive and interventive conservation of Special Collections and University Archives materials….

General Collections Conservator/Preservation Coordinator
University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

Position Overview

The General Collections Conservator/Preservation Coordinator has primary responsibility for general collections, but also directs the housing and cleaning projects for special collections.

The Digitization & Conservation Project Manager is responsible for managing complex, interdepartmental workflows and projects for the Preservation and Digitization program. Performs the high-level functions of intake, assessment, and management of formal projects and patron requests. Plans and analyzes departmental projects, including scope, timeline projection, affected parties, exclusions, risks, allocation of staff time, workflow, and other factors, informing project partners across departments of requirements and impacts prior to start of projects.

Northwestern University Libraries offer a two-year full-time Project Conservator position. Under the supervision of the Chief Conservator, the Project Conservator will work with and assist conservation staff on two major endeavors: 19th Century Bookbinding Material Research Project and Digitization Projects…

The Saint Louis Art Museum is happy to offer two paid 2023 summer internship opportunities for graduate conservation students. The internship will be supervised by both Paintings and Paper Conservators and involves the inpainting phase of a long term project. Students from all specialties are encouraged to apply if interested.

The Indiana State Library was very excited to receive a grant from the Nicholas Noyes Foundation to fund a six-month conservation project to treat some of the most important 19th century wall maps in the ISL’s Indiana Division. The project conservator will work in the Indiana State Library’s Conservation Lab, under the supervision of the Staff Conservator, to stabilize and treat these rare maps. The maps selected for this project will be mid-19th century state and county varnished wall maps that are integral to the history of Indiana. For many of the maps selected, the Indiana State Library holds the last existing copy.

The Preservation Lab, a partnership to preserve and conserve the collections of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library and the University of Cincinnati Libraries, seeks applicants for a Conservation Specialist position.

The Conservation Specialist is a technician level position with on-the-job training that may appeal to emerging conservation professionals. This position will join a collaborative team of 7 full-time staff members, including conservators, a preservation librarian, technicians, student workers and volunteers to preserve collections from both institutions.

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is one of the major repositories of American photography and works of art on paper in the world, ranging from early daguerreotypes and lithographs to site-specific installations by contemporary artists. The collection includes the archives of photographers Laura Gilpin, Eliot Porter, and Karl Struss, among others; complete sets of Richard Avedon’s In the American West and Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work; masterworks on paper by James M. Whistler, Arthur Dove, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Russell, Winslow Homer and John James Audubon. The state-of-the-art conservation and preservation facilities, coupled with the extraordinary work of the other departments in the museum provide a unique place to grow professionally.