Digital Archives Technician
Hartwell Public Library • Ann Arbor, MI
$25–$30/hr · On-site · Part time
Practices completedPractices completedPosted 4 weeks ago · 6 applicantsAccessibility verification
What Hartwell Public Library has confirmed, with the source
Braille materials
We have a braille embosser in-house.
Clear non-visual wayfinding
Tactile signage throughout the main library.
Live transcription
Sign-language interpreter at work
Through the county’s interpreter contract.
Visual alerts and alarms
Step-free entrance
Main library and all branches are ADA-compliant public buildings.
Employer reported, last confirmed Jul 1, 2026. Also confirmed: elevator to all work areas, accessible restroom, accessible workstation, accessible parking, reachable by public transport, ergonomic equipment, high-contrast display, part-time hours, flexible breaks, job coach welcome at work.
What you’ll actually do
Digitize and describe the local history collection. 24 hours a week across three days you choose.
- Collect the next box from the vault
- Scan each item to the preservation standard
- Check the scan on screen
- Write the description in the metadata form
- Return the box
Skills and experience
Required
- Experience with digitization or photographic scanning
- Careful handling of fragile material
Preferred
- Archival or museum experience
- Dublin Core or similar metadata standards
How this job works
- Schedule
- The same hours every week
- Meetings
- 0–1 per week
- Independent or collaborative
- Mostly independent work
- Customer contact
- None
- Switching between tasks
- Long stretches on one task
- Feedback
- In scheduled one-to-ones
- Instructions
- Mostly in writing
- Noise and surroundings
- Consistently quiet
- Standing
- Some standing, with the option to sit
- Sitting
- Some sitting
- Walking
- Some walking between areas
- Lifting
- Up to 25 lb
- Fine hand movements
- Constant precise hand work
- Technology
- Epson flatbed and overhead scanners, Adobe Photoshop, CONTENTdm
- Hours
- You pick three fixed days at the start and keep them. 24 hours a week.
Hiring process
Application review · within 1 week
Reviewed by the Special Collections Librarian.
Work sample · about 1 hour
Describe three sample items from supplied scans.
Conversation · about 40 minutes
A conversation about the collection. Questions shared in advance.
Decision · within 1 week
Written decision.
About two weeks. Available on request: interview questions shared in advance, work sample instead of an interview, written responses accepted, quiet workspace available and more.