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Creating Access to a National Treasure: The Eliot Elisofon Cataloguing Project

The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives of the 
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian 
Institution is accepting competitive bids for a 
grant-funded contract to catalogue the Eliot 
Elisofon black-and-white negative collection 
(approximately 10,000 frames of 35mm and 2 ¼ in. 
negatives). Interested cataloguers must have 
experience handling photographic materials, 
cataloguing photographic collections in USMARC, 
and working knowledge of African cultures, 
geography and history. The contract cataloguer 
will work with an existing manual index card 
system and enter data into an established MARC 
template for photographic materials. The 
contractor will also create authority terms, 
subject headings and check the accuracy of 
pre-existing catalogue records. As necessary, the 
cataloguer will conduct research in the Archives 
manuscript collection and museum library to 
enhance catalogue records. Finally, the 
contractor will produce a final report that 
summarizes the work performed, procedures 
established and followed, and the total number of 
catalogue records created during the project. All 
work would be completed on-site under the general 
supervision of the Senior Archivist and must be completed by December 31, 2006.

The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2006.

For a detailed Statement of Work for this 
project, interested prospective cataloguers should contact:

Amy J. Staples, Ph.D.
Senior Archivist
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
National Museum of African Art
P.O. Box 37012
NMAfA - MRC 708
Washington, DC 20013-7012
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