Hello Everyone, I've been asked to post the following announcement to the list. If you are interested please contact Amy directly. Thanks, Bob Schmidt Archives Listserve Coordinator Miami University Archives Oxford, Ohio 45056 Tel: 513-529-6720 Email: [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________ 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 [log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>