Specialist II - Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, Schomburg Center (Temporary)

Founded in 1925 and named a National Historic Landmark in 2017, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the world’s leading cultural institutions devoted to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of materials focused on African American, African, and African Diaspora experiences. The Center features diverse programming and a collection of over 11 million items that illuminate the richness of global Black history and culture. A research library of The New York Public Library and seeded by the collection of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the Schomburg Center provides free access to materials documenting Black life locally, nationally, and internationally.

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division seeks a detail oriented and solution-minded archivist to work on a temporary 3-year grant-funded project to organize, describe and enhance access to the film collections of MIRS.

MIRS collects and preserves audio and moving image (AMI) material related to global black experiences. The Division is central to the NYPL’s and Schomburg Center’s mission to advance knowledge and inspire lifelong learning by the strength of its collections but also by the compelling nature of AMI materials, which literally give movement and voice to the major historical, artistic, and cultural moments of the 20th century.