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Performs digital imaging services of collection materials for research, archival, exhibition, publication and online access, including photography and post production. Supports digitization initiatives, executes production-level digital capture using a variety of hardware, software and methodologies. Performs post-processing of image files to specifications, organizes completed files in appropriate directories. Stays current regarding emerging trends, equipment, and standards.
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The Getty Foundation is looking for an internationally recognized professional, who is a demonstrated leader in academic art history, museum practice, or conservation, to take on the position of Associate Director. The successful candidate will have experience working in a multifaceted organization, preferably in grantmaking, higher education, museums, or other relevant settings. The Associate Director will help define and implement the Foundation’s strategic objectives and will lead a team of professionals in developing grant initiatives and awarding grants internationally. They will also be responsible for evaluation of grant initiatives to ensure maximum impact. The Associate Director will work closely with staff across all Getty programs.
The Associate Director will report to the Director of the Getty Foundation. They will be skilled at developing effective working relationships within a complex environment and with external partners across the globe. They will have a collaborative style and be able to lead through influence. The Associate Director will provide broad expertise from a strategic perspective, maintain comprehensive knowledge of the disciplines of art history, museum practice, and conservation, and help establish and implement operational objectives. They will regularly interact with senior management and executive levels on matters concerning diverse issues with organization-wide impact.
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Library Assistant II (limited-term), Special Collections Services, Getty Research Institute
This is a one-year limited-term position.
The Getty Research Institute seeks a limited-term fulltime Library Assistant II to help manage the workflow for the assessment and circulation of the GRI’s many library books and serials identified for the large-scale Getty Research Portal project (http://portal.getty.edu). Located at the Getty Center, the Library Assistant will work both independently and within a team environment, focusing on the book digitization project, and assisting with the ongoing tasks associated with the circulation of materials a special collections setting, including pulling, sorting, and reshelving books, checking materials in and out using the Alma library system, and managing multiple spreadsheets for the digitization project.
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Provides library support services to staff and Special Collections reading room users by retrieving materials from vaults and assisting with handling. Retrieves and shelves Special Collections materials; works with colleagues to maintain storage vaults; conducts inventories of Special Collections material; monitors and maintains Special Collections Reading Room and Seminar Rooms. Uses online library system to create, maintain and update holdings and item records. Processes some Special Collections materials by preparing labels, providing housing and entering information into systems. Responds to routine queries from staff and readers; refers more complex queries to reference librarians and curators as appropriate. Participates in special projects as assigned.
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Under direction from Facilities staff, assists in monitoring all BMS systems to ensure the environmental systems are within specified ranges and operating systems are functioning properly. Observes deviations from systems specifications and works with Facilities staff to correct or resolve these discrepancies. May assist in calibrating and fine‐tuning controls.
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Maintains HVAC equipment, refrigeration equipment, specialty HVAC vaults, ice machines and kitchen equipment.
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The Getty Research Institute (GRI) seeks a Library Assistant III to digitize visual material from several archives related to the historic Los Angeles Woman’s Building and make the digital collections accessible for research. As a major center of the feminist art movement of the 1970s and 1980s, the Woman’s Building played an instrumental role in shaping both the field of feminist art and American arts education. Following the Woman’s Building project, this position will assist in the creation and maintenance of digital collections for other multi-year projects, including PhotoTech, a project to digitize the GRI’s Photo Archive and generate metadata using computer vision, and Archives of the Ancient World, a digitization and metadata project focused on broadening access to archival images of endangered ancient cultural heritage around the world.
This is a full-time limited term position from November 2019 until June 2023. The first year is supported by a grant from the Save America's Treasures program, an interagency federal initiative led by the National Park Service and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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The J. Paul Getty Trust’s Procurement & Contract Services department is seeking a full-time limited-term position to provide records management and project support, with some additional contract drafting and tactical buying. This role would suit someone with existing expertise in procurement document control and project administration, who is looking to gain exposure to procurement buying and contract drafting.
Main focus (50%) is document control of the Procurement department’s daily generation of paper and digital purchasing records. This includes the timely and efficient entry of the records into electronic storage systems to ensure adherence to department standards and accurate indexing. The department is working towards implementing a contract drafting tool in PeopleSoft which will ultimately remove the need for separate offline document control; the successful candidate will be expected to advise and assist with this transformation. In addition, the successful candidate will work with Getty’s Institutional Records and Archives department to review a large collection of historical paper records and categorize them according to a set retention policy.
Additionally, approximately 25% of time will be spent providing project support for the department’s other strategic initiatives and projects, including, but not limited to, administration of the Getty’s Amazon Business and OfficeMax accounts.
The remaining 25% of time will be undertaking contract drafting and tactical buying for the department. Training will be given.
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The Getty Research Institute is seeking a limited-term Library Assistant II to support the archival processing of the Frank Gehry papers. Documenting the developmental stage of this Pritzker Prize-winning architect's career, the archive includes drawings, project records, models, correspondence, photographic material, and ephemera relating to 283 projects designed between 1954 and 1988. Duties will include assisting with physically processing and arranging the material according to archival best practices; assisting with the creation of the on-line finding aid in compliance with national standards; consulting regularly with the processing team. This is a three-year limited-term position with an end date of March 5, 2021.
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Maintains HVAC equipment, refrigeration equipment, specialty HVAC vaults, ice machines and kitchen equipment.