Job Description
Acquisitions Archivist - Bancroft Library Position overview Position title: Associate Librarian, Career Status or Potential Career Status
Salary range: The UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and salary point at appointment. See the following table(s) for the current salary scale(s) for this position: . A reasonable estimate for this position is $80,349-$107,708.
Percent time: 100%
Anticipated start: As soon as March 2026. Start date is flexible.
Position duration: This is a full-time potential career appointment.
Application Window Open date: December 1, 2025
Next review date: Thursday, Jan 1, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position description The University of California, Berkeley is seeking a creative, self-motivated, user-oriented, and collaborative Acquisitions Archivist to join the technical services team at The Bancroft Library. As a member of the Acquisitions and Collections Control team and reporting to the Head of Acquisitions and Collections Control, the Acquisitions Archivist serves as a key team member for coordinating, tracking, and stewarding incoming materials in all formats.
In the course of performing acquisitions work, the incumbent will collaborate closely and cross-functionally with various internal and external stakeholders, including other Acquisitions and Collections Control Unit staff, curators, accessioning and processing archivists, catalogers, the Digital Collections Unit, UC Berkeley Library's Scholarly Communication and Information Policy (SCIP), and various library donors and vendors. This position will work with the Bancroft curatorial team as well as technical services and public services to build and implement a holistic and extensible collections management approach to the intake of special collections informed by an understanding of the resources needed to responsibly acquire and steward materials.
Responsibilities The Acquisitions Archivist is tasked with, under the supervision and authority of the Head of Acquisitions and Collections Control, collaboratively developing and implementing acquisitions and collections control policies and procedures for materials acquired by the Acquisitions and Collections Control Unit within the Technical Services Division of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
Responsibilities Include - Contributing to policies, procedures, productive workflows, and standards compliance to insure a user-centered, access-driven approach to acquiring and stewarding special collections materials, including both archival and large bibliographic collections;
- Under the supervision of the Head of Acquisitions and Collections Control, coordinating and tracking the process of acquiring collections. This work may include performing and supporting pre-custodial interventions, materials transfer and stabilization, and baseline intellectual control for collections of all formats and sizes;
- Coordinating the intake logistics for archival acquisitions of all formats, using efficient and extensible pathways to access;
- In collaboration with curators and colleagues in technical services, developing processes and workflows to support extensible management of both archival and bibliographic collections;
- In collaboration with curators, catalogers, and accessioning archivists, contributing to the creation of baseline administrative, physical, and intellectual control over new and past archival and bibliographic acquisitions in accordance with The Bancroft Library's acquisitions procedures and professional best practices;
- Cultivating and maintaining excellent working relationships with vendors, dealers, sellers, donors, and depositors, as well as colleagues across the library, including Bancroft curators and SCIP;
- Participating in standing committees, meetings, and working groups as appropriate;
- Collaborating with accessioning and processing archivists as well as Bancroft's Stacks Manager to manage archival and large bibliographic acquisitions in stacks space onsite at The Bancroft Library and offsite at Bancroft's Regatta facility;
- Monitoring current developments, trends, and emerging technologies in the fields relating to special collections acquisitions work and engaging with the professional community on a local, state, and/or national level;
- Collaborating with staff and leadership to implement the Total Cost of Stewardship Framework at The Bancroft Library;
- Supervising the work of acquisitions students and interns;
- Performing other duties as assigned.
The UC Berkeley Library is committed to supporting and encouraging respect and empathy, and nurturing a culture where all employees thrive. The Library seeks candidates who recognize and appreciate one another's contributions, expertise, and accomplishments, and will strive to provide equitable access to a diverse set of collections and services. For more information, please see the UC Berkeley Library Statement of Values.
UC professional librarians are academic appointees and are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, the University Council - American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT). This position is in the bargaining unit. Librarians are entitled to appropriate professional development leave, vacation leave, sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel. The University has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans in addition to other benefits.
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