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  [on behalf of the Meijer Heritage Center] Archivist, Meijer Heritage Center We are seeking a professional archivist for 30-35 hours/week to support collections processing and management, digitization, and management of digital asset management platform (DAM) internally called the FindIt! Resource Center. The role is a contract position administered through a contract agency. The highest needs in the Meijer Archives are collections processing or accessioning, digitization, and management of the digital asset management platform.  Collections processing/accessioning :  15 hours/week Digital Asset Management:   10 hours/week Digitization:   10 hours/week Job Summary: The Meijer Heritage Center (MHC) preserves and presents the rich cultural history, heritage, and legacy of Meijer, a Midwestern retail company. The Meijer Archives include assets from the early 20 th  century to the present and include paper documents, company records, photographs, video, memo...

My wonderful film student Max recently processed, described, and preserved three professionally created moving image films, a departure from the usual Channel 9&10 News films. The Rupp collection is mostly composed of paper- and photographic-based materials documenting Michigan history and tourism, Ernest Hemingway, and part of the Louise Obermiller papers concerning fights over Indigenous land rights, granted by treaties, in Northern Michigan. In the above image you see Max with the Rupp collection, including the three films in blue, archival film cannisters. The films include: "When Michigan was Young," 1964, 16 mm Black and White, optical soundtrack, polyester base, 1,000 ft. "My Old Man" [about Ernest Hemingway],1970,16 mm, Color, Optical Soundtrack, Polyester base, 450 ft. Hemingway-Heroes-DuPont Hemingway Act I Reel I [about Ernest Hemingway], 1961, 16 mm, Black and White, Optical Soundtrack, Polyester base, 1,800 ft. For more information please see the ca...