Position:

McGreal Center Undergraduate Sacred Spaces Assistant Location:

River Forest, IL Job Id:

2392

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Openings:

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TITLE:

McGreal Center Undergraduate Sacred Spaces Assistant

DEPARTMENT

McGreal Center

FLSA STATUS

Hourly The McGreal Center at Dominican University seeks to preserve the history of the Dominican family across the United States with two major initiatives. The first is an archive of Dominican history with an emphasis on collaborative organizations, communities of women, and Dominican spirituality and scholarship. Second is Sacred Spaces, a digital archive of Dominican Family architectural spaces and other culturally and religiously significant spaces in the Chicago area. The undergraduate assistant will assist in all areas of the Sacred Spaces project including researching sites of interest, outreach and community relationship development, onsite digital capture, tour creation, and digital asset management. The assistant will join a small team at the McGreal Center for Dominican Historical Studies who all collaborate on planning, troubleshooting, and undertaking scholarly research for the project.

Responsibilities:

Assist the Sacred Spaces team in capturing digital footage of interiors and exteriors of sacred spaces sites using drones, panorama cameras, and phone cameras

Create digital tours of spaces using Pano2VR software

Conduct research about individual spaces and communities

Assist the Sacred Spaces facilitator in identifying new sites of interest, corresponding with representatives of communities

Assist the archives assistant with selecting content for permanent retention, describing in ArchivesSpace, and ingesting into

Preservica Qualifications:

• Demonstrated interest in digital exhibitions or archives, digital humanities, and/or digital curation Willingness to learn and troubleshoot complex VR software, camera equipment, and drone photography
• Comfort with troubleshooting, using software documentation to address issues
• Experience in photography, film, programming, architecture, or library/museum work preferred
• Interest in architecture, Chicago history, or religious communities preferred

Software programs you will learn:

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Pano2

VR, PTGui, Preservica Logistics:

10-20 hours/week $15/hour

This is a fully onsite position at the McGreal Center on DU's River Forest campus Please feel free to discuss any relevant coursework in your application.