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POSITION DESCRIPTION
REGISTRAR

REPORTS TO:  Museum Director
DIVISION UNIT:  Museum
DEPARTMENT:  Registrar

SCOPE:
     Manage collection records and information services for a
mid-sized museum with approximately 1.5 million artifacts.  Supervise
a staff of five as well as several volunteers, interns, and work
study students.  Perform the duties of system manager for a
31-station LAN utilizing Netware 4.1 and provide support for staff
use of MS-Office applications.

STRUCTURE:
     Reports to the director of a university museum which is part of
West Texas A&M University, a part of the Texas A&M University System.
Acting as Registrar, employee will interact with curatorial staff,
be a member of the Staff Collections Committee, and interact with the
Board Collections Committee.  Acting as systems manager, employee
will interact will all levels of Museum staff regarding information
systems network, hardware, and software.  Employee will supervise a
staff of five.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
     Plan and/or supervise all museum information systems operations
including user training, PC support, network administration, database
admininstration, data extraction and manipulation, desktop and
notebook computer installation and upgrades, software installations
and upgrades, and WWW page development.
     Oversee all museum registration functions including processing
and registering new acquisitions, deaccessioning, processing incoming
and outgoing loans, managing documents and records, collections
inventory, and data entry.
     Assist with planning and implementing extensive museum
renovation including active participation in a move of the collection
into secondary storage and back as well as assessing renovation
impact on information systems and collections processing.
     Develop and administer department schedules and budgets.
Maintain and update departmental long-range plans.  Manage
development of procedures manuals.  Prepare status and progress
reports.  Perform annual evaluations of permanent departmental
employees.

QUALIFICATIONS
     Required:  Bachelor's degree in Information Systems Management,
Museum Registration, Museum Studies, or related field.  Five years
related experience, including museum registration and information
systems management in a networked environment.  Must be knowledgeable
in current professional museum practices.  Extensive PC skills and
SQL-based relational database management experience, including
complex querying, reporting, and application exchange.  Supervisory
experience required.
     Preferred:  Netware 4.1 administration experience.  Extensive
experience with Vernon Systems Ltd. Collection or Advanced
Revelation.  MS-Office application use and integration including OLE
and DDE.

TERMS:
     The normal work week is 40 hours per week, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM;
hours outside the normal work week are frequently necessary.

TO APPLY:
     Submit a resume and cover letter by 11:30 AM, August 8, 1997,
to:
     Personnel Services
     WTAMU Box 999
     Canyon, Texas  79016
Susan G. Denney
Assistant Curator of History
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Canyon, Texas
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