Librarian (Assistant Curator, Graphic Arts) (VAR003355)
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Librarian (Assistant Curator, Graphic Arts) (Vacancy#:VAR003355)
- Opening Date: June 29, 2026
- Closing Date: July 20, 2026
- OPM Control Number: 874718400
- Vacancy Number: VAR003355
- LC Organization Unit: Researcher and Collection Services
- Grade: GS-09
- Series: 1410
- Minimum Salary: $70,623.00 per year
- Maximum Salary: $91,815.00 per year
- Work Schedule: Full time- Flexitime
- Promotion Potential: GS-12
- Duty Location: Washington, DC
- Security Clearance: Other
- Availability: Open to All
- Telework Eligibility: Hybrid
This position is in the Curatorial Section of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The Prints and Photographs Division has one of the largest pictorial research collections in the world with more than 15 million pictures in a variety of visual formats contained in hundreds of individual collections and stored in several locations and remote sites. The collections are among the most varied in subject, time-period, medium, format, physical condition, and intellectual property rights requirements, with attendant concerns regarding security, preservation, safe handling and service. The collections are accessed by means of complex, diverse and often multi-layered intellectual controls in written, filmed and digital forms. The Graphic Arts area has an estimated 500,000 artist prints, posters, documentary drawings, cartoons and comics, historical prints, and pictorial ephemera like trade cards.
Qualifications:
Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision.
- Knowledge of the field of artist prints, posters, and other popular graphic arts.**
- Ability to provide research and reference services.**
- Knowledge of library principles, concepts, and techniques.
- Ability to communicate in writing.
- Ability to analyze and solve problems related to visual and documentary materials in graphic art collections.
- Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.
Performs other duties as assigned.
This position is in the Curatorial Section of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.
The position description number for this position is 470301.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.
The incumbent of this position will work a flexitime work schedule.
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