92nd Street Y – Audio Archivist

(posted July 9, 2010)

About:

92nd Street Y is about people—the people of New York City and the surrounding area, the United States and the world. It’s about people who entertain and challenge, inform and educate. It’s about people who learn and discover, observe and participate.

Founded in 1874 as the Young Men’s Hebrew Association where Jewish men could find harmony and good fellowship, 92nd Street Y today has evolved into a world-renowned community and cultural center; an organization of exhilarating vitality and remarkable diversity; a proudly Jewish institution that reaches out to people of every race, ethnicity, religion, age and economic class.

At once a lecture hall, a performance space, a school, a health center and a community organization, 92nd Street Y remains focused on its mission of enriching the lives of the people who pass through its doors—women and men, young families and senior citizens, accomplished artists and aspiring beginners, master instructors and enthusiastic students, world leaders and concerned citizens.

Position Summary:

The archivist will perform duties associated with digitizing original archival audio recordings, ingesting new audio recordings, and trouble shooting hardware and software on backstage recording workstations and SAN.

Position Accountabilities:

Daily ingest of new event recordings

  • Copy files from Record Volume of SAN to Archive & Backup
  • Rename Pro Tools session (if necessary)
  • Trim, consolidate, and rename trimmed sound files in Pro Tools Session
  • Discard untrimmed and blank soundfiles to save space
  • Enter all technical metadata to the Y’s events database
  • Copy renamed trimmed Pro Tools session to Backup, replace raw session
  • Delete raw Pro Tools session from Record Volume

Maintain Backstage Recording Workstations

  • Regularly check network connection settings
  • Perform software updates on Mac OS and Pro Tools software
  • Delete non-work-related software
  • Regularly check accuracy of in/out points and track names for tracked Pro Tools sessions
  • Coordinate regular transfers of (catalogued) Pro Tools sessions from to SAN and backup volumes

Maintain SAN (primary Audio Archive storage system)

  • Regularly check SAN status for drive failures
  • Replace failed drives and rebuild RAID volumes as needed
  • Update SAN connection software, evaluate upgrades and deploy to Backstage workstations
  • Maintain relationships with SNS (SAN vendor) and Tekserve

Maintain Archive Room Workstations

  • Install and evaluate software updates and upgrades
  • Recommend equipment and software upgrades as needed

Produce repurposed audio in a variety of end formats (CD-r, MP3, 24-bit WAV files) as needed for various 92Y departments and media partners (e.g., podcasts, audible.com, iTunesU) etc.

Transfer/digitize past event recordings from reel, cassette, PCM/DBX, DAT, and DVD-Ram

  • Maintain legacy playback equipment as needed
  • Ingest past event recordings to 92Y audio archive
  • Prioritize legacy recordings based on format stability and importance of content

Prepare annual budget for 92Y audio archive

  • Work with supervisors and other department heads to plan equipment and software upgrades, expendable supply needs, maintenance, and tech support contracts
  • Anticipate and recommend long-term equipment and software needs

Requirements & Position Qualifications:

  • 3 to 5 years of audio archive experience, showing a progression of technical and project management skills
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite (Microsoft Access a plus)
  • Familiarity with enterprise-class data storage and RAID protection (Must have or be willing to acquire administrator level knowledge of the SNS SAN storage system)
  • Mac OSX (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard) administration
  • Audio production experience
    • Radio production
    • Podcast production
      1. Mastering techniques for online audio
      2. ID3V2 tags
  • Pro Tools – expert level knowledge required
  • Other audio production and noise reduction software
    • Peak
    • Toast
    • iTunes
    • Sonic Solutions NoNoise plugins
    • Izotope RX
  • Expert familiarity with best standards and practices for Audio Archiving
  • Experience working with legacy audio formats
    • Reel to Reel
    • DAT
    • Cassette
    • PCM/DBX encoded audio on VHS tape
    • DVD-RAM
    • Setup and maintenance of legacy audio playback equipment
  • Video production experience a plus

Education/Affiliations:

Degree in Audio Engineering, Multimedia Production, related discipline, or equivalent experience

Candidates must be current member of IATSE Local 1

Hours of Work:

Monday – Friday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. 40 hour work week. One hour meal breaks each day.

Instructions:

Send resume and cover letter to humanresources@92y.org. Include Audio Archivist in the subject line.
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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