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Re: Photograph archivist vs. photograph curator
At 03:27 PM 2/21/2001 -0500, Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer wrote:
Which reminds me that in my previous job, every time we got a new
director, job titles were changed to suit their notions of what people
ought to be called, even though our job descriptions usually remained
pretty much the same. In the long run, it's the job description that counts.
Well, in the long run it's actually the salary that counts. In a
fairly rigid civil service system (in a state with which I am familiar)
there isn't much progression within the "Archivist" titles, so people have
occasionally changed titles (to things like Administrative Information
Specialist--that sort of generic title) to get a promotion, changing their
job description just enough to match the new job classification.
It's the "I don't care what they call me, as long as I get paid
more" syndrome. The University Archivist here was officially a "Director
Unspecified 8."
For a long time the head of the photo collection had the working
title of "Iconographer," which was wonderful in part because nobody really
knew what it meant, so it gave the incumbent a lot of scope to take the
program in various directions. Nobody could tell if they were eccentric,
or if that's just what iconographers do :-)
--Steve Masar
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives
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