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| 2431 ARCHIVISTS AND CURATORS |
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Archivists and curators conduct research, collect, appraise
and ensure the safekeeping and preservation of the contents of
archives and artifacts of historical, cultural and artistic
interest, and of art and other objects and organise exhibitions
at museums and art galleries.
Tasks include -
(a) researching into, appraising, and developing, organising
and preserving historically significant and valuable
documents such as government papers, private papers,
photographs, sound recordings and films;
(b) directing or carrying out the preparation of indexes,
bibliographies, microfilm copies and other reference aids
to the collected material and making them available to
users;
(c) researching into the origin, distribution and use of
materials and objects of cultural and historical interest;
(d) organising, developing and maintaining collections of
artistic, cultural, scientific or historically significant
items in museums or art galleries;
(e) directing or undertaking classification and cataloguing of
museum and art gallery collections and organising
exhibitions;
(f) preparing scholarly papers and reports;
(g) per-forming related tasks;
(h) supervising other workers.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Archivist
- Curator, art gallery
- Curator, museum
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