Library Associate - George Washington University : Job Details

The Textile Museum was established in 1925 by collector and connoisseur George Hewitt Myers to expand public knowledge and appreciationlocally, nationally, and internationallyof the artistic merits and cultural importance of the worlds textiles through scholarship, exhibitions, and educational programs. Today, its collections represent five millennia and five continents, including cultures from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The 20,000-volume Arthur D. Jenkins Library of Textile Arts (ADJL) is one of the worlds foremost resources for the study of textiles. This noncirculating research library at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum is open to the public, and offers materials on textile and rug history, costume and fashion history and on textile-making techniques. The ADJL collection includes monographs, serials, ephemera, auction catalogs, visual resources, and media. The ADJL advances the mission, vision and goa...Library, Associate, Management, Museum, Education, History