What We’re About

Have a love for history and an eye for detail? The Library Archives crew may be for you! On this crew, you will become a steward of the past tasked with protecting and circulating records of what has happened in order to provide the college with the opportunity to understand itself from a historical perspective. What happens without being remembered disappears. The Archivists remember on behalf of Warren Wilson College.

After working with the Library Archives Crew you will be ready for an archives tech position, as defined by the National Archives, and/or for graduate school in an information science program!

What You’ll Learn

You’ll spend years working alongside your peers with the mentorship of your supervisors.  Part of the experience of work at Warren Wilson is guided critical reflection, which helps ensure that you achieve both your own educational goals as well as our Common Learning Outcomes. These intentional learning outcomes distinguish our Work Program, giving it focus and relevancy that set it apart from a federal work-study or your average part-time job.

Our Common Learning Outcomes:

• Professionalism & Work Ethic: accountability, effective work habits, punctuality, dependability, time management, integrity, and commitment to the well-being of the community.
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: working with available resources to creatively address issues and solve problems, and gaining confidence to make decisions.
• Communication: the ability to convey and receive information effectively with intentionality, honesty, and confidence in both speech and writing.
• Collaboration & Teamwork: actively collaborate with peers to achieve common goals, Distribute labor fairly, and hold each other accountable as committed members of a group.
• Civic Identity: understanding your active influence within the community and how your decisions directly impact the work around you.

In addition to our Common Learning Outcomes, each crew in the Work Program identifies crew-specific goals for learning and performance. These are reviewed with you each semester. Your crew-specific learning goals outline skills and abilities your supervisor will teach you during the semester.

Some of our Library Archives crew learning goals include:

• Learning the current standards for proper archival policies
• Developing a structure for a future crew with individualized specialities
• Assisting curious researchers in using resources from the archive