Also called: Media Collections Specialist, AV Archivist
Preserves and organizes collections of film, audio, photos, and video at libraries, museums, and media companies.
A specialist might digitize old reel-to-reel tapes of a radio station, catalog thousands of photos, and run the equipment that plays fragile formats nobody makes anymore.
Estimate based on BLS audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 5 years after high school. Bachelor's; many have a master's in library science or moving-image archiving.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Library Science, Film Studies, Archival Studies.
Growing about average (about 2% over 10 years). BLS projects about-average growth.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. AI speeds digitizing and tagging, but running old tape machines and caring for fragile film stays hands-on.
Classes: Video production, Electronics or AV CTE, AP US History.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-9011.
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