Archive Positions
Posted September 11, 2025
Job Description Through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), theMassachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board (MA SHRAB), a program within theMassachusetts Secretary of State’s Office, is pleased to provide funding for 2 Fellowship opportunitiesfor emerging archives professionals to gain practical processing experience at an archival repository inMassachusetts. The MA SHRAB…
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Posted September 9, 2025
Job Description The Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution seeks to contract an individual to provide a planning study to establish feasibility, costs, parameters, and outcomes for a bibliometric project on the citation to and use of AAA resources. The Request for Quote and Statement of Work, which contain the details regarding this contract opportunity,…
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Posted September 9, 2025
Description Under the Supervision of the City Archivist and Assistant Archivist, the Project Assistant will perform routine archival tasks such as creating inventories, rehousing records, and describing electronic records. The project assistant will be introduced to archives software such as Preservica and ArchivesSpace, and will be taught description based on commonly used metadata standards and will be…
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Posted September 3, 2025
TITLE: Document Preservation Assistant DEPARTMENT: Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD) POSITION(S) STATUS: Two positions available; part-time (up to 19 hours per week) non-union role, funded through June 2026 with possibility of extension based on funding REPORTS TO: Historic Document Preservation Team, led by Senior Planner for Arts & Culture and Preservation Planner SALARY:…
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Posted August 19, 2025
Description Museum and Collector Resource, LLC (MCR), is seeking an Archivist for an 18-month, renewable position. MCR is seeking an Archivist to perform a wide variety of professional library and archival duties in support of a greater Cincinnati/northern KY institution. The incumbent will primarily manage the processing – arrangement, description and some digitization – for a private…
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Posted August 13, 2025
Job Description The University of Hartford Archives and Special Collections (West Hartford, CT) is seeking a part-time project assistant to help with their 2025 CLIR Recordings at Risk grant project, Preserving and Providing Access to Selections from the Hartt Recording Studio Archives (1959-1999). The Project Assistant will be primarily responsible for the creation of descriptive…
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Posted August 7, 2025
Job Description Mount Auburn Cemetery seeks a highly organized, self-motivated, and collaborative Digital Archivist for a full-time position. This role will be on the ground floor of creating a digital archival repository for Mount Auburn and will serve as a key team player to support the planning and execution of a cemetery-wide digital business transformation…
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Posted August 7, 2025
Job Description As part of the Commonwealth’s Future of Work initiative, state agencies in Massachusetts are transitioning to using largely digital records systems. As a result, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) has undertaken a comprehensive digitization project for its collection of architectural and engineering drawings. Under supervision of the Assistant Archivist, the…
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Posted July 28, 2025
Job Description We are creating a digital archive to repatriate community cultural heritage collections to Timor-Leste, focused on the Makassae Indigenous group in the Quelicai region. These collections include ethnographic and historical materials from 1973–74, produced by Shepard Forman, an anthropologist, and Leona Forman, a Brazilian journalist. The MFA is in the process of being…
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Posted July 17, 2025
Job Description The Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association (RIJHA), in partnership with the National ParkService, is seeking two interns to assist with a research, education, and public engagementproject. The RIJHA has received a generous grant from the National Park Foundation to tell thestory of the Hahn family of Providence. Isaac Hahn was the son of…
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