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Asst. Digital Archivist – Massachusetts Archives, (Boston, MA)

ABOUT THIS POSITION: This position is within the Office of the Massachusetts Secretary of State, Archives Division, located at the Massachusetts Archives in Boston, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Archives houses approximately 30,000 cubic feet of records documenting Massachusetts’ government from the colonial period forward, including six TB of digital records. Our collections are increasingly born-digital or…


Assistant for Special Collections (Less Than Half Time), Harvard Yenching Library (Cambridge, MA)

**This is a LHT (less than half time) position that will work 14 hours or less per week.** The LHT position to the special collections will assist the Curatorial Assistant of Special Collections to maintain the Rare Books Reading Room Services and the Rare Book Room stacks, as well as daily operations, such as retrieving…


Assistant Curator, Houghton Library at Harvard, (Cambridge, MA)

Houghton Library seeks an Assistant Curator to support managing, building and sharing the Library’s Printing and Graphic Arts (P&GA) collection. Reporting to the Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, the Assistant Curator performs a range of administrative, outreach, collection-development, and book-arts functions. Part of a highly visible and active department, the Assistant Curator collaborates with…


Digital Archivist, Visiting Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), (Edwardsville, Illinois)

Job Description/ResponsibilitiesLibrary & Information Services (LIS) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor, Digital Archivist (three-year appointment) with knowledge and experience in acquiring, preserving, and providing public access to born-digital and digitized archival and unique collections holdings. The Digital Archivist will have primary responsibility for identifying, accessioning, processing, describing, and making…


Archivist/Project Manager, New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, (New Bedford, MA)

Description New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center seeks an archivist/project manager for a part- time, one year contract, to facilitate public access to its growing collection of fishing community history. Since opening to the public in 2016, the Center has amassed a significant collection of documents, images, objects, and digital media representing the local fishing community’s…


Archivist, Upstate Health Sciences Library, (Syracuse, NY)

The Upstate Health Sciences Library at Upstate Medical University seeks a collaborative individual to bring leadership, vision and support to the Archives and Special Collections (ASC) team.  This job is for you if you enjoy: On the job you will: At the HSL, we: Required Qualifications   Preferred Qualifications   Note: Having one or more of the…


Part-Time Archives Assistant, Historic New England, (Boston, MA)

Classification: Part-time, 20 hours per week, Term-limited for 12 monthsLocation: Boston, Mass. Description: Historic New England seeks a part-time archives assistant to work in its Library and Archives. The library and archival collections consist of more than 1.5 million items (photographs, architectural drawings, ephemera, art, prints and engravings, manuscripts, books, and institutional archives) documenting New…


Summer 2023 Digital Archives Internship, Cape Ann Museum, (Gloucester, MA)

About the OpportunityThe Cape Ann Museum (CAM) is a leading regional museum at the epicenter of artistic and marine history in the Northeast. The Museum’s nationally significant collections include fine and decorative arts and artifacts relating to Cape Ann’s earliest days as a major fishing and shipping port, its mid- 19th century role in the…


Marketing & Communications Internship – Photo Archivist, Make a Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island (Remote/Boston, MA)

Description The Marketing and Communications team at Make-A-Wish® Massachusetts and Rhode Island seeks a volunteer intern who is experienced in organizing photo archives, is forward-thinking, and works with a high attention to detail. Interns work 2 days/week (can be remote if systems access is available and intern is preferred to be based out of our…


Administrative Coordinator, Maine Archives and Museums

Position Summary This position supports the Association of Maine Archives and Museums (MAM), a not-for-profit 501(c)(3). MAM is the only professional association representing museums, archives, historical societies, and other collecting institutions in the State of Maine. The Administrative Coordinator works closely with the Executive Director and oversees many of the day-to-day operations for MAM, including…