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Archives Management Intern (Fall 2022), Museum of Science, Boston, MA

Description: Program Description: The Museum of Science Archives Department is responsible for collecting, organizing and preserving the permanent collections of records which documents the Museum’s history, activities, staff and the Boston Society of Natural History and to promote and make the collection accessible to staff and researchers. The Museum of Science Archives provides a unique…


Librarian Archivist, Roxbury Community College, Roxbury Crossing, MA

Description: General Statement of Duties: The main purpose of the position is to provide professional library services to Roxbury Community College students, faculty, and to provide archival services to the college and archival researchers. This position is responsible for assisting in operating the library by providing circulation and reference services, cataloging, developing and teaching general…


Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA

Description: The Wyndham Robertson Library at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, is a small and nimble library that actively supports the campus community through its teaching, collections, events, and engagement with university initiatives. The staff strive for diversity, equity, and inclusion through every aspect of the library’s resources and services, and they regularly seek feedback and modify…


Research Fellowship (Part-Time), Historic New England, Milton, MA

Description: Historic New England is seeking applicants for a part-time research fellowship to conduct archival processing of a collection related to our Eustis Estate in Milton, MA. A private collection related to the Eustis Estate, located on the South Coast of Massachusetts, is currently partially processed. This fellow will continue the work begun by a…


Melrose Civil War Veterans Heritage Project, City of Melrose, Melrose, MA

Description: The City of Melrose, through the Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) and the Memorial Hall Board of Trustees and in consultation with the Melrose Historical Commission, is seeking quotes from a project archivist for the cataloging and curation of on-site historical ephemera, and the creation of a master interpretive plan to make…


Divided America Project Archivist, Brown University, Providence, RI

Description: The Divided America Project Archivist is a project-based position housed at the John Hay Library.  Work will primarily be accomplished at the Library Collections Annex. The Divided America Project is grant funded and will support public programming and provide digital access to nearly 1,000,000 pages from Brown’s Hall-Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed…


Archives Assistant, Harvard Law School Library Digital Lab, Cambridge, MA

Description: The Harvard Law School Library has an opening for one 14-hour per week position beginning in August 2022. The person in this role will assist with the processing and digitization of modern manuscriptcollections to help make these collections open for research using the library’s new minimal levelprocessing workflows. The Archives Assistant will report to the Archivist for…


[CLOSED]Processing Assistant (part-time), Schlesinger Library (Harvard University), Cambridge, MA

Description: About the Schlesinger: The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, located just outside of Harvard Square, is one of the world’s premier repositories of materials documenting the lives and work of American women, with collections that span civil rights and feminism, health and sexuality, work and family life,…


Archivist for Living Composer, Waltham, MA

Description: We are seeking an intern to design and organize a digital & physical archive of four decades’ worth of professional and personal documents, images, audio and video recordings, and artifacts from the career of Tod Machover, composer, inventor, and professor at the M.I.T. Media Laboratory. The project includes establishing a system to organize and…


Archivist – Manuscript Processing, Winthrop Group, New Haven, CT

Description: The Winthrop Group has an immediate opening for a full-time Processing Archivist to arrange and describe a large volume of manuscript materials as part of a team. This salaried, contract position is located in New Haven, Connecticut and will conclude September 30, 2023.  Key Responsibilities Processes archival materials in accordance with institution’s processing guidelines…