Posted March 28, 2025
Job Description The Ashby Free Public Library is seeking a Summer Intern to assist with the Smithsonian Voices and Votes Exhibit, a prestigious traveling exhibit exploring American democracy. This is a hands-on opportunity for students interested in history, museum studies, archives, marketing, and public engagement. Position Duties The intern will have the chance to: Qualifications…
Posted March 25, 2025
Description This 130 hour on-site archival internship project for LIS 512 (Advanced Field Experience) will include reviewing previously created archivist reports and preservation & processing plans for Beverly Public Library’s local history Beverly Room, with the goal of determining what progress has been made. The project may also involve proposing improvements to existing plans; contributing…
Posted March 25, 2025
Description The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) in Boston, Mass. is now accepting applications forthe Caroline Dwight Bain Archival Fellowship. The Bain fellowship provides a stipend of $4000for 210 hours of work during the summer of 2025. The MHS is an independent, scholarly research library founded in 1791 for the threefold purposeof collecting, preserving, and disseminating…
Posted March 24, 2025
Description The DCR Plans Library collects and preserves architectural, engineering, landscape, and land survey plans that were produced or acquired by DCR and its predecessor agencies. This collection includes more than 100,000 plans, from the 1890s to the present, documenting planning initiatives, construction projects and land ownership in the state park system. Responsibilities Create item-level…
Posted March 19, 2025
Description The AVAD (Audiovisual Arrangement and Description) project aims to enhance the organization, description and accessibility of the audiovisual materials located within the State Archives of North Carolina’s Special Collections Audiovisual Unit. This project will focus on enhancements by utilizing a systematic arrangement, with accurate descriptions for a diverse range of audiovisual materials including negatives,…
Posted March 19, 2025
Description Connecting the Docs is currently in its fifth season. In this internship, the intern will help the Podcast Team conduct research in collections for the planned episodes of Season 6 as well as assist with writing and recording at least two episodes for the season. If the intern has an interest in audio editing,…
Posted March 19, 2025
Description: This intern will work under the supervision of the Organization Records Archivist to process new and backlogged archival collections. The intern will learn how to survey a collection, create a processing plan, arrange, rehouse, and label materials, and create descriptive metadata for the collection in a finding aid that will be published in the…
Posted March 19, 2025
Description The Colonial Court Records group, SR.401, was reprocessed in late 2019 by an outside agency. During this reprocessing, boxes labeled CCR 188, 190-192, and 198 were refiled into other boxes. A new finding aid was created, but no crosswalk. As the old record IDs exist in various published material, a functional crosswalk would facilitate…
Posted March 19, 2025
Description The Oral History Unit’s first collection, the She Changed the World Oral History Project, is undergoing a renewal. The intern will assist in the description and arrangement of the project. This includes metadata clean up, file renaming, and ensuring each interview has a proper transcription. The intern will also have the option to work…
Posted March 19, 2025
Description The Traveling Archivist Program (TAP) is a statewide service to small organizations holding archival collections. The State Historical Records Advisory Board directs the program with grant funding from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission. The program’s goal is to help small organizations improve preservation and access for archival materials—documentary, photograph, recording, and born-digital…
