Opportunities for Current Students
Posted April 1, 2025
Description: About this Edited Collection This edited collection focuses on effective strategies and best practices for fostering collaborative grant-writing initiatives among academic libraries, faculty, and external organizations. In many institutions, grant proposals are developed in isolation, often without direct collaboration with the library as an academic unit. However, through collaboration between academic libraries and other…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Posted March 24, 2025
Description The Senior Library Assistant for Wollaston Branch assists the Wollaston Branch Manager with all aspects of branch library services and performs a wide variety of library tasks related to borrower andother public services at the Main Library and other locations. Duties ● Gives friendly and helpful service to library users of all ages in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Posted March 19, 2025
Description The Conservation Unit is seeking a Summer 2025 Conservation Intern to assist with the Vault Housing Project. Conservation has assessed the Archives’ book and paper Vault holdings and proposed a variety of enclosures for these Vault materials. Our Summer 2025 Intern’s primary project will be to participate in our Vault Collections housing workflow. The…
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