Posted December 10, 2013
Nominations are currently being accepted for the Society of American Archivists’ Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel Award. Established in 1979, this award enables overseas archivists who are already in the United States or Canada for training to augment their experience by traveling to the SAA Annual Meeting. Eligibility: Archivists who reside outside of the United States Application Deadline: February…
Posted December 9, 2013
The BAA/FHS Archives documents the history of both high schools separately through the collection of documents, administrative records, curriculum materials, student publications, yearbooks, relevant news articles, photographs, and some relevant artifacts. The decision to accept or decline donations is made on a case-by-case basis. The Archives collection is maintained in the media room of the…
Posted December 9, 2013
Volunteers are welcome to assist the library director and associates. No library experience is required and lots of experience in a busy, urban high school library is acquired. Depending on circumstances, volunteers are hired as library associates. The expectation is that a volunteer comes on a regular basis for a two to three hour block,…
Posted December 9, 2013
The Archives of American Gardens offers internships year-round to students enrolled in graduate programs who wish to gain professional experience in learning about the management of and providing public access to a photographic archive. Currently, we are seeking applicants for a Cataloging and Metadata Internship. The intern will assist primarily with cataloging series and item…
Posted December 6, 2013
Evidence Summaries Writers *EBLIP* seeks to add six writers to the Evidence Summaries Team. Evidence Summaries provide critical appraisal syntheses for specific research articles. These research synopses provide readers with information regarding the original research article’s validity and reliability, thus providing information on the presence or absence of evidence with which to make informed decisions. Evidence Summaries Team members are…
Posted December 6, 2013
We are delighted to announce the Web Science 2014 Visualization Challenge! The web has generated huge amounts of data at massive scale, but making sense of these datasets and representing them in a compact and easily-interpretable way remains very difficult. The goal of this challenge is to encourage innovative visualizations of web data. We particularly…
Posted December 6, 2013
The Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC – http://www.acrlnec.org/) invites you to submit a proposal to present at our 2014 Annual Conference. This event entitled “We’re All in This Together: Strengthening Librarians Through Professional Development” will be held Friday, May 9, 2014 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. The job of…
Posted December 4, 2013
The Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet is currently seeking an Editor to assume leadership of the journal beginning in September 2014. The journal covers international research and information on programs and services aimed at helping patients and the general public find the health information they need. It is an essential resource for libraries,…
Posted November 30, 2013
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is pleased to once again offer scholarships to attend the 66th annual Antiques Forum held February 14-18, 2014. While scholarships typically cover registration costs, we are especially excited to again offer housing as a part of this year’s award. The program, “New Findings in the Arts of the Coastal South” will gather acclaimed curators,…
Posted November 30, 2013
Reporting to the Archivist and Library manager, the Archives Intern will assist in conducting an inventory of archive holdings as part of renewed effort to update record keeping at the Old Colony Historical Society. This internship will involve original cataloging, catalogue updates, assigning and/or updating correct locations to materials, and creating digital records using PastPerfect software….
