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2025-2026 Academic Year Internships, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA)

Job Descriptions: Archives The Archives graduate student intern (average of 10 hours/week for both semesters September-December and February-May) will perform primary source research in the museum’s archival collections to develop a timeline for the museum’s exhibitions from 1895 to 1950, compiling accurate dates, alternate titles, contributors, and related material. Additional key activities will include archival…


News and Notes Editor and Reviews Editor Volunteer Positions with the New England Archivists Newsletter

Job Summary: Are you a detail-oriented person who is looking for a way to get more involved with New England Archivists? Are you a grammar and punctuation nerd? Do you enjoy staying on top of the latest news and innovations in the field? The NEA Newsletter Committee seeks applications for the positions of News and Notes…


Sourcery Community Ambassadors, University of Connecticut UCONN Greenhouse Studios (Boston, MA & Washington, DC)

Job Summary: Sourcery (sourceryapp.org), an open source, not-for-profit archival document delivery app based out of the University of Connecticut, invites applications for community ambassadors to act as a local advocates for Sourcery and to help beta test the new version of the app. We are seeking current PhD or MLIS students based in the Boston…


Digital Archives Intern, American Ancestors, (Boston, MA)

Job Summary: American Ancestors seeks a detail-oriented and self-motivated individual to join R. Stanton Avery Special Collections in the position of Digital Archives Intern. Reporting to the Digital Archivist, the Digital Archives Intern will support the ongoing Bible Records project to digitize, describe, and provide access to unique family registers and Bible record collections. These…


SAA SNAP Blog Seeking New Submissions

Description: The SAA Students and New Archives Professionals Section blog is seeking new submissions!  Have you ever come across something in the archives that made you stop in your tracks? Just completed an incredible LIS 438 internship you want to brag about? Whether it was an unexpected document, a fascinating artifact, or a story hidden in the…


Grant Writing Collaborations in Academic Librarianship, ACRL Press

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…


Summer Internship, Ashby Free Public Library (Ashby, MA)

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…


Caroline Dwight Bain Archival Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, (Boston, MA)

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…


Senior Library Assistant – Wollaston Branch, Thomas Crane Public Library (Quincy, MA)

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…


Special Collections Arrangement and Description Intern, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC

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…