Volunteer Opportunities
Posted October 23, 2015
The Boston Book Fair is less than a month away: November 13-15th. Once again we’re looking for some volunteers to help staff the RBMS table. For those of you who’ve never done this before, duties are very straightforward and you get to enjoy a great book fair for free: just mind the pamphlets at the…
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Posted October 9, 2015
Volunteers needed to help out at the Mission Hill K-8 school library. (The library is being run solely by volunteers.) Hours are flexible. Please contact [email protected].
Posted October 9, 2015
WHAT: The Brookline Public Library is looking for volunteers to help with its 4th Annual Family Fall Fest WHEN: October 29th from 2-5pm. DUTIES: Volunteers will help set up tables, manage the crowd around our face painter, pass out delicious fall themed snacks, supervise pumpkin painting and gourd bowling, and clean up. CONTACT: Please contact Caroline Richardson by email at [email protected].
Posted June 3, 2015
LWB is recruiting two Automation Specialists to help a Guatemalan library scale to serve more community members in the rural, mountainous town of Chajul, Guatemala. The library has a great problem: a quickly growing patron base! Because its processes are mostly manual, LWB is working with them to automate some of their work in order to…
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Posted May 20, 2015
The Reading Room/Reference Volunteer will provide support to the Phillips Library reference staff to better serve and provide access to our patrons. The library serves the needs of the public, visiting researchers, PEM members, staff, and curators. The reference staff provides patron orientations to the library, access to the collections, answers to questions both in…
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Posted May 11, 2015
The WLC in Waban is looking for graduate students who are interested in working a minimum of two – three hours per week this summer at our small community run library. Our summer schedule is Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and two Saturdays per month from 10:00 -1:00. The Wednesday and Thursday hours are not set…
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Posted April 28, 2015
The New England Wild Flower Society is currently seeking volunteers for its library located at Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Road, Framingham. The current volunteer positions are for library staff, and Head Librarian; our library has a unique collection of over 4,500 botanical and horticultural books located on the lower level of the Education Building at…
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Posted April 22, 2015
Duration: April – August (Flexible) Compensation: Unpaid, College Credit Available Location: Learn Launch Offices, Boston, MA We are seeking a spring-summer intern from the School of Library and Information Sciences to work on an important project for a cutting-edge special education technology start-up. We are looking for a graduate student with distinct knowledge of taxonomies,…
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Posted April 8, 2015
WHAT: The Brookline Public Library is looking for volunteers to help with its annual Readathon event WHEN: April 30th from 5:45 – 7:30pm DUTIES: Volunteers will help set up tables, manage the crowd around our bookmark making activity, passing out delicious Trader Joe’s snacks, and clean up. CONTACT: Please contact Caroline Richardson by email at [email protected].
Posted March 3, 2015
Are you planning to attend the MARAC/NEA Spring 2015 meeting? The Program Committee is looking for session reporters. Session reporters will write up a short summary of a session for publication in the NEA Newsletter. This is a great opportunity to contribute and become more involved with NEA; it also looks great on your resume….
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