Volunteer Opportunities
Posted March 1, 2019
The Curatorial Department at the USS Constitution Museum seeks an Archives Volunteer to assist the Archivist with processing, digitization, and other archival projects as needed. The USS Constitution Museum, located in the Charlestown Navy Yard, serves as the memory and educational voice of USS Constitution by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the stories of “Old Ironsides” and the…
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Posted February 20, 2019
The Edna V. Bynoe Library at Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School is looking for Assistant Librarians. The school has a student body of almost 1000 children, all of whom visit the beautiful library on a weekly basis. Kids in grades K-3 have scheduled classes, which consist of read-alouds and choosing books. The older kids visit…
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Posted February 15, 2019
Objective: Set up methods to pull journal usage statistics from several sources (directly from each publisher as well as EBSCO’s Full Text Finder, EBSCO’s nursing database CINAHL, and the government database PubMed) and to aggregate the data, noting changes in publishers. Schedule: Start date, workdays, and hours negotiable during 9-5:30. Accessible by public transportation….
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Posted January 8, 2019
Are you looking to use some of the skills you are learning in your Archives classes at Simmons? A volunteer opportunity is available to organize approximately 4 boxes of materials located in the Simmons Archives on campus. They originated from a former chapter of Special Libraries Association of New England, and need to be inventoried,…
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Posted November 30, 2018
Hello Graduate Students! Are you ready to be a pal? The time has come to recruit for the 2018-2019 Promising Pals program! The Promising Pals program is a mentoring/literacy pen pal program at theJames P. Timilty School, a Boston public middle school located in Roxbury thatserves grades 6-8. Pals will exchange at least four letters with a middleschool student between December 2018 and May 2019, and must…
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Posted November 27, 2018
Bring your Good Organizational Skills to Archive Art Photographs The Umbrella Community Arts Center Are you skilled at organizing photos? What: Help the Umbrella’s Education Department organize and cull their photo collection. About the project: Be part of the Education team and help us organize our photos to assist our marketing efforts. We are preparing…
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Posted October 22, 2018
Student Ambassadors Wanted April 3-5, 2019 52nd Annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book FestivalThe University of Southern MississippiHattiesburg, MS Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival:The mission of the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival is to recognize excellence in the field of children’s literature and to provide librarians, teachers, researchers and community members the opportunity to learn about…
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Posted September 25, 2018
Brookline Public Library Looking for Event Volunteers WHAT: The Brookline Public Library is looking for volunteers to help with our seventh annual Family Fall Fest WHEN: Tuesday, October 23th from 2-5pm. DUTIES: Volunteer for two, or three hours to help set up tables, manage the crowd around our face painter, pass out delicious cider, supervise pumpkin painting and…
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Posted September 11, 2018
2018 NELA/RILA Conference – Ambassador Volunteers Needed**Early Bird Pricing Ends Friday, Sept. 14th!** There is no better way to get involved in NELA and learn the ropes than to volunteer! There are many ways to volunteer – taking photos of the programs, helping at the registration desk, and even working with the speakers at specific…
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Posted June 12, 2018
Job Title: Library/Archives Assistant Background: The Roxbury Latin School seeks a volunteer or volunteers to work in the archives and library during the 2018-2019 school year. This is a perfect opportunity for students on either the library or archives tracks to gain transferable skills for academic, school, and private institutions. The Roxbury Latin School is…
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