Posted February 9, 2018
Do you have a blog? Would you like to have one, and wish you could get started? You’re in luck – SLIS Admission is looking for bloggers! The SLIS Admission Office maintains a current student blog titled Student Snippets: The SLIS Experience. Prospective master’s students in children’s literature and LIS are our target audience. The blog is intended to be…
Posted February 6, 2018
The NEA Newsletter is looking for volunteers to serve as session reporters at the 2018 Spring Meeting in New Haven, Connecticut! Session reporters will write a summary of their assigned session(s) for publication in the July 2018 issue of the Newsletter. One reporter is needed for each of the 20 concurrent sessions to take place in five blocks on…
Posted February 5, 2018
Volunteer Opportunity at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, March 5th-9th Project Title: Preservation Week: Papers of John F. Kennedy: Condolence Mail Project Description: The 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination combined with the opening of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Papers and the recent publication of popular books using condolence mail has generated more interest…
Posted January 30, 2018
This year’s theme, Disrupt the Ordinary, centers on the need to change how we think, behave, and do business in an era of accelerating innovation. For a full conference schedule, visit simmons.edu/leadership. Benefits of volunteering: Attend the conference sessions when not officially “working.” Access to complimentary video-on-demand recordings of most sessions after the conference….
Posted November 22, 2017
The Public Library of Brookline is looking for a volunteer to help staff our Teen Room every other Friday during the school year. Volunteers will work an average of 3 hours a week on every other Friday, between 2-5 PM between their start date and June 8, 2018. Duties will include: providing information to patrons…
Posted October 25, 2017
Title: Database Services Volunteers Description: Seeking volunteers to help scan record materials and index documents. At New England Historic Genealogical Society we depend on the help of our volunteers to provide the bulk of the data we organize into searchable databases. Volunteering can be done from the comfort of your own home, whenever you have…
Posted October 24, 2017
One time Volunteer Opportunity: Wednesday 10/24/2017 3-5 people needed to help box up 2000 books that Horn Book Magazine is donating to The Boston Public Schools. Maura O’Toole will be at the office from 9-11, but volunteers can come for as little or as long as they have time for. Horn Book Magazine is located in the Palace Road…
Posted October 11, 2017
Winship Elementary School’s Library is seeking volunteers throughout the 2017-2018 school year. This is a great opportunity to work with children in a library setting and learn about various aspects of circulation systems, whether you want to be a public librarian or school librarian. Responsibilities: Shelving: placing books back on the shelves according to the…
Posted October 10, 2017
Would you like to get teaching experience working with adults? Literacy Volunteers of MA at the Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell trains volunteers who provide free, confidential and individualized or small group tutoring to adults in basic literacy and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). Literacy volunteers help adults acquire the literacy and English…
Posted September 28, 2017
America’s Test Kitchen is seeking five volunteers from the Simmons MLIS program to help move our collection of over 4,500 cookbooks and magazines from our current home in Brookline to our new home in the Seaport. We are looking for students who can work from 10 am to 3 pm on Thursday, October 5th and/or…
