Posted April 7, 2025
Description The intern will work under the supervision of Saco Museum staff 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 online…
Posted April 3, 2025
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…
Posted April 2, 2025
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…
Posted April 2, 2025
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…
Posted April 2, 2025
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…
Posted April 1, 2025
Description: Library and Information Services (LIS) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) invites applications for a University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at the rank of Instructor on a 4-year term with the option to renew. We are seeking a collaborative and knowledgeable professional with expertise in inventorying, arranging, processing, describing, preserving, making discoverable, and…
Posted March 31, 2025
Description Amherst College invites applications for the Project Cataloger position. The Project Cataloger is a part-time, casual position with no benefits, starting at $22/hour – commensurate with experience. Given Amherst’s distinction as one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges in the country, the successful candidate will demonstrate the ways in which they bring value…
Posted March 25, 2025
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…
Posted March 24, 2025
Description The DCR Plans Library collects and preserves architectural, engineering, landscape, and land survey plans that were produced or acquired by DCR and its predecessor agencies. This collection includes more than 100,000 plans, from the 1890s to the present, documenting planning initiatives, construction projects and land ownership in the state park system. Responsibilities Create item-level…
Posted March 19, 2025
Job Summary: The Commission seeks a full-time Archivist to organize and maintain its public archive and create in-person and online programming that promotes the archive and highlights Cambridge history. The archive is founded on an architectural inventory containing survey forms, photographs, and documentation on all 13,000± buildings in the city that is currently being digitized….
