Posted February 6, 2021
Description: The Portsmouth (RI) Historical Society (PHS) seeks a temporary, part time Registrar to join our team of history enthusiasts. The Registrar will primarily be responsible for assessing the status of the holdings and sites of the PHS and developing a system of cataloguing the current holdings and locations, using current records and PastPerfect software…
Posted January 21, 2021
Description: The Corner Co-op Nursery School seeks a Project Archivist to help us plan how to inventory, organize, and access our collection of documents, organizational records and photographs, in preparation for our 50th anniversary in June 2022. This would be the first step in the process, generating a report which helps us assess what needs…
Posted January 15, 2021
Description: This position is located in the Library of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, a four year, accredited, degree-granting institution. This is an excellent opportunity to enter the federal workforce. Major responsibilities include: copy cataloging, catalog maintenance, archival processing, inventorying incoming collections, digitizing materials, creating metadata for digital assets, working with digital…
Posted January 12, 2021
Description: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (“Foundation”) is a not-for-profit, grant making organization that believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through its grants, the Foundation seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered…
Posted January 12, 2021
Description: Fallingwater, a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, seeks applications for its Judy Cheteyan Collections Internship. This year we seek a full-time residency intern to work exclusively with the archives collection. Working under the supervision of the Director of Preservation and Collections and Registrar, the Collections Intern will select one or…
Posted January 12, 2021
Description: The MIT Department of Distinctive Collections (DDC) seeks a temporary, part-time Web Archiving Assistant to perform quality assurance procedures on web archives crawls undertaken this year and other minor tasks related to web archiving. Interest or experience with web archiving or web development encourage. This is a part-time position (10 to 15 hours per…
Posted December 18, 2020
Description: Brandeis University is accepting applications for a Manager of Digital Distinctive Collections. This person will manage strategies for Brandeis’s University Archives and Special Collections materials in the 21st century that transcend collection management and incorporate dynamic activities in the areas of discovery, digital presence, and alliances with faculty, students, and staff across the university,…
Posted December 8, 2020
Description: The Town of Lincoln is seeking a part-time, 13 hours per week Archivist who, under the Direction of both the Library Director and the Town Clerk, would be responsible for the daily operation of the Town Archives. Applicants should possess an ALA accredited Master’s degree in Library and Information Science (MLIS) with specialization in…
Posted November 17, 2020
Description: The Town of Bedford Archives is looking for a motivated student or recent graduate to perform an unpaid internship centered on organizing a large collection pertaining to Bedford’s Conservation Commission. Tasks will include collating, culling, and otherwise processing a collection that has been physically split in half over time. Duties: Collating the two sections…
Posted November 13, 2020
Description: The purpose of this position is to access, process, arrange, catalog, and prepare finding aids for manuscript material, architectural records, photographs and negatives, ephemera, artifacts and all other “special materials” in the Beck Cultural Center Collection related to Knoxville’s Urban Renewal in the mid-Twentieth Century. Duties include, but are not limited to: supervising staff,…
