Posted December 16, 2024
Job Description: The Imaging Processing Assistant will create digital components for digital projects and web presentations focusing on the Massachusetts Historical Society’s collections. The position is part of the digital production team within the Collections Services department and the work of the Image Processing Assistant contributes to the Society’s mission to make its archival and…
Posted December 16, 2024
Job Description: The Library Assistant I – Reproductions (LAI-R) provides direct service to mresearchers seeking access to MHS collections ensuring both access to and the security of the library’s holdings. The LAI-R achieves this primarily through creating reference quality reproductions of collection materials and staffing the circulation desk. The position is essential in promoting the…
Posted December 4, 2024
Job Description: Purpose: The Library Assistant I – Circulation (LAI-C) provides direct service to researchers seeking access to MHS collections ensuring both access to and the security of the library’s holdings, primarily through staffing the Society’s circulation desk and paging materials from the closed stacks. The position is essential in promoting the Society’s public image…
Posted December 2, 2024
The Wellesley Historical Society is the only non-profit entity dedicated to collecting,preserving and sharing the history of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Founded in 1925, theSociety serves the community at two historic buildings and through external programsincluding a popular free Speaker Series, Historic Walking Tours, an October Craft Beerevent, trivia night event, and the Annual Spring Gala. The…
Posted September 25, 2024
Summary:The Wellesley Historical Society seeks an enthusiastic, organized, and community-focused professional to serve as the Exhibit and Collections Manager. Position to begin immediately and is open until filled. The Exhibit and Collections Manager will serve as the Society’s exhibit manager and will be responsible for exhibit research, design, and implementation. In addition, the position will…
Posted January 25, 2024
Purpose: The Library Assistant I – Circulation (LAI-C) provides direct service to researchersseeking access to MHS collections ensuring both access to and the security of the library’sholdings, primarily through staffing the Society’s circulation desk and paging materials from theclosed stacks. The position is essential in promoting the Society’s public image and inmaintaining the security of…
Posted September 29, 2023
Job Description The Access Librarian plays a central role in facilitating access to the Vermont Historical Society Library’s varied research collections, through cataloging, digitization, and building relationships with educators and scholars. The position leads the library’s program of cataloging books, serials, maps, manuscripts, oral histories, born digital collections, and other materials in the Society’s library,…
Posted August 4, 2023
The Massachusetts Historical Society, located in Boston, Mass., seeks a full-time Digital Production &Metadata Specialist to work with the MHS’ vast collection of documents and artifacts, which tell the story of Massachusetts and America from colonial times to the present. Purpose:The Digital Production & Metadata Specialist (DPMS) creates digital components for digital projects,web exhibitions, outside…
Posted June 9, 2023
Purpose:The Reference Librarian for Researcher Services supports by prioritizing excellence in customer service throughout the readers services staff, ensuring the library program’s ability to meet current researcher needs, and providing reference assistance to onsite and remote researchers. This position is essential to public access to and the security of the Society’s collections. Reporting Relationships:This position…
Posted April 18, 2023
Job Description The Rhode Island Historical Society (RIHS) seeks an enthusiastic and service-oriented Reference Librarian at the Mary E. Robinson Research Center (RRC) in Providence, Rhode Island to provide reference and research services to facilitate the use of its paper-based and multimedia collections, and bibliographic instruction to students, educators, and other user groups. “Collections” at…
