Volunteer Opportunities
Posted October 10th, 2020
Description: The New England Archivists (NEA) is dedicated to cultivating membership, participation, and leadership that reflect the broad diversity of our region and our profession. Inclusion and diversity are core organizational values at the heart of the NEA’s mission. The Inclusion and Diversity Committee (IDC) strives to build and maintain an inclusive and equitable professional environment where differences of opinion, beliefs, and values are not only sought and listened…
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Posted August 21st, 2020
Description: Looking to volunteer? We need you! Here are some specific ways you can get involved with NELA: Join the Information Freedom Committee: The Information Freedom Committee welcomes some insight into the issues faced in each NE state and what the NELA IFC can do to help. The overall time commitment is pretty minimal, and…
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Posted September 26th, 2019
Description The small object next to a computer keyboard is most likely to be a computer mouse, not an elephant. In the real world, objects often co-vary with other objects and particular environments. In the project, we have two primary goals. The first is to develop an understanding for the brain’s ability to process and…
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Posted August 16th, 2019
The Edna V. Bynoe Library at Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Roxbury, MA, is looking for Volunteer 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….
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Posted August 16th, 2019
What: The Brookline Public Library’s Second-Annual Mid-Autumn Festival Event Last year, this event attracted 200+ community members over the course of two hours. This year, we’ve opened up our entire library at Coolidge Corner for the event and are expecting to double the number of attendees. Where: The Coolidge Corner Library at 31 Pleasant Street,…
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Posted March 1st, 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 20th, 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 15th, 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 8th, 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 30th, 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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