Help the Archives! Become a Volunteer Subject File Aide
ORGANIZATION: Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), Archives and Records Services
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Purpose:
Assist professional staff in maintaining a collection of 30,000 subject files with published information relating to Mississippians, places, organizations, events, and issues. This support shall assist Mississippi Department of Archives and History staff in providing public access to the archival resources of the state.
Responsibilities:
- Assign subject file headings to items to be placed in the collection(newspaper and magazine articles, flyers, brochures, programs, and other printed materials)
- Evaluate new materials
- Help reorganize existing subject files
- Update Subject File Requirements List as needed
- Help professional staffretrieve and re-file subject files, books, maps, and broadsides as needed
- Other special projects as assigned
Qualifications:
- Knowledge of and interest in Mississippi history and current events
- Good judgment and analytical ability
- Excellent reading, spelling, organizational, and filing skills
- Attention to detail
- Initiative and ability to complete work unsupervised
- Basic computer skills and online search skills
- Ability to follow instructions
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationship with MDAH staff
Requirements:
- Successful completion of training
- Knowledge of, and adherence to, Published Information section policies and procedures
- Dependability and maturity
Time Commitment:
- Continuous service assignment, minimum of two four (4) hour shifts per week
- Twelve (12) hours of volunteer service per year at Archives and Records Services are required to remain on the active volunteer list
Benefits:
- The satisfaction of volunteering with professional archivists and librarians in one of the premier state archives in the United States (William F. Winter Building)
- Volunteer enrichment activities
- Documented volunteer service for work or school
- A 15% discount at Mississippi History Store locations
- All training and training-related materials provided by Archives and Records Services
- Volunteer appreciation activities provided by MDAH
Reports to: Published Information section head
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About Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), Archives and Records Services
Location:
200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201, US
Mission Statement
Archives and Records Services oversees the state archives and research library, where documents, photographs, census records, audio visual materials, publications, digital materials, and other items are made available to the public.
Description
The Archives and Records Services Division is located in the William F. Winter Building on North Street and in the State Records Center on High Street. The division oversees the state archives and research library, where documents, photographs, census records, audio visual materials, publications, digital materials, and other items are made available, and professional historians and archivists assist with questions relating to all aspects of Mississippi's history, as well as answer telephone and mail inquiries. Archivists also organize, describe, catalog, and preserve the collections, so that they can be made available for research. Volunteers assist archives staff in processing and preserving the collections, and providing the public access to centuries' worth of resources for research related to Mississippi subjects and people, free of charge. The collections span the days of prehistory and Native Americans to the Civil War, the Civil Rights era, and beyond.
In addition, the division oversees records management programs for state agencies and municipal and county governments. Archivists provide training in records management and emergency preparedness, schedule agency records, inventory local government records, and consult with officials about the appropriate management of government records. Volunteers assist government archivists with clerical tasks relating to records committee meetings, workshops, and special grant projects.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
200 North StreetJackson, MS 39201
DATE POSTED
July 23, 2014
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- weekly four hour shift