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19 people are interested
Library Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
Please visit the new page to apply.
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19 people are interested
Are you obsessed with order, and proud of it? If so, we want you! We are seeking detail-oriented individuals to help in our library. No experience needed; our amazing librarian Miranda will tell you everything you need to know. Duties may include:
- Book maintenance - spine label replacement, shelf reading (making sure books are in order)
- Gleaning (extracting) newspaper clippings for files, and filing
- Cutting, creating, and filing obituary cards
- Deaccessioning (removing) of materials from collection
- Assisting collections staff with arranging, preserving, and/or describing archival materials (photographs, manuscripts, film, etc.)
- Assist staff with research projects, typically for publications (citing sources, fact checking, and/or finding photographs)
- Assist visitors to our library
Actual duties will vary with needs of the library and staff. Shifts are scheduled as needed by staff, Monday - Saturday. Join Us!
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About Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
Location:
200 2ND ST NE, CHARLOTTESVLE, VA 22902, US
Mission Statement
The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society nurtures and promotes awareness and appreciation of local history by encouraging the identification, collection, study, and preservation of the materials of history; by striving for excellence and quality in research and interpretation of collections and local history; and by disseminating knowledge through educational activities, so that the past may shed light on the present and the future.
Description
Founded in 1940, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society (Society) is a private, non-profit educational organization (IRS 501 (c) 3) that seeks to study, preserve, and promote the history of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. The Society is a membership organization, open to all, and receives no continuing operating support from federal, state or local governments but rather relies on membership fees, gifts and donations, and grants from private foundations.
The Society's research library, administered by a librarian on the staff of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, contains over 2,000 books and bound periodicals, as well as manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, newspapers, and vertical files relating to the history of our community. Additionally, the archival collection contains over 1,500 artifacts of historical significance to Charlottesville and Albemarle County in addition to over 60,000 photographic images.
The Society is located in downtown Charlottesville in the historic McIntire Building. Designed in the Beaux Arts style by architect Walter Dabney Blair, the McIntire Buidling was completed in 1921 and donated by local civic benefactor Paul Goodloe McIntire to the City of Charlottesville as the city's first municipal library. Following an extensive renovation by the Society of this city-owned building in 1993 and the Society moved into it in January 1994.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
200 2nd St NECharlottesvilleCharlottesville, VA 22902
DATE POSTED
March 8, 2021
SKILLS
- Library Sciences
- Customer Service
- Curating
- Research
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- 4-8 hours