Description
The City of Edmonton Archives is looking for a motivated, energetic and self-starting summer student who is interested in learning about archives.
In a supportive and supervised environment, you will gain practical experience in important aspects of archival work through processing, preserving, and making accessible archival records. Reporting to the Supervising Archivist, you will complete some projects and experience a range of archival tasks. This is an ideal position for a graduate student enrolled in a Master of Information Studies with a specialization in Archival Studies or a related field (undergraduate students are eligible and encouraged to apply as well).
The student will get to attend and contribute to archives staff meetings, job-shadow archivists on the reference desk, and contribute to the following projects:
The first set of projects involve completing the arrangement, processing and description of three Community League Fonds, taking them from unprocessed accessions to completed fonds with a finding aid made available on our Access to Memory Database. These collections include textual paper records, photographs, books, and machine readable records, and will involve removing duplicates, rehousing in acid free file folders, assisting with the processing of machine readable records, digitizing photographs, and creating a file list and description of the records.
The other project involves working to complete a survey of our accessions backlog and helping the archives select the priorities for processing in the future.
As a part of the team, you will:
- Physically arranging and describing bodies of records
- Assist with collections management
- Assist with digitization
- Assist with reference service
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