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Paid Information Governance Internship Opportunity at JEA!
Closing Date: Mar 31, 2025, 8:59:00 PM EST

Published by: Andrew Wiegert, March 18th, 2025

 

JEA is seeking students for our paid 2025 Summer Internship Program. Students selected to participate in our Internship Program will have an opportunity to gain real world, on-the-job experience, and network with business professionals to develop valuable leadership, professional etiquette and presentation skills.

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Nuclear Information and Records Management Association (NIRMA) Scholarship 2025
Application deadline extended to March 31st!

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Published by: Andrew Wiegert, March 18th, 2025

 

The winner will be celebrated at the NIRMA Symposium (held in St. Augustine, FL July 28-30, 2025).

 

Scholarship Mission:

To spread awareness of Nuclear Records and Information Management (RIM) as a career path to draw talent toward the nuclear industry with a sustainable scholarship that can be offered annually.

 

Eligibility:

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National Archives Summer 2025 Voluntary Internship Opportunities
Multiple locations, deadline is 3/28/25

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Published by: Andrew Wiegert, March 18th, 2025

 

A voluntary internship is an occupational experience designed to complement your formal academic training. Although these internships are unpaid, they can be completed for academic credit or internship requirements required by your school. 

This is a unique chance to complement your students’ academic training with real-world experience. Although our internships are unpaid, they can be completed for academic credit or to fulfill internship or service hour requirements.

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SAA Call for Emerging Professionals – Open positions
Deadline: February 28, 2025

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Published: January 29, 2025 by Andy Wiegert

 

Are you a professional? Are you emerging?

Then the Emerging Professional positions may be for you!

These committees are intended to build skills and knowledge in working collaboratively to advance the mission and goals of an organization like the SAA Foundation. The positions are open to those who are students, new to the field, or early career—ex officio, with a vote.

 

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Can You Read Cursive Handwriting? The National Archives Wants Your Help
Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible.

Published: January 22, 2025 by Andy Wiegert

 

Become a Volunpeer for the Smithsonian!  #Volunpeer

Since June of 2013, the Smithsonian’s community of “volunpeers” have collaboratively transcribed and reviewed over a million pages of field notes, diaries, ledgers, logbooks, currency proof sheets, photo albums, manuscripts, biodiversity specimen labels, and historic audio recordings

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UCSB AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (ACTION) Summer Graduate Fellowship opportunity!
Application deadline: February 16, 2025

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Published: January 16, 2025 by Andy Wiegert

 

Organization summary:

The ACTION Institute is a nexus for educational institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and industry by training the next-generation cybersecurity workforce and transitioning novel AI-powered technology into real-world security operations.

 

Important Dates:

Application deadline - February 16, 2025

Internship dates - June 22 – August 15, 2025

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Society of American Archivists – F. Gerald Ham and Elise Ham Scholarship
Due date - February 28, 2025

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Published: January 16, 2024 by Andy Wiegert

 

Description:

The F. Gerald Ham and Elsie Ham Scholarship is available to graduate students pursuing studies in professional archival studies. To be considered for this award, you must have completed at least three credit hours of graduate study. Selection is based on academic merit, past performance in archival studies, and a faculty member’s assessment of the student’s prospects for contributing to the archives profession.

 

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Archives Intern Wanted: Nichols House Museum, Boston, MA
From: February – April 2025 - Apply by: January 13, 2025

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Published: December 2, 2024 by Andy Wiegert

 

Hello MARA peeps! Check out this paid archives internship!

If you are a current grad student and reside in the Boston area, the Nichols House Museum is seeking an Archives Intern for 10 weeks, onsite one day per week during February – April 2025 for up to 10 hours per week. The Intern will receive a $1,500 stipend in two installments.

 

Qualifications:

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Electronic Records & Lifecycle Governance Intern
Summer 2025 June/July - Irving, Texas

 

Published: October 3, 2024 by Andy Wiegert

 

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$17.33 – $28.88

 

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

 

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Summer 2024 Internship, National Baseball Hall of Fame, (Cooperstown, NY)
APPLICATIONS DUE JANUARY 31st

Published: January 19, 2024 by Andy Wiegert

The National Baseball Hall of Fame is accepting applications for Summer 2024 internship positions! 

For more than twenty years, the Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development has provided undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on training in numerous professional careers. This 10-week program offers a bi-weekly stipend for all interns and can be completed for course credit. Scholarships are available!

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Remote Work: PT Catalogers (term), The Winthrop Group – No application close date listed

Compensation - $28 per hour

Project work is expected to begin in early November 2023 and will run for 12-14 months. Each Cataloger will be expected to contribute a total of 1,360 hours (equivalent to 170 days) to the project, with a weekly limit of 29 hours. Winthrop and Foundation staff will provide supervision and training. All work will be conducted remotely.

Work Responsibilities

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Meet Our New MARA Instructor Junia Papas

Published: July 1, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

The archives and records management profession continues to grow with creative innovations and so does our MARA faculty. One of our newest archives faculty members, Junia Papas, MARA, CA, brings to our department a uniquely useful set of professional experiences. Papas is an independent archivist in her own consulting firm, Junia Papas Archival Consulting, LLC., with extensive experience with government, academic, and religious archives.

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A Preservica Professional Development Opportunity

Published: February 12, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

MARA 283 instructs students in vital software skills for archivists and records managers – working knowledge of Microsoft Sharepoint and Preservica. When I explored and priced Preservica three years ago for smaller institutions, who can also benefit from this superior archival management system, purchasing it was cost prohibitive. But no more.

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Dr. Pat Franks Advances AI Research in Records and Information Management
Major research results prepared for InterPARES Trust AI

Published: February 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

AI is frequently featured in almost everything these days, especially in business technology. The promise of AI to aid in managing the big data that we create in the course of normal business operations is widely desired and widely advertised. The phone or chat bot are small examples of AI assistance in business functions. How could AI be used to perform archives and records management functions?