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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? 

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SAA Archives – Records 2023
The Premiere Conference for Archives and Records Management

Published: January 15, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

Archivists and records managers wait each year for the announcement on the location of our esteemed and informative conference – the annual Society of American Archivists (SAA) Archives – Records Meeting.  This year, the week – long meeting will be held in Washington DC, with the famed Washington Hilton slated as the conference host venue.  

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‘What I Did Last Summer’ – My Internship in Oral History at Swarthmore College

Published: August 18, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

Vacation days are over and the semester begins in a mere four days.  Some were fortunate to take beach getaways, while others hiked the NE mountains with friends and family. I am hoping that after you read this summertime report, you will email me with your own stories and photos that I will share on this blog.

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Welcome to MARA 2022 – 2023!

Melissa Prunty Kemp

Published: August 18, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

Welcome new and continuing students to MARA 2022 -2023! We’re back for another exciting year of classes and professional activities. If this is your first semester,  you may wonder where to get started in and outside of classes.

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Keeping Up With Career Opportunities

Published: August 18, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

Throughout the fall 2022 semester, take a look at the individual career positions being compiled into the 2023 MARA Jobs Report. Positions are being added to the jobs folder weekly from August to November 30, 2022. The report will be compiled and available at the beginning of the spring 2023 semester.