MARA Blog: Careers
SAA Call for Emerging Professionals – Open positions
Deadline: February 28, 2025
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.
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Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible.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
UCSB AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (ACTION) Summer Graduate Fellowship opportunity!
Application deadline: February 16, 2025
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
Society of American Archivists – F. Gerald Ham and Elise Ham Scholarship
Due date - February 28, 2025
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.
Archives Department Intern, Special Collections Boston Public Library, (Boston, MA)
Spring Semester - 2025
Published: December 6, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
Greetings MARA compatriots! Here is another cool opportunity to build your experience with an established institution in Boston. Especially great for those who have an interest in libraries as well.
Archives Intern Wanted: Nichols House Museum, Boston, MA
From: February – April 2025 - Apply by: January 13, 2025
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:
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.
2024 National Cybersecurity Virtual Career Fair
Friday, September 27, 2024
Published: September 26, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
The National Cybersecurity Training and Education (NCyTE) Center and the Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cybersecurity Community are hosting the eighth annual National Cybersecurity Virtual Career Fair.
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!
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
Paid Spring Interns, Remote and In Person – National Council for Preservation Education – Deadline 11-07-23
Hourly rate ranges from $17 to $24; check the job posting for details
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.
Keeping Up With Career Development
Published: June 26, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Shore-up Your Professional Development Connections
Join the Society of American Archivist Professional Listings
Published: May 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
With graduation around the
corner, MARA students are leaving their students routines of the
past three or more years and moving into professional
lives. Now is the perfect time to engage in professional
development organizations and activities if you have not already
done so.
Contribute to the Future of AI Research in Records and Information Management
Take the InterPARES Trust AI Survey
Published: March 18, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Dr. Franks and her team are continuing their artificial intelligence (AI) research by gathering information on AI use in the field from current archivists and records managers.
Artificial Intelligence is Among Us!
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.
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?
“Forever or Five Years”: Record-keeping and Human Thriving
Spring 2023 University Scholar Series
Published: February 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
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.
Inside the Archive: California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive with the curator of CEMA at UC Santa Barbara
Published: November 9, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Join Angel Diaz, the curator of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive at UC Santa Barbsara, for her presentation titled Inside the Archive.