A new offering from the Roving Archivist Program
What is the Archival Field Fellowship Program?
The Roving Archivist Program’s Archival Field Fellowships serve a
twofold function:
- to increase the amount of hands-on assistance the Program can offer to Massachusetts repositories
- to provide emerging archivists with professional mentorship.
The Field Fellowships pair repositories previously visited
by the Roving Archivist with an Archival Field Fellow trained in archival
management to assist in implementing the recommendations laid out in the Roving
Archivist’s Strategic Assessment and Program Review. The Field Fellows will
work onsite processing an archival collection and be supervised remotely by the
Roving Archivist. In addition to professional experience and mentorship, the
Archival Field Fellow will receive a stipend of $1000 for approximately 60
hours of work.
What are the
Requirements for a Fellow?
- Interested candidates must be enrolled at, or be
a recent graduate from, a college or university at the graduate level pursing a
degree in information and library science, archival management, history, public
history, or a related field. (note, no academic credit is awarded to fellows) - Must have demonstrated knowledge of archival
theory and standards. - Ability to work independently.
- Must arrange own transportation.
- Availability to complete the field project
within two months, working part-time or full-time.
Fellowship Outcomes:
- Apply archival principles and standards to arrange,
rehouse, and describe an archival collection. - Work with the repository to share the collection
finding aid online. - Write a blog post about the field site and
processing project for the MA SHRAB blog. - Submit a brief summary of the archival field
fellowship to the SHRAB.
Applying for the
Archival Field Fellowship Program:
- Submit the following to SHRAB@sec.state.ma.us with the subject line “Roving Archivist Archival Field Fellowship:”
- resume
- One-page letter of interest including an indication of preferred geographic area of the state for field placement as well as an estimate on the months/days-of-week/hours-per-week available.
- Letter of recommendation from a professor or program director who can speak to the applicant’s knowledge of and/or experience in archival studies, or from an archives employer/internship supervisor.
- Application Deadline: July 10, 2019
- The MA SHRAB will match Archival Field Fellows with repositories who have received a Strategic Assessment from the Roving Archivist Program.
For more information see the SHRAB’s website www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcaac
or email SHRAB@sec.state.ma.us