Grant announcement: Apply for collection processing assistance and archival supply regrant – deadline Oct. 4, 2024

Grant announcement: Apply for collection processing assistance and archival supply regrant – deadline Oct. 4, 2024

Institutional ‘Host’ Application for Archival Field Fellowship: Application Deadline: October 4, 2024, by noon, EST Through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory...
A small, yet deceptively complicated collection: Processing multi-format, multi-generation family papers in Lincoln.

A small, yet deceptively complicated collection: Processing multi-format, multi-generation family papers in Lincoln.

Author: Matthew Lawrence, Archival Field Fellow Lincoln Public Library, January 2024 Lincoln Public Library is located in the center of a proud rural community located roughly twenty miles west of Boston. Town records are housed in two locations: vital records are...
“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater!”: Navigating legacy files during collection re-processing at the Golden Ball Tavern Museum

“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater!”: Navigating legacy files during collection re-processing at the Golden Ball Tavern Museum

The Archival Field Fellowship is a grant offered by the Roving Archivist Program. The Fellowships increase hands-on assistance to Massachusetts repositories and provide emerging archivists with professional experience and mentorship. In 2022-2023, six...