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Burt Altman, FSU Libraries Liz Dunham, BL T Museum Consultants Ava Iuliano, USF Libraries

A Win-Win Situation: Finding Interns and Volunteers for Your Archives Society of Florida Archivists May 7, 2010. Burt Altman, FSU Libraries Liz Dunham, BL T Museum Consultants Ava Iuliano, USF Libraries. Outline. Society of American Archivists: History and Development The Internship Process

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Burt Altman, FSU Libraries Liz Dunham, BL T Museum Consultants Ava Iuliano, USF Libraries

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  1. A Win-Win Situation: Finding Interns and Volunteers for Your ArchivesSociety of Florida ArchivistsMay 7, 2010 Burt Altman, FSU Libraries Liz Dunham, BL T Museum Consultants Ava Iuliano, USF Libraries

  2. Outline • Society of American Archivists: History and Development • The Internship Process • Strategies for Recruiting Interns and Volunteers • Wrap Up and Questions

  3. Historical Background • Society of American Archivist’s (SAA) inception in 1936 • Development of History Departments in Universities

  4. Historical Background • 1945- SAA’s Joint Committee on Internships • 1970s- SAA’s Survey of Education by Committee on Education and Training, later refined by its Committee on Education and Professional Development • 1980s through 2002- Guidelines for Graduate Archival Studies programs

  5. Historical Background • Emergence of archival tracks within Library and Information Science and History Programs as well as the development of Doctoral programs • Diminishing resources • Trends towards volunteers

  6. The Internship Process: Site Supervisors and Students

  7. The Internship Process: Libraries • Florida State University Library/University of South Florida Libraries • Types of Projects • Advertising • Applications • Learning Objectives • Evaluations

  8. The Internship Process: Museums • Museum Studies • Anthropology • Africana Studies • American Studies • Environmental Studies • Library Science

  9. The Internship Process: Museums

  10. The Internship Process: Museums

  11. Strategies for Recruiting Interns and Volunteers

  12. Recruiting Interns and Volunteers • Interns • History • Public History • Library Science • Museum Studies • Technology

  13. Recruiting Interns and Volunteers • Volunteers • Library Science and Archival graduates • Alumni and retirees of the university • Former interns who have graduated and are deciding on grad school • Former researchers • Former teachers

  14. Recruiting Interns and Volunteers • Volunteers • Your Career Services Department • Serving as an SAA Key Contact • Speaking to history/public history classes • Friends groups • Contacting local colleges and universities Volunteers Karlene Messer (left) and Betty Winn work on indexing and preparing delayed birth records for the Oregon Historical Records Index.

  15. Recruiting Interns and Volunteers • Benefits • Gets needed work done • Provides hands-on work experience to potential archivists • Way of publicizing the uses of archives • Encourages younger generations to support the activities museums, archives, historical societies, etc. • Supports the profession as a whole

  16. Recruiting Interns and Volunteers • University of South Florida • Graduate Assistants • Volunteers • Classroom recruiting • Word-of-mouth • Email lists

  17. Recruiting Interns and Volunteers: Museums

  18. Suggested Resources Bastian, J. & Webber, D. (2008). Archival internships: A guide for faculty, supervisors, and students. Chicago: Society of American Archivists. Using Volunteers for Special-Project Staffing at the National Air and Space Museum Archives" American Archivist, Volume 54, Number 2, Spring 1991, pp.176-183.

  19. Conclusion Questions?

  20. Thank you! Burt Altman, CA University Librarian/Archivist FSU Libraries, Special Collections baltman@fsu.edu Liz Dunham BL T Museum Consultants, LLC ELD47A@Juno.com Ava Iuliano Graduate Assistant USF Libraries aiuliano@lib.usf.edu

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