Description
1 temporary full-time positions for 13 weeks starting in May 2025 intended specifically for students currently attending and returning full-time in September 2025 to a post-secondary undergraduate or graduate degree program
The City of Edmonton Archives is looking for a motivated, energetic and self-starting summer student who is interested in learning about archives.
In a supportive and supervised environment, you will gain practical experience in important aspects of archival work through processing, preserving, and making accessible archival records. Reporting to the Supervising Archivist, you will complete two projects and experience a range of archival tasks. This is an ideal position for a graduate student enrolled in a Master of Information Studies with a specialization in Archival Studies or a related field (undergraduate students are eligible and encouraged to apply as well).
The student will get to attend and contribute to archives staff meetings, job-shadow archivists on the reference desk, and contribute to the following two projects:
Project 1 involves completing the arrangement, processing and description of the 60cm accession A99-110 Alma Webster/Edmonton Hard of Hearing Association for Adults, taking it from unprocessed accession to a completed fonds with a finding aid made available on our Access to Memory Database. This collection includes textual paper records of the organization, and will involve removing duplicates, rehousing in acid free file folders, and creating a file list and description of the records.
Project 2 involves assisting the City of Edmonton Archives with digitizing a selection of photographs from the Cantelon Photography Studio. The student will use the City of Edmonton's photograph scanners to digitize colour photographs from the 1950s to 1980s to make preservation TIFF copies and access copy JPEGs. The student will be adding metadata to the images and use the access copy images and Adobe Photoshop to create contact sheet albums to make images accessible on our Access to Memory (AtoM) database.
As a part of the team, you will:
- Physically arranging and describing bodies of records
- Assist with conservation
- Assist with digitization
- Assist with reference service
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