Archival Assistant Application

Date_________________

Name__________________________________________________________

Home Phone______________________Work Phone______________________

Address________________________________________________________

Zip___________ In Case of Emergency, Contact__________________________

Emergency Contact's Phone__________________________________________

Check area(s) of service which interest you:

____Archives - Processing government records for use by patrons. Cleaning documents, removing staples, flat filing, reboxing, and creating finding aids. Some computer indexing projects are available.

____Library - Various projects, such as mounting and photocopying newspaper articles, indexing books, identifying biographical sketches in county histories for cataloging and preparing legislative bills for binding.

____Manuscripts- Processing papers of private individuals and companies for use by patrons. Cleaning documents, removing staples, flat filing, reboxing and creating finding aids. Transcribing diaries and some computer indexing projects are available.

____Maps - Perform encapsulation and other preservation techniques on maps.

____Photographs/Audio-Visual - Data entry for photograph inventory project. Processing of newsfilm for use by patrons.

____Reference - Assist patrons in the research room with microfilm. Help reference staff answer correspondence by doing obituary searches.

____Web Worker - Assist web committee in creating pages for the Kansas Historical Society's home page by doing data entry.

Please rank top three service area choices:

___ Archives

___ Library

___ Manuscripts

___ Maps

___ Photographs/Audio-visual

___ Reference

___ Web Worker

Please rank top three shifts. Volunteers work a 3 or 4 hour shift once a week.

Monday

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Tuesday

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Wednesday

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Thursday

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Friday

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Return this form to the above address.