Category: General Announcements

Hi Everyone,

I am fleeing the Midwest (in which it’s of course 60F today!) for the tropical climes of Costa Rica to enjoy my honeymoon. Depending on the fickle finger of fate and the long arm of the law, I may also be serving jury duty when I return, so…

If you send me a job by email, I will be happy to post it when I return. If you’re looking for openings, please check my resource list in the About section.

Best,

Meredith

Hi Everyone,

I’ve got some pretty intense (but exciting!) projects happening in my work and personal life over the next week, not least of which is my upcoming wedding. With that in mind, I’m taking a brief break from updating AG until the week of September 12th. See you all there!

If you send me a job by email, I will be happy to post it when I return. If you’re looking for openings, please check my resource list in the About section.

Best,

Meredith

Hi Everyone,

I’ve been struggling with my “paraprofessional (no MA required)” tag for a while, because I don’t think it always accurately reflects the requirements laid out in all job postings. Today, I’ve decided to move away from using that tag in favor of these:

High School Diploma

Associate’s Degree

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Second Master’s Degree (I have been using this one for some time.)

PhD (I have been using this one for some time.)

 

My plan is to tag each post with the lowest level of education specified in the job ad. If a job requires one degree as a baseline but lists a higher level of education as preferred, I will tag the posting with both types of degree. For example, if a job requires at least a Bachelor’s degree but lists a Master’s degree as a preferred qualification, I will tag it with both “Bachelor’s Degree,” and “Master’s Degree.”

I will no longer use the “paraprofessional (no MA required)” tag in job ads, but I will leave it active for historical purposes. I hope that this new system of tagging is more helpful to you. Let me know if you have any questions!

Best Regards,

Meredith

Hi Friends,

My fiancé and I are taking our annual trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, which is blessedly free of any internet capability! I’ll be back on July 5th.

Check the About section to find out where my usual job sources are located.

If you send me a job in the mean time, I’ll be happy to post it when I get back!

Best Wishes,

Meredith

Re-posting this from last year!

Now that it’s graduation season (congratulations, new grads!), I’d like to plug some info that may be useful to you – whether you’re a new grad or not. This is the time that student loan repayments start coming due, so I’m spreading the word about this, a program that not enough people know of:

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. If you have federal student loans, you may be eligible for this federal program. You also need to employed at least 30 hours per week at a federal, state, or local government agency, entity, or organization or a not-for-profit organization that has been designated as tax-exempt by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).

Continue reading “Public Service Loan Forgiveness – For Many New and Not-So-New Archivists”

No updates till next Monday. If you’re going to be at MAC in Milwaukee this week, I’ll see you there!

I’ll post any submitted job openings upon my return next week.

Note from 3/9/16: Thanks to all for your input! My decision on this issue is posted here.

Hi, Everyone!

I’ve been thinking a lot about whether to discontinue posting unpaid internships. I try to emphasize the paid ones by putting the word “paid” in the post title, but I have generally always posted unpaid internships as well. I will always continue to post paid internships.

I know that there are a lot of strong opinions about the ethics of unpaid internships. I have opinions of my own! However, if posting unpaid internship positions is still useful for a lot of you, I want to take that into account before I decide.

This post is also open to comments, should you want to make one. You may also email me with a private comment at archivesgig@gmail.com, or tweet comments publicly @archivesgig.

I’m leaving this poll up for two weeks, closing on March 9th. Thank you all so much for your time.