Category: General Announcements

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.

Hi Everyone,

I’m taking a vacation during the week of January 18. I’ll see you back here on January 25th! If you send me a job during this time, I’ll be sure to post it when I return!

Hi Everyone,

I’ll be on break for the rest of the year, returning on January 4th. I hope your last few days of 2015 are great!

If you email me a position, I’ll be happy to post it upon my return.

Warm Regards,

Meredith

Hi Everyone,

I’ll be out for the Thanksgiving holiday for the rest of this week. But before I leave you for the week, I want to thank all of you: You are the Job-senders, the Job-seekers, the Facebook-likers, and the Re-tweeters that really make Archives Gig the community tool that I always wanted it to be. Thank you all for taking the time to send me a job or spread the word about a cool-looking posting. I’ve talked to several people who found a position through Archives Gig, or they hired someone awesome after posting here, and each of those stories truly warms my whole heart. Thank you for being part of this wonderful community, and this amazing profession!

Whether you’re celebrating Thanksgiving or not, I wish you all the best!

Meredith

Hi, Folks,

I’m doing my second annual BWCA camping trip later this week and all through next week. There are lots of loons in the northwoods, but no internet! If you send me a job within this date span, I will be happy to post it when I return on Monday, September 14th. If you’re looking for a job, I suggest checking out the resources listed in my About page.

Best Wishes,

Meredith