Contingent Employment Study II Task Force
New England Archivists, Inclusion and Diversity Committee
Remote
November 2020 – June 2023
Volunteer member of the Contingent Employment Study II Task Force organized by the New England Archivists’ Inclusion and Diversity Committee. Activities include developing and designing a survey for contingent archival workers, compiling and analyzing data points from archival job postings, promoting the survey, and presenting a report of survey results and analysis to the NEA Board. Report submitted to the NEA Executive Board, February 2022.
Upon completion of the report for the NEA Board, members presented on survey findings at various professional conferences throughout 2022 and began work on a journal article to present and analyze survey findings for a wider audience. An article analyzing the findings was published in American Archivist, Spring 2024 [article available here].
Skills: data analysis | project management | social media outreach | survey design
Tools: Excel | Google Docs | Google Sheets | Zoom
Audio Transcript Editor
New York University Special Collections
Remote
October 19-30, 2020
Volunteer for NYU Libraries’ “Soul of Reason” virtual transcribe-a-thon: a two-week project to hand-correct auto-generated transcripts of audio recordings from the “Soul of Reason” radio show using Konch transcription service and following the Oral History Transcription Style Guide from Columbia University’s Center for Oral History Research. These recordings are part of the Records of the Institute of African American Affairs in NYU Special Collections.
Skills: audio transcription | copyediting
Tools: Konch | Slack | Zoom
Document Scanner and Transcriber
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA
November 2016 – November 2017
Volunteer scanner and transcriber for the joint NEHGS and Boston Archdiocese project, Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920. Project duties include on-site scanning and remote transcription of large, bound volumes of handwritten sacramental records.
Skills: digitization | handling fragile materials | handwriting transcription | remote project work
Tools: Dropbox | flatbed scanner
Project Archivist
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
Boston, MA
November 5, 2016
Volunteer at a Day of Service event organized by the New England Archivists’ Roundtable for Early Professionals and Students (REPS). Volunteers collaboratively arrange, describe, and rehouse, 10 cubic feet of archival materials.
Skills: archival description | archival processing | collaborative project management
Project Archivist
Worcester Refugee Archive, Clark University
Worcester, MA
October 17, 2015
Volunteer at a Day of Service event organized by the New England Archivists’ Roundtable for Early Professionals and Students (REPS). Volunteer work included writing item-level descriptions of the Worcester Refugee Archive’s collections for their WordPress catalog/blog.
Skills: archival description | research
Alison Fulmer 