Join us for an archival re-housing project on April 17, 2019 and help the West Virginia and Regional History Center accomplish its mission to save state history!
Volunteers are needed to move historical documents from archivally-unsound storage into new, archivally-sound folders and boxes. This essential step in preserving historical collections will also involve capturing information from the old folders and transferring them onto the new folders. While protecting artifacts of history, volunteers will get a taste of what it’s like to work in an archives and have the opportunity to look through the records of fascinating West Virginians, including a suffragist, a WVU ornithologist, and the organizers of a gospel music festival.
The event will be held at WVU's Downtown Campus Library at the West Virginia and Regional History Center (on the 6th floor), from 9:30 am-4:30 pm. Volunteers DO NOT have to stay the whole time; they may come in whenever they choose during that time frame. Volunteers will receive a quarter hour for each quarter hour they stay to help and re-folder. No experience necessary; volunteers will be trained in the task on site.
Volunteers will be logged in the iServe system and an AmeriCorps volunteer spreadsheet.
This program is a joint collaboration between the West Virginia and Regional History Center and a member of Preserve WV AmeriCorps. Register on iServe. Contact alanna.natanson@mail.wvu.edu with any questions.
