We’d like to extend our thanks to everyone who submitted an application for our 2023 fellowship program.
All the applications have been forwarded to our fellowship committee who will be reviewing and sending out requests for interviews as soon as they can.
If you have any questions in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to ask at medicalheritage@gmail.com.
Have you used any of our primary source sets? They’re wonderful introductions to all the resources we have on the Internet Archive and we’d love to have you, as a summer fellow, create new ones for us!
Get your application in by April 7 and work with us this summer to create a set on mental health and illness!
We’re extending the deadline for applications for our two summer fellowship positions to April 7 2023!
We want an Education Resources fellow: “Under the guidance of a member of our governance board, the fellow will develop a curated collection or sets for the MHL website on the topic of mental health and illness. Examples of existing primary source sets can be found on the MHL website: http://www.medicalheritage.org/resource-sets/. These collections will be drawn from the over 300,000 items in our Internet Archive library. The curated collections provide a means for our visitors to discover the richness of MHL materials on a variety of topics relevant to the history of health and the health sciences. As part of this work, the fellow may have an opportunity to enrich metadata in MHL records in Internet Archive to support scholarship and inquiry on this topic.”
And we want an Outreach fellow: “The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) seeks a fellow to develop and organize the planning of the MHL’s Biennial Conference. Collaborating with the MHL President, the MHL Project Co-ordinator, and/or the MHL Governance group, the fellow will help plan a virtual conference to take place on November 3, 2023. The fellow will develop a suite of content to support the theme of this year’s conference, which will focus on LGBTQ+ health care. The fellow will help develop the program of the conference, draft the Call for Papers, help create themes, help identify and recruit speakers, work on outreach, logistics, and organization, and create a program for the conference. The fellow will also liaise with MHL partners, including the DPLA and Internet Archive, for possible programming or publicity. Working with our Co-ordinator, the fellow will launch a social media campaign for the conference.”
Please apply if you’re eligible and share this call widely among your colleagues, students, and professional networks!
We’re looking for two fellows for the summer of 2023: one to help us with planning a conference in the fall and the other to work on creating primary source sets on mental health and illness.
Please submit your applications as soon as possible! The window closes on March 27th when we will begin reviewing and interviewing!
We weren’t sure if we would have the funding to support a second fellowship but we do and we’re excited to see the applications!
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) seeks a fellow to develop and organize the planning of the MHL’s Biennial Conference. Collaborating with the MHL President, the MHL Project Co-ordinator, and/or the MHL Governance group, the fellow will help plan a virtual conference to take place on November 3, 2023. The fellow will develop a suite of content to support the theme of this year’s conference, which will focus on LGBTQ+ health care. The fellow will help develop the program of the conference, draft the Call for Papers, help create themes, help identify and recruit speakers, work on outreach, logistics, and organization, and create a program for the conference. The fellow will also liaise with MHL partners, including the DPLA and Internet Archive, for possible programming or publicity. Working with our Co-ordinator, the fellow will launch a social media campaign for the conference.
The fellowship is paid and may be taken for course credit.
The fellowship is a remote position.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
This position is open to all qualified graduate students with a strong interest in medical or health history, with additional interests in library/information science or education. Strong communication and collaboration skills are a must. Fellows are expected to learn quickly and work independently. Experience planning online programs, conferences, events, or webinars is preferred.
FELLOWSHIP DURATION:
The fellowship will take place anytime between July 2023 – October 2023.
HOURS:
150 hours, over 17 weeks with a maximum of 20 hours in any given week.
SALARY:
$20/hour not to exceed $3000
To apply, please provide the following:
Cover letter documenting interest in position
Curriculum Vitae
2 References
Please submit your application materials by Monday, March 27, 2023 to the attention of the Fellowship committee at medicalheritage@gmail.com
The second set from our 2022 fellow, Genie Yoo, on climate, health, and empire. Watch this space!
The MHL is looking for new partners. Do you have material in your collections related to the history of medicine and the health sciences? Is it already in Internet Archive or do you have it digitally available elsewhere and want to put it in IA? Want to make your material part of a large and heavily used online corpus? Come talk to us!
Check it out: our first additions to the collection of 2023!
Don’t forget that all our materials are available 24/7 on the Internet Archive — but also don’t forget that rest is important!
We’ll see you all in 2023!
We’re pleased to announce that the primary source set designed by our summer 2022 fellow, Lorna Ebner, is live on the site and ready for use!
