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These positions are based at the museum's research and collections facility in Gatineau, Quebec.
On-the-job training is provided.
Specimen Collections
What you would do:
- Assist with projects in botany, zoology, mineral sciences and/or palaeobiology.
Duties may include
- Mounting plant specimens onto archival paper
- Scanning specimens to create digital images
- Capturing digital images
- Editing digital images
- Scanning and digitizing slides and data records
- Sorting reference literature and incorporating into our reference-collection shelves
- Entering information into Excel spreadsheets or databases.
- Organizing backlogged material on shelves
- Inventorying backlogged material for processing
- Processing new and backlogged zoological specimens
- Sorting, organizing, counting, identifying and labeling specimens
- Transcribing data from specimen labels.
Good for people with:
- A background knowledge in specific natural-history fields
- A background knowledge in specimen preparation or museological practice
- Attention to detail
- Reliable transportation to the location in Gatineau, Quebec.
Languages:
- Fluency in English or French
- An ability to speak another language may come in handy.
Time commitment:
- All year
- Monday – Friday
- During business hours
- One half or one full day per week.
Library and Archives
What you would do:
- Organize reference materials
- Enter information into a database
- Catalogue and shelve books and archival materials.
Good for people with:
- A background knowledge in library science
- A background knowledge in basic museological practice
- Attention to detail
- Proficiency with computers
- Reliable transportation to the location in Gatineau, Quebec.
Languages:
- Fluency in English or French
- An ability to speak another language may come in handy.
Time commitment:
- All year
- Monday – Friday
- During business hours
- One half or one full day per week.