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Volunteering with Collections

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.