Virginia History Museum

MUSEUM WELCOME TABLE VOLUNTEER

The most crucial individual in our museum may be the first individual a visitor meets upon arrival. Our welcome table volunteers are the first individuals welcome our visitors, respond to their concerns, insure that their particular time with us is well-spent. Welcome desk volunteers answer the phone, simply take emails, provide information, offer product, and supply all-round support toward staff. Their solution makes it possible for us to offer our visitors the very best experience feasible within Museum. Time dedication is three hours every month. Totally free parking is offered.

The Historical Society of Western Virginia features a fantastic project at the background Museum and at the O. Winston Link Museum to digitize its selections and make them available on the internet. Volunteers are needed at both museums, for either computer system or non-computer tasks. Full training is supplied, the time that varies because of the project selected and prior experience of the volunteer. Vouchers free-of-charge parking receive to those volunteers who make a typical time dedication. Most volunteers agree to a two or three hour move on a weekday between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm. But some volunteers work at home, or make other prior arrangements aided by the Virtual range Project management.

VIRTUAL PROJECT VOLUNTEER

AN EXAMPLE OF ACTIVE SPECIFICATIONS

• English majors or people who have the skills needed seriously to compose, edit, and correct descriptive text into the digitized files
• Record fans to help with organizing, abstracting, and transcribing old documents
• Detectives and puzzle-solvers to analyze old pictures, make missing identifications, and include modifications into the electronic task.
• Bookworms to catalog books along with other news, and upgrade the card catalog.
• Visitors to abstract and index the Society's past Journal articles.
• Community mavens to analyze items from the museum's choices of clothing, resources, and other historical items, and also to enter records of things into the computer database
• Would-be museum curators to help design digital Exhibits (online versions of museum displays)
• "Old troops" and their particular fans to work alongside a remarkable assortment of Civil War letters
• Pupils of business economics, roadways, maps, and just about other real human try to process very early company ledgers, turnpike files, maps, etc.
• Helpful people to answer inquiries from general public (minimal study included)