Volunteer

The Library of Maryland History at the Maryland Historical Society needs you!  To volunteer, please fill out the volunteer form available at http://www.mdhs.org/involved_volunteer_app.html

We need volunteers for every task imaginable:

• helping patrons at the reading room desks
• retrieving and re-shelving materials
• maintaining and adding to our website
• cataloging books and other materials
• answering research inquiries
• working at the reception desk
• processing manuscripts or photographs (arranging, describing, and housing them)
• photocopying
• researching building histories
• processing genealogical research collections
• re-housing collections (putting them in new folders and boxes)
• maintaining databases
• assisting with clerical duties
• helping run our used bookstore
• indexing newspapers

This list is not comprehensive.  If there is something you would like to do and it's not on the above list, please contact us at library_dept@mdhs.org and suggest it. 

Volunteers are welcome to work on Tuesdays through Saturdays during the day.  We ask for at least a 2-hour time commitment per week.

Training will be provided, and you will earn our eternal gratitude!  You also will receive free membership in the MdHS, and you'll meet a wonderful group of people--the Library's staff and volunteers--who love history and genealogy.