Hourly Volunteer Work
There are many ongoing activities that need volunteers. These include
work on processing collections, preserving scrapbooks, creating finding
aids for archived materials, filing collections and general work in
the archives. There also are new exhibits in the planning stages,
photograph collections that need sorting, scanning and preserving,
and many other projects. The ongoing jobs in the Maren Reading Room
can include inventories of the book collection, work on covering books
and book upkeep, previewing and critiquing films and creating reading
lists. Other slightly less routine jobs can include creating book
displays and exhibits, collecting “reading reflections”,
leading discussions of books and other work with medical students.
Volunteer Projects
The volunteer projects are designed both to help the Center with
its preservation and educational missions and to give undergraduates
exposure to the medical humanities and narrative medicine. The program
is open to undergraduates who wish to enter the field of health care
or who wish to pursue a career in the history of medicine.
For more information on available projects, please email Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
at nstoyan@vpha.health.ufl.edu.
To sign up as a volunteer, please contact Shands Volunteer Services
at (352)265-0560.
Elective credit
Medical students interested in these projects and who would like
to earn elective credit can sign up for MED E 23, Special Projects
in the History of Medicine.
