Our talented community of employees makes the UVM Libraries great. There are several ways that people come to work with us. 

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Staff and faculty positions

Like any UVM department, when we have an open position, it is posted on the Human Resources UVM Jobs website. (https://www.uvmjobs.com/)

Search tips:

• Use the keyword “library”
• Sort by one of our libraries, listed in UVM jobs as:
  • Dana Health Sciences Library
  • Howe Library
  • Libraries – Deans Ofc Silver Special Collections Lib

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Internships

Internships allow students to acquire hands-on experience in a professional setting, somehow related to their area of study. These may be paid opportunities, work-study opportunities, credit-bearing opportunities, and sometimes internships can be both for credit and paid. If the Libraries are offering an internship, it may be posted on the UVM Student Employment Office JobX platform. Login with your UVM NetID and password. 

UVM students interested in libraries, archives, history, museums and other cultural heritage organizations may contact Special Collections to discuss internship opportunities. Special Collections also offers internships to graduate students in library and information science programs.

Library employees wishing to create an internship opportunity in their department should seek approval from the dean's office.

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Student employment

We hire part-time student employees at the beginning of semesters, and we can often work around class schedules.

Open student worker positions are posted at the beginning of the semester on the UVM Student Employment Office JobX platform. Login with your UVM NetID and password.

In Howe or Dana libraries, library assistant positions might work at the main or circulation desks, cataloging books, or at the Media Services desk. Student employees in the libraries may be the first point of contact for library patrons.

In Silver Special Collections, student employees help connect students, staff, faculty and researchers with resources in the Vermont and Rare Books collections and the University Archives.

We welcome students who qualify for federal work study to apply, but it is not a requirement that you have a work study grant. Stop by any of our three library main service desks to chat with us about employment.

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Fellowships

Fellowships allow researchers paid opportunities to conduct their own work over a set period of time.

Silver Special Collections Library offers the following fellowships:

• Silver Special Collections is a member of The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, a group of 30 institutions that offer grants for at least eight weeks of research at participating institutions. The deadline is usually February 1.
• Each summer, participants in the week-long Prospect School Practitioner Fellowships Program study the Prospect School Archive. Fellows should be ready to engage with the school's descriptive processes as a method of inquiry and to develop plans to use in their own educational setting. The deadline is usually in February.