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Job: Historical Research Assistant -- part-time graduate assistantship (Digital Manuscripts Program, National Library of Medicine (U.S.): Bethesda, Maryland)

• Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 08:52:07 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
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• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: Job: Historical Research Assistant -- part-time graduate assistantship (Digital Manuscripts Program, National Library of Medicine (U.S.): Bethesda, Maryland)
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Russell Johnson


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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 20:26:32 -0400
From: "N. Lerman, H-SCI-MED-TECH" <smtedit@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
Subject: JOB: Graduate Research Assistant
Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and 
Technology" <H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 18:09:40 -0400
From: David Serlin <SerlinD@mail.nlm.nih.gov>


>>PART-TIME RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION - DIGITAL MANUSCRIPTS PROGRAM,
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

APPLICATION DEADLINE is MAY 19, 2000

The Digital Manuscripts Program of the National Library of Medicine in
Bethesda, Maryland is seeking a graduate student to work as a Historical
Research Assistant, at $15.00 per hour. This position is part time (20
hours/week) for one year beginning August 2000.

The assistant will work closely with historians who are conducting
research on topics in 20th century health and medicine, including the
lives and work of Nobel Prize-winning biomedical scientists. The assistant
will be involved in archival tasks, such as helping to process collections
and conducting bibliographic searches.  The assistant will also conduct
research in preparation for symposia and lectures. The assistant will
carry out some of this work at the National Library of Medicine, as well
as at other libraries and archives in the metropolitan Washington, D.C.
area, such as the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the
Smithsonian museums. Applicants should be able pursue multiple tasks
independently.

The ideal candidate will be a graduate student with a firm grounding in
U.S. History, although a person with a background in History of 20th
Science and/or Medicine is preferred. Candidates should submit a resume
and a brief letter of interest, along with the names and contact
information of two references. E-mail and fax applications are acceptable.
The deadline for applying is Friday, May 19.

The Digital Manuscripts Program produces a web site containing historical
information and the digitized papers of biomedical scientists.  The web
site, titled Profiles in Science, can be found at
www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov.  Information about the National Library of
Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, can be found at
www.nlm.nih.gov.

Application materials, and requests for further information, should be
directed to:

Dr. David Serlin, History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Building 38, Room 1E-21
Bethesda, MD 20894
Phone: (301) 435-7648
Fax: 301-402-7034
E-mail: David_Serlin@nlm.nih.gov
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