InterAccess Community Archive Project
Deadline: July 26
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About the Community Archive Program
InterAccess’s Community Archive Program will allow you to gain invaluable experience in archive cataloging and learn more about a unique part of Toronto’s media art history along the way. InterAccess is a gallery, educational facility, production studio, festival, and registered charity dedicated to new media and emerging practices in art and technology. InterAccess’s mission is to expand the cultural significance of art and technology by fostering and supporting the full cycle of art and artistic practice through education, production, and exhibition.
As a Community Archive Volunteer, you will help to create a digital catalogue of the organization’s archive materials. This works towards our goal of creating a publicly accessible archive with materials for researchers, artists, curators, and visitors.. Each volunteer will be responsible for cataloguing a specific set of documents and accurately labelling each document in our cataloguing system.
About Volunteering
Where?
32 Lisgar Street, Unit 4 & 5, Toronto, ON M6J 0C7
When?
Between Monday and Saturday, 11AM to 6PM
How much time do you need to commit?
3 hours per week from September 2026 to December 2026 (exact program dates TBD);
What will you be doing?
As a Community Archive Volunteer, you will be responsible for helping us catalogue our archive, dating back to before our founding in 1983!
- At the beginning of the program, InterAccess will provide a thorough onboarding session and training on how to catalogue our materials.
- You will be responsible for identifying, preparing, and cataloguing documents in InterAccess’s archive.
- You will be responsible for listing the contents of materials in our archives and accurately recording them in our finding aid spreadsheet.
What makes you a good fit?
- Interest in artist-run centre history and culture, and/or artist-centred archives
- Educational background or currently enrolled in a program for: library sciences, information sciences, collections management, gallery and museum studies, or archives and records management.
- Previous volunteer or professional experience in archive work, cataloguing, collections management AND/OR
- Previous experience in a volunteer or professional role that required expert organizational skills and keen attention to detail.
- Experience with Google and/or Excel spreadsheets
- Experience in data entry/collection and high attention to detail
- Excellent reading comprehension
What will you learn?
- Learn how to catalogue archival documents
- Learn how to handle archival material
- Increase your competency in data entry and organization, archival workflows, administration, and spreadsheets
- Learn more about a unique part of Toronto’s art history!