Volunteer with us
Lutheran Archives is blessed with a great community of volunteers, helping us with a range of projects and tasks that keep the archive working. Without these volunteers, Lutheran Archives would not be able to preserve and make discoverable the large amount of material created by the LCANZ and its people, congregations and communities.
Volunteer projects include indexing pastoral acts so that people can search for their family members throughout history, digitising photos to make them more accessible to the public, transcribing and translating German records so that the public can understand them, working with our archivists to list and describe records, and much more.Â
If you would like to volunteer with us, please see below for specific opportunities and vacancies. If you are a collections or information management student and would like to do a placement at Lutheran Archives, please contact us directly.Â
Valid police check OR level one LCANZ Safe Church Training is required.
Volunteer Callout – Photo Digitisation – onsite
We are looking for two volunteers to join the photo digitisation team in an ongoing role, ideally weekly or fortnightly. We have room for one volunteer on Tuesdays, and one volunteer on Wednesdays.Â
We are looking for people with confidence in using computer software, have good attention to detail and are willing to learn and be part of a team.
volunteer callout – data entry – onsite
We are looking for volunteers who have experience with data entry and data entry software to help us with various tasks, which can include indexing our pastoral registers, cataloguing preparation and work, and caption listing. These volunteers need to have great attention to detail, and be willing to learn and be part of a team.Â
If this sounds like you, please be in touch with us!
Transcription and Translation – onsite or offsite
Lutheran Archives is constantly on the lookout for people with German language skills to help transcribe and translate material from the collection. This work enables us to field research requests for collection material in German, as well as understand and make accessible significant mission, emigration and early synodical material.Â
If you have these skills and would like to work with our team, please get in contact with us via the Contact page.Â
Volunteer Callout – indexing – offsite
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
We are taking expressions of interest for people who would like to volunteer but can’t physically come onsite to the archives. It’s been requested numero0us times, so we are working on a way to index registers remotely!
You will need access to the internet, the ability to read handwriting, and accurate typing skills using excel. It would be helpful (but not essential) to have two computer screens available: to view the records on one screen, and type on the other screen.
Online training sessions will be provided.
volunteer callout – rehousing Schools collection – onsite
SHORT TERM PROJECT
We are looking for 3 volunteers to assist in a short-term project to rehouse our Schools collection.
The project involves rehousing items into acid free archival enclosures (folders and boxes), removing extraneous duplicate copies, labelling records, and listing the records into excel.
This is a collaborative project, working with an Archivist and other volunteers. The collection is located up a flight of stairs, with no lift access.
The project runs fortnightly on Fridays: next dates are 17th and 31st May. We require a commitment for at least 3 sessions.