Opportunities From: Volunteer River Counties

NCHS needs someone familiar with general office duties and procedures to assist the executive secretary and learn how our office operates. Duties include answering the phone, greeting visitors, accepting payments, downloading and categorizing emails, filing documents (physical and digital), typing reports and letters, data entry and database management, and assisting staff.  Familiarity with Word and Excel is needed. There could be times when you would be needed more than one day a week.

NCHS needs a person who can organize our genealogical and historical collections. This primarily consists of books, which have been catalogued but need to be checked against our digital list and updated. We also keep an identical file index. Many of our patrons like the old-style file. We also have maps, court records, scrapbooks, loose papers, paper files, and digital files that have not been organized or catalogued. Familiarity with Word and Excel is needed.  

The NCHS museum requires a facelift and an inventory. The person who takes on this task will need to check our artifacts against our digital inventory. They will also need to organize the displays and should have experience in all aspects of creating informative, attractive displays. Familiarity with Word and Excel is required, as is the ability to photograph artifacts. This could be a task for two people. Experience with Word and Excel is needed. 

NCHS needs someone who can clean up our office computer. We need to move files from our desktop computer and save them on an external drive in an organized fashion, delete duplicate and unnecessary files and programs, and organize the remaining files in suitable folders. Must demonstrate knowledge and experience in practical computer technology and programming.

NCHS has a Facebook account and a WordPress website that require weekly updates. The volunteer should not only have technical experience and artistic abilities, but will need to get involved with our organization to acquire a sense of what we do and what our standards are. Virtual work would be possible eventually.