2012 Summer Employment Opportunities for Students with the National Park Service

SUMMER JOBS WITH HABS/HAER/HALS

The Heritage Documentation Programs (Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey), a division of the National Park Service, seeks applications from qualified students for summer employment documenting historic sites and structures of architectural, engineering and landscape significance throughout the country. Duties involve on-site field work and the preparation of measured and interpretive drawings and written historical reports for the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection at the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Projects last twelve weeks, beginning in May/June. Salaries range from approximately $6,000 to approximately $11,000 for the summer, depending on job responsibility, locality of the project, and level of experience. Applicant must be a U.S. Citizen.

Applications Due: 16 February 2012 (postmark date)

Application information can be found on our web site:
http://www.nps.gov/history/hdp/jobs/summer.htm

View examples of HDP documentation on the Library of Congress web site:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/

Download the HDP Summer 2012 Recruitment Poster from our web site:
http://www.nps.gov/history/hdp/jobs/HDPEmploymentPoster2012highres.pdf
(15mb high-resolution .PDF)

For additional information regarding the HABS/HAER/HALS Summer 2012
Documentation Program,
please contact:

Judy Davis
Summer Program Administrator
Heritage Documentation Programs Division
National Park Service (2270)
1201 Eye Street, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202) 354-2135
Email: HDP_Summer_Program_Admin@nps.gov