Join us in making H-HistBibl bigger, better, and more useful!

H-HistBibl is an international network of librarians, archivists, curators, and other scholars and practitioners interested in the practice and study of bibliographic, library and cultural heritage services to support the study and teaching of history. In line with the guidelines of our parent non-profit, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences online, our network is an open, moderated forum that makes all its digital content available for free and is committed to academic and editorial best practices. We are free from spamming, trolling, and narrowly self-promotional behaviors. Our content circulates directly to our subscribers around the world.

Service with an H-Net network like H-HistBibl can be an excellent way to support scholarship and pedagogy, gain experience and academic connections, and drive the field forward. H-Net provides quick and helpful online training to our editors and sustains an editorial support network.

If you are interested in joining our volunteer staff, please note that we require that all volunteers: 1) have regular internet access; 2) can read and write English well; 3) can work collaboratively with other scholars as well as independently of them; 4) remain in regular communication with the rest of our staff and H-Net via email; and 5) are active in our fields of study and practice.  If you haven’t already done so, please take some time to acquaint yourself with the topics we cover.

We are always eager to correspond with scholars and practitioners who believe they might be interested in volunteering, so please do not hesitate to contact us with questions at editorial-histbibl@mail.h-net.org

Open Positions

We are very interested in volunteers who can help develop the following projects and initiatives.

Announcements: we would welcome support with circulating academic announcements to our subscribers. This work is light and routine in nature, but interesting as it helps us stay current with significant issues of interest to subscribers. It can be particularly helpful to junior scholars and other academics seeking to gain a broad view of the field. Duties include browsing H-Announce for relevant posts (like calls for papers) and monitoring relevant submissions to H-HistBibl.

Subject editors: editors in these positions focus on tracking discussions about topics relevant to H-HistBibl that can be found in informed public media, such as through scholarly publications and blogs, news reporting, social media, and more. The work involves publishing posts on H-HistBibl on a regular basis, weekly or semi-weekly, pointing to an interesting resource and briefly summarizing it.

Subscriber Engagement: we would welcome an editor to help oversee the approval of new subscriptions to our network, with an emphasis on requiring new subscribers to fully complete their user profiles. 

Advisory Board Members: advisory board members actively support our editors, help with subscriber recruitment, remain in reliable email communication, advise on the scope and projects of H-HistBibl, and mediate any disputes that arise. Ideally, they may propose new initiatives and offer improvements of ongoing efforts.

We encourage candidates who will further advance the goal of fostering a diverse and inclusive online community.

More information about joining and volunteering with H-Net is available at Join H-Net.

To Apply

Please email a single PDF containing the following to editorial-histbibl@mail.h-net.org : 1) Your C.V., including current contact information. 2) A description of about 250 words explaining your areas of expertise. Before applying, please update your H-Net profile if you have not already done so (see the Updating your Profile guide for more information).