Every year the United States Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) accomplishes its mission with the aid of its talented volunteers. Volunteers perform duties in the archives, libraries, and museum, support our patron service activities, and help with events. The USAHEC appreciates the valuable service our volunteers perform!
Please read below for different volunteer opportunities at the USAHEC. Click Here to see a list of volunteer positions.
Docent volunteers are one of the USAHEC's most important public-facing aspects. Our docents act as tour guides in the Visitor and Education Center and outside on the -Army Heritage Trail, and help visitors find their way around the USAHEC campus.
Assist the USAHEC with a wide variety of research, processing, archival, and general tasks. Tasks include supporting research assistance, processing collections, translating book and pamphlet titles, producing bibliographies, creating archival metadata, and rehousing fragile books and pamphlets. Duties will be wide ranging, but volunteers are normally expected to specialize in at least one long-term project at a time.
Conduct historical research for the Army Heritage Museum as it prepares new exhibits for both the indoor galleries and the venues on the Army Heritage Trail. Tasks include using the USAHEC resources to locate Soldier stories that include a good service history, photo(s) of the Soldier/Unit and any archival material such as letters, diaries or other primary sources that detail the Soldiers service and experiences. In some instances, the volunteer may be asked to prepare a rough draft of the Soldier story.
The selected volunteer will pull books, reshelves books, and maintain Library stacks.