Volunteer Opportunities
Many of our activities would be impossible without the volunteers who donate their time, often a great deal of time. Many projects have been suggested and carried out by volunteers. Here are some of the ways in which volunteers have contributed in the past or are contributing presently. If you want to help, please contact the Foundation.
- Converting publications by B F. Skinner into downloadable pdf form, including the entire book Science and Human Behavior, which is now available free on this website.
- Taking rough audio cassette recordings of B. F. Skinner reading his book Walden Two, eliminating duplicated words, cleaning up the sound track, and converting all the files to MP3 format. Download of the final product is available for sale on this website.
- Supervising committees involved in most of the work in this list.
- Locating and saving archival materials that would have been thrown out through ignorance of their contribution to the historical record.
- Finding moving footage, pictures, letters, and other documents about Skinner or the beginning years of research and applications based upon operant conditioning.
- Interviewing professionals in the behavioral field for articles in the Operants magazine.
- Networking with the Foundation about operant work in countries other than the United States.
- Checking on the accuracy of foreign translations of Skinner books.
- Helping with a variety of program activities in the Harvard Square office.
Archival Committee
The Foundation has an archival committee to collect archival materials that might otherwise be lost or discarded. Ongoing provenance work categorizes and annotates the collection.
Archival Committee Mission and accomplishments.
The Archival Committee of the B. F. Skinner Foundation is dedicated to procuring text, notes, letters, film, tapes, brochures, photographs and other memorabilia related to the life and work of B. F. Skinner. Where resources permit, archived material is digitized and made available to the public. To preserve films at the proper temperature and humidity, the Foundation has arranged many of the original 35 mm reels to be preserved at the Harvard University Film Archives.
A Message from Dr. Julie S. Vargas, PhD, Chair of the Archival Committee: