Curator, Newspaper Digitisation
Vacancy Details
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Salary: | £32,000 per annum |
Location: | St Pancras |
Job Type: | Fixed Term Contract |
Vacancy Group: | Collections |
Category: | Collection Care, Curation & Conservation |
Closing Date: | 10/09/2017 |
Date Posted: | 03/08/2017 |
Reference: | 01422 |
Description
Full Time /Fixed Term Contract to 31 March 2020
This is an exciting opportunity to help
develop the British Library’s digital newspaper collections.
The Library has launched a three-year
project, entitled Heritage Made Digital, a major part of which is to digitise
over one million pages from its nineteenth-century British newspaper
collections, with a special focus on newspapers in a poor or unfit condition.
Working with the News Curation and
Heritage Made Digital teams, you will be responsible for the selection,
description and curation of newspapers under the Heritage Made Digital
programme. You will ensure that the newspapers selected for digitisation will
match specific research needs. You will promote and interpret the digital
newspaper collection for general and specialist audiences.
With evidence of a strong interest in
historical newspapers and nineteenth-century history, you will have experience
of working in an archive environment, backed up with good knowledge of research
work in this field, and strong IT skills.
This
is a great opportunity to work with one of the world’s major newspaper
collections, making many historical newspapers available online for the first
time.
Closing Date: 10 September 2017
Interview Date: 25 September 2017
In order to apply for this vacancy, you must be able to supply the required answers to the following questions:
- Do you currently have the right to work in the United Kingdom
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Contact 1 | |
Contact Name: | Employee Services |
Telephone: | 01937 882030 |
Email Address: | EmployeeServicesRecruitment@bl.uk |