Curator, Newspaper Digitisation
Information Management and Librarianship,Curatorial Studies,Historical and Philosophical Studies,History,History of Art,Library Services and Information Management
Short info about job
Company: British Library
Salary: £32,000 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Type / Role: Academic or Research
Phone: +44-161 9976104
Fax: +44-1323 6648071
E-mail: N\A
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Detail information about job Curator, Newspaper Digitisation. Terms and conditions vacancy
Fixed Term Contract to 31st 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.
For further information and to apply, please visit www.bl.uk/careers.
Closing Date: 10th September 2017Interview Date: 25th September 2017