Position at Bodleian Library

Conservation and Collection Care Service
Project Conservation Technician
The Bodleian Library

Grade 4: UKP17,636 - UKP20,434 p.a.
Fixed-term 2 year contract

The Bodleian Library is seeking a conservation technician to join
its Conservation and Collection Care Service. The Bodleian Library
is undertaking a 2-year project to catalogue, digitise, conserve,
and rehouse 65,000 mainly 19th century items from the John Johnson
Collection of Printed Ephemera and this post will have specific
responsibility for implementing collection care and conservation
operations associated with this project. The work will involve
preparing material for digitisation, carrying out minor treatments
and repair, and remounting items after digitisation. A sensitivity
to materials, an ability to deal effectively with large quantities
of items and an aptitude for repetitive work carried out to a high
standard are essential. Applicants should have a qualification in
paper conservation, or experience of implementing conservation work
in a library, archive, or museum setting.

Further details and application forms are available from
<URL:http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/>

or from the

    OULS Personnel Office
    +44 1865 277171
    personnel [at] ouls__ox__ac__uk

Closing date for applications is 17 April 2007. Interviews will be
held on 4 May 2007. Please quote reference BL7027.

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