Positions at British Library

Conservators (2 positions)
British Library
St Pancras, London

Conservator, Hebrew Manuscripts Condition Survey
British Library

    Full time (36 hours per week)
    Fixed Term Contract for 12 months

    Salary UKP25,452 per annum

    This is an opportunity for an experienced conservator to
    undertake a condition survey of 1500 Hebrew Manuscripts to
    record their condition and identify conservation work prior to
    digitisation.  The conservator will work closely with a library
    assistant to carry out the survey as well as the project manager
    and curators.  You'll operate with minimal supervision and have
    the skills and knowledge to plan, manage and track your work to
    ensure that deadlines are met.  You must be able to communicate
    effectively with people at all levels, and be able to keep
    clear, consistent and accurate records of all activities
    undertaken.

    You need to have either a degree in conservation or equivalent
    knowledge and skills sets, and practical hands-on experience in
    conservation of library materials for digitisation and/or
    large-scale conservation projects.  A broad knowledge of
    available conservation treatments within the field of book/
    paper conservation together with the ability to diagnose
    conservation problems and to develop and evaluate options for
    solutions.  You should also have a high level of manual
    dexterity, together with knowledge of materials chemistry and
    the properties, behaviours and interaction of a wide range of
    organic and inorganic materials.  A good knowledge of preventive
    conservation issues is also required.

    Acknowledged as one of the finest and most important in the
    world, the British Library's Hebrew manuscripts collection is a
    vivid testimony to the creativity and intense scribal activities
    of Eastern and Western Jewish communities spanning over 1,000
    years.  We have signed a partnership with the National Library
    of Israel to continue and expand the Hebrew Manuscripts
    Digitisation project started in 2013, making more of the British
    Library's collection of Hebrew manuscripts available online.
    Commencing in July 2015, this second phase of the project will
    constitute an outstanding achievement for the British Library
    and for Hebrew scholarship worldwide, with more than two-thirds
    of the BL's Hebrew manuscripts collection digitised by 2019.

    For further information and to apply, please visit

        <URL:http://www.bl.uk/careers>
        quoting vacancy ref: COL00210

    Closing Date: 12 July 2015
    Interview Date: 21-24 July 2015

Conservator, Hebrew Collections Treatment
British Library

    Full time (36 hours per week)
    Fixed Term Contract for 12 months

    Salary UKP25,452 per annum

    This is an opportunity for an experienced conservator to
    undertake conservation treatment of paper and parchment Hebrew
    Manuscripts to enable digitisation and in order to improve the
    longevity, stability and accessibility of these items.  The
    conservator will work closely with the project manager and
    curators as well as the project survey conservator.  You'll
    operate with minimal supervision and have the skills and
    knowledge to plan, manage and track your work to ensure that
    deadlines are met.  You must be able to communicate effectively
    with people at all levels, and be able to keep clear, consistent
    and accurate records of all activities undertaken.

    You need to have either a degree in conservation or equivalent
    knowledge and skills sets, and practical hands-on experience in
    conservation of library materials for digitisation and/or
    large-scale conservation projects.  A broad knowledge of
    available conservation treatments within the field of book/
    paper conservation together with the ability to diagnose
    conservation problems and to develop and evaluate options for
    solutions.  You should also have a high level of manual
    dexterity, together with knowledge of materials chemistry and
    the properties, behaviours and interaction of a wide range of
    organic and inorganic materials.  A good knowledge of preventive
    conservation issues is also required.

    Acknowledged as one of the finest and most important in the
    world, the British Library's Hebrew manuscripts collection is a
    vivid testimony to the creativity and intense scribal activities
    of Eastern and Western Jewish communities spanning over 1,000
    years.  We have signed a partnership with the National Library
    of Israel to continue and expand the Hebrew Manuscripts
    Digitisation project started in 2013, making more of the British
    Library's collection of Hebrew manuscripts available online.
    Items requiring treatment were either identified during this
    first phase of the project or will be identified as part of the
    second phase commencing in July 2015.

    For further information and to apply, please visit

        <URL:http://www.bl.uk/careers>
        quoting vacancy ref: COL00212

    Closing Date: 12 July 2015
    Interview Date: 21-24 July 2015

Dr Cordelia Rogerson
Head of Conservation
British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
+44 20 7412 7803

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