Audio Cataloguing and Support Officer Saint Pancras, England
Job description
Audio Cataloguing and Support Officer
Part Time 18 hours, Fixed Term for 2 years
Location: St Pancras
This post will support the work of the British Library / Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme to preserve and catalogue part of the World and Traditional Music audio collection of relevance to the cultural history of the Persian Gulf region (specifically: early 20th century commercial releases on 78rpm shellac discs). Working closely with the Gulf History Audio Curator & Cataloguer the post will:
Assist the Gulf History Audio Curator & Cataloguer in identifying, cataloguing, and creating Submission Information Packages for digitised audio materials;
- Supporting the work of the Copyright and Compliance and the Translation teams as it pertains to the Qatar Project’s audio content stream.
As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.
In return we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 26.6% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.
For further information and to apply, please visit www.bl.uk/careers quoting vacancy ref: 04507.
Closing date: 14 April 2023
Interview date: 4 May 2023
We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role, as it does not meet the eligibility criteria required for this immigration route
