Opportunities for Professional Development
The next deadline is 24 MAY 2001!
'Looking after the Special Collections section in the National Art Library
in the V&A I was the first librarian to go on a Sharing Museum Skills
scheme.
In 2000 I curated a display called Ruskin and the book - the first event in
a world-wide programme that year marking the centenary of the death of the
great Victorian thinker John Ruskin. When I learned that Sheffield Art
Galleries and Museums were opening a new £16 million Lottery funded
Millenium Art Gallery in April 2001 and moving Ruskin's Guild of St. George
collections (which includes a library) into it I jumped at the chance to get
involved.'
Would you like to go to another library, or to an archive, museum or other
cultural heritage organisations to work on a project of your choice?
Exchange ideas, skills, experience, knowledge and build links with another
organisations?
We have funding available for individuals working in Library Special
Collections to take up secondments in 2001. The funding is intended to
enable individuals working and volunteering in Library Special Collections
to go to another library, an archive, a museum, or other cultural heritage
organisation, to work on project/s as an opportunity for their professional
development and to benefit the communities and public the organisations
serve.
To be eligible you must be working in the UK as a volunteer or a paid member
of staff. As a paid member of staff you will normally need to have at least
three years experience in the sector and two years in your present post. As
a volunteer, you will need to have been in your present organisation for one
year.
What we offer:
* Secondments for 3-8 weeks (although 6 weeks is the norm). You
choose where you want to go and what you want to do. (Secondments must be
between UK institutions)
* Secondments can be taken in a block or can be split up in a variety
of ways to suit the individual.
* Grants from £2000 - £6000 are available to individuals to cover
costs while they are on secondment such as transportation, accommodation,
subsistence, and child care.
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* The grant includes funding for the seconding organisation to claim
between £150 and £300 per week. This is intended as contribution to help
them cover the individual's post while they are away.
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* The host organisation can also claim up to £500 for equipment for
use during the secondment which is kept by them afterwards.
There are 4 more application rounds (24 May, 27 July and 31 August), but
don't wait to the end of the year we need individuals to demonstrate their
interest now!
For details of eligibility and further information please contact Catherine
Atkinson, Millennium Awards Administrator, Sharing Museum Skills, 16 Queen
Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AA, telephone 020 7273 1406, fax: 020 7273 1404 or
email [log in to unmask]
Secondments are paid for by the Sharing Museum Skills scheme through funding
from the Millennium Commission. Visit the website at
http://www.smsma.org.uk
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