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Subscribers may be interested in the following employment opportunity.
Documentation Assistant
Fixed-term contract to March 2009
Salary: £23k - £27k
Closing Date: 02/04/2007
V&A Theatre Collections (Theatre Museum) has recently been awarded funding by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) to digitise 10,000 items relating to East London theatres. The project leader for this collaborative project will be the University of East London (UEL); other partners include Hackney Empire, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Wilton’s Music Hall. This is a 2-year project which will commence in April 2007.
The Documentation Assistant will be responsible for creating brief catalogue records and other textual material relating to the 10,000 Theatre Collections images to be included in the project. Applicants should be educated to degree level, with a postgraduate qualification in library or archives studies. You will need substantial experience of cataloguing within a library or archive environment, including the use of appropriate standards for description and subject indexing. A confident user of IT is essential for this post, with experience of using databases, spreadsheets and digital resources.
This post will be based at the Theatre Collections’ site in Olympia, London W14.
For full details and online application form, please go to the Job Opportunities section of the V&A website:
www.vam.ac.uk/jobs
All good wishes
Guy
Guy Baxter
Archivist and Conservation Manager
V&A Theatre Collections
1E Tavistock Street, London WC2E 7PR
Tel: 020 7471 9870
Fax: 020 7471 9864
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www.theatremuseum.org
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