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Temporary, Part-time Library Assistants (two posts)
Grade: 2
Salary Range: : £15,292 - £17,606 pa, pro-rata (hourly rate £8.02-£9.23)
Applications are invited for two part-time posts of Library Assistant
working on the Oxford & Cambridge Islamic Manuscripts Catalogue Online
Project. The successful applicants will contribute to the creation of a
searchable interface which includes basic manuscript descriptions from both
printed and unpublished catalogues.
Cambridge University Libraries holds manuscripts of some 5,000 Islamic
texts, including many early and rare items. These are not yet searchable
on-line and some records remain unpublished.
The post-holders will be asked to enter manuscript descriptions into a
pre-designed electronic template. This involves inputting data in both the
original Arabic script and in transliteration and assigning subject
headings selected from a pre-defined list.
Applicants should be conversant with at least one of the following
languages: Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish, and have experience of
working with Islamic manuscripts and manuscript catalogues.
The posts require good communication and IT skills; enthusiasm;
flexibility, the ability to work as part of a team and to tight deadlines.
The working hours for these posts are by arrangement but require a minimum
of 6 hours per week. The posts are temporary and will end when the project
is completed at the end of February 2011.
Informal enquiries are welcomed by Mrs Yasmin Faghihi, Head of Near and
Middle Eastern Department: e-mail [log in to unmask]
Applications should be returned to The Library Office by post, Cambridge
University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, or electronically to
[log in to unmask] (but not both) not later than 12 noon on the closing
date, Wednesday 10 February 2010 and must be made on the form supplied
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/pd17/pd17.pdf
Please complete Part I and Part III only.
Closing Date: Wednesday 10 February 2010
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Yasmin Faghihi
Head of Middle Eastern Department
Manuscripts and Printed Collections
Cambridge University Library
West Road / Cambridge
CB3 9DR UK
Tel.: +44 1223 766368/333009
Email: [log in to unmask]
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