DURHAM UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
NORTH EAST INHERITANCE PROJECT
Durham University Library requires three staff for a three-year Heritage
Lottery Funded cataloguing, indexing and conservation project. The
North East Inheritance project will create an online catalogue of wills,
inventories and other probate records for the diocese of Durham from the
16th century to 1858, linked to digital images of the records.
ASSISTANT CONSERVATOR (Ref. 1130)
£17,977 - £19,622 pa
To conserve seventeenth-century wills and eighteenth-century probate
bonds. You will join a busy Conservation Unit undertaking a wide
variety of work, including environmental monitoring of the collections,
conservation and repair of paper, parchment, maps, seals etc., binding,
preventive rehousing, photography and exhibition work.
SENIOR PROJECT CATALOGUER (Ref. 1131)
£20,044 - £22,289 pa
PROJECT CATALOGUER (Ref 1132)
£17,977 - £19,093 pa
To complete the cataloguing and indexing of the Durham probate records.
You will work alongside volunteers from local and family history
societies on listing and indexing the most straightforward records, and
will catalogue the archivally more complex and older documents.
The Senior Project Cataloguer will help organise outreach and
promotional activities with the volunteers, manage the day to day
operation of the project and supervise the Project team. The Project
Cataloguer will also assist with supervision of the volunteers.
OTHER
All posts are fixed-term for three years and applications are invited
from experienced and newly qualified archivists and conservators.
Closing date for applications: 6 January 2006
Interviews will be held in late January/early February 2006
Further details of the posts and an application form are available at
http://jobs.dur.ac.uk or telephone 0191 334 6499 or
fax 0191 334 6495.
