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School of English / Leeds University Library Archivist Leeds Poetry 1950 - 1980 This is a fixed-term post available from 1st October 2005 for 2 years. The School of English (rated 5*A, the highest grade, in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise) and Leeds University Library (one of the major research libraries in the UK) have gained funding under the AHRC's Resource Enhancement Scheme to establish comprehensive electronic access, through an explanatory website, to catalogue records for the Library's archives of notable English poets associated with the University of Leeds between 1950 and 1980. The project will open up the archives to researchers and other interest groups through an electronic union catalogue of their contents, with both newly-created and enhanced pre-existing records. Primary access to the catalogue and contextual information will be through a dedicated website. Applicants for the post should be graduates (or equivalent), with knowledge of the theory and practice of archival cataloguing. Qualification in archive administration would be desirable, as well as an established interest in 20th-century English poetry. With excellent IT skills, you will be confident in archival cataloguing and database construction, as well as a teamworker, with excellent interpersonal and communications skills. Project management experience would be highly desirable. Informal enquiries to: Professor Ed Larrissy, School of English ([log in to unmask]), and Dr Oliver Pickering, Deputy Head of Special Collections, Leeds University Library ([log in to unmask]). Grade and salary: Research IA (£25,699). Full details available at: http://wwwnotes2.leeds.ac.uk/jobs/unijob.nsf/Jobs or e-mail: [log in to unmask] Job reference number: 310527 Closing date for applications: 22nd July 2005 : Sharon Palmer Human Resources and Development Manager Leeds University Library 0113 343 5503 [log in to unmask]