Dear
Paul Simon Hennimore,
The
skills, expertise and scope of the work for this job surely places it beyond
that of a pre-course, volunteer/intern position? For example requiring
‘experience of supervising volunteers and senior staff’. This sounds like a
management position, rather than an intern position?
The
expectation of skills, experience and the time commitment (40 hours per week)
seem disproportionate for an unpaid position for someone who has yet to do
their training in Archives.
Debbie
Usher.
From:
Archivists, conservators and records managers.
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Hennimore
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Subject: Archive intern opportunity at
the Lord Botherington Memorial Library, Archive and Digital
Realm
Please circulate the following to anyone who may be
interested:
Archivist intern position (full
time)
The Lord
Botherington Memorial Library, Archive and Digital Realm, in Huntingdon Green,
are looking to appoint a full-time Archivist intern. This unique voluntary
position, involves
working from our repository and search room in Huntingdon Green for 40 hours
per week.
This is a fantastic
opportunity for anyone looking to undertake a career in archives. Working five
days a week (with occasional weekend cover), you will have the opportunity (be
expected) to catalogue our entire backlog of uncatalogued material,
respond to most of our reader enquiries, work with senior managers across the
board to implement a new social inclusion strategy, and develop an extensive
outreach programme working with local and national media. In this role you
will also be required to act as official archive manager for three and a half
days each week.
The successful
applicant will have a degree in History (preferably specialising in the landed
gentry in post-war Britain), experience of cataloguing a range of material to
a high degree of accuracy following international standards using Calm 2000,
world class curatorial skills, experience of supervising volunteers and senior
staff, and an obsessive interest in the work of the Lord Botherington Memorial
Library.
This position
reports to the Head of Heritage and Library Services (Huntingdon Green
Council) and the Lord Mayor.
As stated this
would be a fantastic opportunity for anyone looking to undertake a career in
archives. We would also be happy to exploit any unemployed, newly qualified
archivist if desperate enough to work for free.
For further
information or to register your interest please
contact:
Lord Botherington
Memorial Library, Archive and Digital Realm
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