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** With apologies for cross-posting **
The following temporary posts are now available at King’s College London.
Temporary Special Collections Project Cataloguers
Three full-time temporary posts, to 31 July 2013
Grade 4, £22,475 to £25,251 per annum plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance
For further details and an application pack, please see:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=12506
Temporary Special Collections Library Assistants
Two temporary posts, to 31 July 2013
One full-time, one at 60% FTE
Grade 3, £18,868 to £21,802 per annum plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance
For further details and an application pack, please see:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=12503
King’s College London holds the library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), comprising over 60,000 books, pamphlets, manuscripts and other material ranging in date from the 16th to the 21st century. Strengths of the collection include travel, exploration and discovery; war and cold war; diplomacy and peace-keeping; the growth, rule and decline of empire; colonial emigration and settlement; the creation of the Commonwealth; and trade, transport and communication.
We are creating a small team of project cataloguers and library assistants to assist with the sorting, cataloguing and processing of material in this collection dating from the late 19th century onwards. The successful candidates will join the staff of the Foyle Special Collections Library, which forms part of the College’s Maughan Library, Chancery Lane.
The team’s principal objective will be the cataloguing and processing of designated items to ensure their speedy transit to the shelf. One Project Cataloguer post and both Library Assistant posts will focus primarily on the post-1901 pamphlet collection; in addition, the Library Assistants will process and shelve all items catalogued by the project team. The other two Project Cataloguers will focus primarily on material relating to the causes, course and aftermath of the First World War, both in the FCO Collection and in some of our other named special collections. For this element of the project a reading knowledge of German would be helpful. For all posts the ability to combine speed with accuracy, to meet challenging targets and to work effectively in a team are essential.
All posts are fixed-term contracts, to 31 July 2013.
The closing date for applications for all posts is Monday 19 November 2012
Katie Sambrook
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Katie Sambrook
Special Collections Librarian
King's College London
Foyle Special Collections Library
Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1LR
Tel. (44)+ (0)20 7848 1845
Fax (44)+ (0)20 7848 1843
www.kcl.ac.uk/specialcollections
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