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You will be based in an established team involved in the daily processing of new collection items, ensuring material is accurately catalogued through editing and creating bibliographic data, and ensuring delivery to the Library’s Collections is as speedy as possible. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development and implementation of new workflows as they arise.
The role
Working in a constantly changing environment you will need to be self-motivated and enthusiastic, with the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels. You will have good IT skills and the ability to undertake accurate and detailed editing work.
As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.
About us
In return we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 26.6% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.
