Subject: Job - Preservation Project Assistant- fixed term (until November 2020) contract with possible extension at Lambeth Palace Library, UK. Salary: 23,808 rising to 24,404 GBP after probation. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Lambeth Palace Library, founded in 1610, is the historic library and record office of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is the principal repository for the archives of the Archbishop and associated officials or institutions. It is freely open for public use, serving as a research centre specialising in ecclesiastical history but with far wider-ranging archive, manuscript and printed collections. The Church of England Record Centre (CERC) holds the archives of a variety of historical central Church of England bodies, which document the evolving organisation and activities of the Church of England since 1704. CERC also provides a records management service to the National Church Institutions and advice to the wider church. The combined collections of the Church of England Record Centre and Lambeth Palace Library are to be moved to a new bespoke Library in the grounds of Lambeth Palace in 2020. We are in need of another Preservation Project Assistant, where you will help deliver the collection migration project objectives- to help safeguard through preservation alongside the provision of improved access to the collection in readiness for the move in 2020. This is a unique and fascinating opportunity to work on the preservation cleaning, boxing and tracking programme of the collections in preparation for their move to the new library building. Your work will include a combination of preservation and conservation actions, which will involve developing housekeeping regimes, surveying the condition of collections, in-situ conservation stabilisation (first aid), referencing and tracking collections on the move. With a passion for conservation or preservation and some skills in library and/or archive conservation, you will thrive within our small specialist team and enjoy working within given time frames in order to meet targets. In this hands on role, you will be working in a historic premises dating from the 15th century, sometimes within confined and dirty spaces. The fundamental requirement of this role is to ensure that the risk is managed to the physical protection of our historic collections, whilst on the move to their place in a new bespoke Library in 2020. Application deadline: 25th February 2019. Interviews held: either on the 14/15th March 2019. Please follow this link for application details: https://pathways.churchofengland.org/job/pathways/757/preservation-project-assistant Lara Artemis ACR Senior Conservator Lambeth Palace Library, London SE1 7JU, UK Tel: 0044 207 898 1288 Conservation Enquiries. E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> URL: http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/ ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
