Clare Hampson Funded Icon Internship in Book Conservation British Library 12-month Internship starting November 2019 Location: British Library Educational Stipend: £17,000
Funded by the Clare Hampson fund, the Icon internship will focus the conservation of manuscripts, archive materials and books and offers experience of working in a multidisciplinary conservation department in a large institution. Overview of the host: The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest research libraries. Our mission is to advance knowledge to enrich lives, by preserving our collections for the future and striving to make them as accessible as possible to the public. There ae an estimated 160 million physical items in the library with manuscripts and rare books comprising a significant proportion. Opportunities: The intern will conserve/preserve items from the British Library's collections in order to improve the longevity, stability and accessibility of these items. They will learn how to make treatment decisions for a range of collection items considering these within a spectrum from museum artefact through to functioning, working object to meet the conservation challenges and accessibility needs of a national institution. There will be the opportunity to work with Preventive Conservation colleagues and on items for exhibition and loan and to advocate for the profession through our events and outreach programme. Across the year, with the support of their supervisor, the Intern will be given the opportunity to gain experience of standard book conservation on primarily, but not exclusively, paper-based objects from a range of cultural material including archival collections. Please apply using the application form on the Icon website only. https://icon.org.uk/training/internships Closing date: 23rd September 2019 Interviews will be held on during the first / second week of October 2019. Questions: train...@icon.org.uk<mailto:train...@icon.org.uk> ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to consdistlist-le...@cool.conservation-us.org Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
