Print Room Coordinator and Cataloguer

21.36

Part time - Job share

Cataloguing & Metadata

04/07/2024

R00000558

Location: St Pancras

Hours: Permanent – Part time (Job Share) for 3 days (21.36 hours)

Grade: C

Salary: £27,300 pro rata per annum

The British Library is seeking to recruit a permanent part-time Print Room Coordinator and Cataloguer to join the Visual Arts Team at St Pancras. This post is a job-share and will be fully onsite.

Working with one of the most extensive collections of prints, drawings and photographs relating to South Asia, this is an exciting opportunity to support our users and these important materials available for research, creativity and enjoyment. The post holder will work independently to oversee the daily operations of the Print Room including scheduling appointments, retrieve, and issue and replace collection items, while closely invigilating readers on weekday mornings. The post holder will devote the remainder of their time to catalogue and research uncatalogued Visual Art collections relating to architecture and topographical views of South Asia.

We are looking for someone who has experience of handling a wide range of collection items with a readiness to identify and address problems promptly. To be successful in this role you will have good time management skills and the ability to work accurately and methodically to meet agreed targets. A post-graduate degree in the History of Art and Archaeology of South Asia and experience of cataloging prints, drawings and photographs of architectural site in the region are among the desirable additional requirements.

Other requirements are outlined in the job description.

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.

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 28.97% (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.

Closing date: 31 July 2024

Interview date: 12 August 2024

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role, as it does not meet the eligibility criteria required for this immigration route.