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Temporary, Part-time Library Assistants (two posts)
Grade: 2
Salary Range: : £15,292 - £17,606 pa, pro-rata (hourly rate £8.02-£9.23)

Applications are invited for two part-time posts of Library Assistant working on the Oxford & Cambridge Islamic Manuscripts Catalogue Online Project. The successful applicants will contribute to the creation of a searchable interface which includes basic manuscript descriptions from both printed and unpublished catalogues.

Cambridge University Libraries holds manuscripts of some 5,000 Islamic texts, including many early and rare items. These are not yet searchable on-line and some records remain unpublished.

The post-holders will be asked to enter manuscript descriptions into a pre-designed electronic template. This involves inputting data in both the original Arabic script and in transliteration and assigning subject headings selected from a pre-defined list. 

Applicants should be conversant with at least one of the following languages: Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish, and have experience of working with Islamic manuscripts and manuscript catalogues.

The posts require good communication and IT skills; enthusiasm; flexibility, the ability to work as part of a team and to tight deadlines.

The working hours for these posts are by arrangement but require a minimum of 6 hours per week. The posts are temporary and will end when the project is completed at the end of February 2011.

Informal enquiries are welcomed by Mrs Yasmin Faghihi, Head of Near and Middle Eastern Department: e-mail yf227@cam.ac.uk.

Applications should be returned to The Library Office by post, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, or electronically to admin@lib.cam.ac.uk (but not both) not later than 12 noon on the closing date, Wednesday 10 February 2010 and must be made on the form supplied http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/pd17/pd17.pdf

Please complete Part I and Part III only.

Closing Date: Wednesday 10 February 2010

 

Medical Library - Friday evening and Saturday afternoon library assistant (invigilator)
Job No: X059
Grade: 1
Salary Range: Hourly rate (including supplements): £11.45

The Medical Library at Addenbrooke's Hospital wishes to recruit a library invigilator to work 5.45-10.00 p.m. on Friday evenings (term-time and vacations) and one Saturday afternoon (1.00-5.15 pm) on a 4 week rota.  Occasional Sunday afternoons may also be offered.  Duties include general supervision of the library, including reader assistance, book issues and returns, and some clerical work and security duties.

Applicants should have a good educational background and must be IT literate.  The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, adaptable, with good communication skills and the ability to work alone without direct supervision.  Library experience is highly desirable.

Further particulars and a PD17 application form can be downloaded or are available from the Medical Library (tel. 01223 336750 or email: ac224@cam.ac.uk).  Completed application forms (Pt. II of Form PD17 need not be completed) should be sent to Mrs Anne Collins, Deputy Medical Librarian, by post (Medical Library, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP) or email (ac224@cam.ac.uk).

Interviews will be held on Monday 22 February 2010

Closing Date: Tuesday 16 February 2010

 

Slavonic Specialist - Collection Development and Description Division
Grade: 7
Salary Range: £27,319 - £35,646

Limit of tenure:  5 years from date of appointment

Applications are invited for the full-time position of Slavonic Specialist (Assistant Under-Librarian) in the European Collections and Cataloguing Department of the University Library’s Collection Development and Description Division. Applicants should have a good honours degree, very good knowledge of Russian, a postgraduate qualification in library and information studies together, preferably, with experience in an academic library. They should have excellent IT, organizational and communication skills, along with a flexible approach and the capacity to work in a rapidly changing environment.

Informal enquiries would be welcomed by David Lowe, Head of European Collections and Cataloguing, email: dkl1000@cam.ac.uk, tel: 01223 333094.

Further details can be downloaded from the library website at www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Vacancies or they are available from the Librarian’s Personal Assistant, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR, tel: 01223 333045, email cr267@cam.ac.uk.

Applications, in the form of a covering letter, a Curriculum Vitae and a completed PD18 form, should be returned to the University Librarian either by post to the above address or electronically to cr267@cam.ac.uk (but not both).

Closing Date:  12 noon, Friday 26 February 2010

Closing Date: Friday 26 February 2010