Music Graduate? Great Chance to Work in a Music Library!

We have been asked to share details of this great opportunity at the Britten Pears Foundation:-

Graduate Trainee: Collections

£21,848 for 12 months full-time, fixed term contract

The Britten–Pears Foundation, based in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, holds a Designated collection comprising the archives of composer Benjamin Britten. We are looking for a Graduate Trainee to support the front line work of the current collections staff. The post will include overseeing our Reading Room and dealing with enquiries from researchers, as well as project work in preservation, digitisation and description of our collections and working with our volunteers. Enquiries about the post can be directed to Nicholas Clark n.clark@brittenpears.org

This fixed term post would ideally suit a graduate wishing to gain work experience before applying for a postgraduate qualification in either Archives and Records Management or Library and Information Management. Training from our qualified collections staff in the use of the archive management system, and in the many aspects of work in a specialist archive and research library will be provided. The successful applicant will be motivated and happy to work on their own initiative, confident in dealing with the public, have strong communication and time management skills and be committed to archives or librarianship as a career. An interest in twentieth-century music and/or art would also be an advantage.

To apply please:

• download, complete and save the application form and equal opportunities form available from the Foundation website www.brittenpears.org (using a current version of the free Adobe Reader; NB you will not be able to save your text if you open the form in your web browser - please use Adobe Reader);

• write a covering email;

• e-mail your application form with a completed Equal Opportunities form to Anna Hunter a.hunter@brittenpears.org no later than Friday 26 June 2015, including the words Graduate Trainee application in the e-mail title.

Interviews will be held on the 10 July 2015.

 

 

Nicholas Clark
Librarian
Britten–Pears Foundation

The Red House

Golf Lane

Aldeburgh

Suffolk, IP15 5PZ

 

Telephone 01728 451700
www.brittenpears.org

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On the same subject, you might like to follow the blog, From PhD to Life.  Today, Jennifer Polk talks about her deepening understand of what job interviews are all about:-

• A Job Interview, by Jennifer Polk.  
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British Library Advertising for Project Team Staff

This is a message that has been circulated to music librarians.  'Whittaker' is sharing it more widely:-

EUROPEANA SOUNDS 

Project staff required at British Library for Europeana Sounds

 

Europeana Sounds is a new EC-funded project, to run from 2014-2017, which will greatly improve the discovery of and access to Europe’s rich digital sound and music collections, by enriching metadata and by doubling the number of sounds and audio-related digital items on the Europeana web portal.

 

The project will build a sustainable best practice network including the 24 funded project partner institutions from 12 EU member states.

 

The British Library is recruiting three staff for its London offices to manage the project:

 

1. Project Manager (full time)

2. Metadata Manager (full time)

3. Project Support Officer (part-time)

 

Please see

https://gs10.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_britishlibrary01.asp for details and online application forms

Music Library Assistant Job at University of Cambridge

This post might interest someone in the Cambridge area:-

"The Pendlebury Library of Music is looking for a new Library Assistant:

Faculty of Music

Pendlebury Library of Music

Library Assistant, Vacancy Reference Number GT29222

Salary: £18,005 - £20,764 per annum, (Grade 3, step 24 - 29)"

http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/

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