Archivist (Ushaw and Catholic Collections)
- Employer
- Durham University
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Salary
- Salary Commensurate with experience
- Date posted
- Dec 9, 2022
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Academic Affairs, Academic Administration
- Employment Level
- Administrative
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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The Role and
the Department
We are an
ambitious and developing team with a focus on providing the best
experience for our students, researchers and the wider community.
We are valued partners working with students, professional services
and academics across the University, and professionals and
organisations regionally, nationally and internationally.
The University
Library and Collections is made up of six sections: Collections;
Customer Services; Education, Learning and Engagement; Research and
Systems; Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions; and Finance and
Administration. Staff work flexibly between the sections, 7 enabled
by cross-cutting groups, Collections, Education, Engagement, User
Experience, Operations, Research, Staff Development and a Programme
and Project Steering Group.
The Collections
team, under the leadership of the Head of Collections, has broad
responsibility for the acquisition, cataloguing, management,
preservation and conservation of collections, including modern
print and electronic collections, archives, and rare books. Their
work also includes the administration of reading lists,
inter-library loan, and the provision of search-room and enquiry
services for Archives and Special Collections. Their expertise and
collections knowledge (alongside colleagues across the department,
for example in our museums team) are used in support of learning,
teaching, research and public engagement activities.
The Archives
and Special Collections at Palace Green Library comprise
exceptionally rich and varied material, dating from early medieval
to modern, and including manuscripts, archives, rare and open
access books, maps, prints, photographs, born-digital and digitised
material and some objects. The University also works in partnership
with Durham Cathedral to manage and provide access to their
archives, based at 5 The College, and also with Ushaw Trust to
manage and provide access to library and archive collections at
Ushaw College.
The main focus
of the role is the archives and book collections held in the former
Roman Catholic seminary of Ushaw College in County Durham, which
are managed by Durham University in partnership with Ushaw Trust.
These collections built up at Ushaw College since its establishment
as a Catholic seminary in 1808 reflect its role as a major
institution for Catholic higher education until its closure as a
college in 2011. The collections date back to the early Middle Ages
and comprise the library and archive of the institution itself, and
those of a number of other related Catholic organisations and
individuals. The postholder will also have a particular focus on
those collections held by the University relating to Catholic
communities and organisations. The postholder will split their time
between work at Ushaw College and Palace Green Library. They will
report to the Senior Manager - Archives and Special Collections and
work within the Archives and Special Collections team based at
Palace Green Library, and will also work closely with Ushaw
staff.
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