Shell Collection Cataloguer

1 month ago


Oxford, United Kingdom Somerville College Full time

To preserve any historical data inherent in the arrangement and labelling of the collection, as received;
- to catalogue and photograph the collection, in order to make it accessible to researchers digitally;
- to conserve the collection by reviewing and improving storage within the shell cabinet.

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) will provide two days of training in many aspects of curating shell and invertebrate collections as well as collections management, classification and identification, and make its collections and reference literature available to access throughout the project.

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