Collections Assistant

2 weeks ago


Durham, United Kingdom Durham University Full time

**Collections Assistant (Ushaw)**
**(**
**Job Number**:
**23000241**
**)**

Library

Grade 4: - £22,630 - £24,144 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

**Contract Duration***: Until 31 July 2026

**Contracted Hours per Week***: 35

**Closing Date***: 07-May-2023, 5:59:00 PM

**Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement***: Not Applicable.

**Please note that interviews are scheduled to be held on Tuesday 6th June 2023**

**The University**
At Durham University we are proud of our people. A globally outstanding centre of educational excellence, a collegiate community of extraordinary people, a unique and historic setting - Durham is a university like no other. Across the University we have a huge variety of roles and career opportunities, which together make us a large and successful community, which is a key hub of activity within our region and nationally. Whether you are at the very start, middle or end of your career, there is a role for you. We believe everyone has their own unique skills to offer.

We would be thrilled if you would consider joining our thriving University. Further information about the University can be found here

**The Role and the Department**
In January 1833 Bishop William van Mildert donated 160 volumes to found the University Library, located on Palace Green and in the same year Durham’s first university museum opened to the public. Today the University Library and Collections offers spaces, collections, expertise and services supporting education, research, the wider student experience and cultural and educational outreach. Collections and services operate across a wide estate of libraries, archives, museums, galleries and exhibition spaces, including the UNESCO World Heritage Site on Palace Green. Our nationally and internationally recognised collections span early books, archives and manuscripts, museum objects and art, print and electronic materials and include a repository of digitised materials, research outputs and research data. Our users encompass anyone engaging with our collections, services and facilities in person or remotely, this includes university staff, researchers from around the globe, students in higher education from Durham and other universities, school pupils and teachers, Durham’s local residents and tourists.

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, enabled by seven cross-cutting groups, Collections, Education, Engagement, User Experience, Operations, Research, Staff Development and a Programme and Project Steering Group.

There are Collections Assistants roles working with ULC unique and distinctive collections within both the Collections team at Palace Green Library and the Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions team. They are each based within a particular collections area, with specialist duties, skills and knowledge relating to those collections, but when required will work together as a team on larger collections projects, such as relocations or audits.

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 Collections Assistant (Ushaw) post supports access to these important research collections, by
- Retrieving and reshelving material from the strongrooms for use by researchers in the searchroom, or for teaching and engagement activities lead by colleagues
- Assisting readers and volunteers, including collections advice and appropriate handling of items; providing a reprographics service, and providing research access via visualiser sessions with remote users
- Contributing to security supervision in the Searchroom and Barker Rese



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