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Where: The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Vacancy: Reading Room Services Manager
The post holder will coordinate and manage reading room and desk services in the Eavan Boland, Lecky, Ussher and Hamilton libraries, working closely with colleagues within the Library and across the University to develop strategic and operational plans that support excellence in learning, research and collaboration.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and inspire Reading Room Services staff across multiple library sites. The post holder will be expected to engender a culture of innovation and change, drawing on national and international best practice to understand user needs and to ensure that they are prioritised in all aspects of service development and delivery.
The role reports to the Deputy Head, Readers’ Services, Reading Room Services & Space.
More information: https://www.tcd.
Closing date: 15 January 2025 (12:00)
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Where: The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Vacancy: Legal Deposit Librarian
The Legal Deposit Librarian has operational responsibility for the Library’s legal deposit acquisitions. Legal deposit materials comprise Irish and UK publications in all formats: monographs and serials, as well as print and digital, including websites. The post-holder leads a team of Library Assistants, including a supervisor on the Executive 1 grade, who claim, receipt and process this material for storage and consultation by readers. Close cooperation with the other units within Acquisitions & Metadata, and at times within the wider Library, is essential.
The Legal Deposit Librarian advocates for the goals and benefits of legal deposit, builds good working relationships with Irish publishers directly, and indirectly with UK publishers via the Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries in Edinburgh. The post-holder is a key contributor to the work arising from the close partnership with the other five Legal Deposit Libraries named in both UK and Irish law and fosters co-operation with the additional seven institutions named in Irish law only.
Where appropriate, the post-holder contributes to the management and strategic development of all workflows across Acquisitions & Metadata.
More information: https://www.tcd.
Closing date: 15 January 2025 (12:00)
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Where: The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Vacancy: Systems Librarian
The Systems Librarian has operational responsibility for the Library’s IT systems and equipment. Situated in the Library’s division of Content Management & Open Scholarship (CMOS), the post-holder reports to the Deputy Head, CMOS, Digital, who leads on the strategic development of the IT and digital infrastructure across the Library. The post-holder oversees the Systems Office, a small team who maintain the IT hardware and software and support Library staff with their queries. The post-holder liaises with the Library’s unit managers, super-users and other colleagues on system and IT requirements, faults and improvements. The post-holder is the Library’s key liaison with the University’s IT Services department on operational matters, acts as the primary contact for many third-party providers and their technical teams, and is instrumental to the delivery of IT projects – and the IT components of other projects.
More information: https://www.tcd.
Closing date: 15 January 2025 (12:00)
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Where: The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Vacancy: Arabic & Islamic Manuscripts Curator
Applications are invited for the post of Arabic & Islamic Manuscripts Curator within the Research Collections Division, at the Library of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. This is a unique, new position within the Library, working on our collection of approximately 80 manuscript items. As project lead, the post-holder will work with colleagues in conservation and digitisation to open up this collection for broader scholarly research and public engagement. In collaboration with the Project Research Fellow, they will update and enhance the existing (inadequate) catalogue entries for this collection, undertake research into provenance, identify related items / collections in other public institutions internationally, facilitate translation and transcription activities to increase accessibility, and implement an associated programme of public engagement.
The Arabic & Islamic Manuscripts Curator will be expected to engage with academic experts within Trinity (including in the departments of History of Art & Architecture and Near & Middle Eastern Studies) and beyond, library and museum curators with similar equivalent holdings, and the wider expert community to develop a best practice approach to this collection.
The Arabic & Islamic Manuscripts Curator will report to the Head of Research Collections and work closely with the curatorial team of Assistant Librarians in Manuscripts & Archives.
More information: https://www.tcd.
Closing date: 15 January 2025 (12:00)
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Where: The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Vacancy: Cuala Press Object Collection Cataloguer
Applications are invited for the post of Cuala Press Object Collection Cataloguer within the Research Collections Division, at the Library of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. This is a new position within the Library, cataloguing the collection of over 900 original printing blocks from the Cuala Press alongside other press hardware, which form part of the Cuala Press Business Archive. The post-holder will work with colleagues in conservation and digitisation to open up this collection for broader scholarly research and public engagement. Working closely with academic colleagues in the overall Cuala Project team, they will be able to enhance catalogue entries for this collection, with art historical details and provenance information, thereby increasing their discoverability and accessibility when their digital surrogates are shared within our Digital Collections repository.
The Cuala Press Object Collection Cataloguer will be expected to engage with academic and print-making experts within Trinity and beyond, library and museum curators with similar holdings, and the wider expert community to develop a best practice approach to this collection.
The Cuala Press Object Collection Cataloguer will report to the Head of Research Collections and work closely with the team of Assistant Librarians in the wider team.
More information: https://www.tcd.
Closing date: 15 January 2025 (12:00)
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Where: The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Vacancy: Research Fellow (Arabic & Islamic Manuscripts Project)
The purpose of this role is to provide transliteration and English translation within a selection of the (approximately 80) Arabic and Islamic manuscripts in the collections of the Library of Trinity College Dublin. Working with the Project Manuscripts Curator, the Project Research Fellow will examine the manuscripts, complete translations and transcriptions of key chapters, and provide research-based descriptions of the physical features of the manuscripts to enhance descriptive catalogue entries for this collection (for both the archival catalogue and digital collections repository). They will also assist the Project Manuscripts Curator in the examination of provenance information.
The Project Research Fellow will be expected to engage with academics within Trinity (particularly in the relevant departments of History of Art & Architecture and Near & Middle Eastern Studies) and beyond; library and museum curators with similar equivalent holdings; and the wider expert community, to establish a fuller understanding of this part of the university library collection in order to facilitate access and identify future research opportunities in this area.
More information: https://www.tcd.
Closing date: 13 January 2025 (12:00)
The Library of Trinity College Dublin is the oldest and the largest library in Ireland. The Library supports the learning and research needs across all disciplines of Trinity College Dublin, including arts, humanities and social sciences; science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and health sciences. It is a major research library of international repute and provides services to the College community and a wide range of external users and institutions.
It comprises six contemporary libraries as well as the 18th century Old Library which hosts regular exhibitions of its manuscripts and other treasures. The Library was endowed with Legal Deposit privilege in 1801 and continues to receive copies of material published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Today it has over seven million printed volumes with extensive collections of journals, manuscripts, maps and music reflecting over 400 years of academic development. It also includes extensive digital images of the Library collections as well as e-books, e-journals, Open Access items and audio visual items. For further details see the Library website.