Library Graduate Trainee
Queens’ College Cambridge
Queens’ College is looking to appoint a Library Graduate Trainee for a period of one year starting on 1st September 2025. The post is designed to provide pre-postgraduate library course experience in a busy academic library. In order to contribute to the overall work of the Library, the postholder will be involved in the full range of library activities such as providing assistance to students in their use of the student library, cataloguing and issuing books. The post will be of particular interest to candidates seeking to work with special collections and early printed books. Public outreach, exhibition curation, and the cataloguing of early printed collections will all be essential to the role.
Opportunities will be provided to visit other libraries in Cambridge, and to participate in training provided by the university’s Library Graduate Trainee programme. Informal enquiries about the post may be made to the Librarian, Tim Eggington: librarian@queens.cam.ac.uk.
The successful candidate will be a good honours graduate with first-rate IT skills and excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. The role requires initiative and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
The post is established as a fixed-term contract of one year. Hours of work are full time (36.5 hours per week), in general 9am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday. The salary will be £27,744.75. The College leave allowance is 26 days per annum plus public holidays.
The closing date for completed application forms is Thursday 27th February 2025 and interviews will take place on the morning of Tuesday 11th March. Applications can be sent via email to jobs@queens.cam.ac.uk or by post to HR Department, Queens College, Cambridge CB3 9ET.
For further particulars and an application form, please visit the website via the Apply button.
http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/academic-and-staff-vacancies