Job vacancy: National Life Stories

Oral History Archive Assistant (Temporary/Part-time)

National Life Stories (NLS) records oral history interviews with as wide a cross-section of present-day society as possible. As an independent charitable trust within the British Library Sound Archive, NLS has completed projects in the steel, oil and gas and publishing industries, with Holocaust Survivors, about the financial capital of the City of London, and corporate oral histories including the Post Office and Tesco. Current fieldwork projects cover the fields of the visual arts, crafts, fashion, architecture, theatre design, authors and writers and the food industry.

We are looking for someone with proven archival and/or library and information skills; administrative skills and good general knowledge, to accession, copy, document and catalogue our growing collections of in-depth oral history interviews. This role could provide experience prior to an application for an Archives and Records Management postgraduate qualification.

This is initially a one-year part-time (three days per week or equivalent) freelance consultancy based at St Pancras in London with a fee payable of £20,800 per annum pro rata (£80 per day of seven and half hours). The start-date is expected to be during August 2007.

For further details about National Life Stories and this position go to: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nlsc.html

The collections are accessible via an online catalogue at http://www.cadensa.bl.uk

Please send a CV and letter of application to: Mary Stewart, National Life Stories, The British Library Sound Archive, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. Tel: 020 7412 7404 Email: mary.stewart@bl.uk. Please indicate where you found this position advertised.

Applications close Friday 8 June.

Interviews will be held at the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB on Tuesday 26 June.