University College Cork wishes to appoint an experienced Photographic Collections Curator. The Photographic Collections Curator is vital to the achievement of the library’s strategic objectives, and plays a significant part in setting scholarly and professional standards of work for Photographic Collections and Collections team, and the development of photographic collections in support of research, learning and teaching.
UCC Library, uniquely amongst University libraries in Ireland, has been developing collections and an expertise in Irish photography. The University has made three very significant international acquisitions in this area in recent years: the John Minihan Collection, the Alen MacWeeney Collection, and the Irish Press Archive.
This role will work across all sections of Collections which are involved in collection development and interpretation. The Photographic Curator will bring together information on the photographic collections and advise on their description, storage, digitisation and access. They will lead and take responsibility for the development, curation and promotion of photographic collections.
For further details please access information via UCC Vacancies https://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancies/ under Administrative/Technical.
Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (https://ore.ucc.ie/ ). Queries relating to the online application process should be referred to recruitment@ucc.ie, quoting the job-title.
Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Crónán O'Doibhlin, Head of Research Collections email: c.odoibhlin@ucc.ie
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