Vacancy for Digital Collections Conservator at the British Library

• Vacancy for Digital Collections Conservator at the British Library

Vacancy for Digital Collections Conservator at the British Library

19 November 2023

Boston Spa or St Pancras, UK

Full-Time

The British Library's Digital Collections are a unique treasure trove, including everything from digitised manuscripts and books to eBooks and eJournals, the UK Web Archive, born-digital personal archives, sound collections, electoral registers, and much more. In total, the collection comprises many millions of collection items, and millions more individual files, all comprising several petabytes of data. All of these items require efficient management if they are to persist over time and remain reliably available into the future.

The post of Digital Collections Conservator is an opportunity for someone to join the British Library’s Digital Collections Management and Preservation team in order to help support the preservation of these collec...