ALT Dublin City University Library job details for position of Archivist, Permanent Contract. The successful candidate will join the Directorate of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A). They will have responsibility for: listing, arranging and cataloguing archival collections; producing finding aids; identifying and surveying potential collections; collaborating in the identification of digital collections; engaging in the management and implementation of digitisation processes; advising on standards and practices for the conservation and preservation of print and multimedia resources; promoting the use of collections including the organisation of exhibitions and events; and advocacy of collections generally. The successful candidate will work closely with the Special Collections & Archives team which has responsibility for managing DCU Library’s rare, historic and heritage research holdings in both physical and digital formats.

ALT Creases being smoothed with a heated spatula

ALT Poster being cleaned with a smoke sponge

ALT Senior Conservator Gretchen Allen carrying out in-situ repair to a volume

ALT Aqueous treatment of an 18th-century document

ALT A display of old black-and-white photographs showing unidentified people.

ALT Photograph of two men playing cards on a bench by the fire, with a woman watching while knitting, Aran Islands. The woman is Bridget Johnston. She sits in the alcove of the hearth, in the left midground, behind one of the men. He looks intently at the cards in his hands. The men sit on either side of the bench. The second is Patcheen Faherty. He wears a dark cable knit jumper, dark trousers and a bobble hat. In his left hand he holds a number of cards. In his right hand he holds up a single card, as he looks at the others. Behind them is the hearth, in an alcove. An oil lamp hangs on the wall in the left background. Part of a wheel, possibly a spinning wheel, frames the right of the photo.

ALT B&W photo of a DeLorean car with its winged doors fully open.

ALT B&W photograph of DeLorean cars being manufactured in a factory.

ALT B&W photograph of the outside of the DeLorean factory in Dunmurry