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The Europeana Libraries project is working to make 5 million digital objects from 19 leading European research libraries freely accessible on The European Library and Europeana websites.
Spanish civil war photographs, Ottoman manuscripts, historic medical films and thousands of theses, journals and academic articles are among the digital resources that Europeana Libraries is working with. When the Project finishes at the end of 2012, it will have created:
- A valuable resource for scholars, with full-text search capabilities for written works
- A robust network of national, university and research libraries
- An efficient aggregation model that can be used by research libraries across Europe
Collections Intern for The European Library
Are you a soon-to-be qualified librarian? Would you like to work in an English- speaking international team? Then come and join The European Library team, based in the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague.
We are looking for an intern to join our Collections Team. Your internship will be to liaise with national and research libraries across Europe, organising, scheduling and prioritising the ingestion of their collections into The European Library.
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We are looking for someone who has qualifications in librarianship or a related subject. You must be able to speak and write English to a very high standard.
The European Library
Launched in March 2005, The European Library is a free service that offers a single point of access to the bibliographical and digital collections of the National Libraries of Europe. It is a service of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) and is hosted in the Research and Development Department of the National Library of The Netherlands in The Hague. 48 national libraries in Europe have included their collections in The European Library. From 2012, we are incorporating data from Europe’s major research and university libraries. With the development of Europeana, the cross-domain portal for Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage, The European Library has become the library-domain aggregator for Europeana.
Terms and conditions of employment
The internship is available now and will be offered for an initial period of three months, which may be renewed. A monthly internship allowance according to KB regulations is payable, plus travel expenses to
and from work.
How to apply
For questions about the internship please email Louise Edwards, General Manager (louise.edwards@kb.nl). Please send your CV and application letter to the KB applications mailbox (solliciteren@kb.nl) for the attention of Louise Edwards with ‘Internship TEL’ in the subject line.
Final acceptance date for applications: 18th June 2012 at 12:00 CET
Contact us
Europeana Libraries
c/o The European Library
National Library of the Netherlands
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands
Ina Heinz
The European Library
Email: ina.heinz AT kb.nl