[Mediaevistik] Stellenausschreibung Oxford

Bettina Wagner Bettina.Wagner at bsb-muenchen.de
Die Jun 5 09:31:09 CEST 2007


Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

die Stellenausschreibung der Bodleian Library der Universität Oxford
für ein drittmittelgefördertes Projekt zur Katalogisierung der
dortigen mittelalterlichen Handschriften deutscher Herkunft ist bis 8.
Juni 2007 verlängert worden.

Für Rückfragen steht zur Verfügung:

Dr. Martin Kauffmann
Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts
Bodleian Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG
Tel.: +44 (0)1865-277155
Fax: +44 (0)1865-277182
E-mail: martin.kauffmann at bodley.ox.ac.uk 
Web: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Bettina Wagner




OULS POST DETAILS 

Job Reference No:  BL7023
					
Job Title:			Assistant Librarian
Library/Service:			Bodleian Library
Section:			Special Collections and Western
Manuscripts
Location:			Central Bodleian site
Manager title:			Curator of Medieval Manuscripts
Grade/Salary:			Grade 6: *23,002 - *27,465
Hours of work:	Full Time
Support/Academic-related:	Academic-related
Length of contract:		2 years fixed term
Annual leave:			38 days (inclusive of public holidays &
closed days)

OXFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SERVICES
OULS employs 700 staff in 40 libraries, including the major research
libraries of the Bodleian group (with its legal deposit privileges), the
Taylor Institution Library and the Sackler Library, and other libraries
serving specific faculty and departmental needs.  The libraries are
broadly divided into subject areas covering Humanities, Science &
Medicine, Social Sciences and Oriental/Area Studies.  There are a number
of OULS functions that provide services across all libraries and these
include Personnel, Conservation and Collections Care, Staff Development
and Systems and Electronic Resources services. OULS is itself supported
by a common administrative and management framework for the operation of
the individual site libraries. There is a strong commitment to involve a
wide range of library staff in making contributions to the overall
development of integrated service. Subject and functional teams meet on
a regular basis to co-ordinate activities in areas such as collection
management, reader services, preservation, and staff development.

THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY
The Bodleian Library, the principal research library of the University
of Oxford, is also a national library of copyright deposit, entitled to
claim a copy of every work published in the British Isles. It is the
second largest library (and the largest university library) in the UK,
with holdings currently estimated at over 7 million.  It dates from
1602, when Thomas Bodley opened the Library he had refounded in a room
which had housed from 1488 to c.1550, the earlier University Library,
formed largely from the manuscript donations of Humfrey Duke of
Gloucester.

THE DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS
The Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, under
the overall direction of the Keeper of Special Collections and Western
Manuscripts, Richard Ovenden, is concerned with acquisition, management,
and services to researchers, based on the great wealth of rare books and
manuscripts in European languages ranging from early papyrus fragments
and the great masterpieces of medieval manuscripts to
seventeenth-century historical documents, and the papers of literary and
historical figures from the recent past and the contemporary period as
well as printed books from all periods, printed ephemera, maps and
music.

HOW TO APPLY
Please send your completed application form to the OULS Personnel
Section, Clarendon Building, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1
3BG, (telephone number 01865 277171); email:  personnel at ouls.ox.ac.uk.
Closing date: Monday 28 May 2007. 


THE PROJECT 

a) The manuscripts
The German manuscripts in the Bodleian Library fall naturally into two
groups. The smaller part consists of about 40 manuscripts containing
German vernacular writing. These are being described as part of a
separate project. The Latin manuscripts from the German-speaking lands
(or from parts of other lands where German was the most commonly spoken
language), including those produced in modern Bohemia, Austria, and
parts of Switzerland, consist of approximately 400 volumes. 

These manuscripts would be important and interesting enough if they had
entered the Library individually; but the fact that they consist of
major groups of codices from particular centres immeasurably enhances
the contribution they can make to the study of German medieval culture.
The manuscripts given in the 17th century by William Laud, Archbishop of
Canterbury and Chancellor of Oxford University, derived from several
religious houses which had suffered depredations during the disturbances
of the Thirty Years* War: the Cistercian house at Eberbach; the
cathedral of St. Kylian at Würzburg; and the Carthusian house at Mainz.