Senior Imaging Technicians

Fixed term posts from 3 December 2012 until 31 December 2014.

The British Library leads and collaborates in growing the world's knowledge base. We have signed a major partnership to make thousands of digitised historic documents and ancient manuscripts - relating to centuries of history of the Arabian Gulf - available online to researchers, scholars and the general public across the Gulf region and around the world. New posts are available for people to help us deliver this exciting new programme.

You will join a new digital imaging team providing content to the Qatar Programme. The main duties of the role will include the capture of digital images, post processing including OCR and the analysis of the studio output to ensure quality and metadata compliance.

You will need to have strong technical understanding of digital imaging and demonstrable knowledge of imaging software such as Photoshop or Phase One. You will have experience of interpreting metadata in reference to images and the ability to organise and plan your workload to meet targets. You should be willing to take on a range of duties and develop new skills where appropriate.

For an informal chat about this role, please contact Fiona Clancy, Studio Manager, on .

Closing date: 8 November 2012.

To apply, ckick the 'apply' button or visit . Date posted: 24/10/2012