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University of Oxford

LIBRARIAN OF THE SACKLER LIBRARY

Applications are invited for the above post, which is available from 1 July 2000. The University of Oxford has received a major benefaction from the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation towards the cost of a purpose-built new Library that is due to open in the academical year 2000-01. The Sackler Library will bring together a number of collections previously housed separately. At the heart of the new Library will be the collections currently held in the Ashmolean Library. The combined collections, totalling 270,000 volumes, will constitute an internationally important resource, covering Old World prehistory and archaeology (post-Palaeolithic); the languages, history, and civilization of the ancient Near East and non-classical Europe; Graeco-Roman civilization (art and archaeology, history, papyrology, and epigraphy); medieval European and Byzantine archaeology and art history; post-medieval European and North American art history; eastern art; numismatics; and classical languages and literature.

Candidates should be good honours graduates with senior library management experience, preferably with a higher degree in one of the fields covered by the Library's collections and a relevant professional qualification, and a working knowledge of one or more of the relevant languages, other than English. Appointment will be at academic-related Senior Librarian, Grade 6 (£37,568-£40,822 a year).

Further particulars may be viewed at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or obtained from Mr L. C. C. Reynolds, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD (tel. 01865 270199, fax 01865 270708, e-mail laurence.reynolds@admin.ox.ac.uk), to whom applications, together with a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of three referees, should be sent by 7 April 2000.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 8 March 2000
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