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Head of Researcher Services and Digital Delivery at the Natural History Museum, London. Co-I on @cur_trav All views are my own.

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

Come join our team! 📢 #JobVacancy

Digital Special Collections Librarian

Location: @NHM_London (South Kensington)
Permanent role.
Hours per week: 18
Closing date: 14/11/2024

https://t.co/EUlf3dKmrV
#MuseumJobs #LibraryJobs

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

Come join the Library and Archives team at @NHM_London! We're hiring a part-time Lead Metadata Librarian. 📚

Salary: Up to £36,049 per annum (pro rata)
Hours Per Week: 21.6
Employment Type: Permanent

📝 Click the link below and apply by 23 October!

https://t.co/aa7Oyatlvb

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

From 30 September 2024, for a trial period, we are pleased to announce an additional day to our public opening hours at our Main Reading Room, @NHM_London.

We will now be open to appointments: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10.00 – 16.00. More info at: https://t.co/Iv2FKoHPcl

[Science at the Natural History Museum @NHM_Science]

OPPORTUNITY! - we are recruiting an exceptional leader for NHM research:

Director of Research: Guide our world-class research community, set a strong vision for collections-based research, and ensure research excellence across all NHM activities.
https://t.co/WlLTTD3j7j

[Science at the Natural History Museum @NHM_Science]

OPPORTUNITY! We are recruiting an exceptional leader for NHM Collections:

Director of Collections: You'll lead a dedicated team, spearhead strategy for the future of collections, drive access and research, and ensure success of our multi-site expansion

https://t.co/7TwJsC211d

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

Interim Museum Archivist @NHM_Library @NHM_London
Come and join our team!

Salary: 40,282 (Fixed term contract)
Hours Per Week: 36
Closing date: 26/06/2024

More information: https://t.co/kYTCFcSDF2

#ArchiveJobs #MuseumJobs

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

Another opportunity:

Library and Archives Assistants (1x permanent, 1x fixed term contract)
@NHM_Library
@NHM_London

Come and join our team!
Salary: 28,346
Hours Per Week: 36
Closing date: 07/07/2024

More information: https://t.co/l1TSXIjrVh
#ArchiveJobs
#MuseumJobs

[University of Glasgow @UofGlasgow]

ICYMI, listen to @uofgartshums #StoriesFromGlasgow podcast to hear the story of a curious traveller from @uofgenglit Prof Nigel Leask & @Ganolfan Prof Mary-Ann Constantine.

Hear how one naturalist's travels inspired tourism to Scotland & Wales.

Listen ➡️ https://t.co/PF9t2yYN2s

[Curious Travellers @cur_trav]

Read more about our project in @heraldscotland

"As a travel writer, Thomas Pennant played a pivotal role in stimulating the birth of tourism in Scotland and Wales in the later 18th century and romantic period..."

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

Come and join our team! #JobVacancy #LibraryJobs #MuseumJobs

Special Collections Librarian (Maternity cover) @NHM_London
🔹Closing date: 16th October 2023
🔹Contract:  Fixed term (13/10/2024), full time. 🔹Salary: £34,999 per annum

https://t.co/BLkhDOwvjh

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

This week's #Google25 anniversary reminded us of life before the internet and the lengths we all had to go, for scientific research.

Here is a member of @NHM_London staff 'searching' our catalogue.

Now it's easy! Go to https://t.co/Iv2FKoHPcl to search our collections.

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

In the last few weeks #DUNA volunteers have already completed the notebooks of lepidopterist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940) 🦋 We’re busy processing these transcriptions now so that we can make the images and text available on our Digitised Collections 5/5 https://t.co/z3nK5R62Gr

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

William Kerr (d.1814) was a gardener at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. From 1803 he travelled to China, Java and the island of Luzon in the Philippines, sending back over 200 examples of plants new to European gardens #DUNA 4/5 https://t.co/MPq5NuLLrm

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

Frank Collier (1900-1964) kept several notebooks recording wildlife with descriptions and sketches. He was a Forest Officer and later Chief Conservator in Nigeria from 1923, but the notebook featured on #DUNA covers Northampton, Oxford and Cumberland: https://t.co/MPq5NuLdBO 3/5

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

The index to Solander's slip catalogue is a great introduction to transcription with its neat, regular handwriting. It contains lists of plant genus, based on Linnaeus’ Species Plantarum, which catalogued every species known at the time! 🌿🌱🌻 #DUNA 2/5 https://t.co/MPq5NuLLrm

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

📣 VOLUNTEER WITH US 📣 (From anywhere in the world 🌍)
Help us with the second round of #DUNA (Digitally Unlocking Nature’s Archive) by transcribing online on @the_Zooniverse! 📝
Get involved! https://t.co/to3Tg6VAEv
Stay tuned to see the collections we have on offer... 1/5

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

VACANCY: Library and Archives Assistant #JoinOurTeam

£27,256 per annum

Locations: South Kensington, London.

Closing date: 9:00 am, Monday 24th July 2023.

https://t.co/fJSUaE71yo

#LibraryJobs #ArchiveJobs #MuseumJobs

[Curious Travellers @cur_trav]

Penblwydd hapus and happy birthday to the Welsh naturalist and travel writer Thomas Pennant, born #OnThisDay in 1726!

Here he is a bit closer to his first birthday than we usually think of him...

[Curious Travellers @cur_trav]

'...the Castle is a very great Pile of Buildings Consisting of Six Towers...We Ascended the highest of these Turrets which command a Prospect of the County Town & Bay of Caernarvon and Island of Anglesea'

#Welsh #QueerHistory 🏳️‍🌈

[Curious Travellers @cur_trav]

The Ladies of Llangollen's #PrideMonth tour continues #OnThisDay in 1778.

'Went to see [Caernarfon] Castle built by --- King Edward I. where He has often Held his Court & is famous for being the birth place of his Son Edward II The first English Prince of Wales.'