Vacancy for Preservation Audio Engineer at British Library

Digital Preservation Coalition; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned library is seeking a Preservation Audio Engineer to lead the digitisation of endangered audio recordings and create metadata. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of obsolete sound carriers, expertise in audio technologies, and relevant educational background. Join us to help preserve the nation's audio heritage.

Qualifications

• Strong, demonstrable knowledge of obsolete sound carriers and current digital formats.
• Experience in creating metadata for digital audio resources.
• Relevant education to degree level or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for digitisation of sound recordings held on endangered media.
• Create metadata relating to the transfer process.

Skills

Knowledge of obsolete sound carriers

Familiarity with audio recording technologies

Experience in professional audio archival work

Education

Degree level education in relevant field

Job description

• Vacancy for Preservation Audio Engineer at British Library

Vacancy for Preservation Audio Engineer at British Library

St Pancras

Fixed Term

Join us on the Audio Collection Preservation project to save the nation's audio heritage. The project, part of the British Library’s ambitious Save our Sounds programme, aims to digitally preserve the most at-risk, rare and unique recordings in the Library's sound collections.

As a Preservation Audio Engineer, you will be responsible for the digitisation of sound recordings held on endangered media selected for the project, particularly ¼” open reel tape and cassette, and the creation of metadata relating to the transfer process.

You will have strong, demonstrable knowledge of obsolete sound carriers and current digital formats, a familiarity with audio recording, playback and transfer technologies, with demonstrable experience of professional audio archival work including the creation of metadata relating to digital audio resources and relevant education to degree level or equivalent professional experience in an archive.

As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.