Killian Downing

ALT Screenshot of the job description for Archivist at DCU. See tweet for link to same.

ALT Dublin City University Library job details for position of Archivist, Permanent Contract. The successful candidate will join the Directorate of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A). They will have responsibility for: listing, arranging and cataloguing archival collections; producing finding aids; identifying and surveying potential collections; collaborating in the identification of digital collections; engaging in the management and implementation of digitisation processes; advising on standards and practices for the conservation and preservation of print and multimedia resources; promoting the use of collections including the organisation of exhibitions and events; and advocacy of collections generally. The successful candidate will work closely with the Special Collections & Archives team which has responsibility for managing DCU Library’s rare, historic and heritage research holdings in both physical and digital formats.

ALT A researcher visiting our Glasnevin reading room.

ALT A local secondary school taking part in our History in Your Hands programme.

ALT DCU students in Irish Young Adult Fiction joining us for a talk & class session in our Glasnevin reading room.

ALT Visitors for Culture Night looking at our Children's Books Ireland exhibition.

ALT A copy of Lost and Found signed with a drawing of a penguin and dedicated to Children's Books Ireland by Oliver Jeffers.

ALT A copy of This Moose Belongs to Me, signed by Oliver Jeffers with accompanying drawing. Inscription reads ' To C.B.I. Thanks for all your hard work.'

ALT A copy of The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers, signed with drawing by the author.

ALT Three examples of rug-like needlework from 1837, taken from a portfolio of works by Mary Fisher.

ALT The original clasps on a 1626 printing of Thomas á Kempis' 'Orationes in totam vitam Christi'.

ALT The title page of Thomas á Kempis' 'Orationes in totam vitam Christi'.

ALT The gauffered top foreedge of Thomas á Kempis' 'Orationes in totam vitam Christi'.

ALT The case & pipe of Jim Larkin, also known as 'Big Jim'.