Oxford Libraries Trainees

Welcome to our new trainees! Our 2024/25 trainees started in our libraries last week and will be posting here soon!

Part 3 of the write-up of our trainee projects is out now! Some trainees were tidying up library collections, one was helping readers navigate the @TAYOxford , and one was deepdiving into all things the @SainsburyLib ! Read this here👇 blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtrainees…

Here's Part 2 of our trainee projects for the year! Including: investigating offprints owned by a prominent Old Norse-Icelandic Studies scholar, widening access to special collections @StJohnsOxLib & launching the @BodArtLib account!✨ blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtrainees…

From exploring Northern Irish collections @thelawbod, to the importance of cataloguing @LibAllSouls, promoting special collections @NewCollegeLib & developing a wellbeing collection at the Old Bod @bodleianlibraries - our trainee projects reflected a broad range of interests! 📚

Now that our traineeship year is wrapping up, we thought we'd bring you along to our trainee showcase to explore the culmination of our work: our trainee projects! Read about the first four below, more coming out over the next two weeks! 👇 blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtrainees…

🔔Graduate Trainee Opportunity!🔔 Are you looking for a trainee role? Check out this post @UniRdg_Library developing skills in aspects of library work with the Museum of English Rural Life and Special Collections @UniRdg_SpecColl 📚 Find out more👇 jobs.ac.uk/job/DIZ711/gra…

Happy National Cheese and Wine Day! You can celebrate in fabulous fashion in @bodleianlibs Special Collections, with a pairing of Ted Hughes' 'Laureate's Choice' Oloroso Seco Sherry and (of course) the infamous '20 Slices'. (n.b. please don't eat our special collections!)

🔔Oxford trainee opportunity🔔 An exciting new graduate trainee role at the Bodleian libraries has come up in resource description. ⏰Deadline: 9th August 👉More info here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Yesterday was the trainee showcase, where we had the chance to present the projects we have been working on in the past year! It was fantastic and truly inspiring to hear about the diverse work going on across the different libraries in Oxford 😊

Today, some of us got the chance to visit @LibAllSouls and peruse the exhibition prepared by the All Souls Trainee Focusing on how generations of librarians have dealt with information and metadata, it provided a fascinating insight into cataloguing through the ages!

That's a wrap on a busy week featuring not one but two Open Days! It's always fun to deliver library tours on days like these, giving potential students an insight into the spaces and collections we have to offer.

🔔Graduate trainee opportunity🔔 The University of Bath is advertising for a graduate trainee library assistant to work primarily in their Library's Technical Services area. ⏰Deadline: 8th July More details here: bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a…

Have you ever bought butter that turned out "to contain a snowball at its core"? This description of how the sale of adulterated food changed over time is from the "Report on the State of Public Health in the City of Dublin for the year 1892". #LibraryFinds @HistMedLibOx

This week we visited @BodleianHCL Cairns Library and learnt how Outreach Librarians at healthcare libraries conduct literature reviews, go to meetings with medical staff to learn their research needs, and teach information skills - including from tea trolleys on busy wards!🏥📚

🔔Graduate Trainee Opportunity 🔔 Another chance to join the library traineeship programme here in Oxford with @OxUnionLibrary ⏰ Deadline: 8th July More details here: oxford-union.org/resources/vaca…

Should you judge a book by its cover? 🤔 It was the vibrant binding of this volume on botany which attracted the trainee at @StJohnsOxLib, who opened it to discover these lovely pressed flowers and a handwritten note! 💐 #LibraryFinds HB4/4.b.2.9

This week the trainees visited the @OxUnionLibrary and Bodleian Electronic Archives and Manuscripts department. It was fascinating to learn about library work in a historic student-led society, and the challenges of conserving born digital material for posterity!

Congratulations to the trainee @NewCollegeLib for curating this excellent exhibition examining mythical creatures across a range of Special Collections items, including medieval manuscripts, early printed works, maps and more! 🐲

🔔Oxford Trainee Opportunity🔔 It’s not too late to be part of the 24/25 Oxford library traineeship programme📚 Jesus College Library is recruiting a Graduate Library Trainee! ⏰Deadline: 24th June Read more here tinyurl.com/5adu6ynr

📜The trainees had an amazing time at the @bodleianlibs training this week typesetting and printing a sonnet at the letterpress workshop in the Schola Musicae📜 📰Did you know there are a number of book arts workshops in the Old Bod? bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/book-arts📰