Librarian (Collections project)

Hybrid working: given the nature of this role, working with our collection, it is expected that most work will take place on-site.

About London Transport Museum (LTM)
Based in Covent Garden, we are the world's leading museum of urban transport and an award-winning day out. But that's just part of our story. We are passionate. We are curious. We are adventurous.

As a heritage and education charity, we reach every primary school in the capital to fire the imaginations of tomorrow's engineers, designers, scientists, and arts enthusiasts. With business partners and industry decision-makers, we tackle the topics that matter to London, from smart cities to green innovation.

We want to close skills gaps, redress gender imbalances and create opportunities for under-represented and disadvantaged communities.

We want to ignite curiosity to shape the future.

At LTM we welcome children, young people and adults at risk as Museum visitors and through engagement projects. We take safeguarding our visitors seriously and ensure all our staff and volunteers are DBS checked, regularly trained, and feel confident following our thorough safeguarding procedures. At LTM, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.

Overview of role
Can you help us uncover hidden resources in our collection and make them discoverable to the wider public? Do you enjoy bringing order and care to a library collection?

We are a small team who are passionate about supporting our colleagues and enabling the public to learn from our unique collection covering topics ranging across transport, social history, art, design, and architecture. As Librarian (Collections project) you will work together with us on a project to assess and catalogue unrecorded material held at our Library store.

Our Library store is based at the Museum Depot at Acton opposite Acton Town Underground station. It is a busy store housing over 320,000 items from across the Museum's wider collection with multiple teams including curators, volunteers and operational staff working on-site.

As plans are being developed for a new Library space at the Museum Depot, it is time to review the material we already hold there. With our current team maintaining the library service at Covent Garden and working on this project, we hope you can help us meet this challenge.

This is an opportunity to work with special collections, including a range of material types dating from the 19th century onwards. Whether you have already specialised in this area of work or are looking to gain more experience, you will bring your knowledge of collection management and library cataloguing to help develop and accurately describe our collection. Highly organised and self-motivated, you will also be able to work collaboratively with colleagues as part of a team.