Freelance Project Co-ordinator Wanted for Heritage-Funded Digital Project

We are looking for a Freelance Project Co-ordinator

Following the award of a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we are recruiting a freelance project co-ordinator to help us manage our Digital Discovery Project.

The Gibson Library Society is a registered charity which exists to support the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden. The Gibson Library is an independent historic library and a unique cultural treasure which has until now been ‘a hidden gem’. Its historic collection of 25,000 volumes includes beautiful medieval manuscripts, rare botanical illustrations, unique annotated copies of rare books and together with the lending research collection of 12,000 books is regarded as a significant Victorian Studies centre important to local and family historians, as well as history researchers both nationally and internationally.

Over the next two years, we will be developing a new website and a digital catalogue for the Library and starting to digitise the rarest books in the collection. All the tasks will be carried out by volunteers and we are looking for an enthusiastic freelancer to help organise the activities.

If you love books and would like to have a pivotal role in bringing this exciting project together, please do get in touch. Closing date for applications 2 March 2026.

 

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