Come join our team! 📢 #JobVacancy Digital Special Collections Librarian Location: Natural History Museum (South Kensington) Permanent role. Hours per week: 18 Closing date: 14/11/2024 jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job/J… #MuseumJobs #LibraryJobs

Providing access and research support to users is one of our key roles, so it is a pleasure to be part of the induction weeks of the new MSc and MRes students from Imperial College London and UCL embarking on their courses with Natural History Museum as they progress in their scientific careers.

Ever wanted to know how a jellyfish sleeps? How they navigate the oceans? Or how those stinging tentacles work? Learn the answers in the wake of #WorldJellyfishDay – find the latest #OpenAccess articles via our catalogue at nhm.ac.uk/library! Look for the #OA symbol 🔓

Our team will be there and we are really looking forward to it!

Our more cuddly team members will be joining Kathryn, Martin and Victoria at #HistDay24 at SOAS University of London SOAS Library today. We look forward to chatting all things research and history!

Arrived at #HistDay24 and all set up ✔️ A great buzz around us, boy oh boy do Librarians and Archivists love to talk history and research! The first outing for our nice new shiny banner 🎉

Are you coming to #HistDay24 today? Look out for our stand and say hello to our team of Kathryn, Martin and Victoria. 👋 We have a fun palaeography activity to test your skills and of course some freebies! 🦕

Well hello #WomenInSTEM 🎉

A new addition to our collections, presented by the author, Vilma Bharatan. Integrating science, art & poetry into a storytelling narrative which travels the world & encourages us to explore. Here are some of its new neighbours sharing the same location in our Botany Library📚

A great day being had by all at #HistDay24.

These interesting shells are from ‘A manual of the mollusca’ by Samuel Peckworth Woodward (1821-1865), found in our #Zoology #Library collections. Andreia Salvador’s ‘Interesting Shells’ contains beautiful photographs of shells. You can learn more here: nhmshop.co.uk/interesting-sh…

A dashing moustache and a baffling plate from Arnold Boscowitz’s ‘Les volcans’ (Paris: Paul Ducrocq, [1885]). #Movember2024

Moustachioed Natural History Museum Works staff setting off on an outing in a horse bus (charabanc) from Exhibition Road (c.1900) #Movember2024

Happily, our moustache/women hiring ratio has changed in the Natural History Museum Library since c.1900. #Movember2024 #Librarian

We have moved to #BlueSky. bsky.app/profile/nhmlib… We look forward to sharing our collections, research and work with you there. Alternatively, visit us at nhm.ac.uk/library