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1 posts from February 2016

25 February 2016

Call for Sound Heritage Conservation Consultant

Save Our Sounds” is the British Library’s ambitious programme to preserve the nation’s recorded sound heritage including; music, oral history, wildlife sounds, drama, dialect and urban sounds. We are looking for a consultant to research and write a Conservation Plan that will form part of our stage two HLF application.

The tendering document can be downloaded here (Click 'Save as' in Internet Explorer to save the .zip file, or download the document automatically in Google Chrome). The deadline for tenders is 14 March 2016. You can apply via our online e-tendering service by clicking on 'View current opportunities and notices.'

A man is retrieving a round card cylinder from a row of cylinders on a metal shelf. The cylinders are named as Edison Concert.