National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 www.nls.uk COLLECTING AND CONNECTING KNOWLEDGE NATIONAL LIBRARY REVIEW 2005-2006 OF SCOTLAND ANNUAL National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 33 Statistics

Access

Reader visits 60,158 Shop customers 13,644 Exhibition visitors 20,027 Event attendees 4,716 Workshop attendees 1,075 Total 99,620

Public awareness of NLS Web sessions

2004/2005 20% 2005/2006 31% 2004/2005 1,299,214 2005/2006 2,360,870

1 2 3 million million million

Reader equality profiles (%)

Age Consider themselves Ethnic Group to have a disability

Under 26 39.3 No 97.2 White 89.6 26-64 53.9 Yes 2.8 Asian 7.2 65+ 6.8 Black 0.8 Other 2.4

© National Library of Scotland 2006 National Library of Scotland ISBN 1 872116 39 6 George IV Bridge Edinburgh Editorial: Julian Stone EH1 1EW Design: OneWorld Design, Edinburgh Photography: Sean Bell, Chris Close, Mark Leman, www.nls.uk Eamonn McGoldrick National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006

Foreword 02

Modern Collections 04

Heritage Collections 08

Access 17

Partnership and Collaboration 25

Organisational Development 28

Infrastructure 30

Acknowledgements 31

Right top: Families were well catered for with fun educational activities at our Scotland’s Secret War exhibition. Right bottom: Selection of documents from the John Murray Archive relating to Lord Byron and his circle.

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Front cover images: Back cover images: 1. Letters written from the front line by Richard 1. Medieval manuscript the Murthly Hours provided the (Dick) Mitchison to his wife Naomi, 1914-18. inspiration for a well-attended Medieval Family Fun Day 2. Staff from Education and Interpretative Services in Perth. take the Scotland’s Secret War exhibition to 2. One of some 600 newspapers saved by the Aberdeen. NEWSPLAN Scotland project, from the Mitchell Library 3. An image from photographer Herman collections. Rodrigues, featured in the New Scots 3. National Librarian Martyn Wade (pictured with exhibition, a celebration of multi-culturalism in Councillor Alasdair Urquhart) seals a partnership Scotland today. with Moray Libraries in November 2005. The 4. William Roy’s ... Plan of the battle of Thonhausen ... generosity of a Moray man, Sir Alexander Grant, one of the year’s most unusual map acquisitions. helped make the Library possible in 1920. The map’s three layers chart the positions of 4. A small selection of the financial periodicals soldiers at various stages of the battle. and resources available through Scotbis, our business information service. 02 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 03 Foreword

The National Library of Scotland range of media and forms to the rich history and local pride Executive’s Efficient Government when introduced in late 2006 will exciting stage in the Library’s plays a key role at the heart of finding ways to make one of the invested in Glasgow’s Greater initiative) through a proposed allow customers in the pilot area wider development. The five-year Scottish culture, knowledge and world’s most important publishers’ Easterhouse. At a national level formal merger agreement with the (Dundee) to use their local project to make the Archive ideas, and has built an exemplary archives, the John Murray Archive, our partnership with the national Scottish Screen Archive. The authority Citizen Cards to access accessible to and inspiring for the reputation for its historic not only available to scholars agency for education and the merger presents exciting NLS services. We are also working widest possible audience will be a collections and expertise. The worldwide but also engaging to Scottish curriculum, Learning and opportunities for augmenting our to make more of our electronic major catalyst for change. We Library’s traditional role of wider audiences. Teaching Scotland (LTS), provides existing collections and their services available remotely to won’t be facing this challenge preserving the past for future online learning resources and interpretation. registered customers where alone. Alongside our dedicated generations has been complemented The strength of our reputation rests communication channels to the licences permit. We have built upon the success of staff and excellent collections, as in recent years by a commitment to not only on the quality of our 800,000 pupils, teachers and last year’s new corporate identity Progress continued towards with so many of our achievements, ensuring much easier access to our collections and the innovation of school librarians throughout with our re-developed website transforming our flagship building a cornerstone of this project’s collections for the people of our staff, but also on our ability to Scotland. Our international passing the first stages of on George IV Bridge into a visitor success will be close collaboration Scotland and beyond. The work strategically with other relationships include our internship accessibility tests by the Royal centre fit for the 21st century. with a wide network of partners, development of the digital library is organisations and communities, from the globally prestigious National Institute for the Blind. An increasingly diverse and to whom we extend our renewed now one of the key gateways to sharing knowledge and excellence French library school, Ecole des In broader terms, a statistically well-attended programme of free appreciation. our great treasures and resources. for the benefit of all our customers. chartes, which resulted in the balanced market research survey exhibitions, cultural events and This report highlights five examples cataloguing of two of NLS’ most The pace of change in the 21st revealed that public awareness of educational activities engaged from the many partnerships and important medieval literary texts. century continues to accelerate and developing relationships that the the Library and its purpose had visitors of all generations and the Library must respond, in Library has been involved in over Working efficiently and effectively increased significantly, from 20 social backgrounds. Our growing Martyn Wade, particular to take advantage of the the year. remains a priority for the Library. per cent to 31 per cent of the reputation in this area, combined revolution in digital technology. This year we have continued to Scottish population. with well established curatorial National Librarian This year we have begun to These working relationships have respond positively to developments and conservation skills, Delivering an excellent service is implement many exciting projects an impact at local, national and such as the ‘joined-up working’ contributed towards the successful central to everything we do and in response to developments in the international levels. Among the agenda (crystallised by the outcome of our bid to the Heritage this year witnessed continued wider world. Our challenges range local projects is NLS support for publication of the Culture Lottery Fund for funding for the improvement of our customer from collecting and preserving the Trondra Local History Group Commission’s Scotland’s Culture in acquisition of the world renowned Professor Michael Anderson, services. Work began towards electronic information in a growing in publishing a book that celebrates January 2006 and the Scottish John Murray Archive. This Chairman of the Board of Trustees establishing the Library’s first achievement provided a customer charter, alongside an noteworthy conclusion to the improved admissions policy, which reporting year when the Archive will make it easier for people to use finally arrived at the Library in our resources. Preparations have March. This landmark event is begun for the introduction of just the beginning of the next ‘smart card’ technology, which

Far left: National Librarian Martyn Wade and Right top: The NEWSPLAN Scotland project Chairman Professor Michael Anderson at the has helped to conserve millions of pages of 2005 Donald Dewar Memorial Lecture. Scottish newsprint.

Right bottom: The newly-acquired John Murray Archive contains the world’s largest collection of Byron material. 04 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 05 Modern collections

As part of our national remit, we Legal Deposit from different parties, websites and databases, in addition Topics represented include French works from the have continued to develop a Around 80% of our annual intake organisations and pressure groups to hand-held media currently cinema, Francophone literature in continuing stream distributed approach to collection of over 300,000 items is received connected with the event. As part collected under the Voluntary North Africa, Islamic cultural of publications on of its contribution to the UK Web Code. This is our second year of influences in Spain, the work of development. This means that by through legal deposit. The Agency President Putin. Archiving Consortium(UKWAC), archiving websites of Scottish important literary figures such as working closely with other research for the Legal Deposit Libraries Mountaineering the Library also researched and cultural significance as part of our Italo Calvino, Marguerite Duras acts on behalf of NLS and four and polar and academic libraries across archived a number of G8-related involvement in the UK Web and Claude Simon, as well as other copyright libraries to collections Scotland, we co-ordinate our request, receive and acknowledge websites. Further efforts were also Archiving Consortium (UKWAC). medieval Burgundy, the Mafia and The Graham Brown collecting activities with those of all items published in the UK and made to improve coverage of We continue to expand our the legacy of General de Gaulle. Fund allows us to other organisations, aiming to get the Ireland. Its future management is ethnic minority publications, while fledgling web archive collection, Publications relating to the recent purchase printed currently under review but NLS The New Scots exhibition gave us which now ranges from party and Cervantes, Petrarch and best from Scotland’s library materials from all will continue to play a key role in an opportunity to showcase candidate sites from the 2005 Napoleonic anniversaries were collections as a whole. periods, relating to ensuring that an effective legal material from our growing general election, to online novels, also acquired. mountains, The assimilation of material, staff deposit service is maintained and collection of Scottish Asian such as Accelerando by Charles One notable American accession mountaineering and and expertise from the Scottish provided. community material. Stross, author sites such as the Neil Munro Society website, and was that of the library of the the polar regions to Screen Archive presents the Library Donations Material received through our tourism and visitor sites such as Scottish-American poet Gael add to the important Individuals and organisations that with an opportunity to develop its legal deposit privilege represents Scotland from the Roadside. Turnbull, acquired from his collection bequeathed audio-visual collections and to the full range of British publishing. donate material to NLS play an widow Jill Turnbull. This to the Library by Professor integrate this material with existing Items ranged from Chef invaluable role in supplementing For information on how we are collection consists of Graham Brown in 1965. The the national collections. The creating our own digital collection approximately 500 volumes of collections. Work continues towards Fernando’s Rastafarian Cuisine for developing trend towards Vegetarians and Leo Baxendale’s Library welcomed donations from and widening access to our licensed 20th century poetry from North collecting ephemeral items such as making collections such as The Beano Room to Thomas over 500 donors this year, resources see page 22. America and France including board games, cartoons, cigarette manuscripts, music and business Bartlett’s Revolutionary Dublin, including copies of foreign many personal presentation Foreign collections cards and leaflets continued this information easier for customers to 1795-1801, Kristina Rogers’, The translations of the novels of copies and small press items. year, with some highlights detailed NLS actively collects publications discover and therefore access. Sauropods: evolution and Alexander McCall Smith and on the mountaineering/polar from (and about) German, French, The growing German interest in paleobiology and Moazzam Begg’s Ian Rankin, a collection of collections page at www.nls.uk. Enemy Combatant. material on the French poet Italian and Spanish speaking the controversial subject of the Camille Mauclair, the newsletter of countries, as well as materials human cost of Allied bombing in Every year presents new the Scottish Malaysian concerning Russia and the former World War II was reflected in the opportunities in collecting Association, and a prospectus Soviet Union and publications in purchase of a considerable ephemeral material with a Scottish from the Tragara Press for an English from the United States and number of photographic origin or interest. This year the G8 Italian publication, Norman Commonwealth countries. More volumes which document this Summit at Gleneagles allowed us Douglas: a portrait. than 7,000 foreign publications subject. Among the Russian to collect associated literature were purchased during the year. acquisitions were a number of Electronic Legal Deposit We continue to collect digital material – such as CD-ROMs and DVDs – deposited voluntarily by publishers, as well as a fast-growing body of material published via e-mail.

We have been working closely with publisher bodies and the other legal deposit libraries on how to implement future legal deposit regulations for digital content, such as e-journals, Left: A small selection of foreign acquisitions.

Above: Eine Schweizer Reise,a 19th-century Swiss mountaineering board game, from our Left: A selection of the wide range of items growing collection of mountaineering and polar received by legal deposit. ephemera. 06 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 07

Official publications freedom of the city to political Science information With over one million items, NLS prisoner and writer Aung San The Library capitalised on the holds one of the largest collections Suu Kyi. growing public interest in the history of official publications in the United of science this year by creating an The digitisation of items in the India Kingdom and the largest collection innovative, interactive web feature, Papers collection relating to ‘Disease of official publications in Scotland. ‘Vote for a scientist!’ The site invited control in British India’ has now the public to select their favourite A noteworthy addition to the been completed, with the help of a Scottish scientist or engineer from a collection this year was Parlianet, generous award from the Wellcome pool of 24 of the most famous and an online resource which indexes the Trust, and will be online in 2007. eminent figures in these fields. proceedings and publications of Alongside household names such as both Houses of Parliament in SCOTBIS: Business Information John Logie Baird, Alexander Graham Westminster, including Hansard. Service Bell and Alexander Fleming were The data published on Parlianet is SCOTBIS, our business information eminent, but less publicly well-known, taken from official sources under a service, continued in its objective to figures such as James Clerk Maxwell unique licence with the House of provide the most comprehensive and Lord Kelvin. The results of this Commons. collection of market research data survey will feed into a more available within Scotland through Collection displays during the period comprehensive educational web the acquisition of several additional included major government reports, resource, the Scottish Science Hall of research series. These included the items relating to the history of the Fame, which, when launched in 2007, full set of 2006 research reports for Cold War, and the development of will focus initially on the both MSI Marketing Research for sanitation, the latter featuring items achievements of the top-ranked Industry and the US series of ranging from Edwin Chadwick's candidates. A display of Library reports from Mintel International famous report, Sanitary conditions resources concerning our chosen Group. The Mintel acquisition is of the Labouring Population, to a scientists’ lives and work was also particularly significant, being the report on the practice of ‘slopping mounted in March to coincide with first of its kind for a publicly out’ in prisons. the Edinburgh Science Festival. accessible library within the UK. Official publications also featured We also continued to expand our Perhaps the most notable collection prominently in the 2005 summer global coverage of company data development this year was the exhibition, Scotland's Secret War, through subscription to the addition of Environmental issues accompanied by an educational web www.kompass.com database. This & policy index, a key scientific feature, Propaganda: a weapon of provides information on 1.9 million subscription-based database, to the war. Displays were also mounted to companies in over 70 countries and Library’s roster of electronic resources complement a series of successful allows customers to search using available remotely to registered users. events on Burma to mark Edinburgh 54,000 keywords or by 750,000 City Council's granting of the trade names.

Far left: Parliamentary papers from our collection of Official Publications. Left: John Logie Baird items from the Scottish Science Hall of Fame display. Above: Some recent highlights from our science collection. Instrument loaned by kind courtesy of the British Geological Survey. Right: Our business resources include annual reports produced in the past five years for all Scottish quoted companies. 08 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 09 Heritage collections

Rare book collections golden wedding anniversary in of the town’s history: four printed As usual, a wide range of rare and 1852. The inside board has a books, together with the 11th- early printed items were acquired family tree incorporating locks of century Marianus Scotus manuscript, during the year. Some were books hair of the couples’ 22 were displayed in the former Scots of historical significance, such as grandchildren. Also of great visual monastery in Regensburg. The items James VI’s The Kings Maiesties interest was a set of 40 had been rescued in the late 1860s speech, delivered to the House of photographs of the Forth Bridge and added to Fort Augustus Abbey Lords on 19 March 1604, the first taken by Philip Phillips, the son of Library. They were later deposited in day of the first Parliament of his one of the bridge’s builders. These NLS and eventually purchased in reign as King of Scotland and marvellous photographs provide a 2000. Back in Edinburgh, a selection England. Others were previously detailed record of the bridge’s of key books from the Scottish unknown books, such as a crudely construction down to individual Enlightenment were displayed illustrated edition of Aesop’s Fables rivets, and were also used as the within the Scottish Parliament in for children, published in Glasgow source material for an online December 2005, to coincide with the in 1764, or very rare books, such education resource via our Vanguard Programme, organised by as Foirceadul aith-ghearr partnership with Learning and the Centre for Confidence and cheasnuighe (the Shorter Teaching Scotland (see page 24 for Well-Being. Catechism), printed by Anna Orr more information). One of the eleven Crawford in Glasgow in 1776, which There was sustained media interest collections on long-term deposit in afforded an unusual opportunity to in our collection of sport-related the Library is the English Ballads fill a gap in our Gaelic collections. material this year and our Collection of over 3,700 ballads. The continuing popularity of the collections benefited from the A printed catalogue from 1890 broadsides feature on the NLS addition of a copy of an provides information on the earlier website was complemented by our Argentinean sporting periodical ballads (nearly 1,500), but the acquisition of two broadsides El Grafico from June 1923, which remainder have been otherwise published in Edinburgh in 1794. contains an account of a inaccessible to readers. The later They concern Robert Watt who tempestuous football match ballads provide a valuable insight was executed for his involvement in between Third Lanark and a local into popular opinions in 19th- a plot to seize Edinburgh Castle side in Buenos Aires. century Britain (drugs and the and overthrow the judiciary. Our support for external Napoleonic Wars are covered), and Among the most compelling exhibitions continued this year so we are grateful to Lord Crawford acquisitions of the year was a with a memorable visit to for agreeing that some Lindsay Trust remarkable example of Victorian Regensburg, Germany. Library funds held by the Library could be culture: an elaborately-bound Bible staff accompanied items on loan to used to support a cataloguing project, presented to William and Agnes an exhibition celebrating 800 years which began in November 2005. Renton of Edinburgh on their

Above: A selection of 19th-century broadsides. Below: Argentinian sporting magazine, El Grafico. Right: Items from one of this year’s many temporary displays of rare books, marking the centenary of the publication of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, including a Peter Pan card game, London, c. 1940.

Above: Tw o 19th-century trade cards, Edinburgh, c. 1811-1842.

Left: Aesop’s Fables, Glasgow, 1764. 10 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 11

Heritage maps Another interesting acquisition is Modern maps An antiquarian map highlight was Scottish surveyor William Roy’s plan Of course our map collections are the acquisition of a rare broadsheet of the 1759 Battle of Thonhausen by no means limited to antiquarian of Thomas Jefferys’ A Map of the (or Minden as it is better known). items. Our collection policy for River Forth, from Stirling to This plan sports unusual modern maps is often influenced by Barroustouness, published to inform overlapping flaps which show the politics and world events. With the public about the recent battle of position of troops at different stages North Korea in the news it was Falkirk Muir. The map is curious of the battle. This was prepared for appropriate to acquire an atlas due to its publication date of 15 the court martial of George Sackville containing some 400 maps at a scale February 1745.6: 1746 in Scotland, to provide an objective account of of 1:50,000, which is more detailed but 1745 in England as the two his culpability in battle. than our usual collecting policy. For countries operated different Equally quirky purchases made this political and military reasons North calendars. According to the dealer year include a German playing card Korea does not permit official maps this earlier version was actually with a map of Scotland c.1678 and to be exported, and this atlas was issued on the same day as Culloden a colourful jigsaw (or ‘dissected published in South Korea in 1997, which would explain its rarity, as it map’, as they were first called) of based on earlier Japanese and was so quickly superseded. Europe produced by Edinburgh Russian mapping. Since the end of Other map acquisitions relating to publisher Gall & Inglis c.1871-8 the Cold War, acquiring previously Scotland include several small maps as an early form of educational unavailable maps of eastern Europe by Andrew Dury c.1764, two publishing. The earliest jigsaws has been a priority and this year manuscripts of estates on the Black were all maps, effectively starting Ukraine (at 1:100,000) was Isle, c.1830, and a spectacular the pastime which is still popular purchased. Soviet mapping of printed plan of Drumlanrig castle today. Scotland in the 1970s-80s was also and policies by John Rocque in acquired; these herald familiar place 1739 (see Discover NLS, issue 1). names in the style of the Ordnance Survey, but with Russian script. More poignantly, the need to assist disaster relief following the tsunami in December 2004 caused Sri Lanka to release restricted maps, which allowed us to add these maps (at 1:50,000) to our collection.

Left: Gall & Inglis. The map of Europe dissected. c.1871-8, Edinburgh.

Below: Several small maps of Scotland by Andrew Dury, c.1764, London.

Above: William Roy’s ...Plan of the battle of Thonhausen ... August 1 1759, London, 1760.

Right: John Rocque. A plan of ye garden & plantation of Drumlangrig (sic)... London, 1739. 12 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 13

Manuscript collections Manuscript material continued to years of collecting at our George IV Besides the acquisition of the John feature prominently in the Library’s Bridge site. exhibitions, such as Scotland’s Murray Archive (see page 15), there NLS houses significant 18th and Secret War and Sale of the were many other important 19th-century collections of Scottish Centuries, while numerous projects purchases, donations and deposits song. While publication details of to digitise and present manuscript on diverse subject areas, from these anthologies are listed in the material online were advanced. politics to polar exploration. The music catalogue to the usual high papers of SNP activist Dr Robert The customary wide range of standards, access to individual MacIntyre were purchased, and enquiries from across the world songs within these anthologies is papers of Lord Ritchie-Calder were answered; and in anticipation only possible through a separate presented and deposited. Journals of the arrival of the Scottish Screen card index. A pilot project to test of the polar explorer Sir James Archive, work towards auditing the conversion of the Scottish Song Mann Wordie were donated by his our existing audio-visual material Card Index into an online database family, and further 19th-century also got underway. was carried out with a view to literary material relating to the Music collections obtaining funding for a full Cornhill Magazine was also conversion project. Meanwhile EU purchased. This periodical was This year we acquired a significant funding was confirmed for the published by the firm of Smith collection of sound recordings from Elder, later taken over by John the widow of the popular Enabling Access to Sound Archives Murray, and is thus a good example entertainer Jimmy Logan, mainly through Integration, Enrichment of the many intersections between consisting of shellac records and and Retrieval (EASAIER) project. existing NLS collections and its reel-to-reel tapes. Additionally, a This project, commencing May latest, high-profile acquisition, the particularly notable donation from 2006, will investigate new ways John Murray Archive. More a major sound archive of historic of accessing sound archives and modern literary material relating to Scottish recordings has been agreed related print materials. NLS will be Tessa Ransford, Iain Crichton to be transferred to the NLS Music involved in providing content for Smith, Naomi Mitchison, Andrew Collections in 2007. research purposes and will Greig, Gael Turnbull, Duncan Glen participate in the project’s Music material contributed to and Alasdair Gray all entered the evaluation. exhibitions and displays collections, as did material by the throughout the year, from a Hindu composers Ronald Stevenson, spirituality event to the web Below left: Letters written from the front Robert Crawford and FG Scott, as feature and display celebrating 50 line by Richard (Dick) Mitchison to his wife, well as records of the Piobaireachd Naomi. Society, a leading promoter of Below: Sketch of CM Grieve (‘Hugh traditional Scottish music. MacDiarmid’) by Sydney Goodsir Smith, drawn on the back of a Milne’s Bar menu.

Above: A miniature edition of William Moodie’s Old English, Scotch, and Irish songs with music, a favourite selection,contained in a locket with magnifying glass, Glasgow, 1895. Main: Papers relating to the 1923 Cambridge-based expedition led by Sir James Mann Wordie to Iceland and East Greenland. Right: A reel-to-reel tape from the Jimmy Logan collection. 14 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 15 Connecting with local communities: the Trondra Local History Group

NLS’ programme of outreach Easterhouse is an area long ‘It has been a wonderful experience to The John Murray Archive (JMA) months, but suffice to say that activity entails working with a blighted by social deprivation and participate in something so successful. Substantial effort this year was preparations for the Archive’s variety of community groups and this project sought to re-invest Never did we imagine when we first dedicated towards securing the arrival dominated the reporting adult learners across Scotland. In local pride in its residents. met in the Trondra Church with a blank John Murray Archive for the period. Much work was the course of this work, a number sheet of paper and a rough idea of the dedicated to everything from how The result was the publication of a Library and its customers; and the of projects have emerged that area’s history that we would become the Archive could be transported book in October 2005: year ended with the Archive being draw not only on NLS material recognised experts. safely from its previous home in Hidden Histories. Greater formally entered in the Manuscript for their inspiration but equally on London to the Library, to plans Easterhouse: More Than Just A The project has given us the confidence Collections Division’s accessions the participants’ own knowledge for maximising access through Scheme. The book, which to talk to anyone about Trondra, from register. The Archive is inarguably and experiences. uncovers the fascinating social politicians to professors, film stars to one of the world’s most significant cataloguing and creating an Such a project took shape when history of the area, has been the elderly. We felt that we had to let literary and cultural archives from exciting new design concept for a the community know about the the Library started working with distributed free of charge to a the past 250 years. Manuscripts permanent exhibition of the importance of local history and give the Trondra Local History Group: wide range of local schools and and letters preserved by Archive, due to open in 2007. them a pride in their area: not every- adult learners from Glasgow’s other community groups, while London-based John Murray That all this hard work led directly one has 4,000 years of history and Greater Easterhouse brought also being absorbed into the publishers were written by many to the HLF’s confirmation of a connections to Royalty on their together by staff at John Wheatley Library’s own collections for the of the most influential figures from successful bid is extremely doorstep. College and Glasgow Museums. benefit of future researchers. the late 18th and 19th centuries. gratifying. Support and encouragement from NLS Murray authors included While NLS continues to raise and the skill and dedication of their celebrated writers, scientists, funds from a variety of private Education and Outreach Officer politicians, economists and thinkers sources to complete the acquisition provided us with the facility to research of the time. and realise the JMA project plans, our book. The opportunity to see with the positive outcome of the HLF our own eyes a letter by Mary Queen The Library has benefited from Above: Selection of documents from the bid enabled the project’s John Murray Archive relating to Lord Byron of Scots was an experience that will major public funding – from both preparatory work and planning to and his circle. stay with us forever. We found out that the Scottish Executive and, within move ahead in earnest. At the NLS is open to all. the reporting period, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) – towards the year’s close, recruitment was We want local people, and children Archive project on the proviso that underway for the project team in particular, to take pride in their its arrival precipitates a who will deliver the ambitious Bottom left: Selection of legal and financial community. Trondra’s legacy is that it transformational impact on our project to engage an increasingly documents from the John Murray Archive has uncovered a hidden past to put procedures, facilities and services. diverse audience. relating to Washington Irving. pride in the future.’ The result of all this change will Bottom right: Working visuals from the Laura Edwards become more visible in the coming permanent JMA exhibition which opens in John Wheatley College May 2007. Communications Lecturer

Above: Jackie Cromarty, Acting Head of Interpretative Services (near right), with the group brandishing copies of the Hidden Histories book. Right: Members of the group beside their accompanying Hidden Histories exhibition, on display at John Wheatley College. 16 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 17 Connecting with international institutions: Access Ecole nationale des chartes

Located in Paris and founded in Mr Benrubi, who worked in the ‘My time at NLS gave me the privileged Widening our audience is a key aim Exhibitions associated events, such as the 1821, Ecole nationale des chartes Library’s Manuscript Collections opportunity to use and enhance the of the Library. Our year-round The five exhibitions delivered by reminiscence workshop (organised is among the world’s most Division, compiled detailed skills that I have acquired at Ecole des programme of exhibitions, outreach NLS during the year showcased in conjunction with the Living chartes. I hope that my catalogue prestigious centres for the catalogue descriptions for our two and public events, together with an the great variety of collections Memory Association) and the education of curators of library 14th-century copies of Roman de descriptions – which are based both on education workshops which gave education programme involving material, and the expertise of our and archive collections. The la rose. This tale, composed by previous works on other manuscripts staff in interpreting this material, school children and families of this text and on the observation of learners at school, community and school has an enviable two separate 13th-century authors, while also demonstrating the opportunities to decipher and the decoration and illustration in the international reputation for is recognised as a major literary further/higher education levels is Library’s continued commitment create coded messages and manuscripts – will be useful to readers. providing its students, known as text of the period, covering the developing audiences new to NLS. to identify and attract new and interrogate a ‘spy’. I have learned much about what a chartists, with the rigorously issues of love, nature, politics and By working in partnership with diverse audiences. The year’s library is and what it ought to be and Our winter exhibition, Sale of the academic curatorial training society and is often considered to voluntary and public sector bodies, programme began with what curatorial work involves. I was Centuries: A Celebration of required for interpreting, contain the first gender Ian Hamilton Finlay: of conceits grateful to learn how foreign books are we have organised workshops, Shopping in Scotland, opened researching and conserving controversy in the Western world. and collaborators, a retrospective acquired by NLS. All Library staff projects and learning sessions with appropriately in the run-up to the cultural heritage material. NLS Mr Benrubi’s catalogue celebrating the life and work of extended a friendly welcome and a wide range of community groups, festive shopping season. It sought was fortunate to welcome one of descriptions of these manuscripts the late artist, landscaper and poet invaluable information. Thanks to them, to appeal in particular to two the school’s students, will enable researchers in this field adult learners, ethnic communities as who sadly passed away during the my experience of working in NLS has important groups identified as David-Jonathan Benrubi, for a to gain further insight to our well as those living in socially reporting year. confirmed my ambition to become a under-represented by the Scottish work placement in June and July copies of the work. deprived or remote areas and people librarian’. Our summer exhibition, Scotland’s Executive’s inclusion policy: young 2005. with disabilities. All such activity is Secret War, drew on material from people and women. The inclusion David-Jonathan Benrubi supported by a marketing strategy map, science, manuscript and of Sir Sean Connery’s payslip from In the year following the reporting that has significantly raised awareness official publication collections to his time working as a milkman for period, our Rare Book Collections of NLS nationwide by more than 50 tell the story of how many Scotmid also sparked great public Division welcomed a second Ecole per cent in the past year. ordinary Scottish people played an interest and even prompted des chartes student: Mariette Naud. extraordinary role during the enquiries from many of the firm’s Her work in deciphering the early Second World War. The exhibition other ex-employees. modern inscriptions of the unearthed official documents that Hamilton family in the books of had never before been seen. our Tyninghame collection can be A particular interactive highlight seen on our online catalogue. The was the use of a memories board, success of both internships will, we which allowed visitors to add their hope, encourage this arrangement own recollections to the personal to continue in future. written and oral histories on display. Both ends of the age spectrum were catered for with

Right: Visitors to Scotland's Secret War.

Leaves from one of the Library’s two 14th-century copies of Roman de la rose, catalogued by David-Jonathan Benrubi during his placement at NLS in summer 2005. 18 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 19

Exhibitions (cont.) more ephemeral material, such as Scottish Parliament Presiding The year closed with two smaller posters and flyers for cultural Officer George Reid MSP, a close exhibitions, quite different in their events. This exhibition was personal friend of the late First content but both with a instrumental not only in raising Minister. Mr Reid’s talk touched photographic theme and an awareness of the Library among equally on personal tribute and international or multi-ethnic the Scottish Asian community, but exploration of the road ahead for dimension. In the Footsteps of also in encouraging this community Scottish politics. and others to donate material, Isabella Bird: Adventures in twin Awards time travel combined NLS thereby bolstering their national NLS was proud to continue its manuscript material and collection as a result. support this year for three awards photographs from the pioneering Events that reward Scotland’s greatest 19th-century female explorer, This year, our programme of free literary, craft and research talent. Isabella Bird Bishop, with events has continued the trend The Callum Macdonald Memorial contemporary photographs of the towards maintaining a healthy Award, given in recognition of the many remote regions she balance between events aimed at best poetry pamphlet, went to Gill visited taken by Professor Kiyonori specialist scholarly audiences and McConnell for her Garden Party, Kanasaka from Kyoto University. those with a broader appeal for the published by Woodburn Press. The Mrs Bishop’s travel writings were general public. Alongside the usual 13th Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding published by John Murray and she raft of literary, historical and Competition attracted high quality is one of the pivotal female figures research book launches we have submissions from a pool of documented within the Archive. delivered events on a range of international craft bookbinders. The New Scots also paired topics as broad as the history and Belgian Julia van Mechelen collection highlights with the work geography of the Holyrood provided the winning entry this year of an external photographer. Parliament site, cookery with her goatskin binding of Over Herman Rodrigues has spent the demonstrations based on recipes Boeken. The Library again played past 15 years documenting the from the pre-reformation period, host to the prestigious Saltire Scottish Asian community on film. Persian calligraphy and shape- Society Literary Awards, an The results of this photographic poem workshops, and an evening essential fixture on the Scottish study were complemented with of 17th-century music re-created literary calendar. Our sponsored items selected from the Library’s for the i-Pod generation. award for the Scottish Research Book of the Year this year went to growing collection of modern Our annual Donald Dewar RD Connor and ADC Simpson for material from or about the Scottish Memorial Lecture, now a well their Weights and Measures in Asian community. Items ranged established and popular draw at Scotland (NMS Publishing and from the literature and poetry of the Edinburgh International Book Tuckwell Press). Suhayl Saadi and Bashabi Fraser to Festival, was this year given by

Left: Japanese dance featured in the events Right: Photographer Herman Rodrigues with programme for our In the Footsteps of Martyn Wade and Lord Provost Lesley Hinds at Isabella Bird exhibition. the launch of the New Scots exhibition. Right: Allen Simpson, co-author of Weights and Measures in Scotland, the NLS Scottish Research Book of the Year at the Saltire Society Literary Awards, which took some 17 years to produce. 20 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 21 Connecting with public libraries: Aberdeen Library and Information Services

Education and outreach This year, an innovative support classroom teaching, we NLS has always had positive The partnership was officially ‘Working in partnership with NLS has Following the launch of the partnership to add value to our gathered valuable feedback from relationships with public libraries launched in January 2006 with a presented opportunities for collaboration Library’s first comprehensive schools service was developed with teachers about how to adapt our but in recent years these have been tailored event designed to set the in a number of areas which will ultimately education and outreach programme Historic Scotland. Schools visiting service to best meet their needs. purposefully nurtured and tone for future projects, increase access to, and development of, a in 2004, good progress was made NLS from outside of Edinburgh Turn to page 14 to learn more developed. Following the culminating in a multi-ethnic wealth of resources held both locally and in offering learning opportunities now get free entry to Edinburgh about our work with the Trondra successful launch of a formal interpretation of World Burns nationally. for people of all ages. Through a Castle, in a move aimed at Local History Group. partnership with Moray Libraries Night at Aberdeen Art Gallery. Staff exchange visits have already led to a encouraging schools (particularly in November 2005, NLS Later in 2006, NLS participated in combination of groups coming to Family learners service sharing of expertise and a greater mutual the Library and the education those in deprived areas) to get embarked on a similar relationship the annual Storytelling and understanding of services offered for Encouraging families to learn service getting out into the maximum value from their visit to with Aberdeen Library and Theatre Festival, organising a referral purposes, in particular how Local together through NLS resources is a community, over 1,000 people took the city and thus stay longer at Information Services. The focus of variety of educational and family Legal Deposit is managed. key strand of our outreach policy. part in activities, with 83 per cent both sites. the initiative was to bring together activities in the city’s children’s Partnership proved a key to success We look forward to the sharing of of those visiting from outside of national and local resources in library. The programme of drama resources, items of local interest in the Adult learners service in our family learning programme. Edinburgh. This was due in no new and imaginative ways, workshops, devised jointly with John Murray Archive, for example, and NLS renewed its commitment to Particularly successful was a encompassing exhibitions, TAG Theatre Company, drew on small part to collaboration with a local access to the collections held in promoting lifelong learning and Medieval Family Fun Day, inspired education and outreach, our Scotland’s Secret War wide range of organisations to Edinburgh for both users and staff. social justice through identifying by the Murthly Hours manuscript, digitisation and a general forum exhibition for inspiration and was jointly create opportunities for We also look forward to the national and working with adult learners organised with and hosted by Perth for sharing skills and knowledge. organised to coincide with the communities to engage with their provision of local content, such as who have previously faced barriers Museum and Art Gallery, which It will also play a crucial role in premier of the travelling version of national collection. progress with the digitisation programme, when using our services. This year’s attracted some 341 visitors. bringing the national collections the exhibition, itself designed to diverse programme included the to improve access to locally held items, Schools service Equally significant was The Book of closer to the people of Aberdeen. resemble a period filing cabinet, project A Women’s Place, based on such as Aberdeen Trade Directories. The schools programme drew on Me project, a partnership between which opened out to reveal war the Sale of the Centuries exhibition. We believe that we are building sure content from all NLS exhibitions NLS, the Outreach Far and Wide secrets within. For this project we worked with foundations from which the partnership produced during the year, from project and Women’s Aid. This Napier University and the will blossom.’ Discover Japan, inspired by In the involved workshops with four Edinburgh Adult Learning Footsteps of Isabella Bird families who were victims of Neil M Bruce Partnership’s FAYRE for Women exhibition, to the One Word Poems domestic abuse to learn the skills Service Manager Culture & Leisure group exploring issues workshops, based on Ian Hamilton needed to make a book: Aberdeen Libraries and Information surrounding gender in advertising. Finlay, our sessions offered encompassing everything from Services engaging re-interpretations of A Continuing Professional making the paper to binding the Momentum will be sustained in collection material in a ‘hands-on’ Development workshop for pages and creative writing, allowing November 2006 when the first NLS way for school groups. teachers was piloted, in them to give voice to their public ‘Road Show’ will take place in A particular highlight was the Spy partnership with Mallaig Museum experiences in poetry and prose. Aberdeen Central Library concurrently School workshops, developed with and the Outreach Far and Wide The end result was a book, Our with the first Trustees’ meeting to be TAG Theatre Company and based project. As well as offering training Time Together, which went into the held outside of Edinburgh. on the life of Donald Caskie. in how to use NLS resources to NLS collection.

Above: Derek Oliver and Laura Murphy unpack the Scotland's Secret War travelling exhibition.

Right: Martyn Wade and Aberdeen's Lord Provost John Reynolds share Burns' legacy with school groups at the partnership launch in January 2006.

Left: Children enjoying Spy School workshops in Aberdeen.

Above: 'Hands on' medieval family fun in Perth. 22 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 23

Visitor centre plans Bridge site. Pending successful Additionally, a number of Developing digital services need to re-design sections of the Web features launched within the The ground floor of our George take-up and feedback, we plan subscription-based services became Our plans to create a Digital site became immediately apparent. period included the Scottish IV Bridge building is undergoing to make this available to all available remotely this year. Major National Library continued apace This presented the opportunity to Science Hall of Fame (see page 6) some major changes towards customers in 2007. additions purchased for the this year and much work was improve the way the website can and considerable preparatory transforming the area into a visitor Delivering remote access licensed digital collection now dedicated to securing funding for a be used by a wide range of users, work was undertaken towards two centre in summer 2007. Following An important element of our plans include the Oxford Dictionary of long-term project to establish a including people with disabilities. features launched shortly after the the refurbishment in 2005/6 of the to widen access for all customers is National Biography online, the Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) Work towards this goal continued year-end: Propaganda – A Weapon issue hall on the floor above, the development of services that Modern Language Association’s for Scotland. The TDR will apply throughout the year and was of War, (inspired by findings from extensive refurbishments are can be used outside of our International Bibliography, the same rigorous preservation bolstered by two important the Scotland’s Secret War planned, including an open access buildings. Work has continued Xreferplus, including Who’s Who procedures to digital material as endorsements towards the exhibition on how this political area with computer terminals. this year to initiate smartcard online, and a major purchase at are currently given to printed year-end. The site received positive tool was used by both parties Here customers will be able to not technology, developed closely with the end of the year, Early matter, thus ensuring that our feedback from an initial during the Second World War), only browse our catalogues and Dundee City Council, which will American Imprints 1639-1800, national digital heritage is assessment by the Plain English and a complete digitised version of digital collections, but also to enable customers in the Dundee which provides full-text access to safeguarded and made accessible Campaign (PEC) while also Phoebe Anna Traquair’s explore the collections of all area to become registered readers more than 36,000 items of early for future generations. passing the first phase of beautifully illuminated manuscript Scottish libraries before deciding without traveling to NLS in American publishing and evaluation by the Royal National of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Web presence to register for a reader’s ticket. Edinburgh. This coupled with the complements existing digital Institute for the Blind (RNiB). Sonnets from the Portuguese. As well as creating more space for introduction of online resources such as Early English This year significant strides have Work continues towards attaining displaying treasured items from registration in early 2007, should Books Online and Eighteenth been made in improving the both the RNiB’s See It Right status our collections, the new layout make it even easier for people to Century Collections Online. usability of our website. Following and the PEC’s Internet Crystal will crucially provide additional use their National Library. All of these titles are now available the corporate re-brand in 2004, the Mark. capacity in our reading rooms and Exhibitions such as Scotland’s to registered readers both on-site space for a dedicated silent reading Secret War and Read All About It! and via remote access from users’ room. have toured around museums and home computers. libraries across Scotland (and even Wi-Fi as far afield as Norway) allowing In March 2005 NLS introduced greater opportunities for more Wireless Internet Access (Wi-Fi) people to appreciate the wealth of for registered readers on a pilot NLS collections. Information basis, thus enabling those services such as SCOTBIS and the customers who use the internet for Science Information unit continue research purposes to do so on their to cater for the needs of customers Below left: The refurbished issue hall at own wireless enabled lap-tops in who prefer to have their enquiries George IV Bridge is brighter and more designated areas of our George IV answered by telephone and e-mail. welcoming.

Above: Sonnet 24 from Traquair's manuscript, 1895.

Right: The Scottish Science Hall of Fame site allowed the public to tell us which scientists they wanted to learn more about online. 24 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 25 Connecting with learners nationwide: Partnership and Collaboration Learning and Teaching Scotland

With some 13 million items in our Scottish Schools Digital Network) ‘The tremendous wealth of material The Library continues to develop Exhibitions collections, the National Library which will help bring history to held by the National Library has relationships with organisations Work continued towards offers a vast resource for learners life for both teachers and their consistently awed and amazed the staff across a wide array of sectors, producing a major collaborative and those working at all levels of students. Curators from our Map, from Learning and Teaching Scotland, subject areas and activities, from exhibition with National Museums who have been privileged enough to study. Our role in promoting and Rare Book and Manuscript digitisation and digital preservation Scotland (NMS) and National tour the NLS archives. Immediately we supporting education is soon to collecting divisions were filmed projects to events programming and Galleries of Scotland (NGS) reach a new level with the launch giving illustrated talks on some of were convinced of the value to Scottish education and outreach initiatives. celebrating Highland cultural life, of a suite of digital learning our greatest treasures, such as the education of these collections, and past and present. Fonn's Duthchas Those detailed below and featured resources developed closely with medieval manuscript the Murthly were excited to work with NLS to (Land and Heritage) will be part of throughout the Review are just a Learning and Teaching Scotland Hours and the Edinburgh provide access to these resources 2007: Year of Highland Culture, a through Glow. small selection of the many (LTS). Calotype album (pictured) which project aimed at promoting the is among the world’s first Along the way, we’ve been greatly collaborative projects and formal Scottish Highlands as a place both NLS has collaborated with LTS to photographic albums, and dates helped by NLS curators who have partnerships that the Library to live in and to visit. The produce a series of educational from the 1840s. offered insights into the collections that participates in. exhibition will draw on material video clips for Glow (formerly the we could have only guessed at. We from the national collections that look forward to continuing this joint highlight the Highlands’ significant work to deliver learners access to such contribution to the nation's valuable content.’ cultural identity. Fonn's Duthchas will open in Inverness in January (HUMI) Project arrived at NLS in Paddy Patterson 2007 before beginning a year-long July 2005, having previously External Content Specialist tour of venues across Scotland. photographed copies of the Bible Learning and Teaching Scotland Participation in this exhibition at Keio University, Cambridge The clips will be made available will raise the profile of our University, Gutenberg Museum online and for downloading as collections nationwide and will Mainz and the British Library, and podcasts when Glow becomes help to make a connection with captured the book’s 1,300 pages. available from mid-2007. people living in remote and rural The resultant images will be used areas. to create a high-quality digital facsimile available online in 2007. Digital A particular highlight of the year Negotiations have continued To p Right: The HUMI Project team from was the organisation of digital between the legal deposit libraries Keio University digtising the Gutenberg Bible, and Ordnance Survey for the among the earliest-known printed books. photography of the Library’s treasured Gutenberg Bible by a acquisition of Mastermap, the new Below: Patrica Ferguson, Minister for Tourism, format for Ordnance Survey large Culture and Sport, studies items celebrating team from Keio University, Tokyo. scale digital maps. Staff from NLS highland culture from the forthcoming Fonn's The internationally acclaimed Duthchas exhibition. Humanities Media Interface Map Collections Division have been heavily involved in the Right: Dr Joseph Marshall, (pictured left) Senior Curator in our Rare Book tendering process, conducted by Collections Division, shows Paddy Patterson, the British Library, for the External Content Specialist at LTS, an album software and hosting of the data. of photographs charting the construction of the Forth Rail Bridge, near Edinburgh, NLS is one of six institutions taken between 1886 and 1887. forming the UK Web Archiving This item is one of the six Consortium (UKWAC). This aims educational films produced to expand the lifespan of websites during the year. from the normal average of around 44 days to a century or more. UKWAC is working on a trial system for archiving selected key UK websites, ensuring that invaluable scholarly, cultural and scientific resources remain available for future generations. 26 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 27 Collecting with local libraries: NEWSPLAN Scotland

Digital (cont.) of Scottish Mini-Cooperatives Newspapers represent a crucial NEWSPLAN has reaped dividends ‘Newspapers are a vital part of the As a founder member of UKWAC, (COSMIC) and the Higher element of our nation's archives. for NLS in adding around 10,000 collective memory of our communities, NLS continues to explore the issues Education institutions. SCURL also The NEWSPLAN2000 Project was microfilms of Scottish newspapers and the NEWSPLAN Scotland project associated with collecting web sites has an active involvement with the a UK-wide project instigated to to our collections – some of which has allowed local studies collections all in the UK. The Consortium aims to further education sector through both preserve historic local have not been read in Scotland over Scotland – from Kirkwall to build a sustainable, publicly liaison with the Scottish Further newspapers on microfilm and since they were first published. Kirkpatrick Fleming – to provide greater accessible web archive for the UK Education Unit's Librarians' research institutes, voluntary bodies make the film widely available in Titles preserved include many long and safer access to our local history. through collaborative work. The Network, LIBNET. These networks and commercial organisations. NLS libraries. NEWSPLAN Scotland, out of circulation, such as the Family history is a huge growth area in work of the Consortium will also provide the opportunity for SCURL has been involved in organising the working in partnership with the Greenock Election Squib, libraries and the wider availability of old inform future legal deposit to work with the public libraries, group’s annual conference, providing Scottish library community, Caledonian Mercury, Scottish newspapers gives our enquirers access to regulations for UK website museums, archives, further and speakers for both the conference and contributed to the success of the Prohibitionist and the Aberdeen a massive volume of resources.Whether collection, and pave the way for the higher education institutions to host for training events. UK project, filming nearly 4 Shaver. people are looking for births, deaths and long-term preservation of the digital events and training seminars. million pages of Scottish news- marriages, stories about accidents or NLS is also involved with the Local participating libraries have content that we collect and create. Among SCURL’s key projects are print and saving over 600 local crimes, or even information about an Edinburgh Library and Information also benefited from the project – The Collaborative Academic Store titles which were at risk of ancestor’s school prizegiving, it’s all in the Marketing Services Agency (ELISA), an not only do they now hold copies for Scotland (CASS) and Institutional deterioration. The project has paper!’ organisational network for the of titles that relate to their In summer 2005 all four national Repository Infrastructure for ensured that these vital cultural libraries and information services in geographical area, but the project Elizabeth Carmichael collecting institutions joined forces Scotland (IRIScotland). CASS allows assets are preserved for posterity, the City of Edinburgh. Alongside has provided special equipment Education Officer, the Mitchell Library with their first collaborative libraries to deposit low-use material while protecting frail newspapers participation with various working for reading the microfilms. Chair of the Local Studies Scotland marketing campaign: Edinburgh for in a secure environment, thus some of which date as far back as groups covering access, Group (LocScot) Free. NLS worked with NMS, creating much-needed space for 1700, from any further damage. communications and staff The NEWSPLAN2000 Project NGS and the Royal Botanic Garden academic institutions. The CASS development, we have contributed reached its formal conclusion in July Edinburgh, sharing services and facility is hosted within NLS and towards organising the first 2005, with Scotland receiving around resources in order to promote all now occupies 4,879 metres. Edinburgh Libraries Fair, an annual a third of the UK project’s total partners’ free summer exhibitions IRIScotland was launched in forum for Edinburgh-based microfilm output. The work of and activities aimed at Edinburgh September 2005 to provide a information professionals to share NEWSPLAN Scotland continues residents. The combined media platform for Scotland’s academic ideas and best practice. however, working with the Scottish relations and marketing skills of the research output to be organised, local authority libraries to promote four organisations (and increased shared and made freely accessible. Specialist collection groups the use of newspapers and their buying power) allowed us to This pilot project uses open source Rare Books in Scotland (RBiS) is content. Most recently a guide to produce a cost effective, high software to host research information a forum hosted by NLS for Scottish newspaper indexes was profile campaign, including taxi that would otherwise be restricted to members of staff in Scottish libraries launched. The guide will help and bus advertising. subscribers. The project will and other organisations who have customers locate indexes to Scottish especially benefit researchers in responsibility for rare book Library groups newspapers by searching under smaller institutions, which do not collections. In 2004 it became A groundbreaking partnership with specific place names or key words. have a ‘local’ repository of their own. affiliated to SCURL, the Scottish Moray Libraries was announced in Confederation of University and November 2005 which will improve Ayrshire Libraries Forum (ALF) access to the national collections for brings together the libraries of the Research Libraries. RBiS aims to people in the Moray Council area. three Ayrshire local authorities, local improve services for users through This partnership aims to raise college libraries and the NHS. NLS running training workshops for awareness of NLS resources in has been a member since 2004. Our members, lobbying funding and planning bodies on matters of shared schools and library learning centres, involvement with the group enables Right: Elizabeth Carmichael (near left) with interest and providing mutual and should also foster joint us to contribute to digitisation members of the LocScot Group and marketing projects and close projects and also to participate in support for members. Business Donna Bebbington, NLS NEWSPLAN co-operation in planning exhibitions. the Ayrshire Libraries Access meetings are held bi-annually and Project Officer, (near right). Scheme, which makes it possible for workshops are also held at frequent Jill Evans was appointed in 2005 as customers to receive loan items from intervals. In the past year NLS has our Scottish Confederation of any participating library at their own hosted workshops on conservation University and Research Libraries' local library. and on cataloguing and (SCURL) Service Development bibliographical format. Manager, ensuring NLS retains Grampian Information is a library cross-sectoral working with the and information partnership which Scottish Library and Information includes public libraries, higher and Above: Martyn Wade with Councillor Alasdair Council (SLIC), the Confederation further education establishments, Urquhart at the Moray Libraries partnership launch. 28 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 29 Organisational Development

Efficiency posts for serials and donations quality control and catalogue Progress towards achieving the such as diabetes, cholesterol and In addition, acknowledging Investors in People (IiP) standard life coaching, while organising the need for generating As a modern, forward thinking were created to co-ordinate systems maintenance. The team focused this year on the social and charity activities such as unrestricted funds to develop and and responsible organisation NLS collecting in these areas. The will also co-ordinate specific development and implementation a yoga class, jogging club and enhance NLS collections for the has to be efficient, well managed revised structure (and the move projects to deal with unprocessed of a new Learning and involvement in a Corporate Fun future and to make it simple for and accountable. To this end a to place all three units together collections. Development Policy. The policy Run and a coffee morning in aid those wishing to contribute, NLS new Best Value review process has in the one location of our Training and development supports staff learning by defining of MacMillan Cancer Relief. has established a ‘Curator’s Chest’ been implemented to ensure that Causewayside building) will help NLS demonstrates its commitment roles and responsibilities for staff fund, offering supporters an we conform to the highest possible to ensure that new acquisitions are Funding to becoming a more efficient, and managers. The policy also opportunity to make an impact standards and expectations. NLS made available to customers as better managed and more supports the organisation’s In order to develop our collections where it is most needed. has been active in ensuring the quickly as possible. accountable organisation by performance management process and infrastructure the Library This fund may be used for a Efficient Government Agenda is Cataloguing ensuring staff are developed and by reinforcing the link between recognises the importance of variety of innovative and pressing taken forward through The Library’s cataloguing services trained to fulfil their roles and staff development and improving securing support from private purposes from conserving books participation in the shared service have been restructured with responsibilities. the Library’s overall performance. sources such as trusts, to creating funds for important forums such as the National processes being integrated and foundations, individuals and new acquisitions that arrive on Collections Institutions and Non Customer service training was simplified to improve efficiency. corporations. Departmental Public Body delivered to all staff with customer the market. Directors forums. A devolved The Cataloguing & Metadata contact duties as a precursor to the A significant development in the budget regime has also been Services Division, which deals with development of a Customer Library’s commitment to funding implemented, giving individual the majority of the Library’s Service Standard. was the launch of our first divisions full responsibility for record creation, has been The Library ran its first ‘Learning comprehensive fundraising their own share of the public re-organised. Three new teams, at Work Day’ in May 2005 to give strategy in early 2006. purse, while a structured project Electronic Resources, Monographs staff the opportunity to share skills Implemented on the management framework has been & Media and Serials, will focus on and knowledge with colleagues. recommendation of a feasibility introduced to ensure consistent creating records for the current Classes included a wide range of study conducted by independent good practice across all divisions. intake of material, predominantly topics such as bookbinding, fundraising consultants, the This framework in particular will through Legal Deposit. The writing poetry and bicycle strategy is led by a newly become instrumental in ensuring revised structure helps improve the maintenance. established Development the smooth running of the John currency and coverage of the Department. The department is Health at work Murray Archive project. Library’s catalogues through better responsible for helping the Library Work towards the Scotland’s use of technology and co-operative to secure external funding for key Early in 2006 the three teams Health At Work silver award cataloguing. aspects of the NLS strategy, with responsible for acquiring continued this year with a host of an initial focus on the £6.5 million material by legal deposit, A fourth team, Cataloguing activities designed to support staff John Murray Archive Campaign. purchase and donation were Standards & Maintenance now lead healthy lives. The group brought together to form a single provide support for all helped run annual health and Acquisitions Unit. New curatorial cataloguing through training, safety training sessions on topics

Above: The initial focus of the new Development Department is on helping the Library to raise the £6.5 million required to complete the John Murray Archive Project. Pictured, from left to right, Giles Dove, Te ri Wishart, Lorna Watt and Helen Lessels.

Left: The NLS team in the 2005 Jogscotland Corporate Challenge.

Right: Students undergoing the chartership programme, administered by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. 30 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 31 Infrastructure Acknowledgements

Upgrading facilities Visitor centre development General improvements in network Grants and donations to JMA Major Donors Donors and Depositors Maintaining the national The Library secured funding for reliability have been introduced, and 31 March 2006 Dunard Fund April 2005-March 2006 collections to high standards entails developing the flagship George IV a key upgrade to the Voyager NLS is grateful to all those trusts, Scottish Executive The Library is extremely grateful to the continual monitoring and Bridge building into a visitor Library management system foundations, individuals and The Heritage Lottery Fund the many individuals and improvement of our systems and centre, entailing substantial implemented. Key developments corporations who have made gifts, organisations who, in donating a JMA Benefactors buildings. renovation of the ground floor of have been the identification of the pledges or bequest commitments whole range of material, have Professor Michael Anderson need to develop the Trusted Digital 1 uniquely enriched the collections. One such initiative was the major the building. This major building to 31 March 2006 and would like Repository to manage While space allows only a plant replacement programme in project should not only help to to thank the following for their JMA Patrons digital collections holistically, and to our Causewayside building which improve the public perception of support of the Development Lord and Lady Balfour of Burleigh selection to be listed, the Library integrate diverse ICT databases significantly reduced energy NLS but will also introduce Campaign, as well as all those Miss Mary E Mackenzie values all of its 500+ donors for through a new ICT strategy. consumption by utilising an improved access for people with who wish to remain anonymous: their generosity in the past year. disabilities and create a ‘visitor JMA Supporters innovative water chiller system. Shared services John Murray Archive (JMA) Mr Philip Darwin The purpose of the plant friendly’ environment to showcase Donors In the longer term, NLS will need to Project Professor and Mrs Alastair Fowler replacement project was to the John Murray Archive. Dr Khaled A Al-Jeraisy expand its facilities and services John Murray VII offered NLS the Mr John Lee maintain environmental conditions Robert Allan Upgrading technology beyond the current Edinburgh Mr Domhall MacCormaig for collections, whilst at the same opportunity to acquire the Archive Roz Allsop ICT network operating systems buildings. This will be necessary for Mr and Mrs Phyllis Whelan time driving down energy costs, in 2002. So committed was John Professor David Ambrose MBE continue to be upgraded to enable capacity reasons alone, with the Murray to NLS acquiring the prolonging the life of the plant and JMA Donors Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural better support for new planned receipt of 300,000 items a year Archive that he offered a reduced adopting environmental best Mrs Hillian Durell History Society initiatives. Six terabytes of storage meaning that storage space will purchase price of £31.2 million, practice. Mr Barry Haniford BBC Radio Scotland have been implemented to enable soon be full. despite a formal valuation at over Lady Lucinda Mackay Frances Bingham With a weekly intake of 6000 items robust development of storage £45 million. The proceeds from We have therefore been active in Bischofliches Zentralarchiv by Legal Deposit alone, meeting infrastructure for electronic the sale have formed the John R The Curators’ Chest 2 approaching other collecting Regensburg the challenges involved in resources. Murray Charitable Trust which Mrs Kathleen Barclay Bowley accommodating our collections institutions concerning possible Hamish M Brown has pledged a commitment to Edinburgh Antiques and requires constant innovation and The revolution in communications joint ventures which could provide David Cameron support the conservation and Fine Arts Society scrutiny. A space rationalisation and information management has new opportunities. For example, K Campbell enhancement of the Archive. University of Cambridge project was undertaken during far-reaching implications for the there may be scope to establish a Centro Internazionale The generosity of John Murray Edinburgh Branch the year, creating 1,200 metres Library. Web-based services reach state-of-the-art centre for the Studi di Estetica and his family is greatly of additional storage to give an millions of people previously conservation of paper, audio-visual John Chalmers appreciated by NLS, and has interim solution pending the remote. The global developments and digital culture. Such initiatives Alastair Cherry ensured that the Archive will development of a full in digitisation (turning paper will provide opportunities to share Professor Veniamin Ciobanu benefit the nation for generations rationalisation plan. material into digital copies) and in best practice and costs while Hilary Clark to come. joining up collections and maximising efficiency. County Clare Agricultural Sustainability catalogues from across the world Show Society Ltd In keeping with Scotland’s A wide range of options for are ongoing. Therefore it is vital Robert Crawford Sustainable Development Strategy, property development to meet NLS that NLS makes adequate ACF David NLS have developed a needs and for working with other provision to retain a prominent Dr Joseph Davydov, PhD, PE sustainability policy, which will collecting institutions, have come role in the digital information Jane Duncan factor in the environmental impact forward during the past year, some world. Professor Margaret Elphinstone of all Library projects and help associated with the work of the Bridget Falconer-Salkeld reduce our environmental footprint In 2005 the Library carried out a Culture Commission. These options in the longer term. Following an detailed option appraisal to are currently under consideration. Eileen Fraser assessment of specific energy saving consider how to collect, store, French Embassy, London opportunities by the Carbon Trust preserve and provide access to this Dr Jane Freshwater MB ChB FRCA during the year, targets have been material. The preferred NLS John Gibson set towards building on the success solution is to build a Scottish Lois Godfrey of our energy reduction Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) Above: Ledger books from the John Murray Archive. Alistair Strathearn Gordon achievements in the Causewayside which will perform these functions Graduate Institute of Peace Studies site. In addition, proposals are for Scotland, and crucially will 1 This list does not purport to list every financial donor to NLS, but only those made before Ellen Grant underway to implement ‘Green communicate effectively with other 31 March 2006. Please contact the Development Department to inform us of any omissions. Alasdair Gray Teams’, harnessing the commitment key parties such as key UK and 2 The Curators' Chest will provide funds to conserve, develop and improve access to collections, Shirley-Anne Hardy of staff across the organisation to overseas information providers, facilities and services. Harry Hawthorne undertake energy saving projects. and local users across Scotland. 32 National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006

Donors (cont.) Jill Turnbull The Board of Trustees Morag Henderson Waseda University, School of Chairman Linda M Hendry International Liberal Studies Professor Michael Anderson, Dr John Higinbotham Professor Norbert Waszek OBE, MA, PhD, FBA, FRSE Jeanne Jeffares Norman Watkins Ex-officio The family of the late Robin Jenkins Dr Susunaga Weeraperuma The Lord President of the Professor Marilyn Jurich Sir James Mann Wordie Court of Session John Llewelyn CEG Wright The Lord Advocate Donald MacCormick World Day of Prayer, The First Minister, Brigadier General John MacFarlane Scottish Committee Scottish Parliament Elizabeth McLennan Dr William Zachs The Member of the Scottish Linda MacMillan Depositors Parliament for Edinburgh Central Rev Dr William D McNaughton Peter Duncan The Dean of the Faculty of Dr Alan Marchbank Advocates Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society Peter Marshall The Minister of the High Kirk Falkirk Archives Paula Martin (St Giles), Edinburgh Elizabeth Laidlaw Professor Helen Miller The Crown Agent Piobaireachd Society Roberto Mirabella The Lord Provost of Aberdeen Fiona Rudd John R G Murray The Lord Provost of Dundee Saltire Society National Library Board Singapore The Lord Provost of Edinburgh Desmond Scott National Museums The Lord Provost of Glasgow Heather Scott of Scotland Scottish Poetry Library Appointed by the Crown Dr Joan Noble Scottish Working People’s Professor Michael Anderson, Martin Norgate History Trust OBE, MA, PhD, FBA, FRSE Jane Oakley Brigid Simpson A Lorraine Fannin, BA, DipEd Professor Irine Oniani Jill Turnbull Appointed by the Faculty of Piobaireachd Society Waldensian Missions Aid Advocates Hilary Gordon Powell Society, Scotland Angus Stewart, QC Professor Michael B Pulman Malcolm G Thomson, QC Dr Hermann Reidel Exhibition and Award sponsors The Hon Lord Coulsfield, QC Dr Morag L Rennie Elizabeth A Clark’s Fund Malcolm C N Scott, QC The Cross Trust Sir Lewis Robertson Stephen Woolman, QC Kenneth Ross The Gannochy Trust Royal Highland and Agricultural The Great Britain Sasakawa Appointed by the Universities Society of Scotland Foundation Professor Graham D Caie, MA, Fiona Rudd The Ian Mactaggart Trust PhD, FRSA, FEA, FRSE J E Russell The Leng Trust Ivor G Lloyd, BA, DipLib, Saint Joseph's Hill of Hope Michael Marks Charitable Trust MLib, ALA Peter Kemp, MA, PhD Dr James M Scobbie John Menzies plc Dr Judith Vincent, BA, PhD Heather Scott The Margaret Murdoch Scottish Malaysian Association Charitable Trust Appointed by the Convention of Scottish National Portrait Gallery The Robertson Trust Scottish Local Authorities V R Scouten The Royal Scottish Councillor Bill Lamb Walter Simms Geographical Society Councillor Joy Mowatt The Russell Trust Professor A McCall Smith Co-opted The Scotsman Publications Henrietta Somervell Lady Balfour of Burleigh, MA, Stirling Council, Educational The Sir James Miller (Edinburgh) DPhil, FSAScot, FRSE Resources and Information Service Charitable Trust Andrea Batchelor Dr Massimo Storchi Talteg Ltd Ishbel Maclean, MA Seppo Telenius The Vivienne & Samuel Cohen Moira Methven, MCILIP Temple Records Charitable Trust Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, MA, PhD, Joan Trotter West Lothian Educational Trust FRHistS Jack Tully-Jackson The W M Mann Foundation Dr Willis Pickard MA LLD DipEd National Library of Scotland Annual Review 2005-2006 33 Statistics

Access

Reader visits 60,158 Shop customers 13,644 Exhibition visitors 20,027 Event attendees 4,716 Workshop attendees 1,075 Total 99,620

Public awareness of NLS Web sessions

2004/2005 20% 2005/2006 31% 2004/2005 1,299,214 2005/2006 2,360,870

1 2 3 million million million

Reader equality profiles (%)

Age Consider themselves Ethnic Group to have a disability

Under 26 39.3 No 97.2 White 89.6 26-64 53.9 Yes 2.8 Asian 7.2 65+ 6.8 Black 0.8 Other 2.4

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