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WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 • SUPPLEMENT (1) TO NO 5137 • VOL 146 Gazette Supplement

Curators of the University : Annual Report 2014/2015

1 Introduction • Sainsbury at Egrove Park scholarly communications, in compliance • Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy with funding policies of HEFCE and the The Bodleian Libraries of the University • Taylor Bodleian Slavonic and Modern Research Councils. of form the largest university Greek Library The Weston Library provided a new space library system in the . • Library that opened up more opportunities for They include the principal University • Tylor Library public engagement. This year saw an library – the – which has • at the exciting programme of exhibitions, events, been a library of legal deposit for over 400 Rothermere American institute lectures, tours and digital engagement years; major research libraries; and libraries • Wellcome Unit for the History of across our sites with activity ranging from attached to faculties, departments and other Medicine Library hackathons to 3D to traditional institutions of the University. The combined printing workshops. library collections number over 12 million 2 Summary of the year printed items, in addition to over 80,000 Our work, whether supporting information e-journals and vast quantities of materials in The Bodleian’s history features many years skills, increasing opening hours or acquiring other formats. See: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. of long-term significance for the library, the new collections, is underpinned by University and the worlds of scholarship, regular assessment of feedback from our There are 30 libraries across the Bodleian but the 2014/15 year was by any measure a readers. We are pleased to say that Oxford’s Libraries: landmark year. libraries once again topped the list of • Alexander Library of Ornithology satisfaction (98%) from the cohort of leaving The opening of the Weston Library, • Bodleian Education Library undergraduates in the National Student the refurbished New Bodleian, was a • Bodleian Health Care Libraries – Cairns Survey (NSS). culmination of a ten-year process of • Bodleian Health Care Libraries – Horton planning, consultation, funding and As I complete my second year as the 25th Hospital overseeing the project itself. It’s been Bodley’s Librarian I am buoyed by the • Bodleian Health Care Libraries – exciting to see how well the library has been positive feedback about the Libraries Knowledge Centre received by both scholars and the public, and strong messages of support we have • Bodleian Health Care Libraries – Nuffield quickly becoming a well-used library and received across the University. Despite some Orthopaedic Centre a popular cultural destination welcoming of the challenges ahead, which include • Bodleian Japanese Library 400,000 visitors in just four months the financial challenges as we work in a • Bodleian KB Chen China Centre Library of opening. Projects like the opening of climate of diminishing budgets, the staff • Bodleian Latin American Centre Library the Leopold Muller Memorial Library of the Bodleian Libraries and I will strive to • (for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) and the improve our collections and services and • Bodleian Library – Old Library Bodleian KB Chen China Centre Library to maintain our place as one of the great • Bodleian Library – have made this a landmark year for the research libraries of the world, serving the • Bodleian Library – Weston Library Libraries’ physical estate. entire academic community. We continue • Bodleian Music Faculty Library to be a highly regarded library service • Bodleian Oriental Institute Library Much work has gone into improving operating across all disciplines as well as • Bodleian Social Science Library services to readers, from revamping reader making great strides in our engagement • English Faculty Library spaces to enhancements to SOLO, our with the wider world. • Leopold Muller Memorial Library online catalogue. A key aspect of this work • Philosophy and Theology Faculties has been making significant improvements With over 30 libraries and over 500 staff Library to the digital infrastructure of the Libraries, it is impossible to document all activities • Radcliffe Science Library whether through the development of across the year. This report provides some • Continuing Education ORA-Data or the launch of our digital of the highlights and the key challenges and Library online resource, digital.bodleian. This work successes of 2014/15. • provides essential support to the University • Sainsbury Library at the Saïd Business at a time when it faces major changes to School

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Libraries & library services – key stats Students rate Oxford libraries best in Chinese holdings, offering seating, study 2014/15 UK spaces and digital facilities for readers, with facilities to accommodate up to 60 30 Libraries The graduating cohort of Oxford students readers at any one time. In the first three 4,071 Study spaces rated Oxford’s libraries as the best in months of opening the library saw a 50% 513 Computer workstations the UK for the third year running. The increase in reader visits compared to the 140,298 Legal Deposit monographs majority of students – 98% – provided same period in 2013 (at its former location in received this satisfaction rating, placing Oxford’s the Clarendon Institute). To encourage the 664,635 Purchased received libraries the highest out of all UK and international accessibility of Chinese rare (includes ) higher education institutions. Oxford’s books, the Bodleian Libraries will provide 269 Metres of archives acquired libraries have consistently been at or near bibliographical records of its Chinese rare 112,340 Books catalogued the top of the poll for the past five years. books on the publicly available Union 311,994 Items ingested to BSF Catalogue of Chinese Rare Books (http:// 237,921 Items retrieved from BSF 3 Library spaces rbook2.ncl.edu.tw). 81,268 Journal titles available via network access Opening of Taiwan Resource Centre for Weston Library opening 1,350 Electronic databases available Chinese Studies (TRCCS) 10,386 Records entered into ORA Following a major three-year renovation, Later in the year, on 7 April 2015, the new 8,554 Full text items entered into ORA the Weston Library opened to readers in Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese 251,964 Pages digitised from Bodleian September 2014 giving them access to the Studies (TRCCS) was formally opened at the collections Libraries’ world-famous special collections Bodleian KB Chen China Centre Library. The 1,306,684 Items circulated with three refurbished rooms and TRCCS is one of several to be established 68,848 Items from Special Collections innovative spaces for research and teaching, at institutions across the globe as part of a consulted including the Centre for Digital Scholarship programme initiated by the National Central 8,619,245 Full text electronic articles and Visiting Scholars’ Centre. Behind the Library of Taiwan to promote Taiwanese viewed scenes a state-of-the-art conservation studio scholarship and improve access to resources 7,258,137 Electronic chapters viewed provides space for the conservation and on the history, society and culture of Taiwan. 9,929,016 Databases searches made care of collections, a modern digital imaging The new TRCCS holds an initial donation 11,975,375 SOLO searches studio allows objects to be scanned and of over 500 books and DVDs published 2,655 Requests made to obtain items miles of storage in a carefully monitored in Taiwan on a diverse range of subjects. from other libraries environment houses over 1 million of the As part of the project the National Central 3,696 Items supplied to other libraries Bodleian’s special collections materials. Library will provide Bodleian readers with 220,587 Views of a digitised book or The public opening of the library took access to some of its unique databases in manuscript place on 21 March 2015, with over 11,000 Taiwan and Chinese Studies and support 296,692 Accesses to items in ORA visitors enjoying an opening weekend the TRCCS with book donations. 2,065,864 Printouts and photocopies of sold-out library tours, talks on our made by readers Bodleian Health Care Libraries collections, conservation showcases, 2,139,197 University members entering partnership with the Oxford University printing press demonstrations and the libraries Hospitals Trust Marks of Genius exhibition. Visitors can 229,130 External readers entering now enjoy two exhibition galleries, a café, As part of the new service level agreement libraries shop, talks in the new lecture theatre and between the Bodleian Libraries and the 1,662 People studying in the library at digital interpretation thanks to a major Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) Trust, 3pm (highest total, not mean) donation from Samsung UK, all accessed via the Bodleian Health Care Libraries (BHCL) 44,446 People receiving information stunning Blackwell Hall in the centre of the took over direct management of the Horton skills training library. The Weston Library received over Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre 9,327 Enquiries answered during one 400,000 public visitors by the end of July (NOC) libraries. As part of this restructuring, week 2015 making it a significant new cultural the BHCL took on two new members of 114,074 Items provided in alternative destination. staff – the Outreach Librarian at the NOC formats for print-disabled and the Horton Hospital, and the Library students Bodleian KB Chen China Centre Library Assistant at the Horton Hospital. The new 2,167 Staff participated in staff opens at St Hugh’s College agreement will enhance services for the development course In September 2014 HRH the Duke of Medical Sciences Division and OUH Trust 80 Scholarly books, book chapters Cambridge officially opened the new based at all four Trust sites. Work continues and articles by Bodleian staff Bodleian KB Chen China Centre Library in on improving services, facilities and published. the £21 million Dickson Poon University of resources. Oxford China Centre Building. Funded by Bodleian Law Library 50th anniversary philanthropic donations, the new China and St Cross Building refurbishment Centre at St Hugh’s College provides a dedicated space for all Oxford academics In October 2014 the Bodleian Law Library with an interest in China. The Bodleian (BLL) celebrated the 50th anniversary KB Chen China Centre Library provides a of the St Cross Building in Manor Road. permanent home for 60,000 volumes of Designed by Sir Leslie Martin, the architect the Bodleian Libraries’ Chinese of the Royal Festival Hall, and Colin St John and improved access to the Libraries’ Wilson, who later designed the new British University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5137 • 22 June 2016 649

Library, the building has been home to RADCLIFFE SCIENCE LIBRARY Initially centered on the social sciences, the Bodleian Law Library and the English the BDL provides support for finding, In Trinity term 2014 the Radcliffe Science Faculty Library since it first opened during accessing and using social science statistics Library (RSL) ran a consultation with the 1964–5 academic year. Planning also and data; manages the access and curation readers about its physical space. As resource began for the extensive refurbishment of restricted and sensitive datasets which delivery in higher education continues to of the building. In preparation for the may not be networked; offers a new data change, and many libraries are looking to works (to commence August 2015 and brokering and clearing house service for the develop different types of space for their run until October 2016) over 50,000 acquisition of datasets by research centres users, the RSL was keen to gather feedback volumes were moved from the St Cross in the Social Sciences Division; provides on user perceptions of the library’s space – as Building to the Book Storage Facility while consultancy services and training; and it is now and ideas for development. This further collections will be moved to a alerts researchers to new sources of data. A feedback was reviewed in 2014/15 to inform temporary location during the course of the Bodleian Data Library website was created plans to adapt the RSL’s spaces as we seek to refurbishment. (www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/data) and email improve them for both readers and staff in helpline was launched (data@bodleian. Bodleian Library the future. ox.ac.uk). A number of planned improvements 4 Research and learning support RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT were made to the Old Bodleian Library, significantly improving the environment The Libraries launched a new website Major new initiatives to support Research for readers. This includes a two-year project in collaboration with IT Services and and Learning Support over 2014/15 include: to carpet the Upper and Lower Reading Research Services, which gives guidance to Rooms and replace lighting. With the move Digital/online resources researchers on the management of research of Special Collections to the Weston, Reader data and the ability to preserve, reuse and DIGITAL BODLEIAN Services led the process of creating a general share it. See www.researchdata.ox.ac.uk. humanities reading room in Selden End In July 2015 the Libraries launched digital. EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS ONLINE TEXT of Duke Humfrey’s Library (DHL), with bodleian, a new website consolidating all of CREATION PARTNERSHIP the DHL restored to its original ‘pre-New the Libraries’ digitised items into one easy- Bodleian decant’ state and Selden End to-navigate platform. At its launch there The Early English Books Online Text becoming a quiet study space (and an were over 105,000 images (4,398 works) Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) corpus exceptionally beautiful one) which readers included in the new collection software. The covers the period from 1473 to 1700 and is highlighted as a desirable space to work in site incorporates most of the Oxford Digital estimated to comprise more than the last reader survey. Library content as well as the collections 2 million pages and nearly 1 billion words. from Luna and image.ox.ac.uk, covering a It represents a history of the printed Leopold Muller Memorial Library huge range of subjects and rare items from word in from the birth of the moves to Walton Street across the Libraries’ collections. The website printing press to the reign of William and The Leopold Muller Memorial Library can be found at digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Mary, and contains texts of incomparable (formerly at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew significance for research across all academic OXFORD RESEARCH ARCHIVE FOR DATA and Jewish Studies) became the newest disciplines. The EEBO-TCP began in 1999 addition to the Bodleian Libraries in This year the Libraries launched a new as an innovative collaboration between Hilary term 2015 (January 2015) following University-wide service, the Oxford the Universities of Oxford and Michigan, a successful move into the Clarendon Research Archive for Data (ORA-Data). funded by Jisc in the UK and by over 150 Institute (the space vacated by the Bodleian ORA-Data is one of a suite of support academic partner institutions worldwide. Its Chinese Studies Library). The collections services designed to help researchers at the aim is to capture the earliest extant of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library University access, create, archive, share and of every English language work published represent a major addition to the Hebraica cite research data. It is a digital repository during the first two centuries of printing in and Judaica collections already held in the and catalogue for research data. Any type of England, converting this material into fully Bodleian Libraries, and combining these digital research data in any file format may searchable texts. Having previously been two collections has greatly improved access be deposited. A permanent record is created available only to academic institutions that for readers. for all datasets deposited, which allows subscribe to ProQuest’s Early English Books them to be discovered by search engines and Online resource, over 25,000 texts from Future planning for library spaces and cited. It holds catalogue records of archived the first phase of EEBO-TCP were freely estates research data deposited at specialist available as open data in the public domain ORIENTAL INSTITUTE AND TAYLOR- archives as well as research data deposits on 1 January 2015. See: www.bodleian.ox.ac. SLAVONIC CONSULTATIONS of its own. The Oxford Research Archive uk/eebotcp. (ora.ox.ac.uk) already acts as a searchable Following extensive consultation a decision Other improvements include: repository of theses and publications, so was made to integrate the Taylor-Slavonic ORA-data extends this capability. Until July SOLO: The year saw ongoing improvements Annexe with the main Taylorian, subject to 2015, ORA-Data ran as a free pilot to increase and upgrades made to the software that delivery on various dependencies. Planning access. powers SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries of the move is to take place in 2015/16. Online), the Libraries’ catalogue. These BODLEIAN DATA LIBRARY include the addition of a ‘date slider’ (a The Bodleian Data Library (BDL) was visual method of result refinement to established to provide services supporting complement existing date refining search researchers and students who need to options); the creation of a ‘no results’ page make secondary use of statistics and data. so searches which return no results are now 650 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5137 • 22 June 2016

directed to a page offering suggestions and a include special extended loan periods and Projects in development link to SOLO Live Help; the inclusion of new proxy borrowing, plus access to a range RESOURCE DISCOVERY PROJECT Altmetric icons for certain results (giving of specialist equipment and ergonomic an indication of the amount of attention an furniture on demand. A new working group The University embarked on a major article has received online) and ‘times cited was convened this year to bring disability investigative project, sponsored and information’ for certain results. General bug liaison librarians from across the Libraries managed by the Bodleian Libraries, called fixes and enhancements were also made. together with student representatives to Resource Discovery, which seeks to further improve access, information and address the problem that online access to Supporting readers support. the University’s resources, physical and INFORMATION SKILLS COORDINATION digital, is fragmented and therefore a block BOOK STORAGE FACILITY (BSF) DATA to it achieving what it could in a web age – To strengthen the Libraries’ profile as a key INITIATIVE whether in research, education, recruitment provider of research skills training, work The pilot of a unique new service from or widening engagement. In the Bodleian was undertaken to rebrand the WISER March 2015 has had a positive impact alone there are many pages listing different programme as Bodleian iSkills, with the on the speed of accessibility of library catalogues, finding aids and access to data accompanying strapline ‘Workshops materials. The BSF data initiative enables of all kinds. There is expertise throughout in information discovery and scholarly the Bodleian Library Reader Services team the University that is not easily accessible communications’. The content of iSkills to check the availability and status of items to people inside or outside. The University was further strengthened with the addition at the Book Storage Facility in Swindon. needs to find an intelligent solution, or of new classes including ‘Finding and The Reader Services team have been given solutions, which will do the richness of its converting geospatial information’ and the direct access to the BSFIS (the Book Storage intellectual assets justice and bring it to redevelopment of ‘Tech tools – reference Facility Information System, the database greater prominence online. Over 2014/15 management’ (which has become one that records all of the items stored in the the project team started on the first phase of of the most popular workshops). We BSF warehouse) so now know the location the project, working with colleagues across enhanced our provision of online tutorials of collection items and their availability the University to scope the work needed to for readers with the addition of ‘Electronic for ordering by readers. Providing direct develop an intelligent search and retrieval legal deposit’ and ‘Finding journal articles’. access to the database, where once staff tool or tools. The outcome of the project There were also a number of initiatives to had to contact the BSF for information on will be to propose a solution, or more likely develop the pedagogical skills of librarians. items, makes it much easier for Bodleian options for a solution, which would form the Improvements to instructional and staff to advise readers on how long it will basis of a programme of works. outreach materials included a new design take for their items to arrive from the BSF for the Oxford libraries map, a new logo for DIGITAL MANUSCRIPTS TOOLKIT and leads to increased efficiency. Originally LibGuides and new materials for open days piloted with the Old Bodleian, the scheme The Bodleian Libraries received $685k (US) and other welcome events. expanded to cover the Social Science from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICES Library, the Radcliffe Science Library, the for a two-year project, ‘Building the Digital Sainsbury Library at the Saïd Business Manuscripts Toolkit’. The project will The Libraries’ Document Delivery Services School and the Philosophy and Theology engage in significant user needs analysis is focused on improving readers’ experience Library; feedback from these libraries will and scholarly consultation in order to of printing, copying and scanning materials, inform the wider consideration of making build a toolkit that will allow scholars and introducing an online ILL system across this service available to all Bodleian to use, develop and repurpose digitised the Libraries. Service innovation in 2014/15 Libraries staff. manuscripts in new and exciting ways. included using the Libraries Book Storage The project will include small grants for Facility’s Scan and Deliver service for ILL Supporting the University of Oxford’s Oxford-affiliated scholars to test the toolkit’s requests, moving the central Bodleian alumni functionality and showcase the possibilities ILL unit to digital delivery as the default it affords. The toolkit will be based on method of supplying copies, and providing A new webpage aimed at the University’s the International Image Interoperability an interim staff-mediated print solution for alumni was created to bring together Framework (IIIF), http://iiif.io, which is e-Legal Deposit. a range of services and resources for continued lifelong learning at www. a collaborative and community-driven IMPROVING ACCESS: ARACU AND bodleian.ox.ac.uk/using/alumni. The site initiative to make image-based cultural DISABILITY SERVICES provides University alumni with remote heritage materials more accessible, usable and interoperable. See: http://dmt.bodleian. The Libraries’ Accessible Resources access to a number of online journals and ox.ac.uk. Acquisition and Creation Unit (ARACU) databases, free of charge. In addition to continued to provide highly tailored JSTOR (to which University alumni logged 5 Collections support to disabled students, including the in 11,000 times and accessed over 69,000 provision of materials in electronic format articles in 2013/14), collaboration with the Collections-based (digital) projects and advice and training on equipment and Saïd Business School now offers alumni software applications. Improving access access to ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform BODLEIAN FIRST FOLIO for disabled readers to library services and Trade & Industry, EIU.com, Mergent Autumn saw the launch of a full text of facilities continued to be a priority this year. Online and Vault Career Insider. There are the Bodleian First Folio (Arch. G c.7) to Recent developments in this area include plans to extend and develop this service. accompany the images created following the opening of the new accessible entrance Alumni are invited to continue using the the Sprint for Shakespeare public campaign. to the Radcliffe Camera, while ongoing reading rooms in Oxford and to attend our These XML-encoded digital editions make services for students with disabilities exhibitions, lectures, seminars and other events featured throughout the year. the text fully searchable, and allow for University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5137 • 22 June 2016 651

advanced searches. The website has been death of his son Felix, 1854, together with • The Watsons (Jane Austen’s House developed by the Oxford e-Research Centre a letter from Kate Smith (later Hopkins), Museum, Chawton) 18 September– in consultation with BDLSS and has been in 8 July 1840. 16 December 2014 regular use since its launch, with a slowly • MS. Eng. c. 8238, folio 54. An undated • William Blake, Apprentice & Master growing audience. The project is inspiring autograph fair copy of a poem, (Ashmolean Museum) 4 December new research, with a Shakespeare social ‘Evening’, by Vita Sackville-West. 2014–1 March 2015 machine in development by Dave De Roure The manuscript was originally given to (Oxford e-Research Centre), and the TORCH • The Virtue of Original (Deutsches John Reid by Robert Tobin, owner of Lord HiCor network having organised a hack Literaturarchiv Marbach and Sackville’s yacht, ‘Sumurun’. event in December 2014 using the First Folio Literaturmuseum der Moderne, digital editions. OTHER ACQUISITIONS OF INTEREST Marbach) 3 November 2014–15 April 2015

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT Maps • Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy (, London) 13 March– The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue In July 2015 the Map Room took in three 1 September 2015 Raisonné project was launched in autumn significant and varied acquisitions. A former 2014. Building on the acquisition of the member of staff from Oxford City Council’s • The Akedah – The Sacrifice of Isaac personal archive of Fox Talbot, work on Planning Department gifted a number of (Jewish Museum, Berlin) 22 May– the Catalogue Raisonné is being led by plans created for a book entitled Oxford 13 September 2015 Larry Schaaf, a Visiting Professor in Art replanned by Thomas Sharp, published in • Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1750: History and one of the Bodleian’s first 1948. These maps show a vision for Oxford Opulence and Fantasy (Metropolitan Visiting Scholars. Professor Schaaf has been which was never carried out, including Museum of Art, New York) 20 April– scrupulously gathering the data for the various routes for a bypass across Christ 26 July 2015 catalogue for over 40 years but they remain Church Meadow, a radical redesign of the confined to his private databases and files area between Cornmarket Street and New • Charting Chipeling, the Archaeology of and are therefore at risk of being lost, and are Inn Hall Street, urban motorways, a new the Kiplin Hall Estate (Kiplin Hall, North unavailable to other scholars. The Bodleian town hall, a revamped station and a proposal Yorkshire) 27 April–28 October 2015 Libraries have committed to building and to move the Oxford Union into the Covered Conservation and collections care hosting the digital version of the Catalogue Market. Raisonné, which will make this information Recent conservation activity/highlights The Bodleian has been gifted the publicly and permanently available to all, from the year include: manuscript Ascott Park estate map, and enable other researchers to contribute surveyed and drawn by William Burgess SHELDON TAPESTRY MAPS to this work. It will be one of the first such in the early to mid-18th century. This CONSERVATION PROJECT online catalogues and become an essential map covers an estate that has largely resource for anyone interested in the history The conservation treatment of the Sheldon disappeared, but the Ascott Park Gateway in of photography and the visual arts. This Tapestry Map of Worcestershire, carried Blackwell Hall is featured, and so the map is work is supported by the William Talbott out by National Trust specialists and now reunited with one of the few surviving Hillman Foundation and other generous with the Royal Manufacturers De Wit in remnants from the time of its creation. donors. Mechelen, Belgium, was finally completed The Map Room now believes that it has in preparation for its display in the Weston Acquisitions finally acquired all the Soviet-produced Library. The tapestry was prepared for a MAJOR ACQUISITIONS IN 2014/15 NOW town plans made for the British Isles. These test hang, then fitted into the final frame for AVAILABLE incredibly detailed maps were created by its installation in a bespoke display case in the Soviet Army’s General Staff, and their Blackwell Hall in March 2015. Access to the • MS. Shelley adds. c. 13, fols. 19–21. Three existence first came to light in 1993 at a Sheldon Tapestry Maps has been eagerly letters from William Godwin, two meeting of the International Cartographic awaited by scholars and has attracted the addressed to William Hone, 10 Feb 1819 Association, when they were exhibited by a interest of the press and visitors alike. and 8 Oct 1821, and one to Charles Ollier, Latvian map-seller. The Bodleian acquired 22 Sept 1831, the last including on its SIR BASIL BLACKWELL LIBRARY BOOKS a sizeable batch of this material in the late verso a corrected draft not in Ollier’s hand 1990s, and, now more has become available, Supported by two volunteers, staff of of the start of a story headed ‘The pirate’s we have readily snapped them up. Some of Conservation and Collections Care cleaned Treasure’. See: www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ the most recent sheets are remarkably up to the books from the personal library of Sir dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/ date, post-dating the break-up of the USSR. Basil Blackwell (known as ‘The Gaffer’) shelley/shelley-SI/shelley-si-19-23.html. In terms of cartographic content and design, which were donated to the Libraries by the • MS. Eng. c. 8330. Letters of John these sheets are far superior to anything Blackwell family, and are partly on display Buchan to Benjamin Consitt published in the UK. in the Weston Library. Dust, cobwebs, soot Boulter, with two to Buchan from other specks and the remains of wax moth cases Loans individuals. See: www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ were removed and bespoke conservation dept/scwmss/wmss/online/single-items/ The Bodleian Library contributed to the equipment, such as the new Airbench in correspondence/correspondence.html. following national and international the Conservation team’s quarantine room, exhibitions: significantly contributed to the cleaning. • MS. Eng. c. 8238, fols. 60-64. 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WORLD WAR I POSTERS in 1671 by parliamentarian general Sir count of 46,223, making it one of our most popular exhibitions in recent years. It was July 2014 saw the completion of the Thomas Fairfax. More moderate than his enhanced by the highly commended book conservation treatment of 128 WWI posters. successor Cromwell, Fairfax is credited accompanying the exhibition by Bodleian The posters mainly relate to war savings with saving the Bodleian from pillaging curator Mike Webb. and bonds, and had been stored folded up during the Civil War. The manuscript has and stuck into a heavy guard book. This another local connection: the full-page gilt Remembering Radcliffe: 300 years of science made unfolding the posters very difficult; miniature is attributed to the Abingdon and philanthropy (28 November 2014– or indeed impossible in some instances as Missal Master. The conservation of MS. 20 March 2015, Exhibition Room, Old glue had seeped from the guards and stuck Fairfax 16 has been funded by a grant from Library) the folded papers together. Each poster has the National Manuscripts Conservation The Libraries' winter exhibition celebrated been conserved following the principle Trust. the life and legacy of John Radcliffe, a of minimal intervention. This means that The conservation of MS. Douce 39 was physician and philanthropist who left a tears have been repaired and stuck-together completed this year. It is an early-14th- lasting mark on the University and city of areas released, but fold creases remain as century French Book of Hours, acquired Oxford with three buildings which bear his they show evidence of the posters’ previous by Francis Douce for £4 in a Sotheby’s name: the Radcliffe Infirmary, the Radcliffe usage and do not affect stability. auction in 1830. A bespoke, cloth- Observatory and the Radcliffe Camera – the ANTI-SLAVERY PAPERS covered box with a pressure flap will be first circular library in Britain. The exhibition commissioned, and the final stage of the also looked at Radcliffe's ongoing legacy in Our ongoing work on the papers of the project will be the conservation of inner the work of the Radcliffe Trust as it marks Anti-Slavery Society continues with joints and board sheets, and stitching the the 300th anniversary of his death. support from an MA student on placement headcaps on the spine. from Camberwell. He discovered some Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the interesting examples of copy techniques Collections of the Bodleian Libraries Bodleian Conservation online used by the society’s office around the (21 March–20 September 2015, Weston 1860s to produce multiple copies of This year Conservation updated their Library) campaign letters to newspapers and other webpages (www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/our- The first exhibition in the Weston Library, organisations. work/conservation) and opened a Twitter Marks of Genius, was opened by special account (https://twitter.com@lladobuisan). THE MORTON MINIATURES guests Sir and Statistics Professor . Drawing on The Morton Miniatures are a collection the Libraries’ rich collections ranging from of approximately 360 miniature books, 9,113 Items treated in the conservation ancient papyrus fragments to 20th-century ranging from the 17th to 20th century, workshop political speeches, the exhibition paid donated to the library along with a 35km Books moved tribute to some of the most remarkable miniature wooden and a folding 26,000 Boxes made testimonies of genius in human history. It bookcase with glass panels. The miniatures 1,000 Books repaired looked at ways in which attitudes towards received funding for their conservation on genius are manifested in a number of Duke Humfrey’s Night in 2010, and were 6 Public engagement remarkable books and manuscripts, and subsequently worked on by a number explored how works of genius found in a of members of the conservation team. The Bodleian Libraries are committed to university library can be acquired, collected Conservation work is now completed and engaging the public with their collections and read. the collection, together with two extra and with the research of the University. to house them, has now been This engagement takes on a variety of Displays installed in its new home in the Special forms: exhibitions and displays, lectures A full programme of temporary displays Collections Office. and talks, tours and events across our in the Bodleian Proscholium and Weston libraries with the focus on activity in the Library’s Blackwell Hall (and a few other Old Library and the Weston Library. With Other conservation activity library sites) have provided visitors with an two exhibition galleries to display and opportunity to see a wide range of rare and The conservation team worked on a late- interpret the collections, Samsung screens special collections from across the Bodleian 12th-century manuscript, written in Latin, to provide digital interpretation, a lecture Libraries and Oxford college collections. containing a glossed copy of the Book of theatre for talks and seminars and the large, Job, General Epistles and Apocalypse. By open area of Blackwell Hall for events and PROSCHOLIUM the 15th century it belonged to Evesham other activities, the Weston Library now Abbey, from where it passed into the provides an exciting new space for public • Alan Bennett: History boy (7 August– library of Henry VIII. Its 16th-century red engagement. 7 September 2014) velvet binding is typical of Henry VIII’s library. The work has been funded by a Exhibitions • Uncommon interests: Mertonian Treasures in the Bodleian (9 September– private donation and matching funds were The Great War: Personal Stories from 2 November 2014) raised at Duke Humfrey’s Night. Downing Street to the Trenches (18 June– Conservation work began on MS. Fairfax 2 November 2014, Exhibition Room, Old • Creative Greats: Exeter College at 700 16, an anthology of poems that includes Library) (7 November–23 December 2014) the collected shorter works of Geoffrey The Bodleian’s summer exhibition, The • Aldus Manutius: The Struggle and the Chaucer. It is one of 28 manuscripts that Great War: Personal stories from Downing Dream (8 January–22 February 2015) were bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Street to the Trenches, saw a total visitor University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5137 • 22 June 2016 653

• The Art of Dress: Western printed books • In March 2015 the Bodleian Libraries a range of topics, supported by a variety of from the Bodleian Library welcomed some 40 eager ‘hackers’ philanthropic and research grant funding (26 February–26 April 2015) to the Early English Books Hackfest, sources. A full programme of research organised to celebrate the release of seminars and lectures ran through the year, • Literature and Electoral Culture in the more than 25,000 texts from the Early focusing on early modern books, the history First Age of Party Politics (1 May–28 June English Books Online-Text Creation of printing and digital initiatives to explore 2015) Partnership (EEBO-TCP) project into the new avenues of scholarship. Highlights • Samuel Johnson and Shakespeare public domain. Attendees were invited included Visiting scholar Professor Michael (3 July–6 September 2015) to demonstrate innovative and creative Suarez, University of Virginia, delivering the approaches to either the full dataset or a annual Lyell Lectures in the new Lecture WESTON LIBRARY number of subsets (relating to alchemy, Theatre in the Weston Library on the theme • Building a library (21 March–17 May 2015) drama and 17th-century newsbooks) of ‘The reach of : looking provided by project staff, and to apply beyond the letterpress in eighteenth- • Magna Carta 800 (21 May–28 June 2015) imaginative methodologies to text or century texts’. See: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ • Dali, Tenniel and Printing Alice, a small subject matter which might include an csb. display to celebrate 150 years of printing element of ‘surprise’. Statistics Alice’s Day (1 July–23 August 2015) • 23 Things for Research returned as 322,545 Visitors to Blackwell Hall plus part of the 2014 Engage: Social Media 181,283 Visitors taking a tour Michaelmas programme. #OxEngage, • Colonial Nursing: Travel and Travail – an 60,974 Visitors to Divinity School organised by the Bodleian Libraries online exhibition in conjunction with 186,603 People visiting the physical and IT Services, offered a full term of the broadcast of ‘Writing the Century: exhibition events (lunchtime seminars, courses, Passages from Empire’ on Radio 4 86,780 People visiting the online workshops etc) to explore different social Women’s Hour (3–7 November 2014) exhibition media strategies and digital tools for use £732,000 Shop sales • Gold Rush – an exhibition at the Vere in an academic setting. 2,167 Staff participating in staff Harmsworth Library to accompany a • The Libraries were delighted to host development course major conference at the Rothermere innovative international digital 80 Scholarly books, book chapters American Institute on global gold rushes initiatives, such as the Stephen Fry and articles by Libraries staff and gold mining in the late 19th and ‘YourFry hackathon’ in October 2014 published early 20th centuries. The exhibition which saw more than 40 volunteers drew together materials from across the Enterprises from across Oxford come together in Libraries’ collections relating to gold the Weston Library to devise artistic and PUBLICATIONS rushes and gold mining throughout the digital creations based on Fry’s life story world (16–17 April 2015) Bodleian Library launched/ and the theme of ‘Many faces, many published 25 titles this year. Of note were: Events selves: exploring the self in the digital era’. A Conspiracy of Ravens The Libraries ran a wide range of events this year, from talks and events associated with • Future of seminar series –as part Collective nouns for birds have existed exhibitions to annual celebrations and one- of an ongoing University Fell-funded since at least the mid-15th century. They are off activities to highlight the collections. series of seminars, organised by thought to originate in texts about hunting, Talks and lectures have regularly sold out the Libraries’ BDLSS team, this year but have since evolved into evocative, witty this term and annual events, like the Lyell saw six expert speakers share their and literary expressions, each striving to Lectures, have proved hugely popular. knowledge of textual editing. Their capture the very essence of the creature practical experiences in a variety of they describe. The best of these imaginative Some highlights include: fields of academic editing embraced text expressions are collected in this book by • The award ceremony of the Caine from different periods and genres, in Bodleian Library Publishing, illustrated with Prize for African Writing took place in manuscript and in print, as well as editing evocative woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, the Blackwell Hall on 6 July and the prize scholarly contributions to a co-authored renowned naturalist engraver of the 18th for 2015 was awarded to Namwali monograph, making for a diverse century. Serpell. This event takes place annually programme that was well attended by Ye Berlyn Tapestrie at the Bodleian Library and is always editors from across Oxford. accompanied by a display of the bust of First published in 1915,Ye Berlyn Tapestrie Visiting scholars programme the late Sir Michael Caine. was created by pioneering illustrator John The new Visiting Scholars’ Centre in Hassall as a light-hearted reaction to the • The Libraries hosted a number the Weston Library has been open since public outrage and anti-German propaganda of editathons in connection with autumn 2014, providing valuable space following Kaiser Wilhelm’s invasion Wikipedia, including a ‘Women in for both postdoctoral fellows working on of neutral Belgium on 4 August 1914. Science Editathon’ in October 2014 to collaborative projects with the Bodleian Parodying the most well-known pictorial celebrate Ada Lovelace Day (14 October). and Visiting Fellows who have been representation of a foreign invasion, the The editathon provided participants awarded Bodleian Libraries fellowships. 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, Hassall with training to allow them to develop Applications for these open in autumn illustrated 30 cartoon panels that poke fun skills in Wikipedia while relaying their every year to academics interested in using at the invaders. knowledge of science. the Libraries’ diverse collections to research 654 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5137 • 22 June 2016

From Downing Street to the Trenches: First- Highlights of media coverage over the added from the routine daily supply of Hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914–16 year books via the Bodleian’s Collections & Resource Description section to newly From Downing Street to the Trenches by Mike The Bodleian features in Great British acquired accessions. The BSF also held Webb, Curator of Early Modern Archives Railway Journeys, which includes an material as part of the preparation for the and Manuscripts and published by Bodleian interview with Richard Ovenden, the Weston Library opening. In August 2014 Library Publishing, had already received Frankenstein manuscript, Bradshaw’s the total number of items held at the BSF glowing reviews and popular acclaim when railway guide and a look inside the Weston exceeded 8 million, and as of 2014/15 the it was shortlisted for a Paddy Power Political before its public opening. BSF held 8,046,494 items plus 1.2 million Book Award. The book took the story of the The opening of the Weston Library was maps. This is a remarkable achievement in war as it unfolded from the perspective of well covered across national newspapers less than four years and is a testimony to the those who lived through the momentous and consumer magazines with articles hard work of the BSF team and colleagues events, from Prime Minister Herbert Asquith running in the Sunday Times, Financial across the Libraries. down to the local parish priest. Times Weekend, Independent on Sunday, Bodleian Libraries trainee scheme Statistics the Guardian and the Economist. News of the opening was also covered by the In 2014/15 18 new trainees were welcomed 25 Books published Press Association and syndicated in c400 to the Bodleian Libraries and a number 80,802 Books sold newspapers across the UK including the of college libraries. For some Oxford is over 1,000 Tolkien posters sold online Daily Mail, the Sun and Yahoo News. completely new, whereas others have each year studied here and one or two have worked over 8,000 Leather sold in News and highlights from 2014/15 previously in our libraries. See the trainee the shop each year Senior appointments – new Deputy blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ over 120,000 Bodleian Christmas cards Librarian and new Associate Director for oxfordtrainees. landing on doormats across Digital Libraries the world each year 3D printing at the RSL In 2014/15 the Libraries appointed Catríona 2014/15 publications In Michaelmas term 2014 the Radcliffe Cannon as the new Deputy Librarian and Science Library (RSL) launched a number • 26 Postcards from the Collections Lucie Burgess as the new Associate Director of 3D printing and scanning events and • Are You Really a Genius? for Digital Libraries. Catríona had previously services, including demonstrations, • The Bay Psalm Book been interim Deputy Librarian, acting talks and opportunities for participants • Ye Berlyn Tapestrie up from her role as Associate Director for to try out the technology themselves. • Bodleian Library Souvenir Guide Collections Support, which she had held The aim was to expose those not familiar • Bodleian Library Treasures since 2010. Lucie joined the Libraries in with 3D printing and scanning to these • The Book Lovers’ Anthology early November 2014 from her previous exciting new technologies, spark creativity • A Brief History of the Bodleian Library role as Head of Online Services at the British and innovation with opportunities to • A Conspiracy of Ravens Library, and is responsible for the leadership experiment, and get people thinking about • Dr Radcliffe’s Library of the Bodleian Digital Library Systems and how it could be used in their own research • The Food Lovers’ Anthology Services (BDLSS) team. and teaching with the RSL’s printer available • Heath Robinson: How to be a Motorist Green Gown Awards 2014 to those who might use the equipment • Heath Robinson: How to Live in a Flat to further enhance their work. See http:// • Heath Robinson’s Golf In October the Bodleian Libraries were ox.libguides.com/3dprintingscanning. • Heath Robinson’s Great War selected as a finalist in the Green Gown • Historiae Britannicae Defensio/A Defence Awards 2014, which recognise the Scientific analysis helps team explore of British History exceptional sustainability initiatives being mysteries of medieval Gough Map • An Illuminated Alphabet undertaken by universities and colleges There was a palpable sense of excitement • Latin Inscriptions in Oxford across the UK. The Libraries were finalists in as a dozen researchers and tech experts • London in Quotations the Carbon Reduction category, the second gathered at the Weston Library in January • Marks of Genius Collector’s Edition most popular category in the competition. 2015 to analyse the medieval Gough • Medieval MS from Würzburg in the The Libraries’ project, entitled 'Oxford Map using a number of ground-breaking Bodleian Library, Oxford University Bodleian Libraries team read technologies. The team, including • Oxford in Quotations between the lines looking for £100,000', chemists, conservators, historians and • Qur’āns aims to reduce the libraries' annual utility paleographers, came together for a week • The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám costs by £100,000. The University has of scientific analysis on this iconic map, • Scholars, Poets and Radicals already invested £303,000 in the project which is the earliest surviving sheet map which will sees a yearly saving of £168,000, COMMUNICATION of Great Britain dating from between 1300 thus the initial investment will be recouped and 1430. Narrowing down the date of its 2,809,671 Twitter impressions in two years. creation is among the researchers’ goals, as 47,242 Minutes watched on YouTube BSF reaches 8 million milestone is finding out more about the mysterious 88,635 Visitors to our blogs red lines, with distances noted, which 39,455 Impressions on Pinterest The BSF (Book Storage Facility) was opened connect settlements but aren’t believed 10,917 Instagram likes in October 2010, when staff accessioned to be roads. 3D laser scanning of the 3,613 Mentions in traditional print 7,047,545 items from the various storage Gough Map took place to help researchers media locations used by the Bodleian Libraries. explore text that had been painted over or 115 Pieces of graphic design work Since then additional material has been scraped out over the years; the pigments undertaken University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5137 • 22 June 2016 655

used to paint the map were analysed Bodley Medal awarded 7 Budget and fundraising using Raman spectroscopy in order to Over 2014/15 the Bodley Medal was awarded provide clues about where and when it was After finishing the 2013/14 academic year to three individuals who have made created; and the Libraries’ newly acquired by achieving our budgetary target, the outstanding contributions to the worlds hyperspectral imaging tool was also used. focus of 2014/15 continued to be on fiscal in which the Bodleian is active: literature, The multidisciplinary team hoped to share conservatism and finding savings, given culture, science and communication. The the results of their tests at a symposium at a significant budget reduction for the award was given to theatre and film director the Bodleian in late 2015. year. The Bodleian Libraries experienced Nicholas Hytner, architect Jim Eyre (the successive years of having to make savings Garfield Weston Foundation presented architectural mastermind behind the newly but the emphasis remained on balancing with the Sheldon Medal – 19 December 2014 refurbished Weston Library) and physicist budgets annually and avoiding deficits. Stephen Hawking. Past recipients include The Sheldon Medal, the highest distinction writer Ian McEwan, novelist Hilary Mantel, This year the Libraries consulted with the University of Oxford can bestow on writer and actor Alan Bennett, film director unions, staff, the divisions and Curators benefactors, was presented to the Garfield Lord Richard Attenborough and author PD of the University Libraries to develop a Weston Foundation in December 2014, James. Strategic Financial Plan: one which sets out in recognition of its gift towards the new a three-year plan for the Libraries to meet its Weston Library. In 2008 the foundation Libraries commended in OxTALENT many financial challenges, but which also awarded £25 million to the Libraries. awards 2015 allows us to develop our services to meet The transformative gift has supported OxTALENT is a competition and a ceremony the academic needs of the University and the redevelopment of the New Bodleian designed to recognise and award staff the wider world of scholarship that we serve. Library into the Weston Library. The and students from across the University This planning activity helped the Libraries Garfield Weston Foundation has previously for creative use of digital technologies in to complete the financial year with only supported other areas of the University, teaching, learning and outreach. The awards a very small shortfall against the planned including the Ashmolean Museum, took place in July 2015 and Libraries staff budget, putting the finances in a strong medical research, academic posts and were recognised in a number of categories: position for the coming year. sports facilities. Benefactors previously honoured with the medal include the late • in the Open Practices category, the Further progress has been made in Lord Wolfson, chairman of the Wolfson Libraries were runner up for the EEBO fundraising terms, with a major bequest Foundation, Leonard Blavatnik and Mica Hackfest, held in March 2015 to add to the Bodleian’s endowment for Ertegun. acquisitions of rare books and manuscripts, • in the Data Visualisation category, the and additional gifts of over £1 million have Libraries were also runner up for the been received to complete the fundraising ‘Bodleian in Numbers’ project. The for the Weston Library. The philanthropic project, currently on the touchscreens total raised for the Bodleian Libraries in in the Weston Library, gives visitors 2014/15 was £5,659,725. 2014/15 saw a an insight into the complexities of major effort to increase the Bodleian’s the Bodleian Libraries in a simple, endowment to support specialist staff posts entertaining and engaging interactive and acquisitions of collections. Significant way. additions were made to the endowment during the academic year. 656 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5137 • 22 June 2016

END OF YEAR ACCOUNTS and FTE

2014/15 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 SPACE Total gross floor area (in square metres) 73,863 84,060 85,349 85,733

INFORMATION RESOURCE PROVISION Total catalogued physical stock, excluding archives and manuscripts 11,910,646 11,746,808 11,527,677 11,244,795 Number of additions to catalogued stock, excluding archives and 251,924 272,585 323,679 174,604 manuscripts Number of electronic books licensed 1,064,063 961,146 779,676 484,665 Number of serial titles purchased in electronic form 81,268 75,634 48,480 22,255 Number of electronic databases licensed 1,350 1,339 791 502 Total linear metres of archives and manuscripts 25,583 25,314 24,643* 19,771 Linear metres of archives and manuscripts received 269 671 813 820

LIBRARY USE Total number of reader visits 2,368,327 2,209,746 2,301,819 2,129,097 Average number of readers in the libraries on sample days 1,307 1,193 1,656 1,271 Searches of SOLO 11,975,375 11,876,798 11,757,948 11,303,580 Total loans 2,005,283 1,422,353 1,498,939 1,497,861 Full-text electronic article downloads 8,619,245 7,728,797 7,962,899 6,994,939 Electronic book chapter downloads 7,258,137 5,906,881 2,679,303 2,176,112 Database searches 9,929,016 8,373,561 7,673,254 8,082,254 Number of person-hours training received by readers 31,254 18,609 15,130 18,407

LIBRARY STAFF (full-time equivalent) 546.51 522.10 539.61 526.90

LIBRARY EXPENDITURE Staff expenditure £20,240,419 £19,586,563 £19,598,519 £20,322,295 Information provision expenditure £8,153,776 £7,728,270 £9,699,277 £7,185,991 Other expenditure £12,448,096 £13,856,292 £13,405,999 £11,342,217 Total gross expenditure £41,889,840 £41,171,125 £42,703,795 £42,395,317

LIBRARY INCOME University funding £29,076,270 £29,481,000 £28,740,000 £27,324,000 HEFCE grant £1,871,743 £1,871,743 £1,871,743 £1,886,743 Other income – internal £702,166 £506,771 £620,859 £644,211 Other income – external £10,179,116 £9,319,489 £11,385,886 £8,995,843 Total income £41,829,296 £41,179,003 £42,618,488 £38,850,797

*changes to shelving arrangement