National Library of Scotland

Annual Report 1999-2000

National Library of Scotland Edinburgh www.nls.uk © Crown Copyright 2000 ISBN 1 872116 32 9

Photography: Allan Forbes

Design: Jim Cairns Design

Editorial: Jacqueline Cromarty Kenneth Gibson

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Printed in Scotland by J. Thomson Colour Printers

Facing page: Sir Walter Scott books and manuscripts were among items lent to exhibitions in other institutions during the year.

A detailed supplement to this report may be consulted on the Library’s website (www.nls.uk) from October 2000.

National Library of Scotland George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Contents

4 Chairman’s foreword MS.23008 5 Librarian’s introduction

7 An overview

9 The national collections

17 Information and communications technology

21 The Library’s services

23 The library community

29 Exhibitions and events

32 Health and safety

33 Donors and depositors

34 Trustees and senior staff

35 Finance and statistics Chairman’s foreword

T IS A GREAT HONOUR and challenge for me to follow Lord Crawford, who retired in October 1999 after nine years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland. During this time, he deftly guided the Library through many difficult steps which have built an exciting platform for the future. IThe Library completed a major new building project, refurbished its George IV Bridge Building, and made major strides in bringing its technical infrastructure up to modern standards. Important collections as diverse as the archives of Muriel Spark and of the Stevenson engineering company were added to the holdings. Lord Crawford was tireless in his efforts on behalf of the Library and gave unstintingly of his long experience of public service. It was a matter of great regret to him that unremitting financial pressures resulted in reduced staff numbers and loss of knowledge and expertise that is hard to replace. His wise advice and calm leadership will be greatly missed by his fellow Trustees.

I am also much indebted to Lord Emslie, Vice-Chairman since 1975, for so willingly chairing the Board between Lord Crawford’s retirement and my appointment, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank him on behalf of the Board for this and all his previous services to the Library.

The next few years will be enormously challenging. The number of users of traditional print and manuscript services is already reaching the levels we were accustomed to before the refurbishment of our headquarters building disrupted reader services and led to the temporary closure of some reading rooms. We also face major challenges in developing services on digital materials, new forms of dissemination through the World Wide Web, and growing demand for life-long learning and cultural enrichment throughout Scotland. The Library’s users and its skilled and devoted staff can be assured that the Trustees will do everything possible to support them in these endeavours.

PROFESSOR MICHAEL ANDERSON

4 Librarian’s introduction

N 8 OCTOBER 1999, the Library’s George IV Bridge Building was formally re-opened by Scotland’s First Minister, Donald Dewar, after being closed to the public for eighteen months for refurbishment and essential upgrading of fire safety precautions. The closure was unavoidable, but Omeant a great deal of disruption and inconvenience for the Library’s users and staff, and I am immensely grateful for the patience that everyone displayed during the work. The end result – a building safe for readers, staff and collections and fit for its purpose in the twenty-first century – provides a secure foundation for the future development of the Library and has been well worth the trouble and expense of this multi-million pound project.

The completion of this major work has allowed us to concentrate on enhancing the services we provide to our users, whether they use the Library through its reading rooms or through its remote services. One of the most significant improvements for many years has been the introduction of the Voyager computer system, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. Voyager gives us the technical capability to integrate information about the Library’s collections with digital versions of the collections themselves, and will open a gateway to information which reaches us only in electronic form.

This development is timely. The legal deposit system, which has contributed so much to the Library over the years, is now likely to be extended so that publications in formats not covered by existing legislation can be acquired and preserved. Representatives of the legal deposit libraries and the publishing industry have recently agreed a code of voluntary deposit for some types of electronic publication, such as CD-ROMs, and the Government has indicated its intention to introduce the relevant legislation at an early date. This development will accelerate the changes necessary to transform the Library as it operates in the digital world. The work we have done in the past year illustrates our determination to achieve that transformation, while retaining the traditional values and services that have so distinguished the Library in the past.

I. D. MCGOWAN

5 6 An overview

‘Developing the HIS HAS BEEN a year of services in an age when the challenge and achievement. revolutionary potential of new Library’s buildings A major landmark in the technology is just beginning to be to meet the needs of history of the Library was realised. Tthe formal reopening of our the future is central headquarters building following the We took a major step towards improv- to our work in the completion of our £12.7m ing services for our users – both local Buildings and refurbishment programme. and remote – when we introduced Voyager, a web-based integrated Services Division’ The ceremony was performed on information system from Endeavor 8 October 1999 by Donald Dewar MSP, Information Systems Inc. Formally L INDA First Minister of Scotland, and the launched on 30 November 1999 by M ACM ILLAN • occasion was a reminder of the new Rhona Brankin MSP, Deputy Minister political circumstances in which we are for Culture and Sport, Voyager makes entering the twenty-first century, with full use of modern ICT architecture, the return of a parliament to Scotland and will allow us to develop our online heightening public awareness of the services in the twenty-first century. nation’s identity and culture. As one of Voyager was acquired jointly by the Scotland’s leading cultural institutions, National Library and Edinburgh we welcome the challenges this brings. University Library working in a cross- sectoral consortium. This is the first With the national collections protected such arrangement in Scotland, and better than ever before from the threat provides a considerable saving of public of fire, and with improved facilities for money whilst ensuring that the expertise readers, we can now turn to the of both libraries is pooled and shared. challenge of providing the best possible Another of the year’s highlights was the

Architect Linda MacMillan Antonia Reeve Moira Leggat and Buildings Officer Willie Alexander, two Photo: Photo: members of the Library’s First Minister Donald Dewar is shown Rhona Brankin MSP, Deputy Minister for Buildings and Services behind the scenes by Lord Crawford Culture and Sport, at the launch of the team, on the roof of the before formally reopening the George IV new Voyager library system. George IV Bridge Building. Bridge Building.

7 Peter Peacock MSP, Deputy Minister for Children and Education, is joined by students from Balerno High School following his launch of the educational website Churchill: the Evidence.

creation of an educational website incorporating teaching materials targeted at the needs of Scottish schools. Created with support from the MacRobert Trusts, the site was designed initially to complement our major summer exhibition on Sir Winston Churchill and proved an immediate success: it featured in Computer Active magazine’s fortnightly ‘six of the best’ selection, and shortly after its launch was nominated ‘site of the day’ by UK Plus search directory.

The tenth anniversary of the Scottish Science Library – a department of the National Library of Scotland – was formally marked on 16 February 2000 with a public lecture by Nicol Stephen MSP, Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning. In his talk Information and the Knowledge Economy, Mr Stephen spoke of the new skills required for Scotland to achieve a vibrant economy in the twenty-first Antonia Reeve century, and praised the Scottish Science Library for its contribution. Photo: The event was organised with support from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC).

Nicol Stephen MSP, Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, delivers the Antonia Reeve Scottish Science Library

10th anniversary lecture. Photo:

8 The national collections

HE N ATIONAL L IBRARY Election poster of Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher OF S COTLAND holds the Murray Grieve), arguably world’s most comprehensive Scotland’s leading collection of books and twentieth-century literary figure and an ardent Tmanuscripts relating to Scotland and communist and the Scots. nationalist.

But it is more than a repository of things Scottish. As one of just six legal deposit libraries in the British Isles – and the only one in Scotland – we can claim a copy of every new UK or Irish publication. This privilege goes back almost 300 years and has helped to make this the largest library in Scotland and one of the leading general research libraries in the UK.

In the year under review, we acquired 237,368 legal deposit items covering an immense variety of subjects. They ranged from The Scottish Parliament: the First Days, a commemorative collection marking the new Scottish Parliament, to Tajikistan, a Human Rights Watch publication on the threats to freedom of expression in the former Soviet republic. The sciences and social legal deposit varies not only in subject sciences were covered by publications but also in format, as books, like Genomics, Healthcare and Public newspapers, journals, maps and music Policy, a collection of conference continue to enrich the national papers, while Professor Priscilla collections. The use of this bank of Bawcutt’s new two-volume edition of knowledge is not confined to academic William Dunbar represented the more researchers, but includes access by academic side of the arts. Less serious, enquirers from business and the but nevertheless offering a distinct creative industries, as well as local perspective on current social historians, genealogists, and other preoccupations, was Heart-Throb, a members of the public. Mills and Boon medical romance which touches on issues like single The legal deposit privilege is of motherhood and the difficulties women immense value to us, but it covers only face in getting back into the workplace. new British and Irish publications. New foreign publications and antiquarian The material that comes to us through books fall outside the scope of legal

9 The only known complete deposit, and generally have to be copy of the rare 1804

edition of Burns’s The RB.s.2046 bought, although some reach us as gifts Merry Muses. from friends and supporters at home and abroad.

Dr W. R. Aitken was not only the editor and bibliographer of Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve), but also a lifelong friend. On his death, he bequeathed to the Library his printed and manuscript collection of MacDiarmid material, which includes over 100 rare books, ephemera, and photographs, as well as editorial work on MacDiarmid’s Trade catalogues like this Complete Poems (1978). 1921 Bertram’s example give detailed information about Scotland’s industrial An interesting purchase – obtained history. from a German dealer – was the only complete copy of the second earliest edition known of The Merry Muses, the S8.200.0102 infamous series of bawdy songs collected by Robert Burns. It was produced in Dublin around 1804. We also purchased a previously unknown issue of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It uses unbound sheets from the first edition, published in Edinburgh in 1771, but has new prefatory material and bears a London 1773 imprint. A trade catalogue from the Edinburgh engineering firm Bertrams provides a fascinating insight into the paper-making industry at the start of the twentieth century. Produced in 1921 to mark the company’s centenary, the Illustrated Catalogue of The embossed lettering of Paper-Making Machinery contains Essaies sur l’éducation des aveugles (1786), now part RB.m.442 particularly splendid illustrations of of the Library’s extensive paper- and pulp-making machines. collection of books for the blind. The Library has strong holdings of books for the blind, and a welcome addition came with the purchase of our earliest book for the blind to use embossed printing. Essaies sur l’éducation des aveugles, published in Paris in 1786, used a system conceived by Valentin Haüy that is a precursor of present-day Braille.

10 Two other purchases illustrate the work The first emblem book by a Scottish author, George of Scots abroad. A Paris 1559 edition of RB.s.2045 Chalmers’s Emblemata Dominique Jacquinot’s L’Usage de amatoria, published in l’astrolabe was bought because it Venice in 1627. contains the rare second edition of the Amplification de l’usage de l’astrolabe by the influential Scots astronomer James Bassentin, who lived and worked in France. Mary Queen of Scots had ‘The Astrologie off Bassentyne’ among her books in 1569. Emblemata amatoria Georgii Camerii, published in Venice in 1627, is the first emblem book by a Scottish author and was the work of George Chalmers, a Catholic exile from Scotland.

We also continued to enhance our stock of standard reference works with New additions to the Library’s extensive North modern purchases, including the American collections. Bibliography of American Literature on CD-ROM, a comprehensive listing of the literary works of nearly 300 significant American writers from the Revolution to 1930.

We added several artists’ books of high quality to the Library’s growing collection of works in this genre. Worthy of particular mention are The

Green Woman, the second collaboration A welcome addition to between artist Caroline Saltzwedel and our collection of artists’ books. The Green Woman a Scottish poet, in this case Kathleen is the product of Jamie, and Low Land, a hand-made collaboration between volume of poems and prints by mother artist Caroline Saltzwedel and poet Kathleen Jamie. and daughter Dorcas and Eleanor Symms celebrating the landscapes of the Scottish Borders. FB.m.600

An interesting addition to the Library’s holdings of material on the early history of America was Remembering Slavery, a work including audio-tapes of interviews with former slaves. The recordings were originally made in the early 1930s by interviewers from the US Federal Writers’ Project, and later remastered by the Smithsonian Institution.

11 ‘Our huge collections of newspapers, magazines, and other serials are a rich source of information for readers’ J OSE A RANGO •

Jose Arango (right) and James Ripley of the Serials Unit. The Library takes some 25,000 current newspapers and journals, most of them obtained through our valuable legal deposit privilege.

12 Manuscript acquisitions A collection of letters from Lord Kelvin The Library made important additions to his instrument-makers gives an to its rich manuscript collections. insight into Scotland’s contribution to the development of modern science. With the help of the Friends of the Kelvin was Professor of Natural National Libraries, we were able to buy Philosophy at Glasgow University from a set of papers assembled by Sir John 1846 to 1889, and is associated with Cope in defence of his conduct at the many major advances in physics. battle of Prestonpans, immortalised in the song ‘Hey Johnnie Cope…’. As always, the world of literature was The papers of Alexander L. Bruce, well represented. We acquired papers son-in-law of explorer David of the poet and critic Tom Leonard and Livingstone, made an interesting the writer and broadcaster Maurice deposit. Bruce was a leading figure in Lindsay, and with the assistance of the various imperial and humanitarian Friends of the National Libraries we movements in the 1890s, including the bought the papers of poet and critic African Lakes Company. Tom Scott, who died in 1995. Acc.11771

Sir John Cope’s papers defending his actions at the battle of Prestonpans, where his army was routed by the Jacobites.

Letters of the nineteenth- century physicist and

entrepreneur Lord Kelvin. Acc.11793 Acc.11777

Papers of Alexander Bruce, son-in-law of the explorer David Livingstone.

13 Acc.11801 Steven Gough Image:

Part of the collection of manuscripts bequeathed by Doris Ann Goodchild.

We also bought a volume of forty-three

letters by John Buchan (Lord Tweeds- Acc.11765 muir), perhaps best known as the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, but also a statesman of considerable note. The letters relate to his period as Governor General of Canada, and consist of communications with George V, Edward VIII, and George VI.

Undoubtedly the most visually outstanding manuscript acquisition of the year was the collection of unpublished travel diaries and book manuscripts bequeathed to the Library by Doris Ann Goodchild, who died recently at the age of 93. Miss Goodchild had a passion for calligraphy and illustration, and wrote, designed, sixteenth-century calligrapher Esther Political papers deposited by the Scottish Liberal Democrats. and illustrated her own books, many of Inglis, purchased with support from the them guidebooks and travel books. Her Reid Fund and the National Art diaries are even more exuberant than Collections Fund. her published books and bring a wealth of colour to our collections. A close rival Modern politics were represented by in visual attraction is a new addition to papers deposited by the Scottish our collection of the work of the Liberal Democrats.

14 Map acquisitions Changes in legal deposit Among the year’s purchases, two in The legal deposit system is a cost- particular stand out. The first was of effective way of building national Steve McAvoy

maps of three different part of Scotland reference collections, but its Photo: published by Valk and Schenk in shortcomings and deficiencies are now Amsterdam around 1690. These maps widely acknowledged. Following the fill an important gap in the history of publication of the Kenny Report in the mapping of Scotland, and their 1998, the Government accepted the origins can be traced back, through need for legislation to create a national Blaeu and others, to the surveys carried archive of non-print publications, but out by Timothy Pont a century before. proposed reliance on voluntary The second notable purchase was A measures in the interim. A small group New Map of Ireland… for the use of of UK librarians and publishers has now Travellers (1793), our first acquisition of drawn up a code of practice for the deposit libraries, has set up a group to the work of Scots surveyor Lieutenant voluntary deposit of new media, and explore the issues surrounding the Alexander Taylor who worked in Ireland the Government has accepted its future handling of publications in from 1777. We also acquired – this recommendations. purely electronic form. Work has also time by legal deposit – the ‘Millennium begun to find ways of establishing the Edition’ of The Times Comprehensive The new voluntary arrangement came secure network required to give Atlas of the World, to which we had into operation in January 2000, and appropriate access to the materials ourselves contributed two illustrations. marks the first phase in the extension of deposited under the voluntary legal deposit to electronic and other agreement. Above right: The Steering Committee of the Copyright non-print publications. At present, only Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme on its visit to Edinburgh. ‘tangible’ non-print material (including The Library continued to play an active CD-ROMs and DVDs) is covered, but Below: Scots surveyor Alexander Taylor’s role in the Standing Committee on map of Ireland (1793). the Library, together with other legal Legal Deposit (SCOLD), which co- ordinates the legal deposit policies of

EMI.b the six UK and Irish deposit libraries. Particular attention is being given to the scope for co-ordinating the acquisition of publications produced by government and other official bodies. The Library also joined its fellow deposit libraries in taking a stand at the London Book Fair (19-21 March 1999) in order to promote the value of the legal deposit privilege in maintaining the national archive of published materials.

The Library participates in the Copyright Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme (CLSCP), which shares the responsibility for providing records for the current publishing output of the UK and Ireland. The CLSCP provides real benefits for all the participating libraries, and we were pleased to host a meeting of the Steering Committee in November 1999. A major focus of the CLSCP in the course of the year was its possible expansion to cover journals and other periodicals.

15 16 Information and communications technology

‘The successful introduction of NFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECH- the new Voyager integrated NOLOGY (ICT) has the potential information system was one of to enhance and expand our Iservices in ways not dreamed of just a the year’s major achievements’ few years ago. We are committed to making maximum use of ICT, and the I AIN A NDERSON • year saw significant progress in our exploitation of its potential, but the need to maintain existing services at the same time inevitably constrains our ambitions.

The outstanding achievement of the year was the successful introduction of Voyager, a highly sophisticated web- based integrated information system from Endeavor Information Systems Inc. of Illinois.

In the first cross-sectoral consortium of its kind in Scotland, the Library teamed up with Edinburgh University Library to acquire Voyager. This enables both libraries to provide a wide range of services to their combined users and to share the costs of hardware, software, maintenance and development.

The system supports co-operation between libraries, and the National Library of Scotland/Edinburgh University Library consortium is already hosting other libraries, including the Signet Library and the Scottish College of Agriculture. Plans are in hand to host the data of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh College of Art.

Iain Anderson, the Library’s Computer Services Manager (left), with Tony Weir, UNIX Systems Manager at Edinburgh University Computing Services. The Library and Edinburgh University operate the Voyager system on a highly efficient consortial basis.

17 Improving access of James Kelman’s The Bus-Conductor major summer exhibition on Winston It is increasingly important that our Hines and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark; Churchill, and launched by Deputy catalogues should be available for Ursula Kimpel, German translator of Minister for Children and Education consultation over the Internet. The Liz Lochhead; and Tina Mahkota, who Peter Peacock MSP on 9 June, made retroconversion of our catalogues to is working on a translation into innovative use of web technology to electronic form has been given high Slovenian of Janice Galloway’s The Trick assist the education community. The priority, and by the end of the year 2000 is to Keep Breathing. site (www.churchill.nls.ac.uk) was only a relatively small number of created jointly by the Library and the records covering pre-1801 publications The Bibliography of the Scottish Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, will remain to be processed. We are Language (BOSLAN) records material with support from the MacRobert already looking at ways of assisting written in Scots, or relating to it. At Trusts, and combines a virtual other Scottish libraries to improve present the database records only exhibition of historical documents access to their collections by making current material acquired by the illustrating the Churchill story with a freely available the electronic records Library, but in conjunction with the special section of teaching resources we create as part of our own Scottish Language Resource Association specifically designed for use in the programme. We have also been we now hope to appoint a researcher to Scottish classroom. These include formalising cataloguing policies for conduct a survey of the work required materials aimed at pupils of all ages, electronic publications, and will make to add older material. including those following the new the results of our work available to the Higher Still syllabus. The site remained wider library community. The Union Catalogue of Art Books in ‘live’ after the exhibition closed, and it Libraries in Scotland (UCABLIS) continues to attract a growing number We continued to develop Bibliography covers books on subjects ranging from of visitors from both Scotland and of Scotland, the world’s most complete the decorative and fine arts to abroad. listing of modern publications on architecture, photography, and design. Scotland and the Scots. This product is To maximise the efficiency of this Digitisation available both on CD-ROM and product, we have been discussing the The library of the future will be a through the Library’s website, and is convergence of cataloguing standards hybrid library which combines unique in listing not only relevant books with libraries that contribute details of conventional print resources with digital and periodicals, wherever published, but their collections, and a UCABLIS materials that can be consulted both in also major articles and book chapters. representative has joined the group set the library and remotely. During the up by the Co-operative Academic year, we continued with the work of Since 1994, the Bibliography of Scottish Information Retrieval Network for preparing the Library for its eventual Literature in Translation project Scotland (CAIRNS) to look at transformation into such a hybrid (BOSLIT) has been compiling an online cataloguing standards in the context of library. database of translations of Scottish cross-searching different institutions’ writing, and has so far recorded over catalogues. The temporary appointment of a 21,000 translations into more than 100 Digitisation Research Officer allowed languages. Thanks to generous support Remote access us to assess our requirements for the from the Carnegie Trust for the The Library’s most important link with capture, storage, and retrieval of digital Universities of Scotland, coverage of the the wider world is its website, images. twentieth century has been completed, www.nls.uk. Through it, researchers and now further funding, from the Arts worldwide can find out about our At the same time, in partnership with and Humanities Research Board, will services and collections, and can view a the National Archives of Scotland and allow work on pre-1901 material to small range of items from our holdings. the Scottish Cultural Resources Access be continued for a further year. On Use of the website grew steadily, with Network (SCRAN), we sought support 19 November 1999, to mark the the monthly number of user sessions from the New Opportunities Fund for a project’s fifth anniversary, BOSLIT increasing to 30,000 in the course of the collaborative project for the digitisation held a conference on the problems year. We already have plans to enhance of learning materials in libraries and and possibilities of translating modern and enlarge the site, and will shortly archives throughout Scotland. If our Scottish literature. Contributors introduce information aimed application is successful, the project will included award-winning novelist Ian specifically at library professionals. in effect provide content for the Rankin and his Danish translator Klavs government’s Public Library Network Brøndum; Céline Schwaller, translator A website designed to coincide with our (PLN) initiative.

18 MS.21000 Jeremy Forbes Jeremy Image:

The Murthly Hours, which is Just three of the fourteen being made available as a digital political websites ‘captured’ at facsimile to accompany the the election of the new Scottish launch of a new study of the Parliament. manuscript.

Our internal digitisation projects occasion by taking a ‘snapshot’ of all Preparatory work for the project was included digitising one of our great fourteen participating parties’ websites. carried out over several months, and mediaeval treasures, the Murthly In years to come, they will offer a digitisation will begin in the coming Hours, in preparation for mounting a unique perspective on a pivotal moment year. digital ‘facsimile’ on our website and in the nation’s history. producing a CD-ROM version for Under a £46k agreement with Bell & inclusion with a book on the Murthly There is a trend for institutions to Howell, we have begun to microfilm Hours that we are publishing in collaborate in cross-sectoral exercises 2,350 pre-1701 printed items from our association with the British Library. aimed at creating digital resources. The collections. Thanks to this collaboration, The first detailed maps of Scotland, Library is a partner is the £250,000 some of our most prized Scottish made in the late sixteenth century by ‘Charting the Nation’ project funded holdings – most of them unique or Timothy Pont, were digitised to a through the Research Support Libraries extremely rare – will be made available higher resolution than previously. The Programme (RSLP), an initiative of the to a wider public not only through Bell compressed digital images will be UK’s higher education funding councils, & Howell’s microfilm series, but also mounted on a mini-website, allowing with additional support from the through a digital version created from remote users to view the maps in Scottish Cultural Resources Access the microfilm. The Library will retain greater detail than ever before. Network (SCRAN). ‘Charting the microfilm and digital copies of the Nation’ will digitise maps of Scotland items processed, allowing us to protect At the time of the Scottish Parliament for the period 1590 to 1740, together the rare originals from unnecessary election of 6 May 1999 we marked the with related archival material. handling in the future.

19 18 The Library’s services

‘The Library offers a rich HE MAIN READING ROOMS in our headquarters and varied window on the building on George IV world, past and present’ Bridge reopened at the end Tof March 1999.

J ENNIFER S TUBBS • The refurbished public areas are helping staff to provide an improved service in a high quality environment which caters for the technical needs of today’s readers. We have doubled provision for readers to use their own laptop computers, and the number of access points to our online catalogues has increased by a third.

Our new Voyager library computer system went live on 21 September. The new web-based catalogue is easier to use than its predecessor and offers more sophisticated search strategies, and the terminals also give readers access to general web resources.

We have also made significant changes in staffing arrangements. From September 1999, staff in charge of the main public service areas moved to a shift system, and from April 2000 we are introducing a full shift system for all Reference Services staff in the George IV Bridge Building. The Library is open to the public for 58 hours each week, and the new arrangements will ensure a uniformly high level of services throughout those hours.

In an important Library-wide initiative, we set up a Special Needs Action Group (SNAG) to identify the Jennifer Stubbs of the Map Library with requirements of disabled users and take reader Ian Davie of DLM Partnership, action to ensure those needs are met. mining consultants and surveyors. The Map Library serves a wide public, from The group consulted widely before amateur family historians to the rising acquiring a range of equipment to help number of professionals who need reliable cartographic information. with mobility and visual problems.

21 The introduction of Voyager has The Scottish Science Library allowed us to begin work in earnest on The Scottish Science Library celebrated computerising our Map Library ten years of service to the scientific and catalogues. Following the appointment business community with a public of a dedicated cataloguer, all newly lecture entitled Information and the acquired maps are now recorded in the Knowledge Economy, delivered on automated catalogue. 16 February by Nicol Stephen MSP, Deputy Minister for Enterprise and We have also nearly completed work on Lifelong Learning. The Map Library the National Grid Database, which The Map Library holds more than 1.6 records the Library’s holdings of large- The Library, and its Scottish Business million maps covering almost every part scale Ordnance Survey paper maps of Information Service wing (SCOTBIS), of the world, and is the largest UK Scotland from the 1940s to the 1990s. continued to fulfil a national role library of its kind north of Cambridge. providing scientific and business It issues more than 40,000 maps a year In previous years, the Library was one information through its reading room to a wide range of users, from private of just two UK sites chosen to test the and its services for remote users. individuals researching local or family provision of large-scale Ordnance Its free enquiry services continued to history to members of the academic and Survey digital mapping to the public. In operate in tandem with its fee-based business communities. the year under review, we became the desk research and current awareness first UK library to offer full access to services. Document delivery remained a digital maps of the country at large high priority, with the photocopying, scale (1:1,250 to 1:10,000) following an inter-library loan, and database agreement between the legal deposit downloading and print-out services libraries and the Ordnance Survey on much in demand. Tam Burke of the Map Library views one the public provision and future of the Ordnance Survey digital maps now available to readers. archiving of this digital material. The Science Library was the first department of the National Library to offer its users full access to the web, and it has now developed seminars to help users get the maximum benefit from web sources. An Internet workshop was organised as part of the Edinburgh Festival of the Environment in September 1999, and other seminars were run throughout the year, including three in March 2000 as part of National Science Week. Staff have compiled printed guides to web-based sources for a number of topical subjects, including genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

In January 2000, the Science Library launched SSL Inform, targeted at scientific and business users. The newsletter was well received and its guide to web sources was singled out for particular praise.

22 The library community

IBRARIES are co-operative by Library on co-ordinating the purchase participating libraries are being updated nature, but the explosive advance of early printed books. Staff also in a programme co-ordinated by the of technology in recent provided advice to two external National Library; the research-level years has made it possible to cataloguing projects. The first is a collections of new universities and other Lshare resources and expertise on a scale project to catalogue the historic higher education institutions are being previously unimaginable, to the benefit collections of Bowhill House near added to the database; and SCONE is of readers as well as institutions. As Selkirk, using volunteers from the studying the feasibility of including Scotland’s largest library, the National National Association of Decorative and information on holdings in public Library of Scotland plays an active role Fine Arts Society (NADFAS), and the libraries. in the national and international library second is a Heritage Lottery-funded community. project to catalogue Innerpeffray One of SCURL’s key projects is the Co- Library, Perthshire, which dates from operative Academic Information Dr Alan Marchbank, our Director of 1680 and is the oldest free lending Retrieval Network for Scotland Public Services, and Fred Guy, Director library in the country. (CAIRNS). CAIRNS is aimed at of Information and Communications allowing catalogues from several Technology, both served on the SCURL projects libraries to be consulted online as if organising committee for Information The Scottish Confederation of they were a single catalogue, and is for Scotland VI. Held on 11 November University and Research Libraries currently examining the minimum 1999, this was the sixth in a series of (SCURL), which is constituted as a sub- cataloguing standards for reliable cross- annual conferences exploring issues of committee of our Board of Trustees, searching. concern to librarians and information provides a discussion forum for Scottish providers throughout Scotland. university and research libraries and If a distributed national research promotes co-operation on projects collection is to operate well, libraries Co-ordinating collecting policies which will improve services to users. must co-ordinate their policies on The investigation of the collecting With the number and range of issues retaining and preserving material, and policies of local libraries throughout which it tackles continuing to increase, this is the issue under consideration by Scotland, set up by the Library and the SCURL sought funding for a project SCURL’s Shared Preservation in Scottish Library and Information officer to co-ordinate projects and to Scotland programme (SPIS), funded by Council (SLIC), has now been raise funds for its work. the Scottish Higher Education Funding completed. Its findings will be Council (SHEFC) with contributions published by SLIC in A National SCURL made a successful application from non SHEFC-funded members. A Strategy for Scottish Materials, and will to the Funding Councils’ Research report on the obligations of libraries in inform the debate on the best way of Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) co-operative programmes was produced achieving the maximum coverage of for its Scottish Collections Network by Dr Janet Gertz of Columbia Scottish material right across Scotland. Extension project (SCONE). SCONE University, New York, and its findings The Library and SLIC have accepted will create a Scotland-wide information were accepted by Scottish library and the findings of the report and are resource which brings together preservation specialists. Thanks to considering the best way forward. The SCURL’s existing initiatives and allows funding from the Library and issue will be explored in a national further progress towards a national Information Council (now the setting at a seminar planned for electronic library. One of the first tasks Museums, Libraries and Archives June 2000. being tackled by the new team is the Commission), a project worker was development of the Research appointed to consider how to apply the Our Rare Books Division has been Collections Online database. The Gertz report’s findings to a shared engaged in discussions with the British existing collecting responsibilities of system of collecting in Scotland.

23 ‘Feedback from users of our foreign collections is extremely valuable’

C HRIS T AYLOR •

24 Chris Taylor of Collection Development Another important SCURL initiative is (right) with Dr Carlo Caruso, lecturer in Italian at the University of St Andrews. the Scottish Datasets Project, which is Moira Leggat Collection Development is responsible for looking at ways of making important building and promoting the Library’s datasets relating to Scotland available Photo: collection of overseas books. online. The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland awarded its maximum grant of £30,000 so that optical character recognition (OCR) can be applied to existing digitised images of the first and second editions of The Statistical Account of Scotland, making the text of these enormously valuable reference works fully searchable. Work The Librarian, Ian McGowan (right), and Director of ICT, Fred Guy (left), welcome on making the digitised images visitors from the Russian State Library themselves available online is being and the Russian National Library. funded by a grant of £25,000 from the Content Working Group (CWG) of the Committee on Electronic Information (CEI). On 18 November 1999 the project is funded by the EU’s Technical Library joined other interested parties – Assistance to the Commonwealth of Edinburgh Data Information Access Independent States programme (EDINA), the National Archives of (TACIS), and our partners in the Scotland, the Royal Society of venture include the British Council and Edinburgh, and the Scottish Higher Jouve SA of France. Despite the Education Funding Council – in problems posed by the sheer size of the organising a symposium on digitisation project (the Russian Library, with over issues, ‘Making Information Available in 42 million books, is Europe’s largest), it Digital Format’. made good progress. Library staff were closely involved in drawing up the International developments software specification and in evaluating Dr Ann Matheson, our Director of tenders. Our Director of ICT, Fred General Collections, continued as Guy, and Computer Services Manager, General Secretary of the Ligue des Iain Anderson, will travel to Moscow to bibliothèques européennes de assist in the implementation of the recherche (LIBER), with Chris Fleet of selected system. our Map Library acting as secretary for its Groupe des Cartothécaires. Libraries As a consequence of the TACIS project, from central and eastern Europe are seven senior members of staff from the being helped to join LIBER with Russian State Library, together with the funding secured from OCLC, one of Director of the Russian National the largest suppliers of bibliographical Library, St Petersburg, paid a two-day services in the world. This year, LIBER fact-finding visit to the National Library and the OCLC Institute have been co- of Scotland on 27 and 28 October. operating on a project to identify the A further Russian link was forged when most important strategic issues for our Librarian, Ian McGowan, accepted libraries over the next five years – an invitation to join the International mirroring a similar exercise already Advisory Board for the State Library of carried out in the USA. Foreign Literature in Moscow.

The Library is a member of a Mr McGowan was also appointed chair consortium helping the Russian State of the organising committee for IFLA’s Library in Moscow to select and install annual conference in 2002. IFLA, the an information system. The £700,000 International Federation of Library

25 Associations and Institutions, was visited the Division during the year founded in Edinburgh in 1927 and will were the Director of Conservation at be returning to Scotland for its 75th the National Library of Portugal, the anniversary. National Library of Wales’s Preservation Development Officer, a representative In September, a party of 40 Hungarian of the Okinawa Prefectural Archives, librarians from the National Széchényi the Head of Manuscripts and the Head Library, Budapest, paid us an intensive of Preservation from the National 3-day visit during which they toured Library of Prague, a Business departments and received presentations Development Analyst from the National on various aspects of our services. Two Visitors from the National Széchényi Library, Budapest. Library of New Zealand, and a members of our own staff went on fact- representative of the Bodleian Library, National Library of Scotland Librarian Ian McGowan finding visits overseas. Dr Kevin Oxford. The Division also offered an (centre) with William Walker of New York Public Library Halliwell, who has responsibility for our and James Michalko, President of the Research Libraries internship to a student from the North American collections, visited Group (left), at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the RLG in European School of Book Conservation the Getty Center, Los Angeles. Canada in October, while Chris Taylor, and Restoration in Spoleto, Italy. curator of French and Italian collections, travelled to Italy in March. The Preservation Division was pleased Hilary Hannon to make available its expertise to others. Photo: Business and science In particular, our knowledge of the In March 2000, the Scottish Science digital manipulation of images allowed Library convened a meeting of science us to help both the Special Collections information providers from throughout Department at Glasgow University and Scotland to explore matters of common a small Borders church. In the case of concern. Staff also held discussions with the University, digital enhancement Mark Ramsden the Business Shop Network to examine (right), whose techniques were applied to clarify a binding of From palimpsest in a fourteenth-century

the potential for collaboration on the Mark Jackson Rebel to Hero won provision of business information in manuscript of John Gower’s Vox Photo: the 1999 National Scotland. Library of Scotland Clamantis, while similar techniques Elizabeth Soutar made it possible to read again a faded Craft Bookbinding We encouraged outside bodies to tour Competition. First World War roll of honour in the Science Library, and our visitors With him is Robert Teviothead Church. We also gave advice Clyde, author of included the Industrial and Commercial to Aberdeen University Library on the the book. Librarians Group, business and science establishment of a binding preparation subject specialists from university and system linked to computerised lettering public libraries, and staff from business archives, the Library acted as a test-bed equipment. shops, chambers of commerce, and a for the proposed methodology. With range of public bodies. Staff from the continued funding from the British Within the Library itself, a major Library also visited organisations Library, and managed by the National activity was the treatment of over 4,000 throughout Scotland to cement links Preservation Office, this pilot project photographs of the First World War, and promote our science and business surveyed some 400 items from our which form part of the collection of services. collections in the period January to Earl Haig, British Commander-in-Chief April 1999. We were also represented on the Western Front. Preservation on the National Preservation Office’s The Library’s Preservation Division has Microfilm Working Group, which The Scottish Newspapers Microfilming a prominent role in the national and worked on a revision of the Mellon Unit (SNMU) is housed in the Library international scene. microfilming manual that sets and managed jointly by us and the international standards for microfilming Scottish Library and Information As part of our involvement in the projects. Council (SLIC). In recent years, the British Library Research and Unit has extended its remit beyond Innovation Centre’s project to develop a The high profile of our Preservation microfilming newspapers to strict methodology for surveying the Division attracts specialists from home archival standards. As well as preservation needs of libraries and and abroad, and among those who diversifying into the microfilming of

26 First World War hospital allows copies of publications to be train. One of the 4,000 war photographs supplied electronically – potentially a Jeremy Forbes Jeremy conserved by our quick and easy way of supplying

Image: Preservation Division. material, particularly to overseas libraries. We hope to launch a full electronic delivery service using Ariel in the coming year.

The Scottish Union Catalogue (SUC) is central to the Division’s work, since it holds details of books held by libraries throughout Scotland. The automated part of the SUC is included in Unity, a UK-wide database which was significantly disrupted in 1998-99 after the collapse of the software company responsible for it. Following the acquisition of the Unity system by Talis Information Ltd (formerly BLCMP), Unity returned to full operation. Under a development plan agreed by Talis, Inter-Library Services, and the seven other UK regional library systems involved with Unity, the service will become an Internet-based subscription Acc.3155/Photograph L485 system early in 2001. general archive materials for clients sector. With some 1,100 deteriorating throughout the UK, it has increasingly newspaper titles in urgent need of Throughout the year, Inter-Library focused on digitisation. In the year saving, Scotland is one of ten Services organised meetings and under review staff worked on a five-year NEWSPLAN regions that will benefit seminars to facilitate the exchange of business plan and explored with from the project, and we shall shortly information on document supply. Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise be organising a seminar to explain to Regional Interlending Meetings were Limited (LEEL) possible collaboration Scottish librarians the significance of held in Perth in June 1999 and in on training and the development of e- the Lottery award. Paisley in March 2000, attracting commerce. We also explored the delegates from twenty-five libraries of feasibility of providing microfilm to Inter-Library Services all types. In September 1999 we Preservation Resources, the Our Inter-Library Services Division is at teamed up with the Forum for preservation arm of bibliographical the heart of the inter-library loan and Interlending to hold a Scottish Inter- services giant OCLC. document delivery service in Scotland. Library Lending event at which the It helps to identify and locate books British Library Document Supply The Library is closely involved in anywhere in Scotland, and, where Centre was also represented. And in NEWSPLAN, a co-operative appropriate, can also supply material March 2000 we hosted an open meeting programme for the preservation of local from its own collections. More for interlending professionals to explore newspapers by microfilming them to generally, it keeps libraries informed of the implications of major changes in the archival standard. Under the developments in document supply and British Library Document Supply chairmanship of Dr Ann Matheson, our acts as a central co-ordinator for co- Centre’s charging levels and Director of General Collections, the operative activities involving Scottish procedures. A very positive result of this Library and Information Co-operation libraries of all kinds. meeting has been the establishment – Council’s NEWSPLAN Panel last year in conjunction with the Scottish Library secured a £5 million award from the Digital technology is set to play an and Information Council (SLIC) – of an Heritage Lottery Fund and a further increasingly important role in document Interlending Focus Group to review the £2.5 million from the newspaper supply. We have been continuing to Scottish dimension of interlending in industry, suppliers, and the library evaluate the use of Ariel software which the light of these changes.

27 ‘Helping the general public understand our history and culture is an enjoyable challenge’

J ACQUELINE C ROMARTY •

Deputy Head of Public Programmes Jacqueline Cromarty at work on the Library’s Churchill exhibition with Allen Packwood of the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge. Exhibitions, publications, and web- based products act as bridges between the Library and the public at large.

28 Exhibitions and events

HE CULTURAL and Captured Shadows, our exhibition professional responsibilities featuring Edinburgh-born John of the National Library of Thomson, one of the most important Jack Crombie Scotland extend far beyond photographers of the nineteenth Photo: Tits readers, and far beyond Edinburgh, century, completed an extensive tour and one of the ways in which we fulfil with a showing in Denmark’s leading them is through exhibitions and events. museum of photography, Museet for Fotokunst in Odense, from August to The highlight of the year was our major October. summer exhibition, Churchill: the Evidence, launched by Churchill’s A new exhibition created specifically for daughter, Lady Soames, on Saturday touring was The Darien Adventure, an 5 June. Created jointly by the Library account of the attempt to set up a and the Churchill Archives Centre, Scottish colony in Central America. Ian McGowan, Librarian, Jacqueline Cromarty, Deputy Cambridge, it proved to be one of our Many historians believe that it was the Head of Public Programmes, and Alison Turton, Archivist most successful exhibitions ever. failure of this venture that precipitated at the Royal Bank of Scotland, at the launch of The Darien Adventure, which was supported by the Bank. the union of Scotland and England in Equally successful were the Churchill 1707. The Darien Adventure was projects and events that we organised created in association with the National around the main exhibition. A website Archives of Scotland and with financial combining a ‘virtual exhibition’ on support from the Royal Bank of Churchill and teaching materials Scotland. Following its launch on 4 specifically targeted at Scottish schools June, in the Bank’s Edinburgh was launched by Peter Peacock MSP, headquarters, it went on to eleven other Deputy Minister for Children and venues. Education, on 9 June, and has proved to be of value to professional and The new Darien Adventure and private researchers all around the Churchill touring exhibitions joined world. It was created with support from four exhibitions already on the road. the MacRobert Trusts. George Mackay Brown, featuring the Captured Shadows on show at Museet for Fotokunst, world-famous Orkney poet and writer, Odense. A travelling exhibition created with visited eleven venues across Scotland in support from the Gannochy Trust set the course of the year. Naomi thinker who was until recently Professor off from Edinburgh on the same day, Mitchison, celebrating the career of the of Twentieth-Century Poetics at the and by the end of the year had visited remarkable writer and campaigner, and Sorbonne, went on display for a month six venues, ranging from the A. K. Bell created with support from The Post in Edinburgh College of Art, while a Library at Perth to the Fleet Air Arm Office, completed its tour with a visit to French version of the same exhibition Museum in Somerset. The package was four venues. Alasdair Gray, a glorious continued to tour in France. completed by a series of five lectures, celebration of the Glasgow-based artist organised partly in association with the and writer best known for his ground- The Library was also pleased to host a Edinburgh International Book Festival, breaking novel Lanark, finished its tour travelling display marking Pushkin’s with Lady Soames and Celia Sandys, with showings at Edinburgh and bicentenary. It went on show in Churchill’s granddaughter, among those Dunfermline. Kenneth White, an December and January and provided taking part. exhibition on the Scots-born writer and the focal point for a meeting of the

29 Scottish Branch of the Britain-Russia kenneth Abbey (1535) and another Scotland included Sir Walter Scott’s Centre on 14 December. from Scone Abbey (fifteenth to portable writing desk and the sixteenth century), as well as a prayer manuscript of his first novel, Waverley. We also lent many important items book probably written for Robert from our collections to other Blackadder, Archbishop of Glasgow, Amongst the mediaeval religious exhibitions, and continued our support who died in 1508. We also lent the manuscripts which went to Edinburgh’s of the new Museum of Scotland with Museum the only known manuscript City Art Centre for its millennium major loans from our manuscript copy of The Wallace, Blind Harry’s epic exhibition Light of the World: Christ’s collections. In the first half of the year, poem of the 1470s. This poem created Story told through Art were a prayer a loan of outstanding ecclesiastical the Wallace legend that found its most book made in the Netherlands around works went on display in the Museum’s recent expression in the film 1498 for James Brown, Dean of mediaeval church gallery, among them Braveheart. Aberdeen, and the finely-illuminated the richly illuminated Murthly Hours of Talbot Hours. Other loans went to the around 1310 and the fifteenth-century Another of our treasures, one of the National Galleries of Scotland for their Culross Hours and Aberdeen Psalter. two earliest surviving manuscripts of exhibition on Scotland and India, The Later in the year, these exhibits were The Brus, John Barbour’s fourteenth- Tiger and the Thistle, and for From replaced by a cartulary from Cambus- century verse epic celebrating the Pencil to Press: Turner and Sir Walter achievements of Robert the Bruce, Scott. The Laing Art Gallery, went to the British Library for its Newcastle-upon-Tyne, received loans Millennium Tales exhibition. of material relating to travels abroad for its exhibition Art Treasures in the One of the most unusual manuscripts North: Northern Families and the from our collections was lent to the Art Grand Tour. Gallery of Nova Scotia for its exhibition At the Great Harbour: 250 Years on the Halifax Waterfront. It was a bilingual Events prayer book of 1759, written both in the The Library’s famous Gutenberg Bible language of the Micmac people of went on show to the general public on North America and in French, and one 23 April to mark World Book Day, and of the earliest written examples of the members of staff from the Rare Books Micmac language. Division made themselves available to answer questions. Printed in Germany

MS.1900As well as collaborating with us on The Adv.MS.18.1.7 around 1455, the Gutenberg Bible is Darien Adventure, the National the first major example of a printed Archives of Scotland mounted their book as we know it, and led to the own exhibition on this critical episode printing revolution that transformed in Scotland’s history. We were delighted society. Our copy is the only one in to be able to support them with the Scotland, and is one of just twenty loan of eight significant manuscripts, intact copies that survive worldwide. including a letter containing an account of the horrendous conditions exper- The Library was a partner in the ienced by the Scottish emigrants as they international Heritage Convention, sailed for the Americas on board The ‘Museums and Cultural Identity: Unicorn. Shaping the Image of Nations’, organised by The Robert Gordon Loans made to the Scottish National University on 22-24 September 1999. Portrait Gallery included a number of A multi-disciplinary gathering of manuscripts relating to the artist international experts explored the The mediaeval Mirror of the Life of Archibald Skirving for the exhibition interpretation and presentation of Christ, lent to Edinburgh’s City Art Raeburn’s Rival: Archibald Skirving heritage assets, and was addressed by Centre for its millennium exhibition. (1749-1819). Manuscripts and objects our Director of Public Services, Dr A rare Micmac prayer book lent for lent for the exhibition O Caledonia! Sir Alan Marchbank, who spoke on display in Nova Scotia. Walter Scott and the Creation of ‘Libraries as Museums of the Mind’.

30 The public was given a rare opportunity Lady Soames – Sir Winston Churchill’s daughter – at the launch of the exhibition Churchill: the Evidence. to see behind the scenes at the refurbished George IV Bridge Building Moira Leggat on 25 September, Open Doors Day. Photo: This was the first time our headquarters

building had been opened up to the Bell Walter

public in this way, and demand for the Photo: guided tours on offer was high. Visitors were particularly impressed by the complex systems that had been put in place to protect the national collections from the threat of fire.

Throughout the year, we also welcomed visiting groups and societies, including nine parties of students studying librarianship and information science.

On 30 November – St Andrew’s Day – Sources for Studying the Past, by Professor Priscilla Bawcutt, whose edition of Dunbar’s poems won the National Library of Scotland/Saltire the 1999 Saltire Literary Awards were Sydney Wood, helps teachers make Society Research Book of the Year Award, pictured with announced at a reception in the Library. effective use of primary sources of other Saltire Award winners George Bruce (left) and The Research Book of the Year Award, evidence, such as those available in the Michel Faber. which is sponsored by the Library, went Library, and was published by the to Professor Priscilla Bawcutt of the Scottish Consultative Council on the University of Liverpool for her two- Curriculum with support from the Rab Jackson volume The Poems of William Dunbar. Library and other national institutions Photo: Veteran poet George Bruce’s Pursuit: and bodies. The book was formally Poems 1986-1998 won the Scotsman/ launched by HM Senior Chief Saltire Society Book of the Year Award, Inspector Douglas Osler. and Michel Faber’s Some Rain Must Fall won the Post Office/Saltire Society Now in its seventh year, the Library’s Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Elizabeth Soutar Craft Bookbinding Competition continued to attract The sixth Robert Louis Stevenson entrants both from the UK and from Memorial Award went to Ayrshire-born elsewhere in Europe. This year’s writer Maggie Graham, whose novel winners were announced at an award Sitting among the Eskimos will be ceremony on 25 February. The overall published in June 2000. The Award is winner was Mark Ramsden, the managed jointly by the Library and the Grimsby-based horologist, jeweller, and Scottish Arts Council, and gives Scottish bookbinder who had also carried off writers an opportunity to develop their first prize the previous year. The prize work during a two-month stay at Grez- for best student entry went to Julia Van The Gutenberg Bible on display for World Book Day. sur-Loing in France, where Robert Mechelen from Diest in Belgium. Louis Stevenson frequently stayed in the 1870s and where he met his wife The year closed with the launch on 31 Fanny. The Library was pleased to March of Special and Named Printed continue its support of the previous Collections in the National Library of and eleven of whose family collections year’s winner of the Award, Chris Scotland, a guide to the Library’s most are on long-term deposit in the Library Dolan, by hosting the launch of his new important collections of rare and and feature in the guide. The Library is novel, Ascension Day, on 23 August. valuable books – over 140 in all. The grateful to booksellers Bernard Quaritch book was launched by Lord Crawford, Ltd for supporting this publication, the On 11 November, we hosted the launch who had been Chairman of the Library’s content of which is also available on our of an important new guide for teachers. Board of Trustees until October 1999, website.

31 Other highlights of the 1999-2000 events Health and safety programme

May 1999 Rotary Ambassadorial Student Evening: overseas students from Rotary’s exchange programme visit the Library.

June 1999 Library staff take part in charity walk and cycle- ride in memory of their colleague Brian Logan. HE L IBRARY’ S joint venture minimised the cost to Proceeds go to the Macmillan Cancer Relief Fund. commitment to the safety each body and allowed delegates to of staff and visitors was establish links with fellow July 1999 once again reflected in professionals in other institutions, Group of US librarians visit the Library. Texcellent results in a British Safety and we intend to build upon this August 1999 Council independent audit. Our success by organising similar A private view of the exhibition Churchill: the headquarters building on George IV Evidence is held for Friends of the National seminars in the future. Libraries and alumni of Churchill College, Bridge and our Causewayside Cambridge. Building were examined using more Bill Jackson, our Buildings Manager, Library collaborates with the Edinburgh stringent criteria than ever before, International Book Festival to organise lectures continued to be heavily involved in on Churchill by Dr David Stafford and Lady and an audit rating of 88% was the work of the American-based Soames. awarded, placing the Library in the National Fire Protection Association, 4-star awards category. September 1999 serving as Secretary to its Committee Dansk Bibliofil-klub visits the Library to see on the Protection of Cultural items from its special collections. Another measure of our commitment Resources. We were very pleased to Celia Sandys delivers a lecture on her to safety was the accident-free record grandfather, Sir Winston Churchill, as part of welcome the Committee to Scotland the lecture programme organised by the of our major £12.7m refurbishment in August when, during its four-day Library and the Edinburgh International Book programme. No lost-time accidents visit, we were able to brief its Festival. Library hosts fact-finding visit by German were recorded during the members on the closing stages of our librarians. construction phases of these major own major fire-protection works. At a Lecture by Dr Paul Addison on ‘Churchill and works. reception held in Lennoxlove House, the Great War’. Rhona Brankin MSP, Deputy October 1999 We continue to look for ways of Minister for Culture and Sport, Swedish librarians visit the Library. benchmarking both our systems and spoke on fire prevention and the School parties from as far afield as Kinlochleven continue to visit the Churchill exhibition. performance levels against others to important role of the Library and The Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, ensure we maintain an internal Historic Scotland in this field. Cambridge, Dr Piers Brendon, delivers the quality safety provision built upon closing lecture of the Churchill lecture series. Directory of the Lithographic Printers of best value for money. Scotland 1820-1870, by David Schenck, published in association with Edinburgh In January 2000, we hosted a two-day Bibliographical Society and Oak Knoll Press of Delaware. machinery safety seminar run by specialist trainers accredited by the November 1999 Institute of Occupational Safety and Library hosts the first meeting of European users of the Voyager library system. Health (IOSH). The seminar was attended by staff responsible for January 2000 plant or machinery purchase and The Library works with the Robert Burns World Federation and the National Museums of safety and among those invited to Scotland to create a Millennium Burns Supper, attend were representatives of the attended by First Minister Donald Dewar. Edinburgh International Conference February 2000 Centre (EICC), the National Aslib, the Association for Information Galleries of Scotland, the Royal Management, holds its Annual General Meeting Botanic Garden, the Royal Blind in the Library. School, Roslin Institute, and the March 2000 Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. This Inter-Library Services and the British Library hold a one-day seminar for Scottish libraries on inter-library28 lending. Donors and depositors

We wish to thank the following individuals and organisations whose The Scotsman generosity has added to the richness of

Photo: our collections in the course of the year.

Donors A. Q. Morton The late Dr W. R. Aitken Ordnance Survey David J. S. Barrie Mrs E. Peploe Mrs J. P. Boak Miss Lorna Pike Joe Bokas Major Richard Powell Keith S. Bovey Ian Rankin Professor Roberto Bruni Scotsman Publications The Right Hon. The Lord Clinton Scottish Arts Council The Right Hon. The Earl of Crawford Miss Adèle M. Stewart and Balcarres, KT, PC Mrs Ailsa Stewart Professor Dr Horst W. Drescher Lady Thomson © Gordon Wright Photo Library Wright © Gordon Bill Dunlop Mrs Ank van Campen Photo: Lady Erskine John G. Walker Mrs Eileen Fraser Irvine Welsh Maurice Fleming Peter J. Westwood General Register Office (Scotland) Dr William Zachs Derek J. H. Glynne The late Miss D. A. Goodchild Depositors Dr Jost Hochuli Dr John W. Cairns Dr Sidney Holgate T. & T. Clark Ltd Mrs Dorothy L. Holloway Edinburgh International Festival Executors of the late Miss Katie Society Horsman Dr E. Fotheringham Robert C. Hyde Dr Alexander Hutchison Lloyd Smith Tom Leonard W. T. Johnston Photo: Dr Maurice Lindsay Mrs Sheila McGregor Ian H. MacDonald J. Ross Macphail Miss Alison MacLagan National Trust for Scotland. Ruari McLean, CBE, DSC Ms Tessa Ransford Executor of the late Caitriona and Iona Saltire Society MacLeod Mrs Heather Scott Mrs C. M. Masters Major J. K. C. Scott Trevor Morrison Scottish Liberal Democrats

Top to bottom: Doris Ann Goodchild. Tom Leonard. Tessa Ransford.

33 Trustees and senior staff

Trustees Appointed by the Faculty of Advocates Librarian and Directors Chairman The Right Hon. the Lord Emslie, Librarian and Secretary to the Board The Right Hon. the Earl of Crawford MBE, PC, LLD, FRSE of Trustees and Balcarres, KT, PC (to October Bruce Kerr, QC (to October 1999) Ian D. McGowan, BA, FRSA 1999) Angus Stewart, QC Professor Michael Anderson, OBE, MA, Malcolm G. Thomson, QC Director of Administration PhD, FBA, FRSE (from May 2000) Philip H. Brodie, QC Martin C. Graham, MA, DipLib The Hon. Lord Coulsfield (from October Vice-Chairman 1999) Director of Special Collections The Right Hon. the Lord Emslie, Murray C. T. Simpson, MA, PhDMA, MBE, PC, LLD, FRSE Appointed by the Universities ALA, LRAM (from June 1999) Ex-officio Professor Michael Anderson, OBE, MA, The Lord President of the Court of PhD, FBA, FRSE (to May 1999) Director of Information and Session Professor Graham D. Caie, MA, PhD Communications Technology The Lord Advocate Ivor G. Lloyd, BA, DipLib, MLib, ALA R. Fred Guy, BA, MA, DipLib, ALA, MIInfSc The Secretary of State for Scotland Colin A. McLaren, BA, MPhil, FSAScot (to (to July 1999) August 1999) Director of General Collections A Member of the Scottish Executive Ann Matheson, OBE, MA, MLitt, PhD, DLitt (from July 1999) Appointed by the Convention of The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates Scottish Local Authorities Director of Public Services The Minister of the High Kirk (St Councillor Elizabeth Maginnis (to Alan M. Marchbank, MA, PhD Giles’), Edinburgh September 1999) The Member of Parliament for the Councillor Bill Lamb (from September Central Division of the City of 1999) Edinburgh (to July 1999) The Member of the Scottish Parliament Co-opted for Edinburgh Central Lady Dunnett, OBE (from July 1999) Professor A. John Forty, CBE, PhD, DSc, The Crown Agent FRSE, FRSA The Lord Provost of Edinburgh Ian MacDougall, MA, MUniv The Lord Provost of Glasgow Michael F. Strachan, CBE, FRSE The Lord Provost of Dundee The Lord Provost of Aberdeen

Appointed by the Crown The Right Hon. the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, KT, PC (to October 1999) Professor Kathleen J. Anderson, OBE, PhD, CBiol, FIBiol, CChem, FRSC, FRSE Professor Michael Anderson, OBE, MA, PhD, FBA, FRSE (from May 2000) Jack Dale, MA, BD, STM Ruari McLean, CBE, DSC John M. Menzies (to October 1999)

34 Finance and statistics

HE N ATIONAL L IBRARY Statement of financial activity 1999-2000 1998-99 OF S COTLAND is a Non- £000s £000s TDepartmental Public Body INCOMING RESOURCES which in 1999-2000 was grant-aided by Grant-in-Aid 11,795 11,782 the Scottish Executive Education Net income from revenue-earning activities 22 25 Department. Grant-in-Aid applied to Gross income from grant-aided activities 24 13 the Library’s running costs amounted to Interest received 54 81 £10,837,000 for the year to 31 March Endowment income 13 11 2000. In addition, the Library receives a Trust funds and Bequests 93 129 Purchase Grant which is for the specific 12,001 12,041 purpose of making appropriate RESOURCES EXPENDED additions to the National Collection. In Collection development 3,809 3,808 1999-2000 this grant was £958,000. User-access to collections 3,178 3,078 The bulk of the Library’s resources are Preservation 897 888 directed towards collection develop- Buildings 1,776 1,715 ment, preservation, and user access to Publicity 270 328 collections: together these activities Administration 913 913 absorbed 73% of the Library’s total 10,843 10,730 resources for 1999-2000. The remaining NET INCOMING / (OUTGOING) RESOURCES 1,158 1,311 resources are applied to maintaining Change in market value of investments 125 ( 59) the Library’s estate and to general Revaluation of assets 1,751 2,611 administration. Net movement in funds 3,034 3,863 Fund balances brought forward – 1 April 1999 65,961 62,098 A summary of the Library’s finances is Fund balances carried forward – 31 March 2000 68,995 65,961 shown in the Statement of Financial Activity and Balance Sheet which are included, in abridged form, on this Summarised balance sheet as at 31 March 2000 page. The Accounts of the Library are FIXED ASSETS 69,884 67,391 subject to audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General, and these are available CURRENT ASSETS 1,132 1,251 from the Secretary of the Library when Creditors – amounts due within one year 1,993 2,632 the audit has been completed. NET CURRENT ASSETS ( 861) ( 1,381)

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 69,023 66,010

FINANCED BY Creditors – amounts due after one year 28 49 ACCRUALS AND DEFERRED INCOME Deferred Government Grants 32,798 31,362

CAPITAL AND RESERVES 36,197 34,599 69,023 66,010

35 Income other than Grant-in Aid 1998-99

Gross income from Endowment income grant-aided activities 12% 6%

Sponsorship and support Net income from The Library is grateful to the revenue-earning activities 10% following for their sponsorship and Trust funds and bequests 45% support: Interest received 26% Arts and Humanities Research Board Graham Brown Fund Binks Trust Expenditure 1998-99 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Publicity 3% Scotland Preservation 8% Churchill Archives Centre, Administration 9% Collection Cambridge development 35% Mrs Elizabeth A. Clark’s Fund Buildings 16% The Vivienne and Samuel Cohen Charitable Trust User access to Committee on Electronic Information collections 29% Friends of the National Libraries Gannochy Trust Garfield Weston Foundation User Profile Goldsmiths’ Company The Library acts both as a major general research library and as a world centre Alexander Grant Fund for the study of Scotland and the Scots. These roles are reflected in the A. Sinclair Henderson Trust composition of our users. Heritage Lottery Fund Keppie Bequest Fund Occupation of Users 1999-2000 The R. and D. Lauffer Charitable Just under half the Library’s users (46%) came from the academic sector; the remainder came from a wide range of backgrounds and included representatives of almost every occupation. Foundation Library and Information Council The MacRobert Trusts Retired 11% John Menzies plc The Miller Foundation Academic staff 13% The National Art Collections Fund Other occupations 43% The Bill and Margaret Nicol Undergraduate students Charitable Trust 13% Bernard Quaritch Ltd Postgraduate students Mrs Ruth Ratcliff’s Fund 20% Reid Trust Fund Figures based on users registered with Reference Services at the end of March 2000, plus short-term users registered with the Research Support Libraries Scottish Science Library December 1999 to end March 2000. Map Library figures excluded. Programme Professor Denis Roberts Trust Fund Royal Bank of Scotland Website usage 1999-2000 Scottish Cultural Resources Access Both the Library’s main website 30,000 Network (SCRAN) and our Churchill educational Scottish Higher Education Funding website recorded a dramatic Council increase in visitors over the year. The graph shows the growth in monthly user sessions. 15,000 Main website

Churchill educational website 0 Jul Jan Jun Oct Feb Apr Sep Dec Nov Mar Aug 36 May