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Dundee and Glasgow Pupils Scoop National Filmmaking Awards DUNDEE AND GLASGOW PUPILS SCOOP NATIONAL FILMMAKING AWARDS A dancing duo from Dundee and an was made by Sen and Lucy as they acrostic ensemble from Glasgow are danced their way around Tayside the winning films in the Library’s ‘One providing an insight into their view of Minute Film’ competition. Scotland. The 13-19 age category was won by St Thomas Aquinas Acrostic As 2018 was the Year of Young People, the Account where a group of pupils shared Library joined forces with the Scottish their thoughts about what Scotland Youth Film Festival to invite young people means to them, using individual pieces to enter a competition with films entitled to camera. ‘Whit Scotland Means tae Me’. Shortlisted films will be added to the The winning film in the 12 years and Library’s collections and preserved in under category From Dancing Dundee, perpetuity. Above: North of Scotland Archaeology Society map scanning volunteers in action Estates Ltd for permission to display their maps online, and to the North of Scotland Archaeology Society and its volunteers for helping with Winners of the over 13s category from St Thomas the scanning. Actor Kevin Guthrie with the winners of the under 12s Aquinas School in Glasgow pictured with Kevin category Sen Demajo and Lucy Lin from Dundee Guthrie and Scottish Bafta Winner Tim Courtney An initial set of five maps by Peter May (1724/33-1795), and 64 maps by George Brown (1747-1816), are available on our Estate Maps page under Inverness-shire: maps.nls.uk/estates/#inverness-shire SPRING 2019 | DISCOVER | 7 NEWS MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE ON THE 1980s This year will see the 40th anniversaries themes: international relations; UK politics; of Margaret Thatcher’s first General economics and employment; science and Election victory, the Iranian Revolution, technology; social change; and culture the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and and entertainment. the 30th anniversaries of the fall of the As well as essays written by Library Berlin Wall, the massacre in Tiananmen staff, guest writers such as Kate Adie and Square, and the invention of the World Sandy Gall who were prominent in the 80s Wide Web. will also join the mix. The essays will be Between May and December 2019, the published on a bespoke microsite of our Library will be producing a programme of website, which is due to go live in May. New online content, public events and displays content will be added throughout the year. under the title of Back to the Future: A retro games event will take place 1979-1989. The programme will invite at Kelvin Hall in July, and in August a people to question how well they know Treasures display will open at George IV the period and will seek to engender Bridge and will run until the autumn. This conversation and understanding will feature just a handful of the 2.5 million between people of different backgrounds, publications the Library holds from that generations and worldviews. decade alone. A video installation will The 1980s was a time of considerable also run at our George IV Bridge building national and global change, and our during August as part of the Edinburgh programme will be structured on six Festival Fringe. Why are these recordings of the items already digitised at risk? It doesn’t necessarily cover varied subjects from UNLOCKING OUR mean they are really old. In the visit of Pope John Paul II, fact many of our recordings the announcement of war SOUND HERITAGE have been made on magnetic or the sinking of the Titanic, tape since the 1970s, but to more intimate portraits this type of media is subject of Scots and Scotland: to severe degradation if carding parties in Shetland, not optimally maintained. recounting the Whaligoe However, it is the rapidly Steps in Caithnessian dialect, changing technologies that and poems in lowland Scots. put the material most at risk. Over the next three years An initial analysis of we aim to digitise more than the sound collections and 5,000 items to produce around archives in 2016 showed 15,000 individual recordings. that if they weren’t digitised We also want to make as in the next 10 years, the many of the recordings as technology to playback possible available online starting next year. Conor Walker, our Audio Preservation the recordings would be Engineer, digitises an open reel tape prohibitively expensive for any public sector organisation As the project unfolds we to purchase. hope to share news and some Building on the work of 10 regional and national Technical challenges aside, of the stories we uncover. Scotland’s Sounds, Unlocking hubs. The National Library the collections earmarked Meanwhile, keep up with Our Sound Heritage is a of Scotland’s hub will work for digitisation are rare or our work via the Scotland’s National Lottery Heritage with 16 other organisations unique and cover a wide Sounds website Funded project, led by the the length and breadth of the range of subjects from oral www.scotlandssounds.org British Library, encompassing country, to save unique and history and traditional music and follow us on Twitter the whole of the UK through at-risk audio recordings. to wildlife recordings. Some @ScotlandsSounds. 8 | DISCOVER | SPRING 2019 MY LIBRARY FOND FAREWELL: Sally is pictured outside the Library with her dog, Beano My Library life Sally Harrower, Modern Literary Manuscripts Curator, has worked at the Library for 37 years and has had “a fascinating and completely unexpected career”. Here, she shares her memories with us ahead of her retiral this year SPRING 2019 | DISCOVER | 9 MY LIBRARY Now I’m on the point of retiring. How I have loved this job – I really believe it’s the best one in the Library first crossed the threshold of the an informal and friendly interview I was National Library of Scotland in 1966. duly given a short-term contract under My mother – swept away with the the Manpower Services Job Creation romantic story of their finding by a Scheme. My job was to work through stone-chucking Bedouin shepherd a backlog of uncatalogued pamphlets Iboy – was determined to see the Dead and create, on an Imperial typewriter, Sea Scrolls, then being exhibited here. ‘input forms’ to get these items into the She was not alone. We joined the queue catalogue (then on hi-tech microfiche). on George IV Bridge and eventually This was leavened by working through progressed through the Library door from another backlog: theatre programmes. where we could see (aw, no …) the queue I made some lifelong friends during going through the front hall and up the that first year, one of whom is still a main staircase to the landing beneath the Library colleague (another Job Creation huge window. It then disappeared up the success story!). And getting friendly with left-hand stair to reappear at the foot of backlogs has been another feature of my the right, shuffling back down to the front Library life. hall and into the exhibition. After some The temporary contract became hours I was finally standing in front of a permanent in 1984. At that time, it display case containing some brownish seemed the Library was run by a team bits of illegible manuscript, thinking ‘Is of redoubtable women who, according to this all there is ...?’. Yes, one of the major legend, had Risen From the Typing Pool; disappointments of my young life – I Miss Hope and Miss Deas first among was only 9 – involved manuscripts at the them. Miss Hope led the cataloguing team National Library. and Miss Deas was Superintendent of The next time I visited was in 1982, the Reading Rooms. Senior management having been sent by the Job Centre. After were nearly all men, of course – remote figures who had little obvious effect on our working lives. All curators/assistants Sitting on the actual, original Mastermind worked occasional evening duties and chair. The Magnus Saturday mornings in the Issue Hall, and Magnusson archive is held in Library’s the week-long induction was generally collections viewed as a scary prospect, such was Miss Deas’ fearsome reputation. However, come my training week, I really cataloguing and making available these liked it. And Miss Deas must have seen amazing collections. One of the few parts something she liked in me as, two years of the Library that we didn’t have much to later, I transferred from Cataloguing to do with was Manuscripts. They ran their Reference Services. I was later told by own reading room and were a world apart, someone – and it might be true – that with a faint aura of Dead Sea Scroll about Miss Deas had growled ‘I’ll take her …’ them. But the romance of manuscripts when my name came up among the that had so appealed to my mother was possibilities. It was like joining the Brodie beginning to resonate with me, and when Set – we thought ourselves something the opportunity came up to apply for a special, delivering the Library’s transfer to the Manuscripts Division in public service. 1998, I successfully applied. And this is Reference Services was the place to probably where my memoir should really really get to know how the Library worked. begin … The very first collection I handled Though we were the ‘front line’, you made me cry. I knew Benjamin Britten soon understood that there would be was going to die, but when you read Peter no service to deliver without all the Pear’s letter breaking the news to Ronald other divisions acquiring, processing, Stevenson, you’re feeling it for real. I was 10 | DISCOVER | SPRING 2019 MEMORIES: The cataloguing team in 1985.
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