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37Th Annual Report and Accounts 2009-10 BRITISH LIBRARY www.bl.uk/valueofknowledge Annual Report and Accounts 2009/10 The Value of Knowledge ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2009/2010 Published by TSO (The Stationery Office) and available from: Online www.tsoshop.co.uk Mail, Telephone Fax and email TSO PO Box 29, Norwich, NR3 1GN Telephone orders/General enquiries 0870 600 5522 Order through the Parliamentary Hotline Lo-Call 0845 7 023474 Fax orders: 0870 600 5533 E-mail: [email protected] Textphone: 0870 240 3701 The Parliamentary Bookshop 12 Bridge Street, Parliament Square, London SW1A 2JX Telephone orders/ General enquiries: 020 7219 3890 Fax orders: 020 7219 3866 Email: [email protected] Internet: http://www.bookshop.parliament.uk TSO@Blackwell and other accredited agents Customers can also order publications from TSO Ireland 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD Telephone orders/general enquiries: 028 9023 8451 Fax orders: 028 9023 5401 The British Library General enquiries T +44 (0)870 444 1500 Minicom +44 (0)1937 546 860 [email protected] Admission to Reading Rooms T +44 (0)20 7412 7676 [email protected] The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB British Library Newspapers Colindale Avenue London NW9 5HE The British Library Boston Spa Wetherby West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ ISBN 978 0 10 2961164 ISSN 1755 1927 (Online) © The British Library Board 2010 Credits The British Library extends thanks to everyone who has contributed to the development of this Annual Report and Accounts. Editor Fiona McCarthy, British Library Editor’s Assistant Chloé Titcomb, British Library Design John Overeem, British Library Print Spellman Walker Ltd See the online version at www.bl.uk/valueofknowledge British Library Thirty-seventh Annual Report and Accounts 2009/10. Presented to Parliament pursuant to section 4(3) of the British Library Act 1972. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 26 July 2010. SG/2010/122 HC153 London: The Stationery Office £19.75 © Crown Copyright 2010 The text in this document (excluding the Royal Arms and other departmental or agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the document specified. Where we have identified any third party copyright material you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. ISBN: 9780102966640 Printed in the UK for The Stationery Office Limited on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office ID: 2370548 07/10 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum. CONTENTS Introduction 3 Chairman’s statement 5 Chief Executive’s statement 7 Our success stories – Business and Innovation 8 – Research 9 – Industry and Commerce 10 – Culture 11 – Creative Industries 12 – Learning 13 – Higher Education 14 Overview of the year’s main achievements 15 Strategic priorities – Progress against 2009/10 commitments 22 and report on key funding projects – Action plan for 2010/11 27 Performance – Key Performance Indicators 28 – Statistics 30 Governance and leadership – Structure 32 – Executive team 34 – Corporate Governance: the British Library Board 36 Grants and donations 38 Annual Accounts 2009/10 43 2 INTRODUCTION Welcome to the British Library’s Annual Report and Accounts 2009/10 The British Library is one of the world’s greatest research libraries. Our collections and expertise are used daily by authors, scientists, TV and film producers, business people, academics, genealogists and local historians, making a vital contribution to the UK knowledge economy. This year’s Annual Report shows how, together, our Readers, users, collections and services contribute to the Value of Knowledge. www.bl.uk/valueofknowledge 3 CHAIRMAN The British Library is one of the world’s greatest research libraries and an enormous asset to this nation. 4 s I come to the end of my Meantime the digital assets in the At the same time, it is clear that we appointment as Chairman Library’s collections occupy over 52 face a deeply uncertain and highly Aof the British Library Board, terabytes of digital storage. And the constrained public funding I am minded to reflect on some of Board welcomes the progress achieved environment. While we have already the major achievements of this great this year towards obtaining legal achieved major efficiency savings and institution during my tenure. deposit for electronic publications. have adopted innovative business models and partnerships to support In October 2007 we celebrated the During my tenure we have seen our core activities, I think it inevitable opening of the British Library Centre some highly successful and distinctive that the Board will face extremely for Conservation, a world-leading British Library exhibitions. As I write, difficult decisions going forward as facility for book conservation and a our exhibition, Magnificent Maps: it addresses the twin challenge of state-of-the-art technical facility for Power, Propaganda and Art, is sustaining the Library’s stewardship the preservation of our recorded attracting high visitor numbers, legacy and its reputation as a world- sound collection. but if I had to single out a particular leading research library while also exhibition, it would be Sacred: ensuring that the Library’s contribution We have taken significant steps to Discover what we share, which in to research and scholarly enterprise improve the British Library’s collection 2007 displayed some of the world’s remains vibrant, innovative and storage facilities. The construction of earliest and most important religious relevant for future generations. a major £26 million storage building texts from the Jewish, Christian and at Boston Spa is now complete, and Muslim faiths. In this context, it is immensely it was opened by the Minister for gratifying to see the breadth and Yorkshire and The Humber in At the heart of this great Library is its warmth of support for the Library. December 2009. The new facility enduring commitment to scholarship The British Library is a wonderful will provide 262 linear kilometres of and its collections. The fruits of this library. It is one of the world’s high density, preservation standard commitment to scholarship are seen greatest research libraries and an storage, with fully-automated when, for example, senior curator enormous asset to this nation. I count retrieval systems, and growth space Frances Harris was awarded the it a great privilege to have been for the next decade. Samuel Pepys prize for her book, associated with the Library for the Transformations of Love, or when past six and a half years both as Last October, we received a very Kristian Jensen delivered the 2007/08 Board member and as Chairman. welcome commitment of £33 million Lyell Lectures in bibliography at of capital funding from the Oxford University. The Review Finally I would like to thank all our Government to move the national of the Scholarship and Collections donors, Patrons and Friends for their newspaper collection – currently held directorate is designed to strengthen support. In particular, the Dorset in Colindale, north London – to a new its capacity and to ensure the Library Foundation for its generous grant, Newspaper Storage Building, also will be a leading centre of digital enabling us to complete our to be constructed on the Boston Spa scholarship and preservation, fundraising for a new and much- site, which will hold the collection in internationally recognised for needed Learning Centre. I would the best of archival conditions. innovation and collaboration in also like to express gratitude to the Newspapers are an immensely rich support of research and learning. National Heritage Memorial Fund, source for research. They deteriorate We have been fortunate to acquire as well as the many individuals and quickly because of the poor quality a number of very significant trusts, who supported our appeals for of the paper they are printed on; acquisitions. Notable amongst these Sir John Narbrough’s Journal and the it is crucial that they are properly were the papers of Harold Pinter, Mervyn Peake Archive. In addition, as preserved for future generations. Ted Hughes and Mervyn Peake; we continue our focus on building the This is one element of our newspaper the photographic archives of William digital research environment, I would strategy – our ambition is to digitise Fox Talbot and Fay Godwin; and the like to acknowledge the Stavros S the best of our historical collections, Dering Roll, the oldest extant English Niarchos Foundation and William to open them up, and to make them roll of arms. and Judith Bollinger for their ongoing much more widely accessible on the support and generosity towards web. The Library’s partnership Looking forward from these ‘broad, making our manuscript collections agreement with brightsolid online sunlit uplands’, we have been available online. publishing to digitise up to 40 million undertaking a programme of strategy pages from the national newspaper development – taking account of the collection over ten years is a major dynamic market in which we now step towards realising that ambition. operate, with technology and consumer behaviours changing more rapidly than ever before – to articulate the Library’s operating environment in 2020 and to develop Sir Colin Lucas a 2020 vision for the British Library. Chairman 5 CHIEF EXECUTIVE We do not underestimate the challenges ahead to continue to deliver high quality services despite budget cuts, but we remain committed to innovation in the way we approach these challenges as we seek to ensure that the British Library remains world-class for the long-term. 6 he introduction to the British This year saw the culmination of a We do not underestimate the Library’s Annual Report each four-year collaboration between the challenges ahead to continue to Tyear gives me time to reflect British Library, the National Library of deliver high quality services despite on what a privilege it is to lead this Russia in St Petersburg, the University budget cuts, but we remain committed great institution.
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