National Library of Annual Report 2001- 2002

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New acquisition. One of four early nineteenth-century panoramas of Edinburgh by Lady Elton (Mary Stewart). © National Library of Scotland 2002 Endpapers: Images of south ISBN 1 872116 34 5 Edinburgh in 1929, from a collection of photographs by Alfred Henry Rushbrook.

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National Library of Scotland George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW www.nls.uk Contents

Chairman’s foreword 4

Librarian’s introduction 5

Modernising the Library 7

Widening access 11

The national collections 17

The international dimension 23

Collaboration and partnership 27

Donors and depositors 29

Trustees and senior staff 30

Finance and statistics 31 Chairman’s foreword

This year the Library has taken further steps towards a new vision which combines the maintenance of its traditional strengths with extension into a range of new and exciting activities.

For example, during the year the Library undertook a much expanded series of public events, including lectures, book launches, and ‘meet the author’ conversations, and these proved an outstanding success and have encouraged whole new groups of users to feel that the Library is of relevance and value to them. In parallel, the Library’s website continues to grow and to be enriched with digital content, creating another important means to serve those people of Scotland and the wider world who are unable to access the Library’s services directly through its reading rooms.

Changing patterns of creation and use of information, as well as the recognition that funding constraints prevent the Library from doing all that it would like, were reflected in the Trustees’ decision to close the Library’s specialist reading room for scientific and business information in December 2001. However, key staff expertise in these areas has been retained, and totally new forms of service delivery are being developed by exploiting the website and by providing for the first time free access by the general public to a wide range of online scientific journals.

The Library is very fortunate in being able to draw on the wealth of experience represented on its Board of Trustees. In recent years, no Trustee worked more energetically on behalf of the Library than Lady Dunnett, whose death in November 2001 greatly saddened us all. We are delighted that the housing of the Dunnett Archive in the Library will be a lasting memorial to a well-loved colleague and friend.

During the year, the Trustees sought a successor to Ian McGowan, who will retire in September 2002, and we were delighted to be able to appoint Martyn Wade, Head of Libraries, Information and Learning at City Council, as the new National Librarian. The Trustees and I look forward to working with him as the Library moves into the even more challenging future.

Professor Michael Anderson Chairman of the Board of Trustees

4 CHAIRMAN’ S FOREWORD Librarian’s introduction

The activities described in this Report illustrate the Library’s determination to make its collections and services accessible to the greatest number of people, both in Scotland and beyond, while maintaining the high quality of those services.

This priority has driven the expansion of the Library’s website through the creation of educational mini-sites on specific topics, and the scanning of many of the early maps of Scotland, which now offer an incomparable web-based resource for the study of the history, geography and culture of the country. It also lies behind the Library’s popular programme of public events, which is now more extensive and varied than ever before.

Those who use the Library’s collections directly have not been neglected. Improvements continue to be made in the services available in the George IV Bridge Building reading room. For those who use the Library at a remove, we have established a Scottish Libraries Transport Service to deliver inter-library loans efficiently and economically.

Since this is the last Report I shall introduce before my retirement, I wish to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the staff of the Library. Their dedication to the Library is exemplary. At a time of unprecedented change and many challenges, they have enthusiastically embraced the opportunities offered by new ways of working, while remaining committed to the highest standards of service. I feel proud to have been associated with them during my career in the Library, and I am confident that the new National Librarian will benefit from their support and encouragement as I have done.

I D McGowan Librarian

LIBRARIAN’ S INTRODUCTION 5 ‘We all own books, but just as the Library cares for these in perpetuity the hybrid library has to care for and deliver its digital resources – today and twenty years from now.’

LEE HIBBERD

DIGITISATION OFFICER Modernising the Library

The chief characteristic of the successful twenty-first century library – the ‘hybrid’ library – will be the effective combination of traditional collections

and electronic resources. The year’s work was dominated by the

challenge of transforming the Library to meet the expectations of future users.

The Library’s Hybrid Library Steering Group is Building electronic collections helping to guide our progress towards the new Under a voluntary arrangement with publishers, era, and several new staff appointments have UK and Irish legal deposit libraries receive reinforced the status of electronic collections. A ‘hand-held’ electronic publications such as CD- Digitisation Officer – in post since January ROMs free of charge. This allows us to acquire 2002 – has already strengthened our many more electronic publications than we procedures for digitising Library materials and could otherwise afford, but it is no substitute for has considerably developed our Digital Image legislation. Together with the other legal Database (DID) which will eventually give deposit libraries, we are pressing for the same direct public access to our growing collection of right to claim electronic publications as we have images. for printed books.

We also appointed an Electronic Materials In a related move, we are working with the Cataloguer, who will establish policies and British Library and other legal deposit libraries procedures for cataloguing CDs, websites, and to create a secure network which readers can other electronic publications, and ensure that use to consult these electronic publications in Library practice conforms to developing all six institutions. national and international standards. We are in the process of implementing a

By recruiting two new members of staff to the considerable expansion in the number and Detail from John Slezer’s view Library’s website development team, we have range of online publications we purchase. of Culross (1693), now included in our Digital Image Database. effectively doubled its technical and editorial Subscriptions to electronic journals represent a capacity. major investment in reader services and our negotiations with publishers were given fresh impetus by the decision to expand electronic delivery of our science and business information services.

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New acquisition. One of three Developing our systems fifteenth-century manuscripts from the estate of the 23rd At the heart of the modernisation of the Library Lord Borthwick, assigned to the are sophisticated ICT systems which streamline Library by HM Government. our operations and underpin our electronic resources.

The successful implementation of the Acquisitions Module of our Voyager library management system means that all the stages in processing a new book – from ordering to cataloguing – are now well integrated. This has reduced the ‘double entry’ of information and the time devoted to paper record-keeping.

Scheduled for implementation in the coming year, a new system for networking CD-based and purely electronic publications will give readers and staff easy access to our electronic collections throughout the Library’s buildings. In the longer term, it offers the exciting prospect of allowing registered readers to consult our electronic collections without the need to visit the Library.

Reviewing our activities In collaboration with Edinburgh University Following the first phase of our comprehensive Library, we began work on the joint review of the Library’s activities, the bindery procurement of a Digital Object Management and the Scottish Science Library reading room System (DOMS) that will bring all our digital were closed at Christmas 2001. Services for resources together through a single accessible science and business users have been interface. transferred to the General Reading Room, and emphasis is being placed on the enhanced Providing e-services provision of scientific and business information Our robust infrastructure for internal and by electronic means and through the Scottish external electronic communications means that Business Information Service website the Library is well placed to exploit the (www.scotbis.com). These changes resulted in potential cost efficiencies of e-business. We now the loss of twelve posts through voluntary communicate electronically with many of our redundancy. suppliers – including bookdealers worldwide – and we fulfil an increasing number of inter- The second phase of the review will be library loan requests by delivering documents completed towards the end of 2002. electronically. During 2001-2002, some 70% of written general enquiries arrived by e-mail, up from 60% in the previous year, and anyone wishing to apply for a Reader’s Ticket may now access the application form online.

8 MODERNISING THE LIBRARYT Our new refreshment room for The Library is awarded readers. Accredited Centre status by the St Andrew’s Ambulance Association. Left to right: Ian McGowan and Elaine Simpson of the Library with Dr Ernest Robinson. Photo: Dan Tuffs

The physical infrastructure and a number of staff workrooms. In return for with free lockers. The installation of a fire lift The creation of a hybrid library requires on-site this loss of space, the Scottish Court Service has completed a recently-built external fire escape development as well as advanced electronic provided £1.6 million in funding to fit out a and refuge facility. We also replaced ageing systems, and we have continued to improve and roof-level extension at our George IV Bridge book-hoists, and made preparations for the modernise the buildings which provide the Building, and to prepare Level 4 of our refurbishment of the building’s main lift, which essential infrastructure for all our activities. Causewayside Building to accommodate the will be extended to serve the new roof-level displaced stock. accommodation. We secured £1.45 million in funding from the Scottish Executive Education Department In anticipation of the long-term needs of the The continuing application of good practice in (SEED) to install a full sprinkler system in our Library, we obtained detailed planning the management of our buildings once again led Causewayside Building. Our headquarters permission for the extension of our to a 5-star award by the British Safety Council. building on Edinburgh’s George IV Bridge is Causewayside Building, at a projected cost of We were also awarded Accredited Centre status already fully equipped with sprinklers as a result around £5 million. We also made two further by the St Andrew’s Ambulance Association after of the extensive fire-suppression measures we planning applications: to create a store and staff member Elaine Simpson successfully have implemented over the last fourteen years, offices at our Sighthill building; and to provide completed a special first aid trainers course. and which have culminated in the granting of a an extra 1,385m2 of space at George IV Bridge, formal Fire Certificate. at an estimated cost of £4 million and with a Staff development projected completion date of 2005-2006. Developing staff skills is central to our In the past, many of our collections have been modernisation agenda. No fewer than 53 stored under the Parliament House courts A number of developments at our George IV members of staff attended one- or two-day complex, in an area which the Library has Bridge Building have made life easier – and in training courses on computer applications, while occupied since 1820. Now that the courts need some cases safer – for readers and staff. Readers twelve gained their European Computer this area for their own purposes, we need to particularly have welcomed the new self-service Driving Licence and went on to act as sources relocate almost a quarter of a million volumes refreshment room and self-service cloakroom of expert advice and assistance for colleagues.

MODERNISING THE LIBRARY 9 ‘Exhibitions – both in the Library and beyond – are just one way in which we open up our collections to the public at large.’

KENNETH DUNN

CURATOR, MANUSCRIPTS Widening access

The library plays a leading part in the cultural life of the nation, and we are committed to making the wealth of our collections and expertise available to all

sectors of the public, both at home and internationally.

Top left: Historian Owen One of the outstanding successes of the year Visits and receptions Below left: Pupils from Dudley Edwards (standing) with Midlothian schools visit the Dr Alan Riach of Glasgow was the Library’s events programme. Never Pupils from Midlothian schools visited the Library for a Rotary-funded University (left) and Christopher before have we organised such a sustained and Library for a Rotary-funded poetry award and poetry award. Grieve, grandson of Hugh Photo: Mark K. Jackson varied series of events or attracted such a wide children from Prestonpans primary schools MacDiarmid, at a Library- sponsored celebration of range of visitors and participants. This new presented a book of short stories which they Below right: Young writers MacDiarmid at the Edinburgh programme was launched in June 2001, and by had written as part of a creative writing Lindsay Anderson, from International Book Festival. Prestonpans Primary School, Photo: Mark K. Jackson 1 June 2002 we will have organised some 60 exercise. Three groups from Towerbank and Jamie McGuire, from St events – more than one a week. Primary School visited the Library to learn Gabriel’s Primary School. Top centre: BBC Scotland Arts Photo: Mark K. Jackson about books and how they are made. Correspondent Pauline McLean and literary editor Ian Murray Public lectures join writer and artist Alasdair The Library held a series of literary and cultural Gray for an evening of conversation. lectures by well-known figures, including Photo: Mark K. Jackson Magnus Magnusson, Dorothy Dunnett, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Allan Massie, Michael Fry, Top right: Storyteller David Campbell and the Wrigley Duncan MacMillan, Janice Galloway, Paul Sisters at a celebration of writer Scott, Joan Lingard, Jenny Brown, and Alan George Mackay Brown sponsored by the Library at the Taylor. We also sponsored three lectures at the Edinburgh International Book Edinburgh International Book Festival – Festival. Photo: Mark K. Jackson focussing on George Mackay Brown, Iain Crichton Smith, and Hugh MacDiarmid.

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Left: Part of James Gordon’s 1647 map of Edinburgh – one of 800 maps now on our website.

Below left: Our touring exhibition and website on Timothy Pont’s 400-year-old maps of Scotland on display in the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Photo: The Still Print Company Earl Haig (right) with Professor Below: Allan Wilson MSP, Michael Anderson and children Deputy Minister for Culture and from Sciennes Primary School, Sport, with NOF board member Edinburgh, at the launch of the David Campbell at the launch Experiences of War website. of Resources for Learning in Photo: Mark K. Jackson Scotland. Photo: Mark K. Jackson

detailed views, whilst interpretative text provides background information. The Pont mini-site was nominated ‘Site of the Day’ by Family Tree Magazine, and can be visited at www.nls.uk/maps.

We also launched Experiences of War, a First World War website drawing heavily on the Library’s Haig collections, and developed with We welcomed groups from the Society of The Library on the web assistance from SCRAN, the Scottish Cultural Authors, the Royal Society of Chemistry, The Library’s main website (www.nls.uk) was re- Resources Access Network. Following on from Edinburgh’s Old Town Association, Stirling launched in November 2000 and the steady our successful Churchill website, Experiences of Fine Art Society, and Friends of the Edinburgh increase in visits shows no sign of levelling off. War (www.nls.uk/experiencesofwar) is the International Book Festival. We also hosted the The annual number of visitor sessions rose by second Library site to feature downloadable keynote address of the conference of the 58% to 564,758: partly due to site optimisation material for schools. Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies and marketing – we mailed promotional Programme. postcards to every school in Scotland – but A new web feature called Scotland’s Pages also as the result of a constant effort to expand (www.nls.uk/scotlandspages), created with In conjunction with the Royal Society of our internet presence with new content financial support from Semple Fraser WS, Edinburgh, we organised the fifth and last and features. uses an interactive time-line to trace Scotland’s seminar in our Project Pont series, attracting history through digital images of key some 120 map experts and enthusiasts to a day We added some 800 early maps of Scotland to documents and transcriptions of eye-witness of talks and discussion placing Timothy Pont’s our digital library, and a mini-site dedicated to accounts. unique sixteenth-century maps in the context Timothy Pont’s sixteenth-century maps of of mapping worldwide. Scotland was launched by Allan Wilson MSP, We introduced a web feature devoted to Deputy Minister for Culture and Sport, and modern Scottish writers, The Write Stuff As part of the Edinburgh International Science generously supported by the Jerwood (www.nls.uk/writestuff), based on our summer Festival in April 2001, our Science Library ran a Charitable Foundation. Multiple access routes exhibition of the same name, and also mounted number of sessions on ‘Surfing for Science on and sophisticated software allow users to a small feature on the Internet’. identify the maps they need and zoom in to (www.nls.uk/rlstevenson).

12 WIDENING ACCESS We continued to work with the University of The Blythe family and farm workers, 1929. One of 6,000 Sheffield to create an online annotated facsimile items being digitised under the of the Auchinleck Manuscript, one of our great Resources for Learning in treasures and a major source for the study of Scotland programme. Chaucerian English. A major online information source on the correspondence of Sir Walter Scott has been developed in collaboration with Professor Jane Millgate of the University of Toronto, and is scheduled to go live in the coming year.

We also made considerable progress on converting around 1,000 detailed inventories of our major manuscript collections to a machine- readable format. We hope to add these to our Acc.11021/217 website over the coming year. Minister for Culture and Sport, and more than 10,000 books from our eighteenth-century 100 individual digitisation projects are collections. Around 330,000 images will be The creation of a new website section for fellow scheduled for completion by August 2003. photographed over three years and published in library professionals emphasised our commit- Thanks to the award, we have been able to Gale’s The Eighteenth Century microfilm series. ment to the international library community. employ seven additional editorial and digitisation staff, and will ourselves be able to Publications Digitisation and microfilming digitise over 6,000 images on topics as diverse as Quarto, our general newsletter, and Folio, our programmes golf, broadsides, farm diaries, David Hume, and new collections journal, are successful and The National Grid for Learning has given mapping. In the year under review, we scanned popular conventional publications, and now also schools access to remote sources of information, more than 1,000 of our maps of Scotland, available online. A growing subscription base and the People’s Network will give the general spanning the period 1750 to 1900. enables us to keep in regular contact with some public and lifelong learners similar benefits. By of the library’s most supportive friends and making some of our most important collections We are also partners in the £250,000 Charting service-users. available over the internet we can provide the Nation project funded by the Research content for these initiatives and contribute to the Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) with Although website dissemination has many drive for social inclusion in the information age. additional support from the Scottish Cultural advantages, there remains a place in our access Resources Access Network (SCRAN). Under strategy for conventional print publications. These are time-consuming and costly activities, this programme, around 400 of our eighteenth- One of the highlights of this year was The so much of our work is carried out on a century military maps were scanned, together Nation Survey’d, a study of the Pont maps and collaborative basis, and by encouraging other with over 300 pages of related documents. their creator, published in association with institutions to digitise supporting material from Tuckwell Press and edited by our former their own collections. A £46,000 agreement with Bell and Howell has Keeper of Manuscripts, Ian Cunningham. given us the resources to microfilm and digitise A £4 million award by the New Opportunities some 2,350 extremely rare or unique pre-1701 One of our earlier publications, Reportage Fund (NOF) has allowed us to bring together items from our collections. The microfilming Scotland, inspired the five-part Radio Scotland more than 100 organisations in a consortium phase of the project will be completed by July series A Spin Through History. Louise Yeoman designed to digitise learning materials in 2002. of our Manuscripts division, author of the Scotland’s libraries and archives. Resources for original book, acted as chief contributor and Learning in Scotland (RLS) was launched in In September 2001, we signed a contract with historical consultant. July 2001 by Allan Wilson MSP, Deputy the Gale Group for the microfilming of some

WIDENING ACCESS 13 The launch of the Donald Writer William McIlvanney at Our Scotland’s Pages travelling Dewar exhibition. Sir David the launch of The Write Stuff, exhibition at Dingwall. Steel (left) in conversation with an exhibition of literary portraits Photo: Andrew Allan David Whitton and Professor by Gordon Wright (left). Michael Anderson. Photo: Mark K. Jackson Photo: Mark K. Jackson

Exhibitions Maps website. Launched in August 2001, the Gibbon; to the National Galleries of Scotland Working in collaboration with SPICe, the exhibition has moved on from Edinburgh to for Andrew Geddes and for Robert Adam’s Information Centre, we tour more than fifteen venues over a two-year Castles; to Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, mounted a small exhibition of books and doc- period. for Byron’s Mediterranean Grand Tour; to the uments from the collection of the late Donald City Art Centre, Edinburgh, for Sir William Dewar, the first First Minister of Scotland. His The Darien Adventure exhibition completed its Allan: artist adventurer and for Quest for Library has been donated to the Scottish tour around Scotland with a showing at the Camelot; and to the Royal Museum of Scotland Parliament, and will soon be accessible to the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. for Testimony of the Rocks: Hugh Miller 1802- general public through our reading rooms. 1856. Loans Our major summer exhibition was launched in We also extend access to our collections Special facilities May 2001 by writer William McIlvanney. The by lending items to other institutions. The Our Special Needs Action Group (SNAG) has Write Stuff, portraits of contemporary Scottish mediaeval church gallery at the Museum of the job of ensuring that we meet the writers by photographer Gordon Wright, was a Scotland currently has some of our most requirements of all our readers. Among focal point for a vibrant series of literary talks precious manuscripts on display, including the equipment we acquired this year was a portable and events. After a five-month run in Sprouston Breviary and the Lesmahagow induction loop system that can be used Edinburgh, the exhibition transferred to East Missal, both dating from the thirteenth century. throughout the Library. Kilbride Arts Centre and the A. K. Bell Library, Perth. In April and May 2002 it will go on show To the prestigious The Thistle and the Rose Widening access through technology in Angus Libraries. exhibition at Stirling Castle, celebrating the The evolution of internet access has provided 500th anniversary of the 1502 Treaty of the impetus for the library community to find Touring exhibitions are a useful way to Perpetual Peace between Scotland and new and simplified ways of searching individual introduce the Library to a wider audience. With England, we lent one of our greatest treasures: collections and groups of collections. assistance from the Gannochy Trust and Semple the Bannatyne Manuscript with its copy of the Fraser WS, we created a touring version of poem ‘The Thrissell and the Rois’ which SCURL projects Scotland’s Pages, our millennium exhibition William Dunbar wrote in 1503 to celebrate the One of the Library’s main partners in this field featuring treasures from our collections. treaty. is the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL), which is a sub- Mapping the Realm is a purpose-built touring We also loaned items to The Writers Museum, committee of our own Board of Trustees. display designed to complement our new Pont Edinburgh, for the exhibition Lewis Grassic SCURL has been given new momentum by the

14 WIDENING ACCESS appointment of a Development Director, The SCAN database Catherine Nicholson, funded over a three-year We are continuing to contribute information to period by the Scottish Executive Education the Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) database. Department (SEED) and the Scottish Higher Once completed, this cross-sectoral programme Education Funding Council (SHEFC). will offer users a single online access point from which to locate collections in major archives One of SCURL’s key initiatives is the Co- across Scotland. operative Academic Information Retrieval Network Services project (CAIRNS), which has Bibliographies and catalogues developed an online search facility through Within the Library itself, staff are working on Dr Tom Hubbard (BOSLIT which catalogues from several libraries can be databases which locate material of Scottish editor) and Professor Peter consulted simultaneously. relevance in our own collections or held France with a Chuvash elsewhere. The Bibliography of Scotland offers newspaper carrying translations of Robert Burns. SCURL’s Shared Preservation in Scotland the world’s most complete listing of modern Photo: Mark K. Jackson programme (SPIS) aims to find a mechanism publications on Scotland and the Scots, and the for Scottish Libraries to co-ordinate their Bibliography of Scottish Literature in policies on retaining and preserving material. In Translation (BOSLIT) documents foreign Inter-Library Services November 2001, SPIS presented its final report translations of Scottish literature from 1500 to Our Inter-Library Services division is at the at a seminar attended by librarians, archivists the present day. A reception in October marked heart of Scotland’s inter-library loan and and others from throughout Scotland, as well as seven years of achievement by BOSLIT, which document delivery service and so plays an representatives of the National Preservation in May was awarded funding of £119,000 by the important part in widening access to source Office and the Irish museums and archives Arts and Humanities Research Board and which materials throughout Scotland. community. The meeting accepted the report’s now lists more than 20,000 items. findings and agreed that a sub-group should On behalf of libraries in Scotland, Inter-Library establish the way forward. We have also made significant progress in our Services has set up a Scottish Libraries internal cataloguing effort. As well as appointing Transport Service to convey inter-library loans The Scottish Collections Network Extension an electronic materials cataloguer (Modernising using a commercial carrier. Under this new project (SCONE) has been set up to create a the Library, p. 7), we were able to create three system, transport costs have been slashed, and comprehensive database of collections in new cataloguing posts and fill a number of the service is achieving next-day delivery to Scotland. With funding by the Research existing vacancies. As a result of these new virtually any UK mainland library. Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) extended staffing levels we have been able to reduce a until May 2002, SCONE will provide an online longstanding backlog of work and are now Inter-Library Services also administers the system for co-ordinating purchases and cataloguing legal deposit material within ten Inter-Regional Unit (IRU) throughout the UK. registering each collection’s strengths and major weeks of receipt. Material for which we have The IRU was set up by the Circle of Officers of acquisitions. primary responsibility under the Copyright National and Regional Library Systems Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme – (CONARLS), and compared with British SCURL has also secured funding from the primarily Scottish material – is catalogued even Library rates offers participating libraries a Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland more quickly. With finance from our Ruth saving of 21% on the cost of book loans for a feasibility study for CASS, the Ratcliff Fund, an additional cataloguer worked between libraries in different regions of the Collaborative Academic Store for Scotland. on the papers of Sorley MacLean, one of our UK’s interlending system. Inter-Library Under this scheme, university library materials most important modern literary collections. Services also manages the Scottish Inter-Library of low use but high research interest would be Lending Rate (SILLR), which offers 161 stored in a single location and delivered participating libraries a 30% cost reduction on electronically on request. loans made within Scotland.

WIDENING ACCESS 15 ‘It is satisfying to know that our work in the Conservation unit is helping to preserve the national collections for the future.’

MAUREEN FERGUSON

CONSERVATOR The national collections

Scotland’s national library is both a major general reference library and the world’s leading source of books, manuscripts, and maps relating to Scotland and the Scots. Our collections span all subject areas from the arts and humanities to science and business, and our services are valued by every sector of the community, from academics and writers to industry and the public at large.

This breadth and variety stems largely from our status as Scotland’s only legal deposit library. Under legislation going back almost 300 years, APS.1.201.010 we can claim a copy of all new books produced in the UK and Ireland – a privilege that is of enormous value to the nation and that will be of even greater value once it is extended to electronic publications.

In the year under review, legal deposit enabled us to acquire 224,441 items, including books, newspapers, journals, maps, and music. The A rare work on the lazy bed books we received ranged from the four- system, much used in the Highlands in former times. volume The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioural Science to Catherine Osbond’s The Astrological Book of Baby Names, and from a short booklet on the World Trade Center terrorist attack, 11th September 2001, to Mates, Dates and Cosmic Kisses, a novel for teenage girls by Cathy Our collections of early photographs were Agricultural posters and advertisements. Hopkins. Among the items received under the enhanced by a set of albumen prints of Leith in voluntary code for the deposit of electronic the 1860s, and by images of the South Side of media was the Concise Oxford Textbook of Edinburgh, taken by photographer Alfred Medicine. Rushbrook in 1929.

The legal deposit privilege does not extend to New accessions relating to early Scottish older books or new foreign publications, which agriculture included the rare Plain Directions we can only acquire by purchase, or as gifts and for Raising Potatoes on the Lazy Bed (1757) by bequests. John Fraser, and a collection of posters and advertisements from between 1805 and 1903.

THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS 17 Popular nineteenth-century ‘yellowbacks’ featuring Scottish authors.

RB.s.2092 Elizabeth Cleland’s cookery book of 1755. ABS.1.201.016(1)

A particularly fine purchase was one of only five rare 1755 first edition of A New and Easy The Library has exceptionally strong collections known copies of Nicolaus Esthvanfius’s history Method of Cookery by Elizabeth Cleland, a of books on mountaineering and exploration. of Hungary (Historarium de rebus Ungaricis) of cookery teacher in Edinburgh. Thanks to the Graham Brown Fund, we were 1622. This particular volume belonged to King able to purchase a rare Victorian board game by James VI and I and is noteworthy not only for In the nineteenth century, ‘yellowbacks’ – cheap Albert Smith: The New Game of the Ascent of its stunning royal binding, but for the evidence editions with brightly-coloured covers – Mont Blanc. it provides of James’s interest in European competed with ‘penny dreadfuls’ for the affairs. attention of the growing reading public. We In new foreign publications, we added to our purchased a total of four yellowback editions of resources for North American studies with the Early cookery books can be difficult to obtain Scottish authors, including Robert Louis purchase of The United States Army in World and are often in poor condition due to use, so Stevenson’s (1885) and War I, a collection on CD-ROM featuring we were particularly pleased to purchase the (1888). source works, commentaries and artworks, and

Right: An unusual Victorian board game featuring the ascent of Mont Blanc.

Far right: Detail of the royal binding on James VI’s copy of Esthvanfius’s 1622 history of Hungary. GB/A.3570 FB.m.614

18 THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Left: John M. Leighton’s Select Views of the Lakes of Scotland (1830-33). ABS.8.202.03

RB.s.2074 This rare contribution to the debate over the Union of 1707 is remarkable for its condition.

bringing together for the first time as a single A striking Scottish binding of around 1680 on the first (1607) resource all the works on World War I edition of Diodati’s translation Bdg.m.147 published by the US Army Center of Military of the Bible into Italian. History.

Below left: Author and Foreign purchases provided further highlights illustrator Peter Allen’s private press Travels in the Cévennes for our fine art collections, including Boccaccio (1998) has echoes of Robert visualizzato, a monumental study of the Louis Stevenson’s Travels with a iconography of the great Italian writer Donkey.

Boccaccio, and the result of ten years’ research Below: The 1767 work which by an international team of scholars. established Sir James Steuart as the founder of economic science. We were very pleased to receive a collection of works by or about Louis-Sébastien Mercier, the gift of Miss Isabel Paterson, one of the founders of the French Department at Stirling University. This strengthens our already impressive holdings on French history around the period of the 1789 Revolution.

We also received extremely generous donations of modern books by publishers from the Puglia and Abruzzo regions of Italy, given to mark the occasion of two conferences organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh in conjunction with the Library. FB.m.614 RB.s.451

THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS 19 Acc.12006 A selection of recent additions to our Sydney Goodsir Smith collection. Acc.12055

Letters of Mungo Park, bought Journal-letters and watercolours Manuscript acquisitions with assistance from the Friends (1865) of the Bell Rock Light by of the National Libraries. R. M. Ballantyne, author of The year’s outstanding manuscript purchase was Coral Island. a collection of Mungo Park’s letters. Acquired with generous assistance from the Friends of the National Libraries, it includes the explorer’s last letter, written just before his death in Africa.

The author and artist Lady Dunnett (Dorothy Dunnett) bequeathed us her and her late husband Sir Alastair’s very considerable archive, and we were also delighted to accept three fine fifteenth-century manuscripts from the estate of the 23rd Lord Borthwick: two books of hours

Acc.11962 from northern France (one of which had been

Right: Medals and notebook of Robert di Falco, an Italian Scot who served in the Italian Army in World War I.

Far right: Illustrations for Edward Dwelly’s Gaelic dictionary of 1911 – the best- known early Gaelic-English dictionary – deposited by his grandchildren.

Acc.12028 Acc.12052

20 THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS EMS.s.760

Acc.12041

EMS.s.758 in the Borthwick family since at least 1591), Local figures recorded by Above: J. Meuros’s 1767 New Elizabeth Caroline Fussell on a and Accurate Map of Scotland. and an English girdle-book of astrological and tour of Scotland in 1839. medical material.

Our acquisitions of literary manuscripts included items donated by the widow of the fares for a stagecoach in the north of Scotland poet Sydney Goodsir Smith, and papers give an insight into the practicalities of early deposited by the Glasgow-based writer Ronald nineteenth-century travel. With assistance from Frame. We also acquired a journal, letters, and the Reid Fund, we were able to purchase a set watercolours by R. M. Ballantyne, author of of 1831 drawings made by the artist David Coral Island; letters by Robert Louis Roberts for a planned work on the antiquities of Stevenson’s step-daughter, Isobel Osbourne Scotland. (Field); and additional papers belonging to the writer Mollie Hunter. Map acquisitions

Two new military collections throw light on the The legal deposit system is of great benefit to John Wood’s plan of Dalkeith, experiences of ordinary soldiers in the our Map Library, bringing us significant 1823. nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the journals numbers of British maps each year. An of William Newman, a private in the 3rd Foot agreement with the Ordnance Survey gives our Guards (later the Scots Guards), recording his users full access to large-scale digital maps of service in Egypt, Germany, and Denmark in the UK, and this was extended to include maps 1800-09; and medals, photos, and memorabilia of the year 2000. gifted by the son of Robert di Falco, an Italian Scot who joined the Italian Army in the First During 2001-2002 we were able to buy up-to- World War. date maps for our extensive foreign collections and some fascinating historic items including an Three further additions shed a fascinating light 1823 John Wood plan of Dalkeith, showing on Scotland in the 1830s: Elizabeth Caroline detail omitted from other editions, and a Fussell’s sketchbook records a tour of Scotland previously unrecorded map of Scotland in the summer of 1839, while the timetable and published by J. Meuros, from around 1767.

THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS 21 ‘The Library is part of an international community working to protect our heritage from hazards such as fire.’

BILL JACKSON

DIRECTOR OF ESTATES The international dimension

The National Library of Scotland contributes to the worldwide exchange of information and expertise and plays a positive role in the international library community.

The Library is a member of the American-based The Ligue des bibliothèques européennes de Research Libraries Group (RLG), and recherche (LIBER) is an important contributes to its Cultural Materials Initiative, international body concerned with the which is creating a digital store of items of development of major research libraries such as worldwide cultural significance. Our Director ours, and we continue to support its activities, of General Collections, Cate Newton, with Chris Fleet of our Map Library serving as represented the Library at the RLG’s Annual secretary of its Groupe des cartothécaires. Meeting in Ottawa, in May 2001, and joined the associated study tour of Canadian libraries. One of the largest international projects in We were in turn visited by RLG’s Karen which we are involved is the English Short-Title Smith-Yoshimura, who came to Edinburgh Catalogue (ESTC), which is creating a database in February to lead workshops on of pre-1801 books printed in the British Isles bibliographical initiatives. and of books in English printed abroad. Our staff work hard to ensure that the holdings of The future direction of electronic publishing Scottish libraries are fully covered by the was the subject of an international colloquium database, and our Director of Special organised in November by the Folger Collections, Murray Simpson, serves on the Shakespeare Library, Washington, and Apex ESTC’s International Committee. Data Services. Our Librarian, Ian McGowan, was among the panel of leading figures invited We are one of more than 600 libraries to Washington to share their vision of the worldwide who operate the Voyager web-based future. integrated information system created by Endeavor Information Systems Inc, and we play The Library plays an active part in IFLA, the an active role in advising on future International Federation of Library Associations developments of the system. Our Director of and Institutions, and our Librarian chairs the ICT, Fred Guy, is secretary to the National planning group for IFLA’s 75th anniversary Libraries Endeavor Advisory Board, which conference, which takes place in Scotland in brings together the main national libraries who August 2002. use the system.

THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION 23 In recent years, we have worked with Russian International exchanges libraries on a number of projects. Ian We are firm believers in exposing staff to the McGowan, our Librarian, continues to serve on international library environment as part of the International Advisory Board for the State their professional development. Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow, and this year we embarked on a new Russian Our Senior Curator of Manuscripts, Olive venture funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Geddes, spent March 2002 in New Orleans with Foundation. Working in partnership with other the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, bodies, including the British Council and Jouve part of Tulane University. The Newcomb SA of France, we are helping to transform the Center’s Curator of Books and Records, Susan Russian State Library into a modern automated Tucker, will later spend time working in our digital library. Manuscripts division.

Acc.11990 New acquisition. One of a Our Buildings Manager, Bill Jackson, has an number of drawings of Scottish In summer 2001 we supported a study visit to sites by artist David Roberts for international reputation for his expertise in fire- our music collections by Maria Shcherbakova of a planned work on the prevention work and serves as Secretary of the the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and the antiquities of Scotland. Purchased with assistance from Technical Committee on Cultural Resources of Mariinsky Theatre Library, St Petersburg, the Reid Fund. the American-based National Fire Protection Russia. We are grateful to the Ruth Ratcliff Association. In June 2001 he spoke on the Fund for supporting this initiative. subject of fire prevention at a conference of the NFPA’s European Palaces Group held in Thanks to a European Union scholarship Vienna and supported by EU funding. Nearer programme, we were also able to welcome home, he took part in a Royal Institution of Francesca Bettelli, a philosophy graduate from Chartered Surveyors lecture series as part of its Bologna, who spent six months working in both Continuing Professional Development our Collection Development and Manuscripts programme. divisions and made a considerable and valuable contribution to the work of the library.

Our Librarian, Ian McGowan International intern Francesca (right), with Dr John Cole of the Bettelli with Chris Taylor of our Library of Congress at the IFLA Collection Development Conference in Boston. division. Photo: Jacqueline Cromarty Photo: Mark K. Jackson

24 THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION International visits The President of Croatia paid an official visit to the Library in December 2001 and was shown a number of our collections relating to his country, most notably Robert Adam’s own annotated proof copy of his splendid study of the palace at Split: Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia.

New Zealand’s National Preservation Officer, Jocelyn Cuming, paid a fact-finding visit to the Library in July 2001.

The prestigious Grolier Club of New York was shown a display of our treasures in May 2001, and another group of bibliophiles, the Société royale de bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique, was similarly welcomed a month later.

Bookbinding competition winners Aya Nishio and Mark Ramsden. Photo: Dan Tuffs

International events International competition Through an imaginative programme of co- Our ninth Elizabeth Soutar Craft Bookbinding operation with the Italian Cultural Institute in Competition attracted a wide range of high- Scotland, the province of Bari, and the region of quality international entries. First prize went to Abruzzo, we hosted two international Grimsby-based Mark Ramsden, while the conferences: Culture and Publishing in prize went to Aya Nishio from Tokyo, South of Italy and D’Annunzio and the British who is currently studying at the London College Isles. of Printing.

Dante Marianacci, Director of the Italian Institute, HE Stjepan Mesic, President of Consul General Giuseppe Zaccagnini, and Croatia (third from right), is publisher Alessandro Laterza at the conference introduced to our collections by Culture and Publishing in the South of Italy. Dr Iain Brown (right). Photo: Antonia Reeve Photo: Mark K. Jackson

THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION 25 ‘The Library is a key player in the £7.8 million NEWSPLAN 2000 project which brings together libraries across the UK to preserve historic local newspapers and make them accessible to the public.’

DONNA BEBBINGTON

NEWSPLAN SCOTLAND PROJECT

ASSISTANT Collaboration and partnership

Working with others, in the library community and beyond, provides us with new ways to enhance our services and reinforce our role as a major cultural centre.

We have a leading role in the £7.8 million pilot project funded by the Scottish Executive authority on the history of witchcraft, is a NEWSPLAN project, which is preserving local Education Department to set up a web portal in director of the project, which is funded by the newspapers throughout the UK by microfilming line with the Executive’s Cultural Strategy. Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC). them to archival standards. Our Director of General Collections, Cate Newton, chairs the Alan Marchbank, our Director of Public The Library is now a full member of the Scotland-wide committee which selects the Services, Fred Guy, our Director of ICT, and Confederation of University and Research newspapers to be microfilmed, and we have Cate Newton, our Director of General Libraries (CURL), which means that our appointed a NEWSPLAN Scotland Project Collections, served on the organising committee collections will be more immediately accessible Assistant to co-ordinate activities. The project’s for Information for Scotland 8, held on 16 to the higher education community through UK director also operates from the Library. November 2001. CURL’s online catalogue, COPAC.

Together with the five other UK and Irish legal The Library is collaborating with Edinburgh Our staff play an important leadership role in deposit libraries, we participate in the Copyright University’s Department of Scottish History on developing the standard of cataloguing Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft. Louise throughout Scotland, in particular sharing their (CLSCP) which shares out responsibility for the Yeoman of our Manuscripts division, a leading expertise in MARC21, the latest unified creation of catalogue records for new UK and cataloguing format. John Nicklen, Christine Stuart James (Cataloguing and Indexing Irish books. Our contribution of catalogue Group Scotland), with (left) Catherine MacDonald, Brian Hillyard and Ellison Bishop records once more came second only to that of Nicholson (SCURL) and Elaine Fulton (SLIC) at gave papers at a seminar organised by the the British Library. Information for Scotland 8. Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland Photo: Mark K. Jackson (CIGS) in May 2001, and in September we Our Librarian, Ian McGowan, continued to act joined with CIGS to hold a forward-looking as chairman of the Conference of Directors of seminar on ‘Cataloguing the Hybrid Library’. In National Collections (CODONC). Under his February 2002, Robert Thomson and John leadership, CODONC launched its first guide Nicklen spoke at another CIGS meeting on the to Scotland’s major national institutions and problems of cataloguing electronic serials. their collections. Mr McGowan also represented the Library on the Edinburgh Libraries Strategy The problems of cataloguing older publications Group. Our Head of Public Programmes, are one of the specialisms of Brian Hillyard, our Kenneth Gibson, serves on the Advisory Head of Rare Books, who has been working on Committee for Scotland’s Cultural Portal, a the cataloguing of older books with libraries

COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIP 27 across the UK through the Rare Books Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Our Rare Books division has also been advising the National Trust for Scotland on cataloguing books in its many properties.

Our Head of Music, Almut Boehme, working with Peter Baxter, Music Librarian of Edinburgh City Libraries, has played a leading role in bringing together music librarians from throughout Scotland. In November, the Library played host to a Scottish Music Librarians Saltire Literary Award winners Top right: Callum Macdonald Memorial Group meeting. Alastair Mann, Liz Lochhead, Award winner J. B. Pick with Lady Marks (left) and Meaghan Delahunt. and Tessa Ransford. Photo: Mark K. Jackson Photo: Graham Clark Preservation Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award Our commitment to collaboration and University Library to support a funding winners Ian Brotherhood and Jules Horne. partnership is particularly evident in the field of application for conservation work on the archive Photo: Mark K. Jackson preservation. of the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, Loing in France. This year, we were able to and we gave the Scottish Parliament guidance nominate two winners: Ian Brotherhood and The Library co-funds the National Preservation on preservation treatment for the Donald Jules Horne. Office (NPO), and our Librarian chairs its Dewar Library. committee on preservation surrogates. In May, The National Library of Scotland/Saltire we hosted the Preservation Administrators’ In September 2001 we worked with the Research Book of the Year Award was one of Panel, a national committee of the NPO. National Preservation Office to host a Scotland- the Saltire Literary Awards announced at an wide preservation needs workshop. award ceremony in the Library on St Andrew’s Our Head of Preservation, Rab Jackson, day. The winner was Alastair J. Mann for his represents the Library on another national We contributed to an Information Services The Scottish Book Trade 1500-1720, published preservation body, the Heads of Conservation National Training Organisation (isNTO) by Tuckwell Press. of National Institutions. He also served on the investigation into the establishment of National steering group of a project examining the acid Occupation Standards for microfilm camera The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award is a deterioration of the collections of UK and Irish operators. At a local level, we established new award to encourage the publication of libraries. reciprocal training arrangements with the poetry pamphlets – the route by which National Museums of Scotland. important new poetry is often first made public. The Library acted as external verifier for a The award marks the contribution made to review of the Public Record Office of Northern Awards Scottish literature, and in particular poetry, by Ireland. We also carried out an assessment of As a leading cultural organisation, we support printer and publisher Callum Macdonald, who environmental conditions in Sabhal Mór Ostaig, both creative writing and in-depth research died in 1999. It is generously supported by the Isle of Skye, and recommended improvements through a series of annual awards. Michael Marks Charitable Trust, with additional to bring them up to standard for the safe funding from the Saltire Society and numerous storage of its recently-acquired MacCormaig The Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award is private supporters. The winner in 2001 was Collection of antiquarian Gaelic and Highland- jointly administered by the Library and the author and critic J. B. Pick, for his pamphlet related books. Scottish Arts Council, and is designed to give Now. Second prize went to Sarah Martin for Scottish writers the chance to develop their The Further Tree, featuring poems by Kirsten We gave preservation advice to Edinburgh work during a two-month stay at Grez-sur- Kearney.

28 COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIP Donors and depositors

We wish to thank the following individuals and organisations whose

generosity has added to the richness

of our collections in the course of the year.

Donors Ms Gillian Forbes Schena Depositors Regione Abruzzo Mrs Joan Gillon Alan L. Slater Robert Calder Mario Adda Miss Doreen A. Greig Mrs Hazel Goodsir Smith Clan Mackay Society Mark Allaby Mrs Rosemary Halsted Miss Adèle M. Stewart Mr N. Dwelly David de Angelis Roy Hardy Ronnie Tait Findhorn Foundation ASAM HM Government Mrs Jane Taylor Ronald Frame BA Graphis Robert Horne Bill Thomson Right Hon. Lord James Douglas- Provincia di Bari Geoffrey C. Irvine I. D. S. Thomson Hamilton, PC, MSP, QC Bastogi Laterza Tinari Miss Mollie Hunter Mark Beddow Jubilee 2000 Tracce Saltire Society Ronald I. M. Black Mrs Ann MacDonald Mrs Janet E. Watt South Edinburgh Liberal The late Mrs Edith Brown Ruari McLean, CBE, DSC Dr Christopher Whyte Democrats Mrs E. Bruce Douglas McPhie Dr George Bruce Colin McVean Wardie Bowling Club Cacucci Miss Greta Mair Mrs Claire Woods D. Carmichael Henry Mair

Centro nazionale di studi Don Moody Professor John Erickson. Photo: Photo Express Dr George Bruce. Photo: Gordon Wright Dannunziani Professor Luis Moreno Dr Martin Clark Trevor Morrison Ian C. Cunningham Dr David Munro Michael Darwin Mrs April Murphy Deputazione Abruzzese di Storia Miss B. N. Neil Patria Noubs The late Lady Dunnett, OBE Miss Isabel Paterson Ediars Rev C. Forrester-Paton The late Professor John Erickson R. J. G. Payne Mrs Ljubica Erickson Rocco Carabba Ms M. Jane Evans William Roth John di Falco R. N. Russell

DONORS AND DEPOSITORS 29 Trustees and senior staff

Trustees Lady Dunnett, author, artist, and Trustee of the Library, who died in November 2001. Chairman Photo: Gordon Wright Professor Michael Anderson, OBE, MA, PhD, FBA, FRSE

Vice-Chairman The Right Hon. the Lord Emslie, MBE, PC, LLD, FRSE (to October 2001)

Ex-officio The Lord President of the Court of Session The Lord Advocate The First Minister The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates The Minister of the High Kirk (St Giles’), Edinburgh The Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh Central The Crown Agent Appointed by the Faculty of Advocates Librarian and Directors The Lord Provost of Philip H. Brodie, QC Librarian and Secretary to the The Lord Provost of Dundee The Hon. Lord Coulsfield, QC Board of Trustees The Lord Provost of Edinburgh The Right Hon. the Lord Emslie, MBE, PC, LLD, Ian D. McGowan, BA, FRSA The Lord Provost of Glasgow FRSE (to October 2001) Angus Stewart, QC Director of Administration Appointed by the Crown Malcolm G. Thomson, QC Martin C. Graham, MA, DipLib Professor Michael Anderson, OBE, MA, PhD, Malcolm C. N. Scott, QC (from October 2001) FBA FRSE Director of Estates Jack Dale, MA, BD, STM Appointed by the Universities William Jackson, MRICS A. Lorraine Fannin, BA, DipEd Professor Graham D. Caie, MA, PhD (from November 2001) Professor Derek Law, MA, DUniv, FKC, FIInfSc, Director of General Collections Maria A. Russell, MSc, PhD, BSc FLA, FRSE J. Newton, BA, MA, FRSA (from November 2001) Ivor G. Lloyd, BA, DipLib, MLib, ALA Professor Jane H. Ohlmeyer, MA, PhD, FRHistS Director of Information and Communications Technology Appointed by the Convention of Scottish Local R. Fred Guy, BA, MA, DipLib, ALA, MIInfSc Authorities Councillor Bill Lamb Director of Public Services Alan M. Marchbank, MA, PhD Co-opted Lady Dunnett, OBE (died November 2001) Director of Special Collections Professor A. John Forty, CBE, PhD, DSc, FRSE, Murray C. T. Simpson, MA, PhD, MA, ALA, FRSA (to October 2001) LRAM Ian MacDougall, MA, MUniv (to June 2001)

30 TRUSTEES AND SENIOR STAFF Finance and statistics

The National Library of Scotland is a Non- Statement of financial activity 2001-2002 2000-2001 Departmental Public Body which in 2001-2002 £000s £000s was grant-aided by the Scottish Executive INCOMING RESOURCES Education Department. Grant-in-Aid applied to Grant-in-Aid 11,374 11,969 the Library’s running costs amounted to Net income from revenue-earning activities 19 22 £10,316,000 for the year to 31 March 2002. In Gross income from grant-aided activities 26 24 addition, the Library receives a Purchase Grant Interest received 69 77 for the specific purpose of making appropriate Endowment income 13 13 additions to the National Collection. In 2001- 2002 this grant was £1,058,000. Trust funds and Bequests 168 1 11,669 12,106 The bulk of the Library’s resources are directed RESOURCES EXPENDED towards collection development, preservation, Collection development 4,200 3,786 and user access to collections: taken together User-access to collections 3,189 3,132 these activities absorbed 72% of the Library’s Preservation 956 909 total resources for 2001-2002. The remaining Buildings 1,951 1,806 resources were applied to maintaining the Publicity 295 280 Library’s estate and to general administration. Administration 955 943 11,546 10,856 A summary of the Library’s finances is given in NET INCOMING / (OUTGOING) RESOURCES 123 1,250 the Statement of Financial Activity and Balance Change in market value of investments 22 (161) Sheet which are shown in abridged form on this Revaluation of assets 1,613 2,112 page. The Accounts of the Library are subject to Net movement in funds 1,758 3,201 audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General, and are available from the Library’s Director of Fund balances brought forward – 1 April 2000 72,137 68,936 Administration when the audit has been Fund balances carried forward – 31 March 2001 73,895 72,137 completed. Summarised balance sheet as at 31 March FIXED ASSETS 72,483 71,387

CURRENT ASSETS 1,808 1,159 Creditors – amounts due within one year 326 395 NET CURRENT ASSETS 1,482 764

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 73,965 72,151

FINANCED BY Creditors – amounts due after one year 70 14 ACCRUALS AND DEFERRED INCOME Deferred Government Grants 33,299 33,122

CAPITAL AND RESERVES 40,596 39,015 73,965 72,151

FINANCE AND STATISTICS 31 Income other than Net income from Endowment income revenue-earning activities 4% Grant-in Aid 6% 2001-2002 Gross income from grant-aided activities Trust funds and 9% bequests 57%

Sponsorship and support Interest received 24% We are grateful to the following for their sponsorship and support: Expenditure Preservation Publicity 8% 3% 2001-2002 Aberbrothock Charitable Trust Administration Collection development Arts and Humanities Research Board 8% 36% Binks Trust Sydney Black Charitable Trust Buildings 17% Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland User access to Mrs Elizabeth A. Clark’s Fund collections 28% Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation Friends of the National Libraries Gannochy Trust Origins of users 2001-2002 Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust Our reading rooms serve an Australasia Africa & Middle/ Graham Brown Fund international clientele. Three- 1% Far East 2% quarters (75%) gave Scotland Heritage Lottery Fund as their permanent home, with America 5% Europe 5% L. E. Hill Memorial Trust the remainder split between other parts of the UK (12%) UK outside Scotland 12% James Thom Howat Charitable Trust and overseas (13%). Scotland E. M. Jackson 75% Jerwood Charitable Foundation Figures exclude website visitors and visitors to the Map Library. Leng Charitable Trust Mary Robson Lilburne Fund Michael Marks Charitable Trust John Menzies plc Written enquiries 2001-2002 Keppie Trust Fund General written enquiries were Of written enquiries, Fax 46% are from Scotland, Miller Foundation up 11% on the previous year, 3% with e-mail strongly emerging 33% from overseas, and National Art Collections Fund as the preferred means of 21% from the UK outside Post communication. Scotland. Portrack Charitable Trust 25% E-mail Mrs Ruth Ratcliff’s Fund 72% Reid Fund

Denis Roberts Fund 70,000 Research Support Libraries Programme Robertson Trust

Russell Trust 60,000 Saltire Society Website visitors 2001-2002 We continue to record a Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network remarkable growth in external users. The graph shows the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council 50,000 Semple Fraser WS growth in monthly visitor sessions, which now stand at Magnus and Janet Souter Fund around 67,000 per month.

Tay Charitable Trust 40,000

30,000 Jul Jun Jan Oct Apr Feb Mar Sep Aug Nov Dec May

32 FINANCE AND STATISTICS