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National Librarian's Report, June 2019 (PDF) Fi on 1 National Librarian and Chief Report to the Board 26 June 2019 Prof Wade Davis and Dr Scally 1 KEY EVENTS THIS QUARTER 29 March 2019 29 March 2019 8 April 2019 Visited the Tunnocks factory in Attended the Staff Engagement Hosted Alex Graham at Kelvin Uddingston; Group end of year staff party in Hall, introducing him to the the Boardroom; trainees funded by him; 26 April 2019 8 May 2019 9 May 2019 Attended and spoke at the Visited the Paisley Museum for a Represented the Library at an launch of the Business and tour of the development; extraordinary meeting of the Intellectual Property centre in Joint Committee on Legal Glasgow; Deposit at the British Library; 14 May 2019 16 and 17 May 2019 23 May 2019 Introduced Tom Mole, who gave Attended the Research Libraries Held an in conversation with a talk at the Library on Lord UK Board retreat at the Wellcome author Ian Rankin prior to the to accompany Trust; press launch of the the Treasures Display; announcement of the donation of his archive to the Library; 27 May 2019 3 and 4 June 2019 5 June 2019 Attended the launch of the Attended the Chartered Institute Hosted a meeting of the Edinburgh Centre for Data, of Library and Information American Patrons of the Culture & Society at the Professionals(CILIPS) annual National Library and Galleries of University of Edinburgh; conference in Dundee; Scotland (APNLGS) at the Library; 10 and 11 June2019 17 June 2019 20 June 2019 Attended the Heads of Legal Welcomed delegates to the 10th Introduced Dame Anne Glover, Deposit Libraries Committee International Evidence Based President of the RSE who meeting and chaired the Agency Library and Information Practice for Legal Deposit Libraries Board Conference in Glasgow; exhibition at the Library and meeting in Cambridge; hosted a dinner for selected guests. Hidden Collections --- Quarterly Update The Metadata and Maintenance Team continues to catalogue the Ruari McLean hidden collection. Work has moved on to the pamphlet material in the collection, and these items clearly reflect Mr McL The team also provide metadata for uncatalogued material uncovered through both the audit of the Library collections, and through the digitisation programme. The items featured in the photograph below have been identified by staff in Collection Support Services as part of routine audit work. Cataloguing of these invisible hidden collections is an ongoing process. One Third Digital Update The Li progress and managed to exceed the 2018/19 target of 200,000 items. In Q4 we digitised 42,936 items, including 37,928 maps, taking the total number of items digitised for the year to 201,679. We have now digitised 78% of the single-sheet maps of Scotland held by the Library; the remainder are due to be completed by the end of 2020. The combined total of Non-print legal deposit and digitised materials now amounts to over 19% of our physical collections and current projections continue to suggest that we will reach 33% of collections in digital format by around the middle of 2023/24. The mass digitisation team at Causewayside is working on a number of projects, including the MacKinnon photographic collection, India Papers and Scottish Exam papers. They successfully completed digitisation of the Encyclopedia Britannica, finished image capture of the League of Nations material and also began a project to digitise the collection of Library exhibition posters. Over the next quarter they will begin work on digitising An Comunn materials, re-commence capture of the Antiquarian Books Scotland (ABS) collection and start work on Pamphlet Series 4. The team at the Causewayside studio recently welcomed visitors from the National Library of Ireland and the National Library of Wales, who learned about our processes and shared their knowledge and experience. The latter was especially interesting as they use the same I2S equipment and software as we do, and are in the early stages of newspaper digitisation, so there is much to learn from their approach. At George IV Bridge digitisation of the John Murray Archive through our contractor Adam Matthew is progressing well with over 1,300 manuscripts now digitised under this project. Cataloguing for the Medieval Manuscripts Digitisation project which is funded by Alex Graham is progressing finished and staff are enjoying the scope and breadth of vastly different materials dating from the late 11th century right through to the mid-16th century. The geographical origins of the manuscripts cover a wide area, providing a great learning experience for comparing manuscript production practices across western Europe in the middle ages. Procurement is now underway to purchase a new mass digitisation system which provides an unrivalled range of adjustability, allowing us to digitise manuscripts safely at a high production rate. It is hoped that this new system will be in place by August/September 2019. There has also been lots of positive activity at Kelvin Hall. To coincide with the release of Mary, Queen of Scots in cinemas, the moving image team digitised a long forgotten MQS black and white STV melodrama from 1961. The cast included Peter Wyngarde, John Laurie and Tom Conti, and the screening was picked up by Scottish Television who were amazed we had the completed production in our vaults. The team also made available new digital access copies of early works by Peter Mullan and David MacKenzie which were screened at the Glasgow Short Film Festival in March. The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project keeps making very good progress and has now digitally captured around 900 sound items (tapes) since its start in October 2018. Cataloguing is carried out once a tape is digitised, and it is expected that on average circa 2.5 intellectual items will be catalogued per digitised tape. Finally, we have started to raise the profile of our digitisation activity by providing interesting images for the Library's social media channels, using the hashtag #NLSdigitised on Twitter and Instagram. Social Media Officer Stewart Hardy is analysing the engagement levels with this activity: our first three tweets attracted more than 400 retweets and 1000 likes on Twitter between them. The Changing Library Following a review of The Changing Library (TCL) at Library Leadership Team, it was agreed that TCL was effectively mainstreamed with Organisational Development work on staff engagement and that the substantive work covered previously by TCL would be best reported through the Staffing and Remuneration Committee. It was agreed that TCL, as a project, should therefore be considered closed. Digital resources: Global reach: 2018-2019 In this current planning year (2019-2020) we will extend the reach of the Library collections by supplying, where possible, more of our digitised resources to external services (Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, Internet Archive etc). In preparation for this work we reviewed, for 2018-2019, the reach of existing Library resources on su We will prepare figures for 2019-2020 on a quarterly basis. EXTERNAL SERVICES Wikipedia Flickr bit.ly/FlickrNLS 3,300 images used in 2,500 images with 3,601 articles with 2,500,000 views (approx.) 39,000,000 views across 91 wiki projects Internet Archive YouTube bit.ly/YouTubeNLS 4,850 items in 201 videos with 13 collections 75,500 views 1,200,000 views 66,000 minutes watched INTERNAL SERVICES Digital Gallery digital.nls.uk Maps maps.nls.uk 525,614 users with 1,324,786 users with 719,173 view sessions 3,334,479 view sessions 4,411,350 pages views, 6.13 pages 13,340,510, 4.00 pages per session per session 4:12 minutes average duration on 3:17 minutes per session site Interesting observations The most viewed video The top referrer for maps was on YouTube A riveting Facebook with 177,552 squad at work at John referrals, and the English Brown's shipyard, language Wikipedia was the Glasgow in 1949 with 5th referrer to Digital Gallery 37,841 views. with 4,841 referrals. This poignant image of a soldier sleeping in a WWI The English Wikipedia article trench is the most popular image on Flickr with 132,108 on Robert the Bruce contains views. an image of his marriage to The item that has been most viewed from the Internet Isabella of Mar from the Archive is an 1852 copy of A grammar and dictionary of Library’s Forman Armorial the Malay language (produced for Mary Queen of : with a preliminary Scots). The image has never dissertation with been published on the more than 50,000 Library’s website. views. Social Media update Since March, the Library recorded 302,000 engagements across all of our social channels and our follower numbers have increased by 1.9% (Facebook) 5.4% (Twitter) and 16% (Instagram). Back to the Future: 1979-1989 launch On Thursday 2 May we launched the Back to the future: 1979-1989 website and 80s retrospective programme. To promote this we created the #Talking1980s hashtag and, in the weeks leading up to the launch, canvassed our peer organisations to post 80s-related content on the launch day. On the launch day we posted a Twitter thread (and Facebook and Instagram posts) and also engaged with #Talking1980s content from Marks and Spencer, BBC Scotland News, HarperCollins, Orkney Library, National Museums of Scotland and many other archive and heritage organisations. The social buzz around #Talking1980s meant that it trended for most of the day around Scotland and generated further content. We smashed through our overall campaign target, of 1 million Twitter accounts reached, in just one morning and the current total stands at over 16.2 million Twitter accounts (helped by a retweet by Stephen Fry). Sentiment was also highly positive.
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