ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14 Introduction ...... 2
Mission statement ...... 4
Collections ...... 6
Service & Sta! ...... 20
Digital Initiatives ...... 30
Spaces ...... 36
Communications ...... 42
Outreach ...... 48
Governance ...... 60
Installation of the A-Z of the Bodleian Libraries Bodleian Libraries hoarding outside the Weston Library UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Photograph by John Cairns by Photograph IntroductIon
The 2013/14 academic year was a period Other major achievements were the The fast-changing environment of communication and consultation, such underpin the core work of the library. We of both transition and great change for planning and preparations for the scholarly communications, driven by as the Committee on Library Provision also remain grateful to our many donors the Bodleian Libraries. The leadership opening of the Bodleian K B Chen policy changes from research funders and Strategy (CLiPS) and Curators of the and funding bodies who continued to of the organisation was settled with China Centre Library in the University’s in the UK and beyond, has seen a University Libraries, provided a vital forum support the Bodleian during this critical my appointment in January 2014 prestigious new China Centre, and for the vigorous response from the Bodleian for constructive dialogue, but the sta! of year in our history. Without them we as 25th Bodley’s Librarian, following opening of the Leopold Muller Memorial in the provision of training, advice and the Bodleian remain highly attuned to would not have been able to add to our six months when I served as Interim Library – our new library in the Clarendon new services in support of Open Access the needs of the academic community collections, improve our buildings or Librarian. Subsequent changes to the Institute, delivering collections and and Research Data Management. These in Oxford who use our collections enhance our services during the 414th management team began to follow, and services in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. developments will continue to be a key and services, and we maintained an year of our existence. at the same time, major projects begun component of the ‘Digital Shift’ in our astonishingly high quality of service during the librarianship of Dr Sarah The Bodleian exhibitions programme collections and services. throughout the year. This was once again Thomas were continued or brought to broke records for its summer and winter recognised by the graduating cohort a conclusion, and the implementation exhibitions, and saw major travelling The care and maintenance of our ranking Oxford’s libraries the highest out of the new strategy was commenced, exhibitions open in Hong Kong and collections – both physical and digital – of all UK universities for the second year Richard Ovenden, with an increased focus on service New York. Bodleian exhibitions served as remained a central focus of the Libraries’ running in the National Student Survey, Bodley’s Librarian improvement, and a greater emphasis on centrepieces for Oxford University Alumni work, both through preventative a testament to the breadth and depth of digital developments. events in Hong Kong, New York and in actions such as environmental academic materials and library provision Oxford itself. monitoring, improved security and our o!ered to students of all subjects. Among the achievements of the year boxing programme, and also through was the "nalisation of detailed planning During the year we extended opening painstaking conservation work on The academic year 2013/14 saw and preparation for the opening of the hours in a number of libraries, and were individual items. continued pressure on the "nances of research spaces in the Weston Library, able to make signi"cant additions to the library, as we successfully maintained which began at the end of September our general, electronic, and special Our priorities over the year have been a balanced budget in the face of 2014. Critical elements of this work collections. Behind the scenes our sta! informed by feedback from our readers increased costs. Sta! across the Libraries included meticulous planning of the made important improvements to SOLO, and this year we continued to address were diligent in managing budgets and move back of collections and sta! our online catalogue, and developed and issues raised in our 2012 reader survey, prudent in their endeavours. They were Richard as well as working closely with students, Ovenden, into the building, and planning and expanded our digital services to both supported by a strong performance Bodley’s preparedness for scholarly use of the increase access to our collections and researchers and other users of the from the income-generating areas of Librarian building. support researchers across all disciplines. Bodleian. Our formal structures for the Bodleian, whose surpluses help to 02 03 mIssIon statement
This year our annual report presents our work throughout As the University of Oxford aims to lead the world in research and education, so the Digital Initiatives Outreach 2013/14 within the context of the Bodleian Libraries aims to support the University in its mission by providing a world- r%FWFMPQEJHJUBMTFSWJDFTUIBUCFOFñU r1SPNPUFUIF#PEMFJBOTDPMMFDUJPOTUP organisation’s strategic objectives; leading library service. research, teaching and learning a wide audience through exhibitions, these strategies fall under seven events, publications, tours, products and r1SPWJEFBSPCVTUEJHJUBMJOGSBTUSVDUVSF MISSION STATEMENT other initiatives major headings. In the pages that that supports innovative services follow we present examples of The mission of the Bodleian Libraries is to provide an excellent service to support the r6TFEJHJUBMUFDIOPMPHJFTUPTIBSFUIF learning, teaching and research objectives of the University of Oxford; and to develop r&YQBOEBDDFTTUPDPOUFOUVTJOH projects, initiatives and core work collections and maintain access to Oxford’s unique collections for the bene"t of scholarship and established and emerging platforms r$POUSJCVUFUPMPDBM OBUJPOBMBOE across our libraries and service society. r)FMQTIBQFMFHJTMBUJPOBOEQPMJDJFT international cultural life that demonstrate our e!orts relating to digital resources towards achieving these strategic STRATEGIES objectives. This list is not exhaustive Governance Collections Service & Sta! Library Spaces as the volume, range and breadth r.BOBHFUIF#PEMFJBO-JCSBSJFTSFTPVSDFT r1SPWJEFBXFMMJOGPSNFETUBíBCMFUP r&OTVSFPVSTQBDFTNFFUPVSSFBEFST of activity across our service is vast; r"DRVJSFCPPLT BSUJDMFT TPVSDFNBUFSJBMT e!ectively & safely and special collections in all formats help readers and other users receive requirements r4FDVSFGVOETBOEHFOFSBUFJODPNFUP but it provides a useful snapshot of and across all disciplines to support the best possible service r$BSFGPSBOEFOIBODFIJTUPSJDMJCSBSZ further the work of the Libraries and the the work taking place to continue teaching and research and to preserve spaces r$PMMBCPSBUFXJUIBDBEFNJDTBOE University the Bodleian’s tradition of being at cultural and scienti"c heritage students to support and contribute to r.BJOUBJOBTUSPOHMFBEFSTIJQSPMFJOUIF the forefront of library service. r$BSFGPSUIF-JCSBSJFTDPMMFDUJPOT research, teaching and learning Communication international library sector r*NQSPWFUIFBDDFTTJCJMJUZPGNBUFSJBMT r4VQQPSUUIFQSPGFTTJPOBMEFWFMPQNFOU r6OEFSTUBOEUIFOFFETPGSFBEFSTBOE r1VSTVFQBSUOFSTIJQTBOETIBSFE through cataloguing, digitization, of library sta! through training, best other users through consultation and initiatives with academics and publication and academic initiatives practice and innovation analysis of data and feedback organisations to mutual bene"t and in r4VQQPSUUIFDVSBUJPO QSFTFSWBUJPOBOE r$PNNVOJDBUFOFXT QPMJDJFTBOE support of the University’s mission accessibility of research data generated services in a clear and timely manner by the University
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$FOUSBMUPUIFXPSLPGUIF#PEMFJBO-JCSBSJFT This year the Radcli!e Science Library JTTVDDFTTGVMMZNBOBHJOHBOEFOIBODJOHUIF undertook a major review and rationalising WBTUBOEJOUFSOBUJPOBMMZJNQPSUBOUDPMMFD- of the book collection housed there to ensure UJPOTIFME%VSJOHUIFZFBSXFDPOUJOVFEUP that materials on open shelves remain current NBLFJNQPSUBOUBOEQSPNJOFOUBDRVJTJUJPOT and aligned with usage by readers. This IJHIMJHIUTPGXIJDIBSFOPUFEJOUIFUFYUCPY was supplemented by a major purchasing CFMPX initiative in subject areas in which the stock bene!ted from updating. During the seven- An agreement was reached with Oxford month project more than 65,000 titles were University Press to obtain access to all of transferred out of RSL and new items were their e-book collections (OUP Handbooks, Bibliographies, etc.) with new content acquired; the total purchase value of new including the Oxford Scholarly Editions, or updated titles, and additional copies, Very Short Introductions, Social Explorer totalled almost £60,000. The goal to alleviate database, British Academy Publications and overcrowding in certain areas of the collection 453"5&(*$0#+&$5*7&4 e-books from 14 partner university presses. has been achieved; a side bene!t has been This includes all current OUP material, such as that the entire collection was checked for t"DRVJSFCPPLT BSUJDMFT TPVSDFNBUFSJBMTBOETQFDJBMDPMMFDUJPOT Oxford Scholarship Online. accuracy, thus improving the service to JOBMMGPSNBUTBOEBDSPTTBMMEJTDJQMJOFTUPTVQQPSUUFBDIJOHBOE readers. SFTFBSDIBOEUPQSFTFSWFDVMUVSBMBOETDJFOUJöDIFSJUBHF A signi!cant new print resource for research and teaching was added to the Humanities libraries received many t$BSFGPSUIF-JCSBSJFTDPMMFDUJPOT Bodleian’s collections with the launch of generous donations of specialised research the Oxford Futures Library. Based at the t*NQSPWFUIFBDDFTTJCJMJUZPGNBUFSJBMTUISPVHIDBUBMPHVJOH material, and funds to support collecting in Egrove Campus of the Saïd Business School EJHJUJTBUJPO QVCMJDBUJPOBOEBDBEFNJDJOJUJBUJWFT particular subjects at an enhanced level. Most and managed by the Sainsbury Library, the t4VQQPSUUIFDVSBUJPO QSFTFSWBUJPOBOEBDDFTTJCJMJUZPGSFTFBSDI collection comprises circa. 5,000 items relating notable was a bequest from the late Madeline EBUBHFOFSBUFECZUIF6OJWFSTJUZ to futures and scenario planning, and the Barber to support our collections of medieval Bodleian Libraries Map Department work of Pierre Wack and Wayne I Boucher. history and eighteenth-century French Photograph by John Cairns See: http://oxfordfutures.sbs.ox.ac.uk. literature. Radcli!e Science Library 07 Over a year and a half of fundraising and Thanks to a campaign by Times Higher The Libraries continued to build their campaigning to save the personal archive of Education Supplement, the archive of the extensive collection of literary manuscripts William Henry Fox Talbot came to fruition British Universities North America Club when Joanna Trollope, one of the most when the Libraries were able to acquire the (BUNAC) came to the Bodleian Libraries in read British authors, bequeathed her literary archive in August 2014. William Henry Fox August 2013. BUNAC was formed in 1962 archive to the Bodleian. This comprehensive Talbot (1800–77) was one of the greatest as a way to provide North American and UK archive comprises research notes, related polymaths of the Victorian age, and is most students with work exchanges, promoting correspondence and manuscript drafts of famous today for being the British ‘founder international understanding between the UK, Trollope’s 18 contemporary "ction books, of photography’. The archive contains great USA and Canada. The club was also strong in two non-"ction publications and 10 historical potential for fuller understanding of the developing programmes in Australasia, Africa "ction works "rst published under her real breadth of Talbot’s scholarly activities, and of and the Far East. The club’s archives consist of name and re-issued under the pseudonym the in!uences exerted by the women in his material from its founding in the early 1960s Caroline Harvey since 1995, as well as her family, in particular their educative roles, their through to its demise in 2013 and include short stories. The archive also consists of shared interests in botany, languages, art, travel promotional items (posters, brochures etc) and media recordings, articles and interviews and history that are so central to Talbot’s work, minutes. These documents trace the highs about and with the author, and professional and their roles as practitioners, supporters, and and lows of the club’s operation, such as the correspondence, as well as speeches and collectors of the new technology. threat of NUS Travel, the collapse of Courtline, lectures that Trollope has made to literary the death of its "rst General Secretary, and the or charity bodies over the length of her foreign student employment policy changes professional life. of both the US and Canadian Governments. See www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/bunac- archive-"nds-a-new-home/2006043.article
Portrait of William Henry Fox Talbot, Joanne Trollope Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Photograph by Barker Evans 08 09 0#+&$5*7&$BSFGPSUIF-JCSBSJFTDPMMFDUJPOT
$BSFPGPVSMBSHF IJTUPSJDBOEJOUFSOBUJPOBMMZ The conservation of the Bodleian’s JNQPSUBOUDPMMFDUJPOTJTBDSJUJDBMGVODUJPOMFE Sheldon Tapestry Maps, due to be fully CZTUBòBDSPTTUIFTFSWJDFCVUQBSUJDVMBSMZ completed in September 2016, remains XJUIJOUIF$POTFSWBUJPOBOEUIF4UPSBHFBOE on schedule with the conservation of the -PHJTUJDTUFBNT8PSLJOJODMVEFE Worcestershire map, the !rst tapestry map in the series, to conclude in February 2015. For the Preservation and study of the Bodleian !rst time ever the Sheldon Tapestry Maps will Libraries’ early Mesoamerican manuscripts. be displayed alongside other valuable artefacts Among the Bodleian’s most valuable treasures of the Bodleian Libraries collections as part of are !ve pre-Hispanic and early colonial Mexican the Marks of Genius exhibition. Access to the pictorial manuscripts. Due to the fragility of Sheldon Tapestry Maps is eagerly awaited by these manuscripts, in the past very little work scholars and visitors, and has also attracted the had been done to assess their materials and interest of the press. composition. In 2013, the Conservation and Collection Care team was awarded a grant In the spring of 2014 an arrangement with from Cultural Heritage Advanced Research Magdalen College was made to temporarily Infrastructures: Synergy for a Multidisciplinary store 64,000 books from the college library Colour analysis of Mexican codices Approach to Conservation/Restoration. during its two-year renovation project. Material This enabled us to use a mobile laboratory is stored at the Book Storage Facility in Swindon for instrumental analysis (MOLAB) in order and books are delivered directly to a temporary Hyperspectral imaging is being made to characterise the colours present in the library building in the college on a daily basis, available for the study of University collections manuscripts. The results from the analysis have including Saturdays in term time. thanks to a signi!cant grant from the Fell helped scholars and the wider public to learn Fund. This equipment o"ers the possibility to more about the techniques and materials used. reveal hidden texts and underdrawings as well The results have also informed the Bodleian’s as characterising the materiality of heritage preservation and access policy for these objects. Sheldon Tapestry, Worcestershire Map precious and fragile items. 10 11 0#+&$5*7&*NQSPWFUIFBDDFTTJCJMJUZPGNBUFSJBMTUISPVHIDBUBMPHVJOH EJHJUJTBUJPO QVCMJDBUJPOBOEBDBEFNJDJOJUJBUJWFT
CATALOGUING
The Collections and Resource Description This year cataloguing backlogs were cataloguing was introduced for foreign- (C&RD) team ran the Catalogue Clean-up pro- substantially reduced or avoided using language materials for which no language ject, a six-month project to address two areas a three-pronged approach. Brief records for expertise exists in the Resource Description of ‘dirty data’ in the online catalogue – barcode low-priority legal deposit materials were batch section of C&RD. All this meant that new items numbers that were in the Book Storage Facility upgraded with fuller records from the British were available to readers more quickly than Information System but were not in the online National Bibliography database; items that before. catalogue, and records in the online catalogue arrived in the C&RD department with full or that represented unaccounted-for items, left Cataloguing-in-Publication records were fast- over after the Inventory Control project was completed in 2011. During the course of the tracked to their destination without passing project, 3,438 unknown barcodes were reu- through cataloguers’ hands; and permanent nited with their records in the online catalogue, brief records were created by acquisitions sta! and 1,959 shelf marks representing left-over for non-academic donations and other low- items were cleaned up. priority material. In addition, a lower level of
Items in the Bodleian Japanese Library
At the end of August 2014, over 74,000 During 2013/14 the total number of records from the Japanese National Institute records for items in the Oxford University of Informatics (NACSIS) catalogue were Research Archive (ORA – www.ora.ox.ac.uk) added to the Bodleian Libraries’ Aleph; the increased from 116,000 to 167,000. Nearly holdings information from Japanese Allegro 20,000 downloads of full text items were made (the local catalogue of Chinese and Japanese during the year and the site saw over a quarter holdings) were matched and added to them. of a million hits. Since April, new books have been catalogued on NACSIS and imported to Aleph directly. All Japanese records are now available on the SOLO catalogue. 12 13 Iris Germanica, Flora Graeca
Credit Sheradian Library of Plant Taxonomy, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
DIGITIZATION ACADEMIC INITIATIVES
2013/14 saw the Bodleian and Vatican September 2013 saw the second suc- August 2014 saw the start of a three-year Libraries digitize 1,000 volumes for the cessful two-day Early English Books Online Leverhulme Trust-funded project, Painting by Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project. Text Creation Partnership conference on Numbers, which will allow the enigmatic col- By the end of July 2014 more than half a million Digital Methods and Methodologies, organised our palette of botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer’s page images in total were made freely available by BDLSS. It attracted delegates from around watercolours to be characterised. Bauer used a online through the project website http:// the world, and provided a forum for discus- code system on his extensive travels to record bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Launched in December sion of traditional and digital research into the colours which he then recreated on his return 2013, the site is still attracting new visitors and early modern period using texts co-created to Oxford. The code was subsequently lost; this has established a solid base of regular users; in by BDLSS over the past 14 years. At least four project aims to ‘crack’ it. May, almost 35% of visits to the site were from projects and a conference in Japan were born repeat visitors. The site has been visited by of meetings and discussions at the conference. The Bodleian appointed four collabora- users from 196 di!erent countries. tive post-doctoral researchers to work with Michaelmas term 2013 saw the inaugural library collections in the "elds of 15th-century Digital editions of the full text of the Bodleian seminars in the Bodleian Digital Future of intellectual history, the history of photography, Shakespeare’s First Folio were published Editing Series, with Dr Brett Hirsch (University the development of indexing, and conservation between April and September 2014. The project of Western Australia) and Professor Greg Walker science. began with a crowd-funded initiative to stabilise (University of Edinburgh). Their success inspired the volume and to provide high-quality digital a Fell Fund bid to host a broader series, look- Responding to academics’ requests, Con- images. The online interface was a university- ing at the many aspects of editing which an servation Research has focused on developing wide collaboration involving Bodleian Digital academic might encounter during their career, novel non-destructive analytical and imaging Libraries Systems and Services (BDLSS), the Oxford including peer-reviewed contributions to tools to make accessible information that is not 10th Greek Bible and writings of the e-Research Centre and IT Services. Visits to the monographs, journal editing and critical edit- currently available. One project resulted in extra Philosopher Maximus Tyrius website (http://"rstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk) have ing. The series continued in Hilary term 2014 value for the Bodleian Arshama site (http:// Copyright Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana increased by 211% against the previous period with Danny Milam (Reviews in History, Institute arshama.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/) through an interac- since publication began. of Historical Research). Six more speakers were tive web version of Re!ectance Tomography arranged for Michaelmas term 2014. Imaging.
14 15 Publications from staff
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&MFDUSPOJDEBUBCBTFT BWBJMBCMF *UFNTUSFBUFEJOUIF The year saw the development of a new On 6 December 2013 at Keble College, 1,339 service: ORA-Data, a research data catalogue an international audience of over 70 library DPOTFSWBUJPOXPSLTIPQ and preservation archive for storing and dis- professionals gathered for the Annual Work- 11,346 "VEJPWJTVBMJUFNT 27,561 seminating datasets produced by members shop of the International Association of FRVJQFNFOU of the University. During 2014 preparation for University Libraries (IATUL). Organised and release of this new Bodleian Libraries service led by a team of librarians from the RSL on the #PSSPXFST focused on the installation of an online self- theme ‘Research Data Management: Finding #PPLTSFQBJSFE #PYFTNBEF archiving data deposit form which can be used our Role,’ the event provided an opportunity 27,450 by dataset creators across all disciplines. As well for information exchange and networking on 1,422,353 as an archive for research data underpinning this important topic. A packed programme of -PBOT 1,000 671m journal articles, ORA-Data will be a catalogue of 12 speakers covered current projects in several 55,000 datasets. ORA-Data enables Oxford datasets to countries enabling data deposit and ‘!nd’ abil- d 47, 663 ,+ be preserved, discovered and, most important- ity. In the online survey the participants rated a ly, cited. In 2013 the Bodleian Libraries signed Social Sciences priorities for research sup- the workshop as excellent with one attendee .FUFSTPGBSDIJWFTBDRVJSFE port this year included services for Research an agreement on behalf of the University with calling it ‘the most substantive and informative 3FDPSET *UFNTGSPN4QFDJBM DataCite (at the British Library) that permits the Data Management (RDM). The Data Librar- IATUL Workshop I ever attended.’ The presen- $PMMFDUJPOTDPOTVMUFE FOUFSFEJOUP &MFDUSPOJDCPPL Libraries to allocate Digital Object Identi!ers ian worked collaboratively with colleagues in tations are online at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ 03" 36,541 *UFNTBEEFE $IBQUFSTEPXOMPBEFE (DOIs) to datasets held in ORA-Data. Release of Research Services and IT Services to establish science/RDM2013. 272,585 the ORA-Data service is due late 2014. the RDM website, http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk, 'VMMUFYUJUFNT 53,454 1SJOUFEJUFNTEJTQPTFE and the RDM enquiries helpline, researchdata@ In January, the Bodleian Libraries’ Spe- FOUFSFEJOUP03" 5,703 The role of the Libraries in supporting the ox.ac.uk. The Data Librarian also ran a set of cial Collections department held its annual 5,906,881 $BUBMPHVFE research lifecycle was re"ected in the Research RDM workshops for library sta# and reviewed research fellowship competition for visiting 8,373,561 Excellence Framework. For instance the library RDM training provision available to DPhil and scholars. Scholars can apply for a growing 7,728,797 "DDFTTFTUP 315,696 service was cited in all 12 of the Social Sciences early career research sta#. number of fellowships which carry stipends 11,746,808 JUFNTJO03" Units of Assessment environment statements to support research visits. Ten visiting scholars and in two of the impact statements. have been appointed to library fellowships for 3 the academic year 2014/15. %BUBCBTFTFBSDIFT &MFDUSPOJDBSUJDMFTEPXOMPBEFE 18 OBJECTIVES: Provide a well-informed staff able to help readers and other users receive the best possible service. Support the professional development of library staff through service & staff training, best practice and innovation.
This year our Sta! Development Team Improving access for disabled readers launched a pilot mentoring scheme for all to library services and facilities continues support sta! in the Libraries. A number of sta! to be a priority for the Bodleian Libraries. members were paired with one of our trained Recent developments in 2013/14 include the mentors and feedback so far has been very opening of the new accessible entrance to the positive, with mentoring a successful means of Radcli!e Camera, while ongoing services for passing on knowledge and providing support. students with disabilities include special loan The scheme will be evaluated in the near periods and proxy borrowing, plus access to a future with a view to expanding it to include range of specialist equipment and ergonomic academic-related sta!. furniture on demand. This year a new working group was convened to bring disability liaison Some sta! members are working to librarians from across the Libraries together build their knowledge at an advanced with student representatives to further improve level. A selection of those who have taken the access, information and support. Developing Learning and Teaching Programme have gone on to gain recognition as Associate Fellows of the Higher Education Academy, STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 2013/14 meaning they now meet the UK Professional Standards Framework, a comprehensive • Provide a well-informed staff able to help readers and other users set of professional standards and guidelines for receive the best possible service Higher Education providers and leaders. • Collaborate with academics and students to support and contribute to research, teaching and learning • Support the professional development of library staff through University of Oxford Access Team training, best practice and innovation outside the Radcli!e Camera Bodleian Social Science Library Photograph by Rob Hughes 21 We continue to support training of future generations of librarians and archivists. This year the Bodleian Libraries have augmented their Graduate Trainee Librarian scheme with the Developing the Next Generation Archivist project, part of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Skills for the Future programme, to provide trainees with the foundation they need Bodleian Health Care Libraries to develop an archives career at a time when libraries are evolving to curate increasingly Bodleian Libraries 2013-14 Graduate Trainee Librarian intake digital collections. Working alongside curatorial The Libraries’ Accessible Resources New posts have been established to As part of ongoing work to o!er more sta!, trainees focus on developing digital Acquisition and Creation Unit (ARACU) meet changing service needs. For instance, copyright advice and support to readers, we archiving know-how as well as acquiring more Internships and student placements provides highly tailored support to disabled a new position of Open Access Subject were pleased to appoint Tim Pad"eld to the traditional curatorial skills such as interpreting also supported knowledge exchange. BDLSS students, including the provision of materials Librarian was created to ensure that accurate new post of Copyright Consultant. Tim is an collection material and working with scholars. and the Oxford e-Research Centre co-hosted in electronic format and advice and training information regarding fast-evolving Open internationally recognised copyright consultant At the same time the trainees will undertake two interns from the Graduate School of Library on equipment and software applications. Access would be disseminated across the and is available to provide guidance on a an accredited vocational quali"cation with and Information Science at the University of The Unit produces electronic text, Braille, University and Libraries. This is a coordinating wide range of copyright issues to academic Aberystwyth University through distance Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The interns spent audiobooks and tactile diagrams. In 2013- role in support of the Information and Advice sta!, researchers, students, librarians and learning, with their course fees met in full by six weeks in Oxford, which included attendance 14 ARACU processed over 1,500 items for 16 strand of the University’s Open Access project other interested parties. Further information the project. The Bodleian trainees recruited at the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer students referred from the Disability Advisory www.openaccess.ox.ac.uk to o!er a range of on copyright issues, including FAQs, can be in 2013/14 began their two-year training School (DHOxSS). They contributed to current Service, supported by a valuable network of services to assist researchers in their work. In found at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/using- programme in September 2014, joining the work on Research Objects and data curation. 10 volunteers. Oxford is the only HEI in the BDLSS the role of Digital Research Facilitator this-library/copyright or by contacting Tim at: other 20 trainees on our general programme. Bodleian Special Collections also hosted interns UK with an alternative formats centre that was created to help with preparing and [email protected]. A further four trainees will complete the from the University during the summer and an processes all materials in the students’ reading managing our many projects in the area of programme over the next "ve years. intern from Mainz holding a Leonardo da Vinci list, rather than limiting the student to a set digital research. scholarship, who for 12 weeks in autumn 2013 small amount of books. This approach allows learned about all aspects of Special Collections the student to explore the reading list as their librarianship from presentation of manuscripts non-disabled peers do, enabling them to excel in classes to planning for digitisation of rare in their studies. materials. 22 23 OBJECTIVE: Collaborate with academics and students to support Induction and reader support and contribute to research, teaching and learning.
Induction courses provide readers with an essential Throughout the year, subject librarians taught Sta! kept readers and academics remains overwhelmingly positive with 100% Several librarians participated in the introduction to Library services. Across the Bodleian research skills embedded within the academic abreast of new issues and services relevant "nding the service easy to use, and 99% happy November Oxford Open Science meeting Libraries 436 induction events were held during the curriculum and a total of 431 information skills to their research. Across all subject areas sta! with the quality of the scan received. that brought over 20 researchers together for 2013/14 academic year, attended by 9,423 participants. workshops were held, attended by 5,739 participants. participated in wider events to raise awareness the workshop Content Mining: Scholarly Data At undergraduate level, these sessions provide vital Subject librarians also taught on 58 WISER sessions, of the issues around Open Access (OA) A partnership between the Libraries Liberation. The report and presentation from support in helping students navigate the libraries, attended by 928 people. Publishing, including training sessions and and Durham University is enabling the the workshop leader Peter Murray-Rust are understand their reading lists and locate resources drop-in sessions to provide help and advice. systematic identi"cation of pigments in available online at http://tinyurl.com/ofyygfc. online and in print. Postgraduate induction emphasizes Training sessions covered issues related to medieval manuscripts. Conservation Research online research tools and acts as a springboard to more Libraries sta! also provide one-to-one support on policies and compliance requirements of is helping bring together medievalists and Three librarians presented at the advanced information skills training. Online induction is an ongoing basis. Point-of-need research assistance di!erent funding bodies, as well as tools and chemists to use Raman spectroscopy to reveal Chartered Institute of Library and Information also available through the ‘Library Assistant’ mobile app. continues to be highly valued and 747 researchers help available through the OA Online website, the identity, for the "rst time, of the colours Professionals Health Libraries Group conference booked an in-depth one-to-one consultation with and included information about Oxford used in the illumination of these rare and in Oxford, and Eli Harris presented a keynote their librarian. The most requested one-to-one support Research Archive depositing. exquisite treasures. paper on the work of our outreach team at The content of the Bodleian’s centrally-run came from NHS, MedSci and Social Sciences the 2014 Irish Health Science Libraries Group information skills programme was further strengthened Subject specialists at the Taylor Institution In collaboration with the History Faculty, conference in Dublin. this year with the addition of new classes including Library and other Humanities libraries were the Bodleian participated in the Cultures of ‘Finding and Converting Geospatial Information’ and particularly active in collaborating with Knowledge EU Collaboration in Science redevelopment of ‘Tech Tools – Reference Management’ academic colleagues to support the activities and Technology (COST) initiative, joining (which has become one of the Bodleian’s most popular of the UNIQ summer school, which allows participants from over 22 countries to analyse workshops). Bodleian provision of online tutorials prospective students to experience a taster of semantic models and infrastructure for the for readers was also enhanced with the addition of life at the University. study of correspondence networks. The Electronic Legal Deposit and Finding Journal Articles. Bodleian is particularly involved with the data Workshops provided to the Doctoral Training Centres The Scan & Deliver service from the Book modelling and interoperability working groups. included sessions on research data management, search Storage Facility has grown in popularity, with an strategies, copyright, citations and altmetrics. increase in requests of 26%. Feedback received via the Scan and Deliver service questionnaire
24 25 Bodleian sta! have won numerous new Open Access requirements mandated by Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Established in 2007 by Bodleian and Students rank Oxford awards for supporting teaching and Research Councils UK. The Open Access Team Services (BDLSS) is currently participating IT sta!, Digital Editors in the Pub is a learning. In November 2013 four members is a cross-departmental group with members in or leading ten funded research projects monthly meeting for researchers, students Libraries top in the UK of Bodleian Libraries sta! and one Libraries from the Bodleian Libraries, IT Services and in close collaboration with academics from and colleagues in academic support team received Oxford Teaching and Research Services. around the University. Our current success departments who are working in digital At the end of 2013/14 results from the Learning Awards for making an outstanding rate for grant funding is approximately 90%. editing, in its broadest sense. It continues to 2014 National Student Survey (NSS) showed that 98% of students at the Uni- contribution to the support of teaching and In addition the Bodleian Education Among these projects, BDLSS received thrive as a hub for discussions in the digital versity of Oxford felt its libraries met their learning. Andrew Honey from Conservation Librarian, Catherine Scutt, was shortlisted for funding for their "rst o#cial collaboration humanities, sharing knowledge and expertise needs. Oxford’s libraries were ranked the and Collection Care received an award for an OUSU Student-led Teaching Award, and with the Oxford e-Research Centre: a Linked in an informal environment. highest out of all UK universities. also received an OxTalent Award 2014 for his work in developing the syllabus and Data prototyping project entitled Early ‘Use of technology to support transition’. The delivering sessions for the Bibliography and English Print in the HathiTrust. It is a child The Bodleian Centre for the Study of This follows from the 2013 NSS survey Study of Paper summer school, the "rst Subject Consultant for Slavonic and Eurasian project of the HathiTrust Research Center’s the Book hosted a wide range of research in which Oxford students also rated the o!ered by the Bodleian Centre for the Study Studies, Angelina Gibson, received a Bodleian Mellon-funded Workset Creation for Scholarly meetings and symposia during the year, in University of Oxford’s libraries as some of of the Book. Matthew Kimberley from Special Libraries Award in support of Teaching and Analysis project: http://worksets.htrc.illinois. partnership with The Oxford Research Centre the best in the UK. Oxford’s libraries have Collections received an award for his outreach Learning for the delivery of research skills edu/worksets/?page_id=17. The project in the Humanities (TORCH) and the faculties consistently been at or near the top of the programme for Sanskrit Studies, which workshops and one-to-one support within is using Linked Data to augment string- of English and History, to investigate the poll over the past five years. included evening classes, a summer school Russian and Eastern European Studies. based metadata across two collections (the history of Shakespearean scholarship, errors and talks for schools. Dinah Manisty (Oriental HathiTrust and Early English Books Online in early modern printing, 18th-century ideas The survey asks final-year undergraduates Institute Library) and Tim Kirtley (Wadham Text Creation Partnership), to improve and of celebrity, and the history of science in the to provide feedback on their courses in a nationally recognised format. It covers sev- College) received an award for improving facilitate investigation. early 20th century. These meetings brought en areas, including teaching, assessment, access to the Persian Collections at Wadham together postgraduates, visiting scholars academic support, organisation and learning College, a project which bene"ted greatly and senior academics from Oxford and other resources. More than 300,000 students from generous encouragement and e!ort on universities. The symposia were convened by responded and the results are published on the part of Gillian Evison (Oriental Studies). members of Oxford faculties and by Bodleian Unistats.com, where they offer valuable Finally, the Open Access Team received an Visiting Fellows. information to prospective students and award for the rapid development and delivery their advisors. of Open Access training and an enquiry line to support researchers getting to grips with the
Taylor Institution Library 26 2709 Hertford College Valentine’s Day 2013/14 Facts & Statistics display curators
Special Collections and Exhibitions sta" worked together to enable student curation of displays of rare books and manuscripts. The displays, open to the public in the Old Library’s 127 Proscholium, included the Valentine’s Day display, ‘How to say ‘I love you’, curated by two undergraduates from Hertford College. Recruitment campaigns Inducation sessions 385 ` 22 Graduate trainees started 16,736
Senior researchers from Oxford and other The Centre for the Study of the universities gave weekly masterclasses Book supported the Balliol-Bodley Scholar, during Michaelmas Term, as well as special postgraduate student Nicholas Allred, who lectures throughout the year, demonstrating examined an uncatalogued item from the to postgraduates and members of University Bodleian rare books collections, a scrapbook Students received faculties how the Bodleian’s collections could of patriotic and romantic songs made by 143,319 information skills Sta! be used to gain information about intellectual a young lady in Jane Austen’s day. Allred >training and material history from book bindings, early describes his investigation in this !lm: https:// 522 modern music collections, editions of Galileo’s www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_haGvNj8c Pages provided in works, and other topics in medieval and early alternative formats for Sta! development modern studies. A masterclass directed by the print-disabled students course attendees 2,739 visiting Lowe Lecturer, Erik Kwakkel (Leiden), engaged postgraduates in medieval studies in a hunt through the Bodleian collections for medieval books of a particular shape (‘holster N books’) that enabled quick consultation. Centre of the Study of the Book research on Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst 1583 28 OBJECTIVE: Develop digital services that benefit research, teaching digital initiatives and learning
The Bodleian played a vital role in the This year Bodleian Libraries sta! members Modern Languages "nalists, helping them provision of access to new digital content received an impressive four OxTALENT awards access much-needed study material while made available to the Legal Deposit Libraries for innovative use of digital technology. the library was closed. The Libraries had two of the UK following the introduction of The OxTALENT annual awards are part of the winners in the ‘Use of technology to support national legislation in 2013. Working with University Teaching Awards Scheme, and transition’ category. The ‘Library Assistant’ colleagues across the Bodleian Libraries and recognise members of the University who have mobile induction app helps undergraduates their counterparts at the other Legal Deposit made innovative use of IT in order to foster get to grips with Oxford libraries; Ollie Bridle Libraries, sta! at BDLSS worked to ensure that learning and academic practice, develop more received the award on behalf of a team of sta! non-print legal deposit material is discoverable e!ective links between teaching and research who worked on the project. Catherine Scutt via SOLO and can be accessed in a secure or improve impact through outreach and and Sophia Staves created ‘Please play with online environment. public engagement. Ian Chilvers and Lucile your phone during this lecture!’ by using the Deslignères received awards in the ‘Use of induction app to enhance the presentation BDLSS created a website for the online WebLearn for learning support and outreach element of the library inductions they run for presentation and explanation of the letters to students’ category. Ian’s award was for his PGCE students. See: http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/ of Arshama, a "fth-century Persian prince, instrumental part in setting up and managing oxtalent. the oldest collection in the Bodleian Library the Social Science Library (SSL) eReadings (http://arshama.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/). Colleagues service. The SSL eReadings service is hosted on in Oriental Manuscripts and Conservation and the SSL WebLearn site, and it provides access STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 2013/14 Collection Care collaborated with academics to digital copies of print-only book chapters • Develop digital services that benefit research, teaching and learning at two universities on research into the letters, and articles cited on reading lists. Over 700 and advised BDLSS on the content and features digital copies have been created and hosted • Provide a robust digital infrastructure that supports innovative required for the website. under the terms of the CLA HE Licence. Ian and services his colleagues are proactive in adding reading • Expand access to content using established and emerging platforms list material to SSL eReadings, and respond to requests received throughout the year. Lucile • Help shape legislation and policies relating to digital resources was recognised for providing resources for
31 OBJECTIVE: Provide a robust digital infrastructure that supports innovative services
This year the Bodleian Libraries undertook support new forms of research, teaching and a major review of its digital activity and began public engagement. work to produce a robust digital strategy to support the Libraries in responding to the The upgrade of the software that powers needs of contemporary and future scholarship SOLO, the Bodleian Libraries’ catalogue for the in all disciplines. We are calling this work the major collections, took place in September ‘Digital Shift’. The development of the ‘Digital 2013 and resulted in a system that still Shift’ began in Michaelmas term 2013 and will functions as usual but with a number of new continue over the coming months and years, and valuable features, many of which were forming the basis of discussion with scholars requested by readers. These include: browse in the University in order to best align our searching (the ability to browse records work to foster collaboration with, and support using A--Z lists of authors, titles or subjects); of, academic initiatives of all kinds. The !nal advanced date-range search; improved export strategy and resulting projects will focus on: options; and the ability to re!ne results using 1. Digital discovery – ensuring that all users more than one option in the facet list (on the have easy access to the information they left hand side of the screen in SOLO). All of need; these enhancements have made SOLO more 2. Digital preservation – making Oxford’s digital usable. Our teams continue to work to develop assets (electronic documents, research and improve SOLO, and welcome comments data, digitised collections etc.) available for via the feedback link on the SOLO front page. immediate use and for future generations; and 3. Digitization infrastructure – allowing the transfer of Oxford’s unique treasures and Readers at the Sainsbury Library, research outputs (including 3D material) Said Business School into digital form to help protect them and to
32 33 OBJECTIVE: Expand access to content using established and emerging platforms 2013/14 Facts & Statistics
While our Legal Deposit print collection web archiving. An annual crawl captures as We recently secured a $685,000 grant from in 2013/14 grew by 80,000 monographs and much of the UK’s presence on the web as pos- the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two- Digital documents available in 78,000 journals including newspapers, in col- sible and this comprises more than 4 million year project building on the existing Shared laboration with the British Library and other websites. The #rst domain crawl conducted in Canvas and International Image Interoperability library collections Legal Deposit libraries and under the new 2013 contains 1.6 billion URLs or 31 terabytes of Framework tools. The Shared Canvas project legislation, we were also able to add more than compressed data. In addition, planned special has been a long-running international collabo- 2,141,066 365,000 electronic articles to our collections. collections were curated to include British par- ration in which BDLSS have played an integral We are collecting more material that is only ticipation in the Winter Olympics, the European role. It will o!er scholars of many disciplines the available electronically, and 22 publishers so Parliament Elections and the Centenary of the means to be able to compare, annotate and Records entered First World War, and rapid response collections 367,958 far have elected to switch their method of share digitised manuscripts on one platform into ORA 166,908 deposit from print to electronic. Sta! in Legal captured the UK online response to current from collections at any participating institution, Deposit Operations have incorporated new events. Archived collections of this kind in- revolutionizing the way humanities research Views of digitized book or cluded the death in December 2013 of Nelson processes into their work"ows so that records is practised. This recent donation will pay for manuscript Items added in SOLO now link directly through to electronic Mandela. development work, new roles and small trial 42,244 this year content. More than 2,000 holdings records for projects commissioned from within Oxford. serials were closed on SOLO and they point to Much work went into raising the awareness continuation of the electronic Legal Deposit and understanding of Electronic Legal Deposit Accesses to 315,696 (eLD) receipt. Readers within the premises of (eLD) amongst our readers and library sta!. To items in ORA the Bodleian Libraries now have instant access share information and facilitate feedback, activi- to this content. ties included the circulation of termly brie#ngs, meetings and eLD forums for library sta!. The The Legal Deposit UK Web Archive eLD Group oversaw the revamp of both public is growing rapidly and a Legal Deposit Web and intranet eLD webpages. The Information Archiving Prioritisation Group has been formed Skills Co-ordinator updated the SOLO guide, to provide a process for resolving key questions published an online eLD tutorial and provided relating to the prioritisation of legal deposit training slides for library sta!. 34 OBJECTIVE: Ensure our spaces meet our readers’ requirements SPACES Care for and enhance historic library spaces
Over the year we saw the opening of two Preparations were underway through the new libraries and the !nal stage of the year for the opening of the Leopold Muller refurbishment of the Weston Library, all !rst- Memorial Library of the Oxford Centre for class resources for readers. Across the service Hebrew and Jewish Studies, which was to numerous initiatives were led to ensure our be institutionally and physically integrated spaces meet our readers’ requirements: into the Bodleian Libraries and reopened in the Clarendon Institute in September 2014. The space previously occupied by the Chinese Planning for the move into The Studies Library was modestly refurbished and Bodleian K B Chen China Centre Library the open-shelf collections selected to support was completed with the operational opening the main areas of research in Hebrew and taking place just after the end of the period of Jewish Studies, with access to other research this report, on 4 August. The planning ensured material held in the Book Storage Facility. The that the new library would be able to provide a move also provides the opportunity to select variety of study spaces including a large, quiet from other holdings of the Bodleian Libraries to reading room, a small group study/meeting develop one of the largest collections in Europe room, formal and informal seating in the main dedicated to Hebrew and Jewish Studies. reading area, and study carrels for short use or for project or research groups. The move to Above: New location of the Leopold the new library also provided an opportunity Muller Memorial Library to refresh the open-shelf collections with additional selections and transfers from the Left: The Duke of Cambridge , Prince William, opening the new University STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 2013/14 Social Science Library to provide an enhanced of Oxford’s Dickson Poon China Centre print collection for Chinese Studies, backed up • Ensure our spaces meet our readers’ requirements by access to more specialised research material • Care for and enhance historic library spaces held in the Book Storage Facility.
37 Builders working on the roof of the Weston Library
Work continued on the historic New Other initiatives and improvements across the access control gates and book detectors Bodleian (Weston) Library as it moved into Bodleian Libraries included: providing enhanced security for books and the !nal !t-out phase. The level of activity journals. Closing the old entrance allowed the inside the structure rose considerably over At the Bodleian Social Sciences Library Upper Camera to be incorporated into the 2013/14 as a complex phase of work involving (SSL) a minor works project soundproofed security zone of the Old Library and Radcli"e many di"erent trades and specialisms moved a further four study carrels for readers using Camera so that readers can now move freely, ahead, with over 250 workers on site every voice-assistive technologies. A project was with their books, to and from the Upper day. Skylights, o#ce partitioning and building also led with the Department of Politics for the Camera. services (electrical, water pipes, etc) were all SSL to host the Division’s Q-Step Centre for carefully put in place, and over 40km of new undergraduate quantitative methods training. Planned improvements are underway across shelving was installed. The barcoding of the many libraries: archival collections at Rhodes House Library, In the Old Bodleian Library a scheme of part of the preparatory collection moves work modest refurbishment and signi!cant service Intensive planning is now underway in for Weston, was also well underway this year. enhancements in the Upper and Lower reading the Bodleian Law Library following approval By the end of the year the building was taking rooms involved installing new lighting and from Council for the £10.8 million project to shape with many spaces !nished, waiting for carpets throughout, resulting in rooms that are transform the St Cross Building. The English books and people to move in. The relocation of now quieter and more temperate. Self-collect Faculty Library is also planning for changes collections and services to the Weston Library reserves now operate in both reading rooms in the St Cross Building which create a new began at the close of 2013/14 and will continue and Saturday deliveries from the Book Storage entrance to the library and necessitate until 2016. The building work remained on Facility, trialled in the previous year, have rearrangement of the main desk and sta" target for opening to readers in September become core services. o#ces. 2014 and to the public in March 2015. At the Radcli!e Camera following a The Radcli!e Science Library conducted program of works, a new entrance was opened a space survey (Trinity term 2014) to seek on 1 October 2013, 150 years after the previous readers’ thoughts regarding current spaces. entrance was created. The new entrance is Results are being analysed and will be used in accessible to readers with restricted mobility planning future con!guration of the Radcli"e
via a path on the south lawn. It opens to an Science Library. English Faculty Library integrated reception and service point with 38 39 2013/14 Facts & Statistics
Left: Taylor Institution Library 547 libraries Below: Book retrieval in the Bodleian Libraries Book Storage Facility 27 3 3,370 Study spaces Open-access v computers The Humanities Division revived planning Other work to care for and enhance our for a new academic building at the Radcli!e historic spaces: Observatory Quarter to serve six faculties moving to the site. A library for this building Rhodes House saw the book moves of the Open hours per week will provide enhanced support for graduate Bodleian Library’s Commonwealth and African Humanities students and new developments such as digital Studies collections from Rhodes House to the 77 humanities as well as continuing to provide ac- Book Storage Facility. The project started in Reader visits cess to subject librarians and to support the February 2013 and was completed in August 168 Medicine (Cairns) reading list needs of undergraduates. 2014. In total over six kilometres of material Science 77 (189,000 items) were transported down the Discussions also took place with the facul- A420 to Swindon. Some archive collections Social Science 79 2,209,746 ties of Medieval and Modern Languages and remain at Rhodes House and will be moved to Linguistics to consider further refurbishment of the Weston Library in the autumn of 2014 to the Taylor Institution building with a view to be consulted in the new Charles Wendell David enhancing its role as the centre for research in Reading Room. the subjects. v 40 OBJECTIVE: Understand the needs of readers and other users through communications consultation and analysis of data and feedback
In Trinity term 2012 the Libraries under- Across the Libraries, individual service took a nationally-recognised survey called areas have been assessing reader needs. For LibQual. The survey sought feedback from example in 2014 a one-year collaborative pro- readers across the service. On the back of the ject focused on addressing e!ective research survey an action plan was developed outlining data preservation in the digital humanities. how reader comments and concerns would Funded by the John Fell Fund and managed be addressed. In 2013/14 much progress was by BDLSS, the project worked closely with 13 made in solving the issues and making im- digital humanities projects to investigate the provements requested, which cover such areas nature of the research materials they are using/ as accessing and !nding resources, improving creating and the preservation requirements spaces and extending opening hours. arising from these, and use our !ndings to inform the central provision of data preserva- The launch of the Bodleian Libraries tion services. Strategy (2013–16) in February 2014 was the culmination of a year’s work of assessment, re- During the year the Bodleian Librar- view, consultation with users, and planning to ies received funding from the Clore Du"eld identify service needs and priorities. In addition Foundation to investigate the physical library to setting priorities for the Libraries the strategy of the future. This project, ‘The 21st-century shows how we will support the University of library’, has gathered data from academics and STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 2013/14 Oxford in its strategic aims. The associated students throughout the humanities, as well as implementation plan speci!cally details how reviewing existing research on the issue. The • Understand the needs of readers and other users through we aim to achieve the goals outlined in the results of this research were presented to senior consultation and analysis of data and feedback strategy. See www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about-us/ sta# in the Humanities Division to inform the • Communicate news, policies and services in a clear and timely policies. ROQ planning, as well as Libraries sta#. The pro- manner ject is now focusing on science and medicine.
Photograph by John Cairns by Photograph 43 OBJECTIVE: Communicate news, policies and services in a clear Communication channels and timely manner
The new Bodleian Libraries website and 35 Blogs about our libraries, collections, projects Following the review of Bodleian Librar- Sta" ensured readers were kept informed In the humanities, subject librarians lead individual/subject library sites (launched and research provide interested readers with ies consultation and governance by Council of new service developments over the year. In on the communication of developments in throughout 2012/13) have become a core timely news, updates, interesting content and in 2012 that resulted in the instigation of the wake of the Finch Report, 2013 has seen electronic legal deposit and developing the means of communicating to readers and the more in-depth information. This year all of the Committees on Library Provision and Open Access become a hot topic and from service in collaboration with other legal deposit public. The main website (www.bodleian. our 70+ blogs were brought together under Strategy (CLiPS), the operation of the CLiPS 1 April 2014 researchers funded by Research libraries. They are also active along with other ox.ac.uk) saw almost 1.1 million visits this our new ‘Blogs aggregator’ at: http://blogs. was reviewed during this year. The CLiPS in the Councils UK have been required to make their subject librarians in the communication of year, and has not only a new design but also bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Humanities, Social Sciences and Continuing peer-reviewed journal articles and conference Open Access initiatives as above. improved functionality and a signi!cantly improved search mechanism. In addition to Social media has proved increasingly Education were felt to be working well. Some proceedings freely available to the public on providing information on our services, the site important in providing timely news and improvements in representation on the Math- an Open Access basis. Many other funders are provides reader notices and alerts across the information on library operations. ematical, Physical and Life Sciences CLiPS were following suit. Navigating the new require- service to ensure timely communication of Twitter followers have increased over recommended. The Medical Sciences Division ments without infringing publishers’ terms and information relevant to readers such as any 50% in the last year from 15,244 in 2012/13 to CLiPS had met only once due to changes in conditions is a complex and time-consuming change to access, opening hours or collections 21,892 in 2013/14. Facebook ‘likes’ for the main personnel in the division. business. However, the Bodleian Libraries have access. site have increased from 3,800 in 2012/13 to been communicating these changes to col- 6,518 in 2013/14. Across the service local social The Bodleian Libraries produced a com- leagues, supporting researchers through our Our ‘What’s on’ website, dedicated to media sites have also seen an upswing, such mentary for the Planning and Resource regular WISER: Open Access Oxford workshops promoting the Bodleian’s events, exhibitions as @RareBooksofBod. We have successfully Allocation Committee on the ways in which (http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TZW7) and and outreach programme and launched explored areas of new social media. For funding from the divisions was used to provide through our dedicated Open Access Support in February 2013 has proved very popular, instance a Pinterest account was launched services in support of teaching, research, public line (http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/contact-us), generating almost 62,000 visits and 40,000 for the John Johnson Collection in order to engagement and preservation of cultural herit- both of which have been highly praised across users in 2013/14. See: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ pin ephemera from the collection and from whatson. other institutions and collectors, informing our age. This was very warmly received by senior the University. In addition, we have recently knowledge of the various genres of ephemera. University sta" and was shared with readers via launched our Open Access Programme of talks The !rst project related to the manufacture circulation to CLiPS. for the 2013/14 academic year. For more details of Valentine cards, in collaboration with the see http://tinyurl.com/la9rslg. National Valentine Collectors Association (USA). See www.pinterest.com/johnjohnsoncoll.
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Any changes in service operations were To ensure readers and sta! were kept up The Bodleian Libraries continued to clearly communicated to readers, as with the to date on major activity in the Libraries and to generate news coverage and public attention move of Special Collection items over the ensure transparency we continued our second for its projects and collections. In 2013/14 the year. In this case it was particularly important to year of producing a termly update from Bodleian released 45 news stories over the provide readers and researchers with details of Bodley’s Librarian. The newsletter – available year and generated signi"cant national and 84,012 Views access to Special Collections, when items might in print and electronic format – provided more international coverage across titles such as The 31,233 be temporarily unavailable while being moved detailed information about current activity and Guardian, The Times, Times Higher Education and Mentions on social media Followers to the Weston Library. Fortnightly updates on live projects across the Libraries, work behind The Hu!ngton Post. 15,861 Visits to our blogs 1,847,295 the website provided detailed status of item the scenes and priorities. The newsletter moves while the Libraries worked to limit was made widely available to all readers and 2.56 minutes 21,892 unavailability of items to a two-week window. University sta!, distributed across libraries, H3,865,511 Average length of visit 405,144 Notices were sent out to research libraries colleges, and to students through colleges and across the UK, Europe and North America to departments. Locally other newsletters kept Visits to all the Bodleian Libraries make them aware of Special Collection moves sta! abreast of activity in individual libraries. websites and keep them informed of the Weston Library Science and Medicine continued to produce refurbishment. Science and Medicine Dispatch, a monthly Public enquiries e-newsletter now in its fourth year, distributed 10,823 A priority in 2013/14 was communicating by subscription electronically and available answered developments on the Weston Library project, from the website, which highlights news of Main Bodleian 1,089,932 its opening to readers in Autumn 2014 and local happenings at RSL and HCL. Relevant Libraries visits the new resources that will be available. A library events are now also listed in a new comprehensive web page was developed with publication, the MS Divisional e-newsletter, 558 Mention in international detailed information on the project while over which reaches everybody in the Medical newspapers the course of the year readers and researchers Sciences Division. 540,079 Bodleian ‘parent’ were provided with project updates via email, website visitors newsletters, mailings and presentations to sta! 37 and departments. 498 Mentions in traditional ‘Child’ websites print media 46 + OBJECTIVE: Promote the Bodleian’s collections to a wide audience through exhibitions, events, publications, tours, products and other outreach initiatives
The Bodleian continued to run a range of varied, collections-based exhibitions and Oxford, where the real and the unreal jostle in the streets … P!"#" P## displays on its central site. In 2013/14 these included exhibitions on children’s literature (Magical Books: From the Middle Ages to Middle- earth which closed on 27 October 2013), medical innovation (Great Medical Discoveries: 800 years of Oxford Innovation which ran from 22 November 2013 to 18 May 2014) and World War I (The Great War: Downing Street to the a ical Boo s Trenches which opened 18 June 2014). Smaller ! g " F ! Middle Ages Middle-eart! displays covered a range of topics including author Barbara Pym, Latin in medieval Britain, An exhibition in the Bodleian Library 23 May – 27 October 2013 Admission free Aldous Huxley and his contemporaries, the English bible, scholarship and science in medieval Britain and trade between UK and Japan.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 2013/14 The main exhibitions proved exceedingly popular: Magical Books received over 100,000 • Promote the Bodleian’s collections to a wide audience through visitors and was our most popular exhibition exhibitions, events, publications, tours, products and other ever, while Great Medical Discoveries, with initiatives over 48,753 visitors, was our most successful • Use digital technologies to share the collections winter exhibition ever. • Contribute to local, national and international cultural life Enlist Today, World War One recruitment poster Bodleian Libraries Magical Books and Great Copyright Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Medical Discoveries exhibition posters 49 The Selden Map of China on display at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum Photograph: Oxford China O!ce
Throughout the year a series of lively The year saw some particularly interesting A facsimile of one of the Bodleian’s great gallery talks was held to complement the and unique outreach initiatives beyond medieval treasures, MS Bodley 264, was Bodleian’s exhibition programme. In addition traditional talks. The RSL was the host of Parallel published by the Italian !rm Treccani under a separate programme of talks and events Universe, a bi-annual science-inspired poetry license overseen by Bodleian Library Publishing. about the collections covered topics as diverse competition concluding with a poetry-reading This richly illustrated manuscript, telling the as copyright in the 1520s to the economics of event in October 2013, where the ten best story of Alexander the Great and the travels book collecting, and included our very popular poems were read by their authors. In October of Marco Polo, was reproduced to a very high Lyell Lectures programme as well as talks co- 2013 the Bodleian Libraries together with the standard. A copy of the facsimile was presented ordinated by the Friends of the Bodleian. University’s IT services hosted an Editathon on to the President of the Italian Republic, Mr A special event, a tribute to Seamus Heaney, women in science to celebrate Ada Lovelace Giorgio Napolitano, at a reception in Rome was held in February 2014, while our annual Day; the following month the Libraries led an in July which was addressed by the British Byrne Bussey Marconi Lecture welcomed Editathon to support the Rediscovering Rycote Ambassador to Italy, Mr Christopher Prentice. Michael Weatherburn speaking on work project, about one of England’s most important experiments in 20th-century British factories. lost Tudor mansions (http://rycote.bodleian. Talks were held across our libraries, including at ox.ac.uk). The Taylor Institution Library which continued Bodleian exhibitions toured its series of occasional events with a talk and international venues. The Selden Map exhibition on the founding benefactor, the of China was exhibited at the Hong Kong architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714–88), whose Maritime Museum in spring 2014, featured as own library of books on architecture passed to the centrepiece of the !rst Oxford University the Taylorian. We continued to celebrate annual Asia Weekend, and was also the focus of an events such as Alice’s Day, Christmas Light international symposium on Asian cartography Night, World Book Day and Duke Humfrey’s organised by the museum. In June 2014 the Night. Morgan Library and Museum in New York opened a travelling version of Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Bodleian Libraries with complimentary reviews in the New York Times and on prime-time US TV. The Romance of Alexander A selection of events and activities across the Libraries MS.Bodl.264 50 51 Bibliotheca collection, Bodleian Libraries Shop in the Old Schools Quadrangle Photograph by John Cairns
In the summer the Bodleian Libraries The Bodleian continued to provide a The Centre for the Study of the Book ran Edward Lear’s Nonsense Birds, published and Oxford Playhouse welcomed back The programme of tours to satisfy the interest a successful programme of classes, seminars by Bodleian Library Publishing, was awarded Globe Theatre on Tour to perform King Lear and curiosity of tourists and visitors. Mini and and lectures over the year. Its seminars on the Best Children’s Book by the Association of in the stunning setting of the Old Schools standard tours, as well as extended tours, ran History of the Book 1450–1839 included the Cultural Enterprises at their annual conference Quadrangle. The performance saw packed throughout each week. In addition the Venue subject of Spanish bible translation presented in February in York. houses and sold out performances every night, Services team added new tours to meet by Dr Juan-Carlos Conde of Magdalen College. and was accompanied by a highly successful demand, such as the Champagne Evening In January the centre ran the annual seminar series of pre-performance talks delivered by Tours o!ered during the 2013 Oxford Literary on Authorship, Memory and Manuscripts, members of the Oxford English Faculty. Festival. We ran 4,244 tours and welcomed focusing on writing about prime ministers. Visitors to the Bodleian Shop made over shortlisted for the prestigious Paddy Power 96,750 tour and Divinity School visitors. The annual Lyell Lecture was given by Prof 50,000 on-site purchases in the "nancial year Political Book Awards in the category ‘Best H R Woudhuysen, Rector of Lincoln College, 2013/14, with over 8,000 leather bookmarks book of World War One’ – one of only "ve speaking on the topic of ‘‘‘Almost Identical”: sold. Retail Operations promoted a range of titles shortlisted for this award from a "eld of Copying Books in England, 1600–1900’. The products based on the Libraries and their over 1,000 books published in Britain alone annual McKenzie lecture was delivered by Dr collections, with more than 1,000 Tolkien on the subject. Other titles explored a wide William Noel on ‘Bibliography in bits: the study posters being sold through the Bodleian Shop variety of themes, including the discovery of books in the twenty-"rst century’. Talks were online and 120,000 Bodleian Christmas cards of advertising’s potential to sell products given by Bodleian Visiting Scholars including landing on doormats across the world through and services during the war (The Huns Have Katherine Larson speaking on song in early a network of distributors. Got my Gramophone), the extraordinary modern England and Marie-Claude Felton communication techniques used by British and on self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and Bodleian Library Publishing turned to German spies (Secrets in a Dead Fish), the life London. the Bodleian’s rich collections to commemorate of Wilfred Owen as revealed through the rich the Great War by shining a light on previously archive in the English Faculty (Wilfred Owen: little-explored corners of the war. From An Illustrated Biography), and the genre of Downing Street to the Trenches, which invasion literature (If England Were Invaded), accompanied the main summer exhibition which fed a national paranoia in the run-up retells the story of the war without the bene"t to war. The books were extensively reviewed of hindsight, as experienced through the in the primary media outlets, generating Globe Theatre on Tour in the letters, diaries and journals of some of the considerable publicity for the Bodleian and its Bodleian’s Old Schools Quadrangle key individuals as they lived through it. It was collections. Photograph by Bob Marsden 53 OBJECTIVE: Use digital technologies to share the collections
The Libraries took part in the annual University Open Days in July welcoming hundreds of prospective students and their families through their doors over two days. The Bodleian Libraries manage over 100 Over 240 potential students took part in digital projects that aim to share or make the tours at the central Bodleian site, visiting the collections available online. Some highlights 15th-century Duke Humfrey’s Library as well of using digital technologies to share the as the newly refurbished Gladstone Link and collections in 2013/14 include: the iconic Radcli!e Camera. Tours at Bodleian Libraries across Oxford gave students the Several short !lms, coordinated by chance to explore the numerous study spaces the Bodleian in partnership with colleagues on o!er, as well as learn from specialist subject from Oxford Impacts. The "lms included sta! about the variety of resources the Libraries introductions to digitisation at the Bodleian have available to support their studies. The Libraries (https://www.youtube.com/ huge popularity of the tours will see the watch?v=GcJhyd9n6vE), and to digital Libraries continue to o!er them at future Open humanities (https://www.youtube.com/ Days. watch?v=zdlOC0sFo5k), as well as a publicity "lm for DHOxSS (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lBO7kT3D94A).
We continued to build on previous work such as the successful 2013 public campaign ‘Sprint for Shakespeare,’ which stabilised, photographed and made images freely available online of the Bodleian First Folio. This year talks have been given about the book’s history and the public campaign locally as well as at national and international events. Eight Shakespeare’s First Folio invited talks were given in three countries. University of Oxford Open Day http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/blog/ 54 55 OBJECTIVE: Contribute to local, national and international cultural life
In March 2013 the Oriental Institute hosted by the Libraries to individuals who have made In addition to providing a representative the second Oxford Kuzushiji workshop. outstanding contributions to the areas in which for the steering committee, BDLSS has played Following the successful series of National the Libraries are active: literature, culture, sci- an increasingly prominent role in Digital Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL)/European ence and communication. The last recipient Humanities Oxford Summer School Association of Japanese Resource Specialists of the Bodley Medal was English writer Hilary (DHOxSS), a week-long training event in Kuzushiji workshops held in Oxford, Leuven, Mantel, who received the honour in 2013, the Oxford that is the second largest in the Zurich, Bonn and Paris respectively, the goal same year she became the !rst woman to win world of its kind, attracting speakers and of this second Oxford workshop was to gain the Man Booker Prize twice. participants from more than 16 countries. practical knowledge of, and !rst-hand experi- The Bodleian Libraries provided more ence in, the reading of hiragana-majiribun of instructors at DHOxSS than any other the Edo period at intermediate level, using 歴 department of the University, with 9 of 史資料 as text. The workshop was led by Prof the 11 Bodleian instructors coming from Yuichiro Imanishi (NIJL Director), supported by BDLSS. Subjects covered included data Prof Koichi Watanabe (NIJL, pre-modern history, modelling, digital preservation and metadata. archival studies) and Prof Naohiro Ota (NIJL, A member of BDLSS convened the largest pre-modern history) and had 18 participants of the week- long workshop strands of the including librarians, academics and graduate summer school, ‘An Introduction to Digital students from around the world. Humanities,’ which attracted 54 participants.
On Thursday 27 March, Richard Oven- den presented this year’s Bodley Medal to novelist Ian McEwan at a ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre. The award ceremony Above: Author Hilary Mantel, 2013 recipient took place following McEwan’s delivery of the of Bodley Medal Bodley Lecture, part of the FT Weekend Oxford Photograph by John Haynes
Literary Festival. The Bodley Medal is awarded Right: Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, Kalighat pictures “Indian gods” presenting Bodley Medal to author Ian McEwan MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 21 [Rch. O. a. 7] 56 2013/14 Facts & Statistics
31,869 Digitisation studio 175,055 images taken TExternal readers 367,958 Tours Views of digitized 43,729 book or manuscript b4,322 Audio tours
Visitors to 152,914 exhibition Events 83 96,203 È Online exhibition The Selden Map of China on display at the Hong Kong visitors Maritime Museum. Credit University of Oxford China O!ce OBEJCTIVE: Manage the Bodleian Libraries’ resources effectively governance
With involvement from colleagues We are making huge strides with During the time we have been involved in Estates Services and Conservation and the implementation of Electronic Data with the UK Research Reserve (UKRR), we Collection Care, adjustments were made to Interchange (EDI) across the Bodleian Libraries have successfully met all cycle deadlines in a the Building Management System at the and with a range of suppliers. EDI allows for timely manner and have been able to free up Book Storage Facility (BSF) to !ne-tune the streamlining and increased e"ciency within 1,995.84 metres of shelf space by o#ering 1,526 parameters within which the environmental Acquisitions’ operations in terms of placing titles, which has resulted in us receiving income conditioning machinery operates. Whilst orders and receiving invoices. EDI allows for the of £52,211.17 by the end of Cycle 10. We are remaining within the guidelines set out in the automated loading into Aleph of bibliographic now in Cycle 11 which is the last planned one PD5454 standard for the storage of archival records, order records and invoices which in Phase 2 of UKRR. materials, energy consumption has been otherwise would have needed to have been dramatically reduced and monthly electricity entered manually. This then frees up sta# time bills halved. for other tasks.
In addition, following a grant and work led by Estates Services, solar panels were installed in March 2014 and although it is early days STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 2013/14 yet, we are seeing a contribution of 12% to the BSF’s electricity needs. These two projects • Manage the Bodleian Libraries’ resources effectively and safely and other similar energy-saving projects across • Secure funds and generate income to further the work of the the Libraries have resulted in the Libraries Libraries and the University becoming a !nalist in the Green Gown Awards 2014. • Maintain a strong leadership role in the international library sector • Pursue partnerships and shared initiatives with academics and organisations to mutual benefit and in support of the University’s Convocation House, Bodleian Library mission Solar panels at the Bodleian Photograph by John Cairns Libraries Book Story Facility 61 OBJECTIVE: Secure funds (and generate income) to further the work of the New readers chair for the Weston Library Libraries and the University Photograph by Jamie Smith
Bodleian Enterprises generated The 2013/14 !nancial year resulted in new gifts A number of signi!cant legacies were approximately £2.2 million in income in the and pledges to the Campaign for the University received during the period and legacy income !nancial year 2013/14, up 18% on the previous PG0YGPSEGPSUIF#PEMFJBO-JCSBSJFTUPUBMMJOH continues to be an important focus, with an year, exceeding their !nancial target. The £5,008,943 from philanthropic donations. annual event held once again for our Bodley’s success of the teams in responding to the Circle legacy pledgers. needs of existing and potential customers can Focus continued on the naming also be seen in terms of the marketing, product opportunities in the Weston Library at all levels, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation development and sales !gures: including the !rst phase of our ‘dedicate a awarded a grant of $685,000 towards building rQSPEVDUTXFSFTPMECZ3FUBJM0QFSBUJPOT chair’ appeal. A number of donors also made a digital manuscript toolkit. with 223,885 units purchased on-site, online gifts to name Visiting Fellows’ Studies within the or by trade customers; new Visiting Scholars’ Centre. Two visiting fellowships were generously rUIFSFXBTBOJODSFBTFGSPNUJUMFTUPUJUMFT supported by the Royal Bank of Canada in our publishing programme, with 75,709 Global electronics manufacturer Samsung Foundation. Representatives from RBC and the units sold worldwide. There were 82 book is supporting the Bodleian Libraries with a Canadian High Commission attended a lecture reviews in the mainstream media; signi!cant gift including interactive touch and dinner to mark the fellowships. rBTBU+VMZ UIFSFXFSFMJWF screens for the public areas of the Libraries, customers of our curated and dynamic digital signage and other bespoke technology. The library also participated in the !rst electronic resource, Electronic Enlightenment; Asia Alumni weekend (‘Meeting Minds’) r TQFDJñDDVTUPNFSSFRVFTUTGPSJNBHFT The acquisition of the personal archive through the display of the Selden Map at the were ful!lled by Imaging Services; of the founding father of photography, Hong Kong Maritime Museum. rFWFOUTXFSFNBOBHFECZPVSGSPOUPG William Fox Talbot, was completed and house team; with 83 being directly income- attracted extensive press coverage. We also The Friends of the Bodleian continued generating; received a William Talbott Hillman Foundation to support the Library with a number of r UPVSTXFSFEFMJWFSFE BOE Grant of $300,000 towards the Catalogue generous donations for acquisitions and rñMNTPSUFMFWJTJPOTIPXTXFSF Raisonné. support including at Duke Humfrey’s night. !lmed.
62 OBJECTIVES: Maintain a strong leadership role in the international library sector Pursue partnerships and shared initiatives with academics and organi- sations to mutual benefit and in support of the University’s mission
The Social Sciences Librarians Vice President of the International Association continued to be active within their disciplines of Law Libraries; and the Bodleian Business at a national and international level. For Librarian was elected Secretary of the European example: the Subject Consultant for Slavonic Business School Librarians’ Group (EBSLG). and Eurasian Studies was elected as the new Council for Slavonic and East European Colleagues in BDLSS continue to engage -JCSBSZBOE*OGPSNBUJPO4FSWJDFT$04&&-*4 in consultancy and share best practice representative at the British Association for through membership of advisory boards Slavonic and East European Studies Committee; and steering committees. These include: the UIF0îDJBM1BQFST-JCSBSJBODPOUJOVFEBT Library Committee of the Institute of Historical a member of the Standing Committee on Research, School of Advanced Studies, 0îDJBM1BQFST 4$001 BOENBOBHFEJUT University of London; engagement with the national website co-ordinating o!cial papers 0YGPSE%JDUJPOBSZPG/BUJPOBM#JPHSBQIZ collections; the Subject Consultant for Forced consultancy, with colleagues in Western Migration, African and Commonwealth Studies Manuscripts, for digitising the Blenheim Palace continued as a member of the Standing BSDIJWFT XPSLJOHXJUI+*4$)JTUPSJD5FYUT Conference on Library Materials on Africa GPSNFSMZ+*4$)JTUPSJD#PPLT POUIFJSJOUFSGBDF 4$0-." BOEXBTPOUIFFEJUPSJBMCPBSEGPS for early printed books, including Early English their 50th Anniversary conference publication #PPLT0OMJOF5FYU$SFBUJPO1BSUOFSTIJQ &� African Studies in the Digital Age: DisConnects? TCP) texts (which have been co-created in #SJMM +VMZ UIF-BUJO"NFSJDBO$FOUSF BDLSS for 13 years). Librarian is a member of the Committee of the Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources (ACLAIIR) and joined the editorial panel of the Anuario Americanista Europeo; the Law Librarian became the "rst Testament of Youth !lming at the Bodleian Library in 2014 65 2013/14 Facts & Statistics
BDLSS has played a signi!cant role We continue to be involved in the #PEMFZT-JCSBSJBO 3JDIBSE0WFOEFO within the AHRC-funded project, Promoting organisation of many international conferences served as a director of the Consortium of Interdisciplinary Engagement in the and events as reviewers, committee members European Research Libraries, as a council Humanities, on the steering committee, and session chairs as well as presenters. This member of the Bibliographical Society, as and speaking at the launch event and both includes the Preservation and Archiving a trustee of Chawton House Library, and of Shop sales workshop days. Special Interest Group (PASIG), Open UIF7JDUPSJB$PVOUZ)JTUPSZGPS0YGPSETIJSF 25 Repositories, the International Digital Curation 5SVTU BTBOFYQFSUBEWJTPSGPSUIF/BUJPOBM £548,000 Films or TV location The Bodleian is a founding member of Conference and Digitalna Kniznica. Library Information Systems of Bulgaria, and the International Image Interoperability BTBNFNCFSPGUIFQBOFMPGUIF/BUJPOBM i Framework as well as a co-author of the Donald Mackay, Head of the Health Care Heritage Memorial Fund. He hosted the 2014 21 standard. This international collaboration Libraries, has been elected Chair of the UK Kraszna Kraus Foundation Book Awards as on the sharing of images and scholarly University Health and Medical Librarians Group. part of the Sony World Photography Awards, Books published 4,244 annotations across collections now counts over and served as Chair of the Legal Deposit Tours delivered 45 participants including 7 national libraries. Alena Ptak-Danchak, Keeper of Scienti!c -JCSBSJFT*NQMFNFOUBUJPO(SPVQGPS/PO1SJOU 82 Books and Head of the Science and Medical Legal Deposit. He was elected to an Honorary M Book reviews Bodleian Libraries also partnered with Libraries, continues as a board member of Fellowship at St Hugh’s College. 75,709 UIF0YGPSEF3FTFBSDI$FOUSFBOEUIF0YGPSE the IATUL organisation and was in charge of Books sold Internet Institute to present a DHOxSS PSHBOJTJOHUIF*"56-XPSLTIPQBU0YGPSEJO q workshop strand on Data Curation, December 2013. convened by the Graduate School of Library 169 and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The 2013 Image requests 252 %)0Y44XPSLTIPQTUSBOE GVOEFECZ)&*' ful!lled by Imaging Services 1,250 Dedicated and designed and run by a BDLSS member, Bodleian chairs has also been taken up by the Humanities Knowledge Exchange Champion and Facilitator Events and developed into courses that are running managed throughout the year in humanities faculties.
66 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 2010/11 SPACE Total gross floor area (in square metres) 84,060 85,349 85,733 90,159
INFORMATION RESOURCE PROVISION Total catalogued physical stock, excluding archives and manuscripts 11,746,808 11,527,677 11,244,795 11,136,414 Number of additions to catalogued stock, excluding archives and manuscripts 272,585 323,679 174,604 161,352 Number of electronic books licensed 961,146 779,676 484,665 454,295 Number of serial titles purchased in electronic form 75,634 48,480 22,255 13,375 Number of electronic databases licensed 1,339 791 502 461 Total linear metres of archives and manuscripts 25,314 24,643* 19,771 18,951 Linear metres of archives and manuscripts received 671 813 820 134
Facts & Figures 2013/14 Facts LIBRARY USE Total number of reader visits 2,209,746 2,301,819 2,129,097 2,100,349 Average number of readers in the libraries on sample days 1,193 1,656 1,271 1,220 Searches of SOLO 11,876,798 11,757,948 11,303,580 – Total loans 1,422,353 1,498,939 1,497,861 1,817,898 Full-text electronic article downloads 7,728,797 7,962,899 6,994,939 – Electronic book chapter downloads 5,906,881 2,679,303 2,176,112 1,803,025 Database searches 8,373,561 7,673,254 8,082,254 6,009,986 Number of person-hours training received by readers 18,609 15,130 18,407 16,514
LIBRARY STAFF (Full-Time Equivalent) 522.10 539.61 526.90 556.54
LIBRARY EXPENDITURE Staff expenditure £19,586,563 £19,598,519 £20,322,295 £22,754,975 Information provision expenditure £7,728,270 £9,699,277 £7,185,991 £8,586,923 Other expenditure £13,856,292 £13,405,999 £11,342,217 £13,350,392 Total gross expenditure £41,171,125 £42,703,795 £42,395,317 £44,692,290
LIBRARY INCOME University funding £29,481,000 £28,740,000 £27,324,000 £28,002,941 HEFCE grant £1,871,743 £1,871,743 £1,886,743 £2,220,083 Other income – internal £506,771 £620,859 £644,211 £619,347 Other income – external £9,319,489 £11,385,886 £8,995,843 £13,682,929 Total income £41,179,003 £42,618,488 £38,850,797 £44,525,300 Photograph by John Cairns by Photograph 68 * changes to shelving arrangement Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG Telephone 01869 277000 [email protected] www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Produced by Communications, Bodleian Libraries
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