Annual Report 2014/15 Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG Telephone 01869 277000 [email protected] www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Produced by Communications, Bodleian Libraries www.facebook.com/bodleianlibraries @bodleianlibs Contents Introduction ......................................................................... 2 Summary of the Year ......................................................... 4 A Year in the Life of the Bodleian Libraries ................ 6 News Highlights of the Year 2014/15 .......................... 8 Library Spaces ....................................................................10 Research and Learning Support .................................14 Collections ..........................................................................20 Public Engagement .........................................................28 Enterprises ..........................................................................34 Communication ................................................................38 Budget and Fundraising ................................................40 Credit Photographs: Bodleian Libraries; Ben Bisek; John Cairns; KT Bruce; Will Pryce; Greg Smolonski; David Townshend Dings: WC Sold Out (dafont.com); AEZ Scrapbook; RequiemOrnaments; Webdings Introduction The Bodleian Libraries of the University of There are 30 libraries across the Bodleian Oxford form the largest university library Libraries: system in the United Kingdom. They include the principal University library – the Bodleian Alexander Library of Ornithology Library – which has been a library of legal Bodleian Education Library deposit for over 400 years; major research Bodleian Health Care Libraries – Cairns libraries; and libraries attached to faculties, Bodleian Health Care Libraries – Horton Hospital departments and other institutions of the Bodleian Health Care Libraries – Knowledge University. The combined library collections Centre number over 12 million printed items, in Bodleian Health Care Libraries – Nufeld addition to over 80,000 e-journals and vast Orthopaedic Centre quantities of materials in other formats. Bodleian Japanese Library Bodleian KB Chen China Centre Library www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Bodleian Latin American Centre Library Bodleian Law Library Bodleian Library – Old Library Bodleian Library – Radclife Camera Bodleian Library – Weston Library Bodleian Music Faculty Library Bodleian Oriental Institute Library Bodleian Social Science Library English Faculty Library Leopold Muller Memorial Library Philosophy and Theology Faculties Library Radclife Science Library Rewley House Continuing Education Library Sackler Library Sainsbury Library at the Saïd Business School Sainsbury Library at Egrove Park Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy Taylor Bodleian Slavonic and Modern Greek Library Taylor Institution Library Tylor Library Vere Harmsworth Library at the Rothermere Students rate Oxford libraries best in UK American institute Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Library The graduating cohort of Oxford students rated Oxford’s libraries as the best in the UK once again. The majority of students – 97% – provided this satisfaction rating, placing Oxford’s libraries the highest out of all UK and higher education institutions. Oxford’s libraries have consistently been at or near the top of the National Student Survey for the past fve years. 2 Summary of the Year The Bodleian’s history features many years across our sites with activity ranging from of long-term signifcance for the library, the hackathons to 3D printing to traditional university, and the worlds of scholarship, printing workshops. but the 2014-15 year was by any measure an Our work, whether supporting information astonishing landmark year. skills, increasing opening hours or acquiring The opening of the Weston Library – the new collections, is underpinned by regular refurbished New Bodleian – was the assessment of feedback from our readers. We culmination of a ten-year process of planning, are pleased to say that Oxford’s libraries once consultation, funding and overseeing the again topped the list of satisfaction (97%) project itself. It’s been exciting to see how from the cohort of leaving undergraduates in well the library has been received by both the National Student Survey (NSS). scholars and the public, quickly becoming As I complete my second year as the 25th a well-used library and a popular cultural Bodley’s Librarian I am buoyed by the positive destination welcoming 400,000 visitors in feedback about the Libraries and strong just four months of opening. Projects like messages of support we have received from the opening of the Leopold Muller Memorial across the University and the wider world. Library (for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) and Despite some of the challenges ahead, the the Bodleian KB Chen China Centre Library staf of the Bodleian Libraries and I strive to have also helped to make this a landmark improve our collections and services and year for the Libraries’ physical estate. to maintain our place as one of the great Much work has gone into improving services research libraries of the world, serving the to readers, from revamping reader spaces entire academic community. We continue to to enhancements to SOLO, our online be a highly regarded library service operating catalogue. A key aspect of this work has across all disciplines as well as making great been making signifcant improvements to strides in our engagement with the wider the digital infrastructure of the Libraries, world. whether through the development of With over 30 libraries and over 500 staf ORA-Data or the launch of our digital online it is impossible to document all activities resource, digital.bodleian. This work provides across the year. This report provides some essential support to the University at a time of the highlights and the key challenges and when it faces major changes to scholarly successes of 2014/15. communications, in compliance with funding policies of HEFCE and the Research Councils. The Weston Library provided a new space that opened up more opportunities for public engagement. This year saw an exciting programme of exhibitions, events, and lectures, tours and digital engagement Richard Ovenden 4 A Year in the Life of the Bodleian Libraries Enquiries answered libraries Books received in one week Print outs 9,327 114,074 30 664,635 Purchased and photocopies Legal Deposit 140,298 made by readers monographs < Items provided received ] in alternative formats for 112,340 11,975,375 print-disabled 4,071 ¨ 2,065,864 students Catalogued Searches on SOLO 269m the Libraries’ online catalogue Study spaces Book Storage Facility ingested and retreived Meters of archives Database searches acquired 311,994 Records entered into Oxford 10,386 OUT IN 9,929,016 Research Archive (ORA) 2,167 237,921 Request made to 8,554 Full text items obtain items from entered in r other libraries to ORA Accesses to 296,692 Readers items in ORA studying in 2,655 libraries at 3pm Staff development course attendees Reader visits 3,696 N 1,662 ItemsL circulated V Items supplied University to other libraries Full text electronic 2,139,197 articles viewed 8,619,245 229,130 1,306,684 External 7,258,137 Electronic book 44,446 ` chapters viewed 68,848 Students received a information skills d Items from Special training 513 Collections consulted > Computer workstations 6 + 7 GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION PRESENTED WITH THE SHELDON News Highlights of the Year 2014/15 MEDAL The Sheldon Medal, the highest distinction the University of Oxford can bestow on benefactors, was presented to the Garfeld Weston Foundation in December 2014, in recognition of its gift towards the new Weston Library. In 2008 the Foundation awarded £25 million to the Libraries. The transformative gift has supported the redevelopment of the New Bodleian Library into the NEW DEPUTY LIBRARIAN AND NEW ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Weston Library. The Garfeld Weston Foundation has previously supported other areas of the FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES University, including the Ashmolean Museum, medical research, academic posts and sports In 2014/15 the Libraries appointed Catríona Cannon as the new Deputy Librarian and Lucie Burgess facilities. Benefactors previously honoured with the Medal include the late Lord Wolfson, as the new Associate Director for Digital Libraries. Catríona had previously been interim Deputy chairman of the Wolfson Foundation, Leonard Blavatnik and Mica Ertegun. Librarian, acting up from her role as Associate Director for Collections Support, which she had held since 2010. Lucie joined the Libraries in early November 2014 from her previous role as Head of Online Services at the British Library, and is responsible for the leadership of the Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services (BDLSS) team. SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS HELPS TEAM EXPLORE MYSTERIES OF MEDIEVAL GOUGH MAP There was a palpable sense of excitement as a dozen researchers and tech experts gathered GREEN GOWN AWARDS 2014 at the Weston Library in January 2015 to analyse the medieval Gough Map using a number In October the Bodleian Libraries were selected as a fnalist in the Green Gown Awards 2014, which of ground-breaking technologies. The team, including chemists, conservators, historians and recognise the exceptional sustainability initiatives being undertaken by universities and colleges paleographers, came together for a week of scientifc analysis on this iconic map, which is the across the UK. The Libraries were fnalists in the Carbon Reduction category,