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Nat ional Library ofScotlandA n n u a l R e p o r t2001 2002

N A T I O N A L L I B R A R Y O F S C O T L A N D • E D I N B U R G H • w w w . n l s . u k

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National Library of ScotlandGeorge IV BridgeEdinburghEH1 1EW

www.nls.uk

New acquisition. One of four

early nineteenth-century

panoramas of Edinburgh by

Lady Elton (Mary Stewart).

Endpapers: Images of south

Edinburgh in 1929, from a

collection of photographs by

Alfred Henry Rushbrook.

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Chairman’s foreword 4

Librarian’s introduction 5

Modernising the Library 7

Widening access 11

The national collections 17

The international dimension 23

Collaboration and partnership 27

Donors and depositors 29

Trustees and senior staff 30

Finance and statistics 31

Contents

C H A I R M A N ’ S F O R E W O R D4

Chairman’s foreword

This year the Library has taken further steps towards a new vision

which combines the maintenance of

its traditional strengths with extension

into a range of new and exciting activities.

For example, during the year the Library undertook a much expanded series of public events, including

lectures, book launches, and ‘meet the author’ conversations, and these proved an outstanding success and have

encouraged whole new groups of users to feel that the Library is of relevance and value to them. In parallel, the

Library’s website continues to grow and to be enriched with digital content, creating another important means

to serve those people of Scotland and the wider world who are unable to access the Library’s services directly

through its reading rooms.

Changing patterns of creation and use of information, as well as the recognition that funding constraints prevent

the Library from doing all that it would like, were reflected in the Trustees’ decision to close the Library’s

specialist reading room for scientific and business information in December 2001. However, key staff expertise

in these areas has been retained, and totally new forms of service delivery are being developed by exploiting the

website and by providing for the first time free access by the general public to a wide range of online scientific

journals.

The Library is very fortunate in being able to draw on the wealth of experience represented on its Board of

Trustees. In recent years, no Trustee worked more energetically on behalf of the Library than Lady Dunnett,

whose death in November 2001 greatly saddened us all. We are delighted that the housing of the Dunnett

Archive in the Library will be a lasting memorial to a well-loved colleague and friend.

During the year, the Trustees sought a successor to Ian McGowan, who will retire in September 2002, and we

were delighted to be able to appoint Martyn Wade, Head of Libraries, Information and Learning at Glasgow

City Council, as the new National Librarian. The Trustees and I look forward to working with him as the

Library moves into the even more challenging future.

Professor Michael Anderson Chairman of the Board of Trustees

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This priority has driven the expansion of the Library’s website through the creation of educational

mini-sites on specific topics, and the scanning of many of the early maps of Scotland, which now

offer an incomparable web-based resource for the study of the history, geography and culture of

the country. It also lies behind the Library’s popular programme of public events, which is now

more extensive and varied than ever before.

Those who use the Library’s collections directly have not been neglected. Improvements continue

to be made in the services available in the George IV Bridge Building reading room. For those who

use the Library at a remove, we have established a Scottish Libraries Transport Service to deliver

inter-library loans efficiently and economically.

Since this is the last Report I shall introduce before my retirement, I wish to take this opportunity

to pay tribute to the staff of the Library. Their dedication to the Library is exemplary. At a time of

unprecedented change and many challenges, they have enthusiastically embraced the opportunities

offered by new ways of working, while remaining committed to the highest standards of service. I

feel proud to have been associated with them during my career in the Library, and I am confident

that the new National Librarian will benefit from their support and encouragement as I have done.

I D McGowan Librarian

Librarian’s introduction

The activities described in this Report illustrate the Library’s determination

to make its collections and services accessible

to the greatest number of people, both in Scotland and

beyond, while maintaining the high quality of those services.

‘We all own books, but just as the

Library cares for these in perpetuity

the hybrid library has to care for

and deliver its digital resources –

today and twenty years from now.’

L E E H I B B E R D

D I G I T I S A T I O N O F F I C E R

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The Library’s Hybrid Library Steering Group ishelping to guide our progress towards the newera, and several new staff appointments havereinforced the status of electronic collections. ADigitisation Officer – in post since January2002 – has already strengthened ourprocedures for digitising Library materials andhas considerably developed our Digital ImageDatabase (DID) which will eventually givedirect public access to our growing collection ofimages.

We also appointed an Electronic MaterialsCataloguer, who will establish policies andprocedures for cataloguing CDs, websites, andother electronic publications, and ensure thatLibrary practice conforms to developingnational and international standards.

By recruiting two new members of staff to theLibrary’s website development team, we haveeffectively doubled its technical and editorialcapacity.

Modernising the Library

The chief characteristic of the successfultwenty-first century library – the ‘hybrid’ library – will

be the effective combination of traditional collections

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

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

Building electronic collectionsUnder a voluntary arrangement with publishers,UK and Irish legal deposit libraries receive‘hand-held’ electronic publications such as CD-ROMs free of charge. This allows us to acquiremany more electronic publications than wecould otherwise afford, but it is no substitute forlegislation. Together with the other legaldeposit libraries, we are pressing for the sameright to claim electronic publications as we havefor printed books.

In a related move, we are working with theBritish Library and other legal deposit librariesto create a secure network which readers canuse to consult these electronic publications inall six institutions.

We are in the process of implementing aconsiderable expansion in the number andrange of online publications we purchase.Subscriptions to electronic journals represent amajor investment in reader services and ournegotiations with publishers were given freshimpetus by the decision to expand electronicdelivery of our science and business informationservices.

Detail from John Slezer’s view

of Culross (1693), now included

in our Digital Image Database.

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Reviewing our activitiesFollowing the first phase of our comprehensivereview of the Library’s activities, the binderyand the Scottish Science Library reading roomwere closed at Christmas 2001. Services forscience and business users have beentransferred to the General Reading Room, andemphasis is being placed on the enhancedprovision of scientific and business informationby electronic means and through the ScottishBusiness Information Service website(www.scotbis.com). These changes resulted inthe loss of twelve posts through voluntaryredundancy.

The second phase of the review will becompleted towards the end of 2002.

New acquisition. One of three

fifteenth-century manuscripts

from the estate of the 23rd

Lord Borthwick, assigned to the

Library by HM Government.

Developing our systemsAt the heart of the modernisation of the Libraryare sophisticated ICT systems which streamlineour operations and underpin our electronicresources.

The successful implementation of theAcquisitions Module of our Voyager librarymanagement system means that all the stages inprocessing a new book – from ordering tocataloguing – are now well integrated. This hasreduced the ‘double entry’ of information andthe time devoted to paper record-keeping.

Scheduled for implementation in the comingyear, a new system for networking CD-basedand purely electronic publications will givereaders and staff easy access to our electroniccollections throughout the Library’s buildings.In the longer term, it offers the excitingprospect of allowing registered readers toconsult our electronic collections without theneed to visit the Library.

In collaboration with Edinburgh UniversityLibrary, we began work on the jointprocurement of a Digital Object ManagementSystem (DOMS) that will bring all our digitalresources together through a single accessibleinterface.

Providing e-servicesOur robust infrastructure for internal andexternal electronic communications means thatthe Library is well placed to exploit thepotential cost efficiencies of e-business. We nowcommunicate electronically with many of oursuppliers – including bookdealers worldwide –and we fulfil an increasing number of inter-library loan requests by delivering documentselectronically. During 2001-2002, some 70% ofwritten general enquiries arrived by e-mail, upfrom 60% in the previous year, and anyonewishing to apply for a Reader’s Ticket may nowaccess the application form online.

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The physical infrastructureThe creation of a hybrid library requires on-sitedevelopment as well as advanced electronicsystems, and we have continued to improve andmodernise the buildings which provide theessential infrastructure for all our activities.

We secured £1.45 million in funding from theScottish Executive Education Department(SEED) to install a full sprinkler system in ourCausewayside Building. Our headquartersbuilding on Edinburgh’s George IV Bridge isalready fully equipped with sprinklers as a resultof the extensive fire-suppression measures wehave implemented over the last fourteen years,and which have culminated in the granting of aformal Fire Certificate.

In the past, many of our collections have beenstored under the Parliament House courtscomplex, in an area which the Library hasoccupied since 1820. Now that the courts needthis area for their own purposes, we need torelocate almost a quarter of a million volumes

and a number of staff workrooms. In return forthis loss of space, the Scottish Court Service hasprovided £1.6 million in funding to fit out aroof-level extension at our George IV BridgeBuilding, and to prepare Level 4 of ourCausewayside Building to accommodate thedisplaced stock.

In anticipation of the long-term needs of theLibrary, we obtained detailed planningpermission for the extension of ourCausewayside Building, at a projected cost ofaround £5 million. We also made two furtherplanning applications: to create a store andoffices at our Sighthill building; and to providean extra 1,385m2 of space at George IV Bridge,at an estimated cost of £4 million and with aprojected completion date of 2005-2006.

A number of developments at our George IVBridge Building have made life easier – and insome cases safer – for readers and staff. Readersparticularly have welcomed the new self-servicerefreshment room and self-service cloakroom

with free lockers. The installation of a fire liftcompleted a recently-built external fire escapeand refuge facility. We also replaced ageingbook-hoists, and made preparations for therefurbishment of the building’s main lift, whichwill be extended to serve the new roof-levelaccommodation.

The continuing application of good practice inthe management of our buildings once again ledto a 5-star award by the British Safety Council.We were also awarded Accredited Centre statusby the St Andrew’s Ambulance Association afterstaff member Elaine Simpson successfullycompleted a special first aid trainers course.

Staff developmentDeveloping staff skills is central to ourmodernisation agenda. No fewer than 53members of staff attended one- or two-daytraining courses on computer applications, whiletwelve gained their European ComputerDriving Licence and went on to act as sourcesof expert advice and assistance for colleagues.

Our new refreshment room for

readers.The Library is awarded

Accredited Centre status by the

St Andrew’s Ambulance

Association. Left to right: Ian

McGowan and Elaine Simpson

of the Library with Dr Ernest

Robinson. Photo: Dan Tuffs

‘Exhibitions – both in the Library and

beyond – are just one way in which we

open up our collections to the public at

large.’

K E N N E T H D U N N

C U R A T O R, M A N U S C R I P T S

The library plays a leading partin the cultural life of the nation, and

we are committed to making the wealth

of our collections and expertise available to all

sectors of the public, both at home and internationally.

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One of the outstanding successes of the yearwas the Library’s events programme. Neverbefore have we organised such a sustained andvaried series of events or attracted such a widerange of visitors and participants. This newprogramme was launched in June 2001, and by1 June 2002 we will have organised some 60events – more than one a week.

Public lecturesThe Library held a series of literary and culturallectures by well-known figures, includingMagnus Magnusson, Dorothy Dunnett, AlasdairGray, Liz Lochhead, Allan Massie, Michael Fry,Duncan MacMillan, Janice Galloway, PaulScott, Joan Lingard, Jenny Brown, and AlanTaylor. We also sponsored three lectures at theEdinburgh International Book Festival –focussing on George Mackay Brown, IainCrichton Smith, and Hugh MacDiarmid.

Visits and receptionsPupils from Midlothian schools visited theLibrary for a Rotary-funded poetry award andchildren from Prestonpans primary schoolspresented a book of short stories which theyhad written as part of a creative writingexercise. Three groups from TowerbankPrimary School visited the Library to learnabout books and how they are made.

Widening access

Top left: Historian Owen

Dudley Edwards (standing) with

Dr Alan Riach of Glasgow

University (left) and Christopher

Grieve, grandson of Hugh

MacDiarmid, at a Library-

sponsored celebration of

MacDiarmid at the Edinburgh

International Book Festival.

Photo: Mark K. Jackson

Top centre: BBC Scotland Arts

Correspondent Pauline McLean

and literary editor Ian Murray

join writer and artist Alasdair

Gray for an evening of

conversation.


Top right: Storyteller David

Campbell and the Wrigley

Sisters at a celebration of writer

George Mackay Brown

sponsored by the Library at the

Edinburgh International Book

Festival. Photo: Mark K. Jackson

Below left: Pupils from

Midlothian schools visit the

Library for a Rotary-funded

poetry award.


Below right: Young writers

Lindsay Anderson, from

Prestonpans Primary School,

and Jamie McGuire, from St

Gabriel’s Primary School.


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detailed views, whilst interpretative textprovides background information. The Pontmini-site was nominated ‘Site of the Day’ byFamily Tree Magazine, and can be visited atwww.nls.uk/maps.

We also launched Experiences of War, a FirstWorld War website drawing heavily on theLibrary’s Haig collections, and developed withassistance from SCRAN, the Scottish CulturalResources Access Network. Following on fromour successful Churchill website, Experiences ofWar (www.nls.uk/experiencesofwar) is thesecond Library site to feature downloadablematerial for schools.

A new web feature called Scotland’s Pages(www.nls.uk/scotlandspages), created withfinancial support from Semple Fraser WS, uses an interactive time-line to trace Scotland’shistory through digital images of key documents and transcriptions of eye-witnessaccounts.

We introduced a web feature devoted tomodern Scottish writers, The Write Stuff(www.nls.uk/writestuff), based on our summerexhibition of the same name, and also mounteda small feature on Robert Louis Stevenson(www.nls.uk/rlstevenson).

We welcomed groups from the Society ofAuthors, the Royal Society of Chemistry,Edinburgh’s Old Town Association, StirlingFine Art Society, and Friends of the EdinburghInternational Book Festival. We also hosted thekeynote address of the conference of theMedieval and Early Renaissance StudiesProgramme.

In conjunction with the Royal Society ofEdinburgh, we organised the fifth and lastseminar in our Project Pont series, attractingsome 120 map experts and enthusiasts to a dayof talks and discussion placing Timothy Pont’sunique sixteenth-century maps in the context of mapping worldwide.

As part of the Edinburgh International ScienceFestival in April 2001, our Science Library ran anumber of sessions on ‘Surfing for Science onthe Internet’.

The Library on the webThe Library’s main website (www.nls.uk) was re-launched in November 2000 and the steadyincrease in visits shows no sign of levelling off.The annual number of visitor sessions rose by58% to 564,758: partly due to site optimisationand marketing – we mailed promotionalpostcards to every school in Scotland – but also as the result of a constant effort to expandour internet presence with new content and features.

We added some 800 early maps of Scotland toour digital library, and a mini-site dedicated toTimothy Pont’s sixteenth-century maps ofScotland was launched by Allan Wilson MSP,Deputy Minister for Culture and Sport, andgenerously supported by the JerwoodCharitable Foundation. Multiple access routesand sophisticated software allow users toidentify the maps they need and zoom in to

Below left: Our touring

exhibition and website on

Timothy Pont’s 400-year-old

maps of Scotland on display in

the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Photo: The Still Print Company

Below: Allan Wilson MSP,

Deputy Minister for Culture and

Sport, with NOF board member

David Campbell at the launch

of Resources for Learning in

Scotland.


Earl Haig (right) with Professor

Michael Anderson and children

from Sciennes Primary School,

Edinburgh, at the launch of the

Experiences of War website.


Left: Part of James Gordon’s

1647 map of Edinburgh – one

of 800 maps now on our

website.

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We continued to work with the University ofSheffield to create an online annotated facsimileof the Auchinleck Manuscript, one of our greattreasures and a major source for the study ofChaucerian English. A major online informationsource on the correspondence of Sir WalterScott has been developed in collaboration withProfessor Jane Millgate of the University ofToronto, and is scheduled to go live in thecoming year.

We also made considerable progress onconverting around 1,000 detailed inventories ofour major manuscript collections to a machine-readable format. We hope to add these to ourwebsite over the coming year.

The creation of a new website section for fellowlibrary professionals emphasised our commit-ment to the international library community.

Digitisation and microfilmingprogrammesThe National Grid for Learning has givenschools access to remote sources of information,and the People’s Network will give the generalpublic and lifelong learners similar benefits. Bymaking some of our most important collectionsavailable over the internet we can providecontent for these initiatives and contribute to thedrive for social inclusion in the information age.

These are time-consuming and costly activities,so much of our work is carried out on acollaborative basis, and by encouraging otherinstitutions to digitise supporting material fromtheir own collections.

A £4 million award by the New OpportunitiesFund (NOF) has allowed us to bring togethermore than 100 organisations in a consortiumdesigned to digitise learning materials inScotland’s libraries and archives. Resources forLearning in Scotland (RLS) was launched inJuly 2001 by Allan Wilson MSP, Deputy

Minister for Culture and Sport, and more than100 individual digitisation projects arescheduled for completion by August 2003.Thanks to the award, we have been able toemploy seven additional editorial anddigitisation staff, and will ourselves be able todigitise over 6,000 images on topics as diverse asgolf, broadsides, farm diaries, David Hume, andmapping. In the year under review, we scannedmore than 1,000 of our maps of Scotland,spanning the period 1750 to 1900.

We are also partners in the £250,000 Chartingthe Nation project funded by the ResearchSupport Libraries Programme (RSLP) withadditional support from the Scottish CulturalResources Access Network (SCRAN). Underthis programme, around 400 of our eighteenth-century military maps were scanned, togetherwith over 300 pages of related documents.

A £46,000 agreement with Bell and Howell hasgiven us the resources to microfilm and digitisesome 2,350 extremely rare or unique pre-1701items from our collections. The microfilmingphase of the project will be completed by July2002.

In September 2001, we signed a contract withthe Gale Group for the microfilming of some

10,000 books from our eighteenth-centurycollections. Around 330,000 images will bephotographed over three years and published inGale’s The Eighteenth Century microfilm series.

PublicationsQuarto, our general newsletter, and Folio, ournew collections journal, are successful andpopular conventional publications, and now alsoavailable online. A growing subscription baseenables us to keep in regular contact with someof the library’s most supportive friends andservice-users.

Although website dissemination has manyadvantages, there remains a place in our accessstrategy for conventional print publications. One of the highlights of this year was TheNation Survey’d, a study of the Pont maps andtheir creator, published in association withTuckwell Press and edited by our formerKeeper of Manuscripts, Ian Cunningham.

One of our earlier publications, ReportageScotland, inspired the five-part Radio Scotlandseries A Spin Through History. Louise Yeomanof our Manuscripts division, author of theoriginal book, acted as chief contributor andhistorical consultant.

The Blythe family and farm

workers, 1929. One of 6,000

items being digitised under the

Resources for Learning in

Scotland programme.

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ExhibitionsWorking in collaboration with SPICe, theScottish Parliament Information Centre, wemounted a small exhibition of books and doc-uments from the collection of the late DonaldDewar, the first First Minister of Scotland. HisLibrary has been donated to the ScottishParliament, and will soon be accessible to thegeneral public through our reading rooms.

Our major summer exhibition was launched inMay 2001 by writer William McIlvanney. TheWrite Stuff, portraits of contemporary Scottishwriters by photographer Gordon Wright, was afocal point for a vibrant series of literary talksand events. After a five-month run inEdinburgh, the exhibition transferred to EastKilbride Arts Centre and the A. K. Bell Library,Perth. In April and May 2002 it will go on showin Angus Libraries.

Touring exhibitions are a useful way tointroduce the Library to a wider audience. Withassistance from the Gannochy Trust and SempleFraser WS, we created a touring version ofScotland’s Pages, our millennium exhibitionfeaturing treasures from our collections.

Mapping the Realm is a purpose-built touringdisplay designed to complement our new Pont

Maps website. Launched in August 2001, theexhibition has moved on from Edinburgh totour more than fifteen venues over a two-yearperiod.

The Darien Adventure exhibition completed itstour around Scotland with a showing at theMitchell Library, Glasgow.

LoansWe also extend access to our collections by lending items to other institutions. Themediaeval church gallery at the Museum ofScotland currently has some of our mostprecious manuscripts on display, including theSprouston Breviary and the LesmahagowMissal, both dating from the thirteenth century.

To the prestigious The Thistle and the Roseexhibition at Stirling Castle, celebrating the500th anniversary of the 1502 Treaty ofPerpetual Peace between Scotland andEngland, we lent one of our greatest treasures:the Bannatyne Manuscript with its copy of thepoem ‘The Thrissell and the Rois’ whichWilliam Dunbar wrote in 1503 to celebrate thetreaty.

We also loaned items to The Writers Museum,Edinburgh, for the exhibition Lewis Grassic

Gibbon; to the National Galleries of Scotlandfor Andrew Geddes and for Robert Adam’sCastles; to Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire,for Byron’s Mediterranean Grand Tour; to theCity Art Centre, Edinburgh, for Sir WilliamAllan: artist adventurer and for Quest forCamelot; and to the Royal Museum of Scotlandfor Testimony of the Rocks: Hugh Miller 1802-1856.

Special facilities Our Special Needs Action Group (SNAG) hasthe job of ensuring that we meet therequirements of all our readers. Amongequipment we acquired this year was a portableinduction loop system that can be usedthroughout the Library.

Widening access through technologyThe evolution of internet access has providedthe impetus for the library community to findnew and simplified ways of searching individualcollections and groups of collections.

SCURL projectsOne of the Library’s main partners in this fieldis the Scottish Confederation of University andResearch Libraries (SCURL), which is a sub-committee of our own Board of Trustees.SCURL has been given new momentum by the

The launch of the Donald

Dewar exhibition. Sir David

Steel (left) in conversation with

David Whitton and Professor

Michael Anderson.


Writer William McIlvanney at

the launch of The Write Stuff,

an exhibition of literary portraits

by Gordon Wright (left).


Our Scotland’s Pages travelling

exhibition at Dingwall.

Photo: Andrew Allan


appointment of a Development Director,Catherine Nicholson, funded over a three-yearperiod by the Scottish Executive EducationDepartment (SEED) and the Scottish HigherEducation Funding Council (SHEFC).

One of SCURL’s key initiatives is the Co-operative Academic Information RetrievalNetwork Services project (CAIRNS), which hasdeveloped an online search facility throughwhich catalogues from several libraries can beconsulted simultaneously.

SCURL’s Shared Preservation in Scotlandprogramme (SPIS) aims to find a mechanismfor Scottish Libraries to co-ordinate theirpolicies on retaining and preserving material. InNovember 2001, SPIS presented its final reportat a seminar attended by librarians, archivistsand others from throughout Scotland, as well asrepresentatives of the National PreservationOffice and the Irish museums and archivescommunity. The meeting accepted the report’sfindings and agreed that a sub-group shouldestablish the way forward.

The Scottish Collections Network Extensionproject (SCONE) has been set up to create acomprehensive database of collections inScotland. With funding by the ResearchSupport Libraries Programme (RSLP) extendeduntil May 2002, SCONE will provide an onlinesystem for co-ordinating purchases andregistering each collection’s strengths and majoracquisitions.

SCURL has also secured funding from theCarnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotlandfor a feasibility study for CASS, theCollaborative Academic Store for Scotland.Under this scheme, university library materialsof low use but high research interest would bestored in a single location and deliveredelectronically on request.

The SCAN databaseWe are continuing to contribute information tothe Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) database.Once completed, this cross-sectoral programmewill offer users a single online access point fromwhich to locate collections in major archivesacross Scotland.

Bibliographies and cataloguesWithin the Library itself, staff are working ondatabases which locate material of Scottishrelevance in our own collections or heldelsewhere. The Bibliography of Scotland offersthe world’s most complete listing of modernpublications on Scotland and the Scots, and theBibliography of Scottish Literature inTranslation (BOSLIT) documents foreigntranslations of Scottish literature from 1500 tothe present day. A reception in October markedseven years of achievement by BOSLIT, whichin May was awarded funding of £119,000 by theArts and Humanities Research Board and whichnow lists more than 20,000 items.

We have also made significant progress in ourinternal cataloguing effort. As well as appointingan electronic materials cataloguer (Modernisingthe Library, p. 7), we were able to create threenew cataloguing posts and fill a number ofexisting vacancies. As a result of these newstaffing levels we have been able to reduce alongstanding backlog of work and are nowcataloguing legal deposit material within tenweeks of receipt. Material for which we haveprimary responsibility under the CopyrightLibraries Shared Cataloguing Programme –primarily Scottish material – is catalogued evenmore quickly. With finance from our RuthRatcliff Fund, an additional cataloguer workedon the papers of Sorley MacLean, one of ourmost important modern literary collections.

Inter-Library ServicesOur Inter-Library Services division is at theheart of Scotland’s inter-library loan anddocument delivery service and so plays animportant part in widening access to sourcematerials throughout Scotland.

On behalf of libraries in Scotland, Inter-LibraryServices has set up a Scottish LibrariesTransport Service to convey inter-library loansusing a commercial carrier. Under this newsystem, transport costs have been slashed, andthe service is achieving next-day delivery tovirtually any UK mainland library.

Inter-Library Services also administers theInter-Regional Unit (IRU) throughout the UK.The IRU was set up by the Circle of Officers ofNational and Regional Library Systems(CONARLS), and compared with BritishLibrary rates offers participating libraries asaving of 21% on the cost of book loansbetween libraries in different regions of theUK’s interlending system. Inter-LibraryServices also manages the Scottish Inter-LibraryLending Rate (SILLR), which offers 161participating libraries a 30% cost reduction onloans made within Scotland.

Dr Tom Hubbard (BOSLIT

editor) and Professor Peter

France with a Chuvash

newspaper carrying translations

of Robert Burns.


‘It is satisfying to know that our work

in the Conservation unit is helping to

preserve the national collections for

the future.’

M A U R E E N F E R G U S O N

C O N S E R V A T O R

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This breadth and variety stems largely from ourstatus as Scotland’s only legal deposit library.Under legislation going back almost 300 years,we can claim a copy of all new books producedin the UK and Ireland – a privilege that is ofenormous value to the nation and that will beof even greater value once it is extended toelectronic publications.

In the year under review, legal deposit enabledus to acquire 224,441 items, including books,newspapers, journals, maps, and music. Thebooks we received ranged from the four-volume The Corsini Encyclopedia ofPsychology and Behavioural Science toCatherine Osbond’s The Astrological Book ofBaby Names, and from a short booklet on theWorld Trade Center terrorist attack, 11thSeptember 2001, to Mates, Dates and CosmicKisses, a novel for teenage girls by CathyHopkins. Among the items received under thevoluntary code for the deposit of electronicmedia was the Concise Oxford Textbook ofMedicine.

The legal deposit privilege does not extend toolder books or new foreign publications, whichwe can only acquire by purchase, or as gifts andbequests.

The national collections

Scotland’s national library is both a major general reference library and the world’s leading source of books, manuscripts, and maps relating to Scotland and the Scots. Our collections span all subject areas from the arts and humanities to science

and business, and our services are valued by every sector of the

community, from academics and writers to industry and the public at large.

Our collections of early photographs wereenhanced by a set of albumen prints of Leith inthe 1860s, and by images of the South Side ofEdinburgh, taken by photographer AlfredRushbrook in 1929.

New accessions relating to early Scottishagriculture included the rare Plain Directionsfor Raising Potatoes on the Lazy Bed (1757) byJohn Fraser, and a collection of posters andadvertisements from between 1805 and 1903.

Agricultural posters and

advertisements.

A rare work on the lazy bed

system, much used in the

Highlands in former times.

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A particularly fine purchase was one of only fiveknown copies of Nicolaus Esthvanfius’s historyof Hungary (Historarium de rebus Ungaricis) of1622. This particular volume belonged to KingJames VI and I and is noteworthy not only forits stunning royal binding, but for the evidenceit provides of James’s interest in Europeanaffairs.

Early cookery books can be difficult to obtainand are often in poor condition due to use, sowe were particularly pleased to purchase the

rare 1755 first edition of A New and EasyMethod of Cookery by Elizabeth Cleland, acookery teacher in Edinburgh.

In the nineteenth century, ‘yellowbacks’ – cheapeditions with brightly-coloured covers –competed with ‘penny dreadfuls’ for theattention of the growing reading public. Wepurchased a total of four yellowback editions ofScottish authors, including Robert LouisStevenson’s New Arabian Nights (1885) andPrince Otto (1888).

The Library has exceptionally strong collectionsof books on mountaineering and exploration.Thanks to the Graham Brown Fund, we wereable to purchase a rare Victorian board game byAlbert Smith: The New Game of the Ascent ofMont Blanc.

In new foreign publications, we added to ourresources for North American studies with thepurchase of The United States Army in WorldWar I, a collection on CD-ROM featuringsource works, commentaries and artworks, and

Elizabeth Cleland’s cookery book of 1755.

Right: An unusual Victorian

board game featuring the

ascent of Mont Blanc.

Far right: Detail of the royal

binding on James VI’s copy of

Esthvanfius’s 1622 history of

Hungary.

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bringing together for the first time as a singleresource all the works on World War Ipublished by the US Army Center of MilitaryHistory.

Foreign purchases provided further highlightsfor our fine art collections, including Boccacciovisualizzato, a monumental study of theiconography of the great Italian writerBoccaccio, and the result of ten years’ researchby an international team of scholars.

We were very pleased to receive a collection ofworks by or about Louis-Sébastien Mercier, thegift of Miss Isabel Paterson, one of the foundersof the French Department at StirlingUniversity. This strengthens our alreadyimpressive holdings on French history aroundthe period of the 1789 Revolution.

We also received extremely generous donationsof modern books by publishers from the Pugliaand Abruzzo regions of Italy, given to mark theoccasion of two conferences organised by theItalian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh inconjunction with the Library.

A striking Scottish binding of

around 1680 on the first (1607)

edition of Diodati’s translation

of the Bible into Italian.

Below left: Author and

illustrator Peter Allen’s private

press Travels in the Cévennes

(1998) has echoes of Robert

Louis Stevenson’s Travels with a

Donkey.

Below: The 1767 work which

established Sir James Steuart as

the founder of economic

science.

This rare contribution to the

debate over the Union of 1707

is remarkable for its condition.

Left: John M. Leighton’s Select

Views of the Lakes of Scotland

(1830-33).

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Manuscript acquisitionsThe year’s outstanding manuscript purchase wasa collection of Mungo Park’s letters. Acquiredwith generous assistance from the Friends ofthe National Libraries, it includes the explorer’slast letter, written just before his death inAfrica.

The author and artist Lady Dunnett (DorothyDunnett) bequeathed us her and her latehusband Sir Alastair’s very considerable archive,and we were also delighted to accept three finefifteenth-century manuscripts from the estate ofthe 23rd Lord Borthwick: two books of hoursfrom northern France (one of which had been

Right: Medals and notebook of

Robert di Falco, an Italian Scot

who served in the Italian Army

in World War I.

Far right: Illustrations for

Edward Dwelly’s Gaelic

dictionary of 1911 – the best-

known early Gaelic-English

dictionary – deposited by his

grandchildren.

Journal-letters and watercolours

(1865) of the Bell Rock Light by

R. M. Ballantyne, author of

Coral Island.

A selection of recent additions

to our Sydney Goodsir Smith

collection.

Letters of Mungo Park, bought

with assistance from the Friends

of the National Libraries.

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Map acquisitionsThe legal deposit system is of great benefit toour Map Library, bringing us significantnumbers of British maps each year. Anagreement with the Ordnance Survey gives ourusers full access to large-scale digital maps ofthe UK, and this was extended to include mapsof the year 2000.

During 2001-2002 we were able to buy up-to-date maps for our extensive foreign collectionsand some fascinating historic items including an1823 John Wood plan of Dalkeith, showingdetail omitted from other editions, and apreviously unrecorded map of Scotlandpublished by J. Meuros, from around 1767.

in the Borthwick family since at least 1591), and an English girdle-book of astrological andmedical material.

Our acquisitions of literary manuscriptsincluded items donated by the widow of thepoet Sydney Goodsir Smith, and papersdeposited by the Glasgow-based writer RonaldFrame. We also acquired a journal, letters, andwatercolours by R. M. Ballantyne, author ofCoral Island; letters by Robert LouisStevenson’s step-daughter, Isobel Osbourne(Field); and additional papers belonging to thewriter Mollie Hunter.

Two new military collections throw light on theexperiences of ordinary soldiers in thenineteenth and twentieth centuries: the journalsof William Newman, a private in the 3rd FootGuards (later the Scots Guards), recording hisservice in Egypt, Germany, and Denmark in1800-09; and medals, photos, and memorabiliagifted by the son of Robert di Falco, an ItalianScot who joined the Italian Army in the FirstWorld War.

Three further additions shed a fascinating lighton Scotland in the 1830s: Elizabeth CarolineFussell’s sketchbook records a tour of Scotlandin the summer of 1839, while the timetable and

fares for a stagecoach in the north of Scotlandgive an insight into the practicalities of earlynineteenth-century travel. With assistance fromthe Reid Fund, we were able to purchase a setof 1831 drawings made by the artist DavidRoberts for a planned work on the antiquities ofScotland.

Above: J. Meuros’s 1767 New

and Accurate Map of Scotland.

Local figures recorded by

Elizabeth Caroline Fussell on a

tour of Scotland in 1839.

John Wood’s plan of Dalkeith,

1823.

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‘The Library is part of an

international community working to

protect our heritage from hazards such

as fire.’

B I L L J A C K S O N

D I R E C T O R O F E S T A T E S

T H E I N T E R N A T I O N A L D I M E N S I O N 2 3

The National Library of Scotland

contributes to the worldwide exchange

of information and expertise and plays a positive

role in the international library community.

The Library is a member of the American-basedResearch Libraries Group (RLG), andcontributes to its Cultural Materials Initiative,which is creating a digital store of items ofworldwide cultural significance. Our Director of General Collections, Cate Newton,represented the Library at the RLG’s AnnualMeeting in Ottawa, in May 2001, and joined the associated study tour of Canadian libraries.We were in turn visited by RLG’s Karen Smith-Yoshimura, who came to Edinburgh in February to lead workshops onbibliographical initiatives.

The future direction of electronic publishingwas the subject of an international colloquiumorganised in November by the FolgerShakespeare Library, Washington, and ApexData Services. Our Librarian, Ian McGowan,was among the panel of leading figures invitedto Washington to share their vision of thefuture.

The Library plays an active part in IFLA, theInternational Federation of Library Associationsand Institutions, and our Librarian chairs theplanning group for IFLA’s 75th anniversaryconference, which takes place in Scotland inAugust 2002.

The Ligue des bibliothèques européennes derecherche (LIBER) is an importantinternational body concerned with thedevelopment of major research libraries such asours, and we continue to support its activities,with Chris Fleet of our Map Library serving assecretary of its Groupe des cartothécaires.

One of the largest international projects inwhich we are involved is the English Short-TitleCatalogue (ESTC), which is creating a databaseof pre-1801 books printed in the British Islesand of books in English printed abroad. Ourstaff work hard to ensure that the holdings ofScottish libraries are fully covered by thedatabase, and our Director of SpecialCollections, Murray Simpson, serves on theESTC’s International Committee.

We are one of more than 600 librariesworldwide who operate the Voyager web-basedintegrated information system created byEndeavor Information Systems Inc, and we playan active role in advising on futuredevelopments of the system. Our Director ofICT, Fred Guy, is secretary to the NationalLibraries Endeavor Advisory Board, whichbrings together the main national libraries whouse the system.

The international dimension

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International exchangesWe are firm believers in exposing staff to theinternational library environment as part oftheir professional development.

Our Senior Curator of Manuscripts, OliveGeddes, spent March 2002 in New Orleans withthe Newcomb Center for Research on Women,part of Tulane University. The NewcombCenter’s Curator of Books and Records, SusanTucker, will later spend time working in ourManuscripts division.

In summer 2001 we supported a study visit toour music collections by Maria Shcherbakova ofthe Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and theMariinsky Theatre Library, St Petersburg,Russia. We are grateful to the Ruth RatcliffFund for supporting this initiative.

Thanks to a European Union scholarshipprogramme, we were also able to welcomeFrancesca Bettelli, a philosophy graduate fromBologna, who spent six months working in bothour Collection Development and Manuscriptsdivisions and made a considerable and valuablecontribution to the work of the library.

In recent years, we have worked with Russianlibraries on a number of projects. IanMcGowan, our Librarian, continues to serve onthe International Advisory Board for the StateLibrary of Foreign Literature in Moscow, andthis year we embarked on a new Russianventure funded by the Andrew W. MellonFoundation. Working in partnership with otherbodies, including the British Council and JouveSA of France, we are helping to transform theRussian State Library into a modern automateddigital library.

Our Buildings Manager, Bill Jackson, has aninternational reputation for his expertise in fire-prevention work and serves as Secretary of theTechnical Committee on Cultural Resources ofthe American-based National Fire ProtectionAssociation. In June 2001 he spoke on thesubject of fire prevention at a conference of theNFPA’s European Palaces Group held inVienna and supported by EU funding. Nearerhome, he took part in a Royal Institution ofChartered Surveyors lecture series as part of itsContinuing Professional Developmentprogramme.

Our Librarian, Ian McGowan

(right), with Dr John Cole of the

Library of Congress at the IFLA

Conference in Boston.

Photo: Jacqueline Cromarty

International intern Francesca

Bettelli with Chris Taylor of our

Collection Development

division.


New acquisition. One of a

number of drawings of Scottish

sites by artist David Roberts for

a planned work on the

antiquities of Scotland.

Purchased with assistance from

the Reid Fund.

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International visitsThe President of Croatia paid an official visit tothe Library in December 2001 and was shown anumber of our collections relating to hiscountry, most notably Robert Adam’s ownannotated proof copy of his splendid study ofthe palace at Split: Ruins of the Palace of theEmperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia.

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

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

International eventsThrough an imaginative programme of co-operation with the Italian Cultural Institute inScotland, the province of Bari, and the region ofAbruzzo, we hosted two internationalconferences: Culture and Publishing in theSouth of Italy and D’Annunzio and the BritishIsles.

International competitionOur ninth Elizabeth Soutar Craft BookbindingCompetition attracted a wide range of high-quality international entries. First prize went toGrimsby-based Mark Ramsden, while thestudent prize went to Aya Nishio from Tokyo,who is currently studying at the London Collegeof Printing.

Bookbinding competition winners Aya Nishio and

Mark Ramsden. Photo: Dan Tuffs

Dante Marianacci, Director of the Italian Institute,

Consul General Giuseppe Zaccagnini, and

publisher Alessandro Laterza at the conference

Culture and Publishing in the South of Italy.

Photo: Antonia Reeve

HE Stjepan Mesic, President of

Croatia (third from right), is

introduced to our collections by

Dr Iain Brown (right).


‘The Library is a key player in the

£7.8 million NEWSPLAN 2000 project

which brings together libraries across

the UK to preserve historic local

newspapers and make them accessible

to the public.’

D O N N A B E B B I N G T O N

N E W S P L A N S C O T L A N D P R O J E C T

A S S I S T A N T

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

We have a leading role in the £7.8 millionNEWSPLAN project, which is preserving localnewspapers throughout the UK by microfilmingthem to archival standards. Our Director ofGeneral Collections, Cate Newton, chairs theScotland-wide committee which selects thenewspapers to be microfilmed, and we haveappointed a NEWSPLAN Scotland ProjectAssistant to co-ordinate activities. The project’sUK director also operates from the Library.

Together with the five other UK and Irish legaldeposit libraries, we participate in the CopyrightLibraries Shared Cataloguing Programme(CLSCP) which shares out responsibility for thecreation of catalogue records for new UK andIrish books. Our contribution of cataloguerecords once more came second only to that ofthe British Library.

Our Librarian, Ian McGowan, continued to actas chairman of the Conference of Directors ofNational Collections (CODONC). Under hisleadership, CODONC launched its first guideto Scotland’s major national institutions andtheir collections. Mr McGowan also representedthe Library on the Edinburgh Libraries StrategyGroup. Our Head of Public Programmes,Kenneth Gibson, serves on the AdvisoryCommittee for Scotland’s Cultural Portal, a

pilot project funded by the Scottish ExecutiveEducation Department to set up a web portal inline with the Executive’s Cultural Strategy.

Alan Marchbank, our Director of PublicServices, Fred Guy, our Director of ICT, andCate Newton, our Director of GeneralCollections, served on the organising committeefor Information for Scotland 8, held on 16November 2001.

The Library is collaborating with EdinburghUniversity’s Department of Scottish History onthe Survey of Scottish Witchcraft. LouiseYeoman of our Manuscripts division, a leading

Collaboration and partnership

authority on the history of witchcraft, is adirector of the project, which is funded by theEconomic & Social Research Council (ESRC).

The Library is now a full member of theConfederation of University and ResearchLibraries (CURL), which means that ourcollections will be more immediately accessibleto the higher education community throughCURL’s online catalogue, COPAC.

Our staff play an important leadership role indeveloping the standard of cataloguingthroughout Scotland, in particular sharing theirexpertise in MARC21, the latest unifiedcataloguing format. John Nicklen, ChristineMacDonald, Brian Hillyard and Ellison Bishopgave papers at a seminar organised by theCataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland(CIGS) in May 2001, and in September wejoined with CIGS to hold a forward-lookingseminar on ‘Cataloguing the Hybrid Library’. InFebruary 2002, Robert Thomson and JohnNicklen spoke at another CIGS meeting on theproblems of cataloguing electronic serials.

The problems of cataloguing older publicationsare one of the specialisms of Brian Hillyard, ourHead of Rare Books, who has been working onthe cataloguing of older books with libraries

Stuart James (Cataloguing and Indexing

Group Scotland), with (left) Catherine

Nicholson (SCURL) and Elaine Fulton (SLIC) at

Information for Scotland 8.


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across the UK through the Rare Books Groupof the Chartered Institute of Library andInformation Professionals (CILIP). Our RareBooks division has also been advising theNational Trust for Scotland on cataloguingbooks in its many properties.

Our Head of Music, Almut Boehme, workingwith Peter Baxter, Music Librarian ofEdinburgh City Libraries, has played a leadingrole in bringing together music librarians fromthroughout Scotland. In November, the Libraryplayed host to a Scottish Music LibrariansGroup meeting.

PreservationOur commitment to collaboration andpartnership is particularly evident in the field ofpreservation.

The Library co-funds the National PreservationOffice (NPO), and our Librarian chairs itscommittee on preservation surrogates. In May,we hosted the Preservation Administrators’Panel, a national committee of the NPO.

Our Head of Preservation, Rab Jackson,represents the Library on another nationalpreservation body, the Heads of Conservationof National Institutions. He also served on thesteering group of a project examining the aciddeterioration of the collections of UK and Irishlibraries.

The Library acted as external verifier for areview of the Public Record Office of NorthernIreland. We also carried out an assessment ofenvironmental conditions in Sabhal Mór Ostaig,Isle of Skye, and recommended improvementsto bring them up to standard for the safestorage of its recently-acquired MacCormaigCollection of antiquarian Gaelic and Highland-related books.

We gave preservation advice to Edinburgh

University Library to support a fundingapplication for conservation work on the archiveof the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies,and we gave the Scottish Parliament guidanceon preservation treatment for the DonaldDewar Library.

In September 2001 we worked with theNational Preservation Office to host a Scotland-wide preservation needs workshop.

We contributed to an Information ServicesNational Training Organisation (isNTO)investigation into the establishment of NationalOccupation Standards for microfilm cameraoperators. At a local level, we establishedreciprocal training arrangements with theNational Museums of Scotland.

AwardsAs a leading cultural organisation, we supportboth creative writing and in-depth researchthrough a series of annual awards.

The Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award isjointly administered by the Library and theScottish Arts Council, and is designed to giveScottish writers the chance to develop theirwork during a two-month stay at Grez-sur-

Loing in France. This year, we were able tonominate two winners: Ian Brotherhood andJules Horne.

The National Library of Scotland/SaltireResearch Book of the Year Award was one ofthe Saltire Literary Awards announced at anaward ceremony in the Library on St Andrew’sday. The winner was Alastair J. Mann for hisThe Scottish Book Trade 1500-1720, publishedby Tuckwell Press.

The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award is anew award to encourage the publication ofpoetry pamphlets – the route by whichimportant new poetry is often first made public.The award marks the contribution made toScottish literature, and in particular poetry, byprinter and publisher Callum Macdonald, whodied in 1999. It is generously supported by theMichael Marks Charitable Trust, with additionalfunding from the Saltire Society and numerousprivate supporters. The winner in 2001 wasauthor and critic J. B. Pick, for his pamphletNow. Second prize went to Sarah Martin forThe Further Tree, featuring poems by KirstenKearney.

Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award

winners Ian Brotherhood and Jules Horne.


Saltire Literary Award winners

Alastair Mann, Liz Lochhead,

and Meaghan Delahunt.

Photo: Graham Clark

Top right: Callum Macdonald Memorial

Award winner J. B. Pick with Lady Marks (left)

and Tessa Ransford. Photo: Mark K. Jackson

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DonorsRegione AbruzzoMario AddaMark AllabyDavid de AngelisASAMBA GraphisProvincia di BariBastogiMark BeddowRonald I. M. BlackThe late Mrs Edith BrownMrs E. BruceDr George BruceCacucciD. CarmichaelCentro nazionale di studi

DannunzianiDr Martin ClarkIan C. CunninghamMichael DarwinDeputazione Abruzzese di Storia

PatriaThe late Lady Dunnett, OBE

EdiarsThe late Professor John EricksonMrs Ljubica EricksonMs M. Jane EvansJohn di Falco

Ms Gillian ForbesMrs Joan GillonMiss Doreen A. GreigMrs Rosemary HalstedRoy HardyHM Government Robert HorneGeoffrey C. IrvineLaterzaJubilee 2000Mrs Ann MacDonaldRuari McLean, CBE, DSC

Douglas McPhieColin McVeanMiss Greta MairHenry MairDon MoodyProfessor Luis MorenoTrevor MorrisonDr David MunroMrs April MurphyMiss B. N. NeilNoubsMiss Isabel PatersonRev C. Forrester-PatonR. J. G. PayneRocco CarabbaWilliam RothR. N. Russell

SchenaAlan L. SlaterMrs Hazel Goodsir SmithMiss Adèle M. StewartRonnie TaitMrs Jane TaylorBill ThomsonI. D. S. ThomsonTinariTracceMrs Janet E. WattDr Christopher Whyte

Donors and depositors

We wish to thank the following

individuals and organisations whose

generosity has added to the richness

of our collections in the course of the year.

DepositorsRobert CalderClan Mackay SocietyMr N. DwellyFindhorn FoundationRonald FrameRight Hon. Lord James Douglas-

Hamilton, PC, MSP, QC

Miss Mollie HunterSaltire SocietySouth Edinburgh LiberalDemocratsScottish National PartyWardie Bowling ClubMrs Claire Woods

Dr George Bruce. Photo: Gordon WrightProfessor John Erickson. Photo: Photo Express

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TrusteesChairmanProfessor Michael Anderson, OBE, MA, PhD,

FBA, FRSE

Vice-ChairmanThe Right Hon. the Lord Emslie, MBE, PC,

LLD, FRSE (to October 2001)

Ex-officioThe Lord President of the Court of SessionThe Lord AdvocateThe First MinisterThe Dean of the Faculty of AdvocatesThe Minister of the High Kirk (St Giles’),

EdinburghThe Member of the Scottish Parliament for

Edinburgh CentralThe Crown AgentThe Lord Provost of Aberdeen The Lord Provost of Dundee The Lord Provost of EdinburghThe Lord Provost of Glasgow

Appointed by the CrownProfessor Michael Anderson, OBE, MA, PhD,

FBA FRSE

Jack Dale, MA, BD, STM

A. Lorraine Fannin, BA, DipEd

(from November 2001)Maria A. Russell, MSc, PhD, BSc

(from November 2001)

Appointed by the Faculty of AdvocatesPhilip H. Brodie, QC

The Hon. Lord Coulsfield, QC

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

Angus Stewart, QC

Malcolm G. Thomson, QC

Malcolm C. N. Scott, QC (from October 2001)

Appointed by the UniversitiesProfessor Graham D. Caie, MA, PhD

Professor Derek Law, MA, DUniv, FKC, FIInfSc,FLA, FRSE

Ivor G. Lloyd, BA, DipLib, MLib, ALA

Professor Jane H. Ohlmeyer, MA, PhD, FRHistS

Appointed by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities

Councillor Bill Lamb

Co-optedLady Dunnett, OBE (died November 2001)Professor A. John Forty, CBE, PhD, DSc, FRSE,

FRSA (to October 2001)Ian MacDougall, MA, MUniv (to June 2001)

Librarian and DirectorsLibrarian and Secretary to the

Board of TrusteesIan D. McGowan, BA, FRSA

Director of AdministrationMartin C. Graham, MA, DipLib

Director of EstatesWilliam Jackson, MRICS

Director of General CollectionsCatriona J. Newton, BA, MA, FRSA

Director of Information and Communications Technology

R. Fred Guy, BA, MA, DipLib, ALA, MIInfSc

Director of Public ServicesAlan M. Marchbank, MA, PhD

Director of Special CollectionsMurray C. T. Simpson, MA, PhD, MA, ALA,

LRAM

Trustees and senior staff

Lady Dunnett, author, artist, and Trustee of the

Library, who died in November 2001.

Photo: Gordon Wright

F I N A N C E A N D S T A T I S T I C S 3 1

Finance and statistics

Statement of financial activity 2001-2002 2000-2001£000s £000s

INCOMING RESOURCES

Grant-in-Aid 11,374 11,969

Net income from revenue-earning activities 19 22

Gross income from grant-aided activities 26 24

Interest received 69 77

Endowment income 13 13

Trust funds and Bequests 168 1

11,669 12,106

RESOURCES EXPENDED

Collection development 4,200 3,786

User-access to collections 3,189 3,132

Preservation 956 909

Buildings 1,951 1,806

Publicity 295 280

Administration 955 943

11,546 10,856

NET INCOMING / (OUTGOING) RESOURCES 123 1,250

Change in market value of investments 22 (161)

Revaluation of assets 1,613 2,112

Net movement in funds 1,758 3,201

Fund balances brought forward – 1 April 2000 72,137 68,936

Fund balances carried forward – 31 March 2001 73,895 72,137

Summarised balance sheet as at 31 March

FIXED ASSETS 72,483 71,387

CURRENT ASSETS 1,808 1,159

Creditors – amounts due within one year 326 395

NET CURRENT ASSETS 1,482 764

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 73,965 72,151

FINANCED BY

Creditors – amounts due after one year 70 14

ACCRUALS AND DEFERRED INCOME

Deferred Government Grants 33,299 33,122

CAPITAL AND RESERVES 40,596 39,015

73,965 72,151

The National Library of Scotland is a Non-

Departmental Public Body which in 2001-2002

was grant-aided by the Scottish Executive

Education Department. Grant-in-Aid applied to

the Library’s running costs amounted to

£10,316,000 for the year to 31 March 2002. In

addition, the Library receives a Purchase Grant

for the specific purpose of making appropriate

additions to the National Collection. In 2001-

2002 this grant was £1,058,000.

The bulk of the Library’s resources are directed

towards collection development, preservation,

and user access to collections: taken together

these activities absorbed 72% of the Library’s

total resources for 2001-2002. The remaining

resources were applied to maintaining the

Library’s estate and to general administration.

A summary of the Library’s finances is given in

the Statement of Financial Activity and Balance

Sheet which are shown in abridged form on this

page. The Accounts of the Library are subject to

audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General,

and are available from the Library’s Director of

Administration when the audit has been

completed.

F I N A N C E A N D S T A T I S T I C S3 2

Sponsorship and support

We are grateful to the following for theirsponsorship and support:

Aberbrothock Charitable TrustArts and Humanities Research BoardBinks TrustSydney Black Charitable TrustCarnegie Trust for the Universities of ScotlandMrs Elizabeth A. Clark’s FundRonald Duncan Literary FoundationFriends of the National LibrariesGannochy TrustGordon Fraser Charitable TrustGraham Brown FundHeritage Lottery FundL. E. Hill Memorial TrustJames Thom Howat Charitable TrustE. M. JacksonJerwood Charitable FoundationLeng Charitable TrustMary Robson Lilburne FundMichael Marks Charitable TrustJohn Menzies plcKeppie Trust FundMiller FoundationNational Art Collections FundPortrack Charitable TrustMrs Ruth Ratcliff’s FundReid FundDenis Roberts FundResearch Support Libraries ProgrammeRobertson TrustRussell TrustSaltire SocietyScottish Cultural Resources Access Network Scottish Higher Education Funding Council Semple Fraser WSMagnus and Janet Souter FundTay Charitable Trust

Income other thanGrant-in Aid 2001-2002

Net income from revenue-earning activities

6%

Gross income from grant-aided activities

9%

Interest received 24%

Endowment income 4%

Trust funds andbequests 57%

Preservation 8%

Administration 8%

Buildings 17%

Publicity 3%

Collection development 36%

User access tocollections 28%

Expenditure 2001-2002

E-mail

72%

Fax

3%

Post

25%

Our reading rooms serve an

international clientele. Three-

quarters (75%) gave Scotland

as their permanent home, with

the remainder split between

other parts of the UK (12%)

and overseas (13%).

Figures exclude website visitors

and visitors to the Map Library.

General written enquiries were

up 11% on the previous year,

with e-mail strongly emerging

as the preferred means of

communication.

Australasia

1%

America 5%

UK outside Scotland 12%

Africa & Middle/

Far East 2%

Europe 5%

Scotland

75%

We continue to record a

remarkable growth in external

users. The graph shows the

growth in monthly visitor

sessions, which now stand at

around 67,000 per month.

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

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FebJa

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Dec

NovOct

Sep

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Jun

MayApr

70,000

Origins of users 2001-2002

Written enquiries 2001-2002Of written enquiries,

46% are from Scotland,

33% from overseas, and

21% from the UK outside

Scotland.

Website visitors 2001-2002

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