Annual Report 2001-2002 - Cambridge University Library ...

5TOPModel of theUniversity Libraryshowing how thefinal phases of theextension willcomplete theplanneddevelopment.Fundraising forthese phases iscurrently under way.RIGHTThe Leigh Room,which houses thecollection of thelate Professor R. A.Leigh, in the newlyopened north-westcorner extension.assistance of the University’s Development Officeand Cambridge in America, a major campaign is underway to raise the funding needed to complete the finalphase of the extension. As part of this campaign, thepresence of fragments from the Genizah Collection at amajor exhibition in Chicago provided the opportunityfor a series of events in that city, culminating in apublic lecture by Professor Reif and a dinner hostedby the British Consul-General, Mr Robert Culshaw,and his wife. It was gratifying that, right at the endof the year, the Resource Management Committeedemonstrated the University’s commitment towardsthis strategically important development by agreeingto earmark a sum of £4 million from the CambridgeUniversity Press fund to be used towards this finalphase of building.Saturday afternoon openingFrom September 2001 the main University Libraryopened on Saturday afternoons for, it is believed, thefirst time in its 600-year history. This developmentwas enormously popular with readers and it has veryquickly become part of the expected pattern of service.Reader numbers on some Saturday afternoons quicklyapproached those of weekday afternoons. Theplanning for these new arrangements involved acomplex series of negotiations, changes to the workingpattern of many staff and the employment of newstaff, to ensure that there were enough regular staffavailable on Saturday afternoons to provide readerswith a satisfactory level of service and assistance.Both the opening on Saturday afternoons and theintroduction of the ‘Newton’ system placed anenormous burden on the staff of the Library, particularlythose involved in recruitment, training and planning,many of them working under great pressure for much ofthe year, and a debt of gratitude is owed to them all.Carter Studio

The ManuscriptsReading Room inthe newly openednorth-west cornerextension.representing a collection of outstanding interest for thehistory of geology and related subjects.Ordnance Survey no longer publish their large-scalemaps on paper and, since the end of 2000, they havesimilarly been unable to provide microform ‘aperturecards’ of these maps. This initially left a gap in thetopographic history of the country but, happily, thesituation has now been resolved, with the agreement byOrdnance Survey to supply the legal deposit librarieswith an annual snapshot of their digital database. Thefirst three of these (for 1998-2000) are now available inthe Map Department. The Department’s database ofgeographical headings in the card catalogue – almost17,000 entries – has been computerised and providesmuch more flexible searching possibilities; a recentexample of this was the production of a list of all theLibrary’s maps of the whole, and of parts, of Antarctica,for a reader wanting to trace the fluctuation in ice cover.The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has amagnificent and important collection of around 70,000photographs, taken all over the Empire over a period ofmany decades. The only catalogue at present is atypescript list, but, thanks to a bequest from the late MrF. C. Goodyear, a new project was started in January2002 to convert the list into electronic form and mountit on a database compatible with that being used forother Cambridge archives. The project is expected tobe completed in 2004, and it is hoped that sufficientfunding will be available to digitise some of the images.Some of the rarer materials from the RCS collectionsare being microfilmed for inclusion in Adam MatthewPublications’ Empire and Commonwealth project.On a less happy note, during the late 1980s andearly 1990s the Library, along with the LondonLibrary, suffered some serious thefts of rare books. Thethief, a member of the University, was caught afterextensive police investigation and, during the year,was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.Carter StudioOriental collectionsThere has been growing concern at the number ofpaperback Chinese books awaiting binding. Followinga review of the capacity of the Bindery to handle thesematerials, it was decided that the only way to makethem available to readers was to create a new class inwhich they could be shelved as paperbacks, and, infuture, to bind them only selectively. As part of theRSLP Chinese Research Materials project, the backlogof such materials awaiting cataloguing (some 7,000volumes) was largely eliminated. That project and theimminent arrival of the ‘Newton’ system provided acatalyst for the conversion to Pinyin of the remainingrecords for Chinese books in Wade-Giles romanisation.As a result, the Chinese card-catalogue is now closedand all new accessions will be catalogued online only.Purchases in Hebrew and Arabic have increasedsubstantially, reflecting the need to fill gaps that haddeveloped in the collections. Interest in the Library’simportant collection of Near Eastern manuscriptscontinues; some significant additions were made tothat collection during the year and it is hoped thatprogress can be made with making catalogues of somesignificant parts of the Near Eastern manuscriptcollection more widely accessible.The Soka Gakkai, of Japan, published a splendidfacsimile of two of the Library’s Oriental treasures, theSanskrit Lotus Sutra manuscripts Add.1682 andAdd.1683, edited by Mr Jamieson.The collection of essays entitled The CambridgeGenizah collections: their contents and significance, editedby Stefan and Shulie Reif (Cambridge 2002), waspublished as number 1 in the Genizah Series andProfessor Reif’s book A Jewish archive from Old Cairowas reprinted in paperback. The Cambridge Genizahcollection provided the central focus for a major yearlongexhibition at the Spertus Institute in Chicago, andseventeen fragments were loaned in three batches overthe course of the year.Stefan Reif’s book on theLibrary’s Genizah Collection,A Jewish archive from OldCairo, was reissued inpaperback.7

digital library8Members of theCEDARSManagementCommittee (fromleft: Maggie Jones,Project Manager;David Price,University ofOxford; ClareJenkins, ImperialCollege London(Project Director);Peter Fox,University ofCambridge; DavidHoldsworth,University of Leeds).Usage of almost all electronic resources increasedsubstantially, with the ERL databases (such as Medline)and Web of Science showing the highest growth.Significant online titles added during the year included:World of learningIndex to The Times 1790-1980Cancer handbookLandmapAmerican national bibliographyAccess UNThe University Library is the University’s principalprovider of electronic information services. Demandfor them continues to increase, from all parts of theUniversity, and there is a growing interest nationallyin the provision of e-book collections, principally forundergraduate use. Many of the pricing structures forthese, including arrangements negotiated by JISC, arebased on the assumption of a centralised model oflibrary provision not applicable in Cambridge. Thedifficulties caused by the Cambridge library structurefor the provision of electronic scientific journals arediscussed on page 4; these problems are likely to befelt across other disciplines before long. Almost all theUniversity Library’s budget for online and CD-ROMsubscriptions is now committed, in some cases toCHEST agreements lasting between three and fiveyears, and so there is very little room for furthergrowth in electronic collections without eitheradditional funding or a reduction in spending on booksand paper journals.Use of the Web-server rose substantially again, toover 11,000,000 requests during the year, a dailyaverage of 30,000. The most popular Web pages werethose providing access to online catalogues, electronicjournals and databases, the pages of the DarwinCorrespondence and Genizah projects and thosemounted in connection with exhibitions.Since 1998 the Library has been heavily involved inthe JISC-funded CEDARS (CURL Exemplars in DigitalARchiveS) Project, which was extended until MarchNancy Elkington2002. Apart from being one of the three partner sites(with Leeds and Oxford), Cambridge also providedmembers of the Management Team for the Project,and the Librarian chaired the Advisory Board. Theproject ended with a workshop, held in Manchester inFebruary 2002, which provided an opportunity toreview what the project had delivered during itsexistence; what other key digital preservationdevelopments had occurred during the life of theproject; and to consider future action. The Project alsoproduced a series of ‘guidance documents’ coveringIntellectual property rights, Preservation metadata,Collection management, Digital preservation strategies, anda Digital archiving prototype.The expertise in digital archiving gained during theCEDARS Project was a major factor in the decision bythe Library and the Computing Service to produce forthe Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) an ambitiousproposal for a digital archive for the University, basedon the DSpace digital repository developed by MITLibraries and the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Theproject is planned to be in three phases: a review ofdigital preservation needs and practices in theUniversity and nationally, which has already beenapproved and funded by CMI and began in June 2002;the main project to establish the archive; and a seriesof seminars and other events to raise institutionalawareness and help UK universities to prepare andimplement digital preservation strategies. Work alsocontinued with the other legal deposit libraries to testa technical framework offering secure networking ofmaterials deposited under any extension of legaldeposit legislation to cover electronic publications.Apart from the transfer of the main manuscriptscatalogue to the ‘Newton’ system, significantadditional progress was made in the electronic deliveryof catalogues of manuscripts. The catalogues ofbusiness archives and of 7,000 additional manuscripts,held on a database that was becoming obsolete, weresuccessfully transferred to new software that will becompatible with other manuscript and archive recordscurrently being created. The Library has contributedthe equivalent of over a thousand pages of typescriptlists to the online database of the Political ArchivesConsortium, part of the Access to Archives (A2A)programme run by the Public Record Office, theBritish Library and the Historical ManuscriptsCommission. An application to the JISC for fundingunder the UK Higher Education Archives Hub wassuccessful; it is planned that contributions to this willbegin in the coming year. The Library is participatingin the Cultural Materials Alliance run by the ResearchLibraries Group and has received a grant to digitiseNewton manuscripts from the Macclesfield andPortsmouth collections to add to this resource.

servicesThe Reference Department dealt with a growingnumber of enquiries, of which the overwhelmingmajority (91%) arrived by email. More than half ofthese (57%) came from outside the University, andalmost 20% were about subjects other than Cambridge,the University or the Library. Moves towards theestablishment of an electronic reference library arebeing contemplated, as such a development shouldenable these enquiries to be handled more efficiently.The programme of user education continued, withfewer sessions but a higher number of participants. Themost heavily subscribed were the library inductionsessions and those on electronic resources. Severalfaculties now include details of the University Library’sworkshops in their own timetable for students,especially postgraduates. Tailored workshops havealso been offered, such as one for graduate students inthe Faculty of English on Commonwealth materials.These workshops, though very popular, are staffintensiveand have almost become a victim of theirown success. Plans are being drawn up to develop avirtual learning environment whereby documentationand tutorials can be made available online.The statistics gathered by the turnstile in theEntrance Hall show that the Library continues to beused heavily by readers who are not current staff orstudents of the University. The largest single categoryis that of Cambridge graduates who are not studyingor employed in the University and who would beregarded as external readers by most universities(indeed many of them are academic staff elsewhere).These plus other external readers account for morethan half the total number of registered users and thesetwo categories account for about half the use of theLibrary measured in terms of the number and durationof visits.Up to September 2001, the British Library’sDocument Supply Centre had dealt with requests thatit could not satisfy by referring them to ‘back-up’libraries, of which Cambridge University Library wasthe principal one. From the beginning of October thatarrangement ceased, and this Library was, therefore,faced with the choice of running down its inter-libraryloans service, to the detriment of users around thecountry as well as to local users (as the service makes amodest surplus which is used to subsidise the costs ofrequests made by Cambridge readers), or of offering aservice independent of the British Library. It chose thelatter course. Even during the first year of this newservice, the number of requests remained at a levelclose to that of the previous year. The ‘back-up’arrangement for the British Library’s ‘premiumservices’, Urgent Action and Lexicon, continued tooperate successfully.9An engraving byEdmund Evansfrom Walter Crane,Beauty and the Beast(London 1874),which was ondisplay in the‘Beauty and thebook’ exhibition.

10major purchasesManuscripts Letters from Laurence Housman to Leslie Harries, 1943-5 Letters of George, Duke of Cambridge, to Sir Charles Lennox Wyke, 1855-96 Postcards from Asa Gray to Charles Darwin, 1880 Thomas de Havilland, ‘Journal to and back from Colombo’, 1796-7Maps A new survey of the coast of Africa from Senegal and Cape Verde to Cape St Ann… (London 1792) A plan of the River Sherbro, with Yawry Bay…1773 A survey of the entrance of Sierra Leona River, by Capt’n Thompson, of His Majesty’s Ship Nautilas(London 1792) A new map of Ireland. Drawn from the survey made by Sr Wm Petty… [1689]Music Mendelssohn, An anthem… to Charles Bayles Broadley’s version of the Thirteenth Psalm(London 1841-3) [a copy with important Cambridge associations] Lully, Atys: tragédie (Paris 1708); Persée: tragédie (Paris 1710); Proserpine: tragédie (Paris 1707) Rossini, Moïse: opéra en quatre actes avec accompt. de piano forte (Paris 1825?) Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Lectures on music, etc. [11 volumes of manuscripts.]Photographs for the Royal Commonwealth Society collection A photographic archive relating to Sudan and EthiopiaRare books Walter Burley, De intensione et remissione formarum (Venice 1496) Henricus de Herph, Collationes tres notabiles pro cupientibus ad rectissimam christianae religionis normamet perfectionem contemplationis pervenire (Cologne 1509) Robert Grosseteste, Opuscula dignissima (Venice 1514) Hernando Alonso de Herrera, Disputatio adversus Aristotelem Aristotelicosque sequaces (Salamanca1517) Le mirouer exemplaire du regime et gouvernement des roys (Paris 1517) Francis Blomefield, Collectanea Cantabrigiensia (Norwich 1750) [copy with annotations by RobertMasters, Christ’s College] J.L. Klüber, Die Sternwarte zu Mannheim (Mannheim 1811)Antiquarian law books for the Squire Law Library(purchased by means of grants from the Cambridge Law Journal and the Maitland Memorial Fund) Intrationum liber omnibus legum Anglie studiosis apprime necessarius in se complectens diversas formasplacitosu (1546) John Clayton, Reports and pleas of Assizes at York (1651) Francis Buller, An introduction to the law relative to trials at Nisi Prius (London 1767) The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1124-1707 Joseph Chitty, A Practical treatise on the law of contracts (London 1826) Charles Coote, Sketches of the lives and characters of eminent English civilians, with an historicalintroduction relative to the Civil Advocates (1804) W. Hutton, Courts of Requests (Birmingham 1806)

donations11TOP RIGHTThe frontispiece toDaniel Defoe, Lavita e le avventure diRobinson Crusoe(Venice 1763).Purchased 2002.CENTRE RIGHTArtist’s equipment,including a cameraoscura, fromAntoine JosephPernety’sDictionnaire portatifde peinture, sculptureet gravure (Paris1757). Purchased2002.FAR RIGHTLe mirouerexemplaire du regimeet gouvernement desroys (Paris 1517),the first printing inany language of athirteenth centuryLatin text on the artof governing.Purchased 2002.CENTREFrom Henricus deHerph’s principalwork of mysticinstruction,Collationes tresnotabiles procupientibus adrectissimamchristianae religionisnormam etperfectionemcontemplationispervenire (Cologne1509). Purchased2002.Manuscripts Papers of Sir Frank Young, biochemist(his family) Further papers of the first Lord Acton(the present Lord Acton) Correspondence and papers of theGabrieli family, 17th-19th centuries(Mrs F. Dening-Smitherman) Further records of Jardine Matheson(Matheson & Co. Ltd) Manuscript fragments of Charles Darwin,The origin of species and The expression ofthe emotions (Professor R.D. Keynes, ondeposit) Papers of Sir Neville Mott, physicistand Nobel laureate (Mrs A. Grampin,on deposit) Typescript report to President Kaundaon rural development and education inZambia (1974)Maps Hollar’s London: 37 etchings of Londonviews, 1636-67 (London 1980) (PaulHamlyn Foundation)transfers University Archives: records of the Facultyof English, Cambridge University Pressand the Real Tennis ClubRIGHTAn illustration ofsea urchins fromE.F. Turgot’sMémoire instructifsur la manière derassembler ... lesdiverses curiositésd’histoire naturelle(Paris 1758).Purchased 2002.

preservation12The project to conserve the Ely Dean and Chapterrecords, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund,came to a successful conclusion. A major part of thecollection consists of medieval parchment rolls, manyseveral metres long, which had to be relaxed to makethem usable. The collection also contains about fiftymusic manuscripts bound in sheep or calfskin. Thesewere re-sewn where necessary and boxed.The Macclesfield collection of Newton papersconsists of a wide range of material, including bounditems and notebooks, items pasted into ‘guardbooks’,loose single leaves and printed items. Conservationwork on the collection, funded by the Andrew W.Mellon Foundation, is concentrating initially onthe guardbooks, which, because of the varied natureof the size and type of their contents, have sufferedfrom use in the past. The paper itself, though 300years old, is in relatively good condition, but somesheets have been folded (leading to lines of weaknessalong the fold) and, in some cases, the iron gall ink isburning into the paper, leading to tears and fractures.Preservation microfilming of the RosenthalCollection of Africana has been completed andthe last batch of master films is due to be sent tothe central microfilm store at the National Libraryof Wales.Conservation workon a notebook ofSir Isaac Newton(MS Add.3995),showing thedamaged paperstraightened outand repaired.

support services & accommodationThe opening of the north-west corner extension wasgreeted with relief by many who have had to put upwith cramped accommodation for two years or more.The new reading rooms and offices generally receivedacclaim from both staff and readers once the teethingtroubles had been resolved. The PhotographyDepartment seem to have suffered most from suchproblems, perhaps because their requirements are moreexacting than most.The relocation of staff and services placed a greatburden on the General and Technical Maintenancestaff, who had to organise and carry out the physicalmoves. This pressure was compounded by thedemands of the building work on the south-westcorner, and by the continuing work on fire precautionsbeing undertaken by contractors working for theUniversity’s Estate Management and Building Service(EMBS). The new glass fire-doors in the maincorridors, the installation of which was awaited withsome trepidation because of their feared visual impact,are in fact relatively unobtrusive and certainly notoffensive even to the most ardent Gilbert Scott fan.There were major problems with the fire alarms,leading to unnecessary evacuations of the building andcomplaints from the Fire Service. The agreement ofEMBS to fund, as a matter of urgency, the merging ofthe different fire alarm systems, came as a great relief,especially to those staff expected, in an emergency, tobe able to interpret the sometimes contradictorymessages from the various panels.The problems with the University’s financialsystem, now called CUFS, have continued, though at aless acute level than in the previous year. Someimprovements have undoubtedly been made toreliability and speed but some modules remainunacceptably slow and cumbersome. This, combinedwith the disturbance caused by the relocation of thedepartment, led to a significant loss of production inthe Photography Department, and thus to a reductionin the financial turnover. More positively, however,the new studio provides the opportunity for thedepartment to move into digital image-processing on aserious basis. Two new digital workstations werepurchased to meet the rapidly growing demand fordigital images both from external customers and fromLibrary projects financed from external sources.13The Photographicand DigitisationStudio in the newlyopened north-westcorner extension.Carter Studio

exhibitions14Exhibition CentreFANTASY TO FEDERATION: EUROPEAN MAPS OFAUSTRALIA TO 1901To September 2001VISUAL ARTS IN LATIN AMERICATo coincide with the annual CambridgeSymposium organised by the Departmentof Spanish and PortugueseNovember 2001 - January 2002Two exhibits fromthe ‘Footprints ofthe Lion’ exhibition.BELOW RIGHTTitle page of Dealchimia opusculaveterum philosophorumfromNewton’s library.BELOWObservations onthe comet of 1680by Thomas Hill ofCanterbury,perhaps sent toNewton by JohnFlamsteed in 1685.FOOTPRINTS OF THE LION: ISAAC NEWTON AT WORKOctober 2001 - March 2002Prepared by Mr Scott Mandelbroteand opened by Sir Patrick MooreBEAUTY AND THE BOOK: GEMS OF COLOUR PRINTINGApril – September 2002Prepared by Ms Robinson and openedby Mr Bamber GascoigneThe receptions for the opening ceremonies weresponsored by Cambridge University Press.Short-term exhibitions in the NorthFront corridorCLOTHING THE BOOKVictorian publishers’ bindingsJune - September 2001RUDYARD KIPLINGTo coincide with the Kipling conferencein Magdalene College and the anniversaryof the publication of Kim in 1901September - November 2001LADY MARGARET’S PROFESSORS OF DIVINITYTo coincide with the events organised bythe Faculty of Divinity to mark the 500thAnniversary of the Lady Margaret’sProfessorshipJanuary - March 2002ROY PORTERA small selection of his books to commemoratehis work, after his untimely death on3 March 2002March – May 2002THE QUEEN’S JUBILEEA selection of books from the LegalDeposit DepartmentMay - July 2002

15TOP RIGHTSir Patrick Mooreand the Librarian atthe opening of the‘Footprints of theLion’ exhibition.BELOWBamber Gascoigneand AnneMarieRobinson, theLibrary’s ExhibitionsOfficer, at theopening of the‘Beauty and thebook’ exhibition.BELOW RIGHTScott Mandelbrote’scatalogue of theNewton exhibition,published by theLibrary in October2001Items from the Library’s collections wereloaned to the following exhibitions National Library of Australia, Canberra:‘Treasures from the world’s great libraries’ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies,Chicago: ‘A gateway to medievalMediterranean life: Cairo’s Ben EzraSynagogue’ Friedrich Schiller Museum, Marbach:‘Sicherheit ist nirgends: das TagebuchArthur Schnitzlers’ Tewkesbury Abbey: ‘To the greater gloryof God: 900th anniversary of TewkesburyAbbey’Nigel Luckhurst

dependent libraries16Medical LibraryThe statistics gathered at the Medical Library are agood indicator of the impact of electronic publishingon library users’ patterns of behaviour. The number ofnew readers registering with the Library has remainedfairly constant but the number of physical visits hasdeclined from around 144,000 in 1999-2000 to about116,000 this year. Against this, in just one year therewas a 63% rise in the number of searches of the onlineservice Medline, from 136,000 to 223,000. Theinstallation of a wireless computer network within theClinical School building means that users with theirown laptops can now have access to the full range ofthe Medical Library’s networked resources fromanywhere in the building.The National Health Service is one of the majorconstituent user groups of the Medical Library and thisyear saw important advances in the delivery ofinformation services to NHS users. CamBIS(Cambridgeshire Bibliographical Information Service)provides all Cambridgeshire NHS staff with access to arange of major medical and healthcare databases, andCHERVIL (Cambridgeshire Health Evidence-basedResources Virtual Information and Libraries), managedfor the county by the Medical Library, providesguidance on local healthcare information resources andlinks to CamBIS. The future of these services is, however,far from secure, as the NHS underwent yet anothermanagement reorganisation in April 2002. Thisreorganisation also affected the Medical Library’sfunding streams for its NHS support, with results thatare as yet unclear. A review of healthcare informationprovision served to bring closer together the senior staffof the Addenbrooke’s Trust and the Medical Library.This strengthening of the links assumed a greaterimportance with the decision by the Trust to abandon itsplan to construct a separate learning centre – a plan thathad been opposed by the Medical Library Sub-Syndicate.Science librariesThe establishment of the new Betty and GordonMoore Library is described on page 3 and the issues ofscholarly communication and the co-ordination ofscientific journals on page 4.The transfer of a significant part of its stock to theMoore Library meant that space in the ScientificPeriodicals Library could be used more effectively. Thejournal collections in both open and closed-stack areaswere respaced, and all the printed abstracts andindexes relocated onto the same floor. However itremains that the SPL building is fundamentallyunsuited as a scientific library for the twenty-firstcentury. Given that the concept of a purpose-builtcentral Biological Sciences library seems no longer tobe a realistic aspiration, it is essential that meansshould be found whereby the Library can take over theremainder of the Arts School Building and thus allowthe basement stack area to be opened up for readeraccess. Now that the distractions of planning theMoore Library have passed, this will be the nextpriority for the SPL staff.Squire Law LibraryThe Library Syndicate established a task force toconsider how it might best consult its variedconstituencies of readers on a regular basis. The taskforce recommended that the use of Libra Surveysoftware developed by Priority Research Limitedshould be considered and that a pilot survey should becarried out in the Squire. This survey was undertakenin March 2002. Readers were first asked one question:how can the service provided by the Squire beimproved to meet your current and future needs? Onthe basis of the responses to this question, a secondquestionnaire was devised to assess the level ofimportance readers assigned to these. It was gratifyingto note that the general perception of the Squire andits services was a positive one. Readers’ priorities forfuture improvements were, in order: cheaperphotocopying, more online journals, more re-shelvingof books by staff during the day, allowing people todrink water in the library, more copies of core textbooks. The Law Library Sub-Syndicate will beconsidering the implications of this response duringthe coming year.In October 2001 ‘the largest legal book auctionwithin living memory’ took place following thedisposal of books by the Birmingham Law Society.Thanks to generous support from the Faculty of Lawthrough the Cambridge Law Journal, and the MaitlandMemorial Fund, the Library was able to fill significantgaps in its collections by the purchase of over 570volumes, most of which were previously unavailable inCambridge, many of them being very rare indeed. Thesubject coverage included: land law and conveyancing,procedure and pleading, civil and foreign law, criminallaw, obligations, legal philosophy, ecclesiastical law,and biographies.In 2004 the Squire will celebrate the centenary ofits foundation by Miss Rebecca Flower Squire.Associated with those celebrations will be theestablishment of an endowment fund to help theLibrary to maintain and develop its services for thefuture. The appeal to raise the funds for thisendowment will be launched during 2002-3.

Library preferences - overall summaryStatement Level of agreement % who 95 % confidenceagreelimit17Overall, the Squire Law Library providesme with a good service82.0 ± 2.9The library staff are available to help mewhen I need them79.3 ± 3.1The library’s collections serve myresearch/learning needs well78.2 ± 3.1The reference desk provides ahelpful service75.2 ± 3.3I am happy with the quality of the researchassistance provided by the staff66.7 ± 3.6Communication between the Libraryand its users is good57.5 ± 3.8Books and periodicals are easy to locatein the library55.0 ± 3.8The use of laptops disturbs me whenI work in the library50.3 ± 3.8The online catalogue is easy to search50.2 ± 3.8The library provides enough informationabout its facilities and services49.8 ± 3.8The temperature of the Library provides apleasant study environment48.7 ± 3.8Readers are well trained to use the libraryresources39.6 ± 3.7Strongly disagree Slightly disagree Neither Slightly agree Strongly agreeLibrary use - overallWhat facilities do you generally use when you visit the Squire Law Library?Look at journal articlesLook at booksPhotocopyingStudy85.3%81.3%73.6%71.4%Two charts fromthe survey of usersof the Squire LawLibrary. The charton the right showsthe level of use ofdifferent facilities;that at the topshows readers’responses tovarious statements.Look at law reports71.2%Use computer facilities57.5%Consult a member of library staff22.3%LL.M short loan collection 18.3%Look at legislation 17.98%Other 1.8%Base: 413N/R 0.2%0% 50% 100%

esearch support libraries programme18The three-year Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP)ended in July 2002. The University Library participated intwelve projects, which are listed below.BOPCRIS: to provide a Web-based bibliographic database,including full-text digitisation of keydocuments from eighteenth-, nineteenth- andtwentieth-century British Official Publications, which constitutethe most detailed printed primary sources for the study of anextensive range of topics in the social sciences and humanities,providing fundamental information on social, economic andpolitical issues of their day.Database of Chinese research materials: to provide asingle access point to all research material in Chinese in theUnited Kingdom, and to give a boost to this initiative by afocused programme of retrospective record conversion,concentrating on the most recent (post-Cultural Revolution)scholarship in all fields; construction of a union catalogue,which will provide a single access point to the major Chineselanguage collections: the British Library, and the universitylibraries of Oxford, Cambridge, London (SOAS), Leeds,Edinburgh and Durham.Ensemble: to provide enhanced access to the catalogues ofprinted music published between 1801 and 1975, byimplementing a targeted programme of retrospectiveconversion that entails the computerisation of 180,300records from the card catalogues of the libraries involved.While the focus of the project is primarily on classical music,it also includes 25,000 machine-readable records produced forpopular songs published between 1860 and 1914.FLAG (Foreign LAw Guide): an Internet gateway to legalcollections held in nearly sixty libraries, including Oxford,Cambridge, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Glasgowuniversities, the British Library, the Advocates’ Library (partof the National Library of Scotland) and the National Libraryof Wales.Mapping Asia: three sub-projects, the aims of which are: tomap existing UK library collections and collecting policies forlibrary materials relating to Asia, the Middle East and NorthAfrica in order to establish the strengths and weaknesses ofthe national coverage for research purposes; to providedetailed UK library holding information for newspaperspublished in any language in Asia, the Middle East and NorthAfrica appropriate to this area of growing researchimportance; to gather information about Asian languagecompetence among UK libraries and to explore possibilitiesfor nationwide collaboration to meet academic library needsfor skills in less common Asian languages.Mapping the world: to open up a major under-used resourcefor research in a wide range of disciplines in the humanitiesand social sciences by targeted series-level cataloguing ofpost-1850 overseas mapping. This will facilitate remote accessto key materials by converting map library catalogue records,which at present are held on cards and accessible only toresearchers visiting the libraries in person.MUNDUS: a project to facilitate and improve access toholdings of missionary archives, artefacts, manuscriptcollections, books, pamphlets and visual images held in a widevariety of institutions in the United Kingdom. The culminationof the project will be the creation of a cross-sectoral Webbasedguide to missionary materials, giving collection-leveldetails of holdings, location and access information andproviding a search facility by name, place and subject.Nineteenth-century pamphlets: enhanced access tocollections housed in twenty-one academic libraries across theUnited Kingdom and raised awareness of this valuableresearch resource amongst the higher education communitythrough the computerisation of 177,000 records from thecard catalogues of the libraries involved.The papers of twentieth century British scientists: RSLPhas funded the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives ofContemporary Scientists at the University of Bath tocatalogue the archives of five scientists of exceptionaldistinction and importance including Sir Nevill Mott(Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1954-1971 and winner ofthe Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977), whose papers have beencatalogued for Cambridge University Library.Revelation: enhanced awareness of and access to the mostsubstantial printed and archive collections for research intonineteenth- and twentieth-century church history andChristian theology by facilitating access to the catalogues ofacademic libraries with substantial research collections, anddeveloping a Web-based guide mapping the most importantprinted and archive collections housed in university, public orspecialised libraries across the United Kingdom.SCAD: Survey on the Conservation of Asian Documents:The text and illustrations in Asian documents are carried on amore divers range of materials than western documents; theseinclude papyrus, palm leaf, birch bark, bamboo, wood, ivory,bone, silk, metals, leather, parchment, as well as many differentkinds of paper. The purpose of the project is to assess thecurrent physical condition and storage environments of thesecollections, as a first step towards formulating a preservationand conservation strategy; to improve knowledge of thepreservation and conservation needs of Asian documents;to ensure their long-term survival in UK collections.South Asia through official eyes: a national audit of coreserial South Asian official publications currently purchased byUK libraries, and, based on the results from the survey, aWeb site with descriptive information about collections andan interactive, Web-based, collaborative management tool,both of which will be associated with the RSLP MappingAsia site. This management tool will be the first step towardsthe goal of working towards a more co-ordinated and cooperativeacquisitions programme.

staffThe problems of recruitment and retention of staff, feltacross the University, are particularly acute in theLibrary, where a high proportion of the staff are inclerical, technical and maintenance grades. Cambridgeis an area of high employment and high cost of living,and the University’s salaries are now so unattractivethat vacancies are being left unfilled for months,sometimes for years. Posts in Cleaning, TechnicalMaintenance and the Bindery seem to be impossible tofill, with the small number of applicants usuallyevaporating either before interview or when theyrealise just what salary they would be receiving. Thisis becoming an ever more serious problem which isputting at risk not just the services of the Library butalso the safety and security of its buildings and theirusers. Despite a tremendous commitment from thestaff concerned, the Library has, on a number ofoccasions, been unable to remain open after 17.00because there were simply not enough of the criticalstaff (mainly technical staff) available to shut downsuch a complex building. This shortage is directlyrelated to the number of unfilled (and apparentlyunfillable) vacancies.Miss Kathleen Cann retired from her post in theManuscripts Department and Mr Jeremy Wong, headof the Library Offices, resigned to move to a new job.Mr Stephen Lees stood down as head of theAccessions Division and took on a part-time roledealing with modern Greek books; Mrs MarjoleinAllen took over the headship of the Legal DepositDepartment from him on a temporary basis and MissMurray is overseeing matters at a divisional level untilthe planned review of accessions and cataloguing takesplace next year. Following a review of Library-wideservices, Mr Brian Jenkins took on responsibility forcollection management whilst remaining head of theSpecial Collections division. He relinquished hisposition as head of the Rare Books Department,however, and was succeeded in this by Ms NicolaThwaite.Most staff training during the year was necessarilyconcerned with preparations for the implementation ofthe ‘Newton’ system, but the usual basic orientationand induction courses for new staff, and the course inreference work for junior staff, continued. Mrs LesleyNoblett, from Cambridgeshire Libraries andInformation Services, ran a workshop on customercare, and a number of staff attended courses organisedby the University’s Staff Development Office,Computing Service and Disability Resource Centre.Professor Reif is to be congratulated on the award of aLitt.D. by the University.The deaths of the following former members ofstaff are recorded with regret: Mr R. Jordan, Mrs M.A.Merritt, Dr D.M. Owen (former Keeper of theUniversity Archives), Dr M.I. Scott (former head of theChinese section), Mrs W.T. Webster, and Miss E.Yorke (former head of the Financial Office).Munby Fellowship in BibliographyMunby Fellow 2001-2: Ms Susie West: ‘Living withbooks: the Norfolk elite and their libraries, 1660-1830’.In July 2002 the Library marked twenty-five yearsof the Munby Fellowship with a reception and lectureon ‘The irresistible rise of colour printing from woodblocks: major achievements of the Victorian age’ byDr Susanna Avery-Quash (Munby Fellow 1997-8).19FAR RIGHTProfessor OwenChadwick opensthe north-westcorner extension,which includes theRare Books,Manuscripts, andPhotographydepartments, andproject offices.RIGHTStaff from MITLibraries, HewlettPackard, theUniversity Library,the ComputingService andCambridgeUniversity Pressmeet to plan theDSpace@cambridgedigital archivingproject.

calendar 2001–200220SeptemberSaturday afternoon opening of the main UniversityLibrary beganOctoberOpening by Sir Patrick Moore of the exhibition:‘Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at work’NovemberVisit to the Betty and Gordon Moore Libraryby HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Chancellor ofthe UniversityOpening by Professor Owen Chadwick of the northwestcorner extension to the LibraryDecemberAward of $1.2 million from the Andrew W. MellonFoundation for the Greensleeves ProjectAprilOpening by Mr Bamber Gascoigne of the exhibition:‘Beauty and the book: gems of colour printing’Annual conference of SCONUL (Society of College,National and University Libraries) held in Cambridge‘The future of the scientific journal’: a workshop forCambridge scientists, organised by the UniversityLibrary and held at the Department of BiochemistryMay‘Genizah evening’, held at the Spertus Institute,Chicago, with the British Consul-General, the Librarianand Professor ReifVisit of H. E. Dr Zvi Shtauber, Ambassador of IsraelJulyLaunch of ‘Newton’ automation systemFAR RIGHTThe Chancellor ofthe University,HRH The Duke ofEdinburgh visitedthe Betty andGordon MooreLibrary inNovember 2001,and is seen heregreeting MrMichael Wilson,head of the ScienceLibraries, watchedby the Vice-Chancellor and theUniversity LibrarianRIGHTRobert Culshaw,the British Consul-General in Chicago,hosted a dinnerparty in support ofthe Library,attended bydistinguishedguests from theMid-West. MrCulshaw (centre) isseen here flankedby Valentine Kangand Roger Edgar,from Cambridge inAmerica, and, onthe extreme left,Elaine Culshaw,and, on the extremeright ProfessorStefan Reif, head ofthe Library’sOriental Division.FebruaryResearch Libraries Group day of presentations forlibrarians and library users in the UniversityMarchUser survey of the Squire Law LibraryLunchtime talk by Dr John Naughton, WolfsonCollege: ‘The Internet: where it came from, how itworks, what it means for society’Sandars Lectures: ‘Paper in the sixteenth-century Italianprinting industry’ by Professor Conor Fahy, EmeritusProfessor of Italian, University of LondonLecture: ‘The irresistible rise of colour printing fromwood blocks: major achievements of the Victorian age’by Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, to celebrate 25 years ofthe Munby Fellowship in BibliographyMemorial service at Ely Cathedral for Dr D.M. Owen,former Keeper of the University ArchivesHelen Smith

major financial donations, grants,research grants and trust-fundexpenditure (£5,000 and over)received 2001–200221AcquisitionsCambridge Law Journal (Faculty of Law) Birmingham Law Society sale of legal books £11,000City Solicitors’ Educational Trust Text books and electronic resources for the Squire Law Library £20,000Commonwealth Library Fund Commonwealth materials £14,000Faculty of Law (Freshfields Fund) Electronic resources for the Squire Law Library £13,000Faculty of Oriental Studies (Japanese Studies Fund) Japanese materials £10,000Friends of Cambridge University Library Antiquarian materials £7,000Gordon Duff Fund Antiquarian materials £12,000HEFCE Review of Chinese Studies Chinese materials £7,000Maitland Memorial Fund Birmingham Law Society sale of legal books £20,000Mercers’ Company Charities Macclesfield Collection of Newton Papers £5,000A. D. Nock Fund Foreign books £62,000Wilson-Barkworth Fund Antiquarian materials £15,000Zeit-Stiftung German law books £5,000Special projectsDarwin Correspondence ProjectGenizah Research UnitNational Endowment for the Humanities $230,000 Friedberg Genizah Project $60,000The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $220,000 R. & S. Cohen Foundation £18,000Wellcome Trust £142,000 University of Pennsylvania £17,000National Science Foundation $123,000 John S. Cohen Foundation £12,000Arts and Humanities Research Board £35,000British Academy £16,000Royal Society £8,000British Ecological Society £5,000Natural Environment Research Council £5,000Other projectsBrill Academic Publishers Islamic Bibliography Unit £63,000British and Foreign Bible Society Bible Society catalogue revision project £38,000Cambridge Law Journal Conservation work on antiquarian legal books £9,000Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Cataloguing of Royal Commonwealth Society archives and manuscripts $40,000JISC Archives Hub contributions £25,000JISC CEDARS Project additional year £15,000JISC CAMiLEON Project £6,000Matheson Charities Cataloguing of Jardine Matheson collection £21,000The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Greensleeves Project $1,183,000Isaac Newton Trust Greensleeves Project £200,000Isaac Newton Trust Part-funding of Web project officer £12,000Research Libraries Group Digitisation of Newton manuscripts $17,000Research Support Libraries ProgrammeImproving access to research collections £566,000Ensemble (Music) £48,000Missionary collections £40,00019th Century Pamphlets £29,000Chinese Research Materials £24,000Mapping the World £23,000Russian and East European Studies £5,000Grants to Medical LibraryNHS Addenbrooke’s Hospital Trust (SIFT grant) £29,000NHS Anglian Regional Postgraduate Office £118,000Medical Research Council £28,000OtherBritish and Foreign Bible Society Bible Society Library staff £17,000Faculty of Oriental Studies (Japanese Studies Fund) Part funding of staff in Japanese Department £30,000Friends of Cambridge University Library Exhibition costs £5,000Mr Gurnee F. Hart Building development $35,000Martindale Hubbell Squire Law Library $13,000Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Royal Greenwich Observatory Archivist £32,000Smuts Memorial Fund Part funding of Smuts Librarian for Commonwealth Studies £13,000

statistics22The statistics normally refer to the main University Library building only; where indicated* they include the dependent libraries.Additions to stock 2001-02 2000-01 1999-2000 -Books and pamphlets* 129,195 122,570 120,808 ,Periodicals and newspapers* 147,846 144,893 160,872 ,Microfilm reels* 1,124 1,203 1,513 ,Microfiche units* 21,939 33,651 47,895 ,Official Publications 37,205 40,235 38,343 ,Maps and atlases 12,171 17,217 8,717 ,Printed music 8,607 5,113 13,033 ,Manuscripts and archives 2,792 1,664 1,589 Cambridge theses 1,939 446 468 New entries added to the Library’s catalogues: 2001-02 2000-01 1999-2000 -Main catalogue 65,343 85,647 86,355 ,Official Publications catalogue 1,017 1,562 3,157 ,Far Eastern Books Catalogue 1,198 1,511 1,099 ,Map Catalogue 276 603 2,904 ,Catalogue of Microforms 4 7 8 Catalogue of Microform Series 7 26 20 Items fetched: 2001-02 2000-01 1999-2000 -West Room bookfetching- Select books 44,411 46,690 52,665 ,- Reading Room classes 61,207 63,780 72,726 ,- Reserved periodicals 43,755 48,524 62,052 ,Manuscripts Reading Room 11,540 12,189 10,436 ,Map Room 22,805 21,239 29,684 ,Anderson Room & East Asian Reading Room 2,832 3,877 4,251 ,Official Publications 16,532 20,195 19,162 ,Microforms 12,578 10,354 13,434 ,Rare Books Reading Room 42,432 38,273 41,535 ,Bible Society’s Library 1,195 789 1,289 ,TOTAL 259,287 265,910 307,234 ,Bindery/Conservation Output 2001-02 2000-01 1999-2000 -Modern case work 23,502 23,394 24,687 ,Modern repair work 1,297 2,503 2,737 ,Rebacking and minor repairs 1,732 4,646 4,295 ,Lyfguarding 8,915 10,451 9,938 ,Photography Department 2001-02 2000-01 1999-2000 -Prints made from negatives 1,468 1,671 1,511 ,Microfilm frames exposed 189,579 226,932 245,683 ,Microfilm duplicates (frames) 445,000 540,000 420,000 ,,Photocopies 3,238,722 3,194,253 3,268,079 ,(includes Moore, Squire and SPL)Expenditure on purchased acquisitions 2001-02 2000-01 1999-2000 -Main Library £ £ £ £Foreign books + 667,782 713,233 642,107Secondhand, antiquarian items and manuscripts 211,200 198,689 321,030Official Publications 14,522 26,975 17,347Maps 47,456 48,997 47,466Music 31.032 38,946 36,413Oriental Near Eastern 27,477 58,555 22,750Oriental Far Eastern + 91,864 93,910 82,320Electronic resources, microforms 384,613 163,879 174,991TOTAL 1,475,946 1,343,184 1,344,424 ,,Periodicals 959,743 914,269 827,272 ,

Expenditure on purchased acquisitions 2001-02 2000-01 1999-2000 -Medical Library £ £ £ £Books + 16,708 15,532 12,782 ,Periodicals + 189,247 176,525 156,056 ,23Moore LibraryBooks 18,332Periodicals 101,149SPLBooks 480 310 3,080 Periodicals 594,860 461,174 457,577 ,Squire Law LibraryBooks 54,102 67,113 54,748 Periodicals 232,973 220,942 192,849 ,TOTAL + 3,643,540 3,199,049 3,048,788 ,,+Figures for 2001-02 (but not earlier years) include purchases from grants, trust funds, etc (see page 21)library staff – professional activitiesPublications, papers presented, membership of committeesM.C. AllenCommittee membershipCopyright Libraries Agency Management CommitteeStanding Committee on Legal DepositR.M. AndrewesCommittee membershipBliss Trust (Trustee)Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, Commission Mixte(IAML Representative)RISM (UK) Trust (Trustee and Treasurer)William Alwyn Foundation (Trustee)C.A. AylmerPaper presented‘The Chinese RSLP project’, Seminar on Internet Resources for OrientalStudies, Cambridge, September 2001Committee membershipChina Library Group, Periodicals Sub-committeeEndeavor Information Systems, Unicode Task ForceG.D. ByeCommittee membershipBritish Standards Institute Committee for Micrographics andDigitisationInternational Standards Organisation Committee for Micrographics andDigitisationData Archiving Association CommitteeNational Preservation Office, Micrographics Technical CommitteeS.H.M. CameronJoint editor: Cambridge University Libraries Information BulletinCommittee membershipCopyright Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme, SteeringCommitteeLibrary Committee, Henry Martyn Centre for Mission and WorldChristianity, CambridgeK.J. Cann‘Purchases by the Friends: manuscripts’, Bulletin of the Friends ofCambridge University Library, 22 (2001)C.T. ClarksonCommittee membershipUniversity’s Disability Advisory GroupJ. CoxCommittee membershipJanus Steering Group (Chair)Cambridge Archivists’ Group (Secretary)Society for the Study of the History of the University (Secretary)B.E. EadenPaper presented‘Cambridge: from back-up to independence – a year of challenge’,Forum for Interlending Conference, Exeter, July 2002.P.K. Fox‘Archiving of electronic publications: some thoughts on cost’, LearnedPublishing, 15 (2002)‘Cambridge, bibliothèque de l’université’, in Dictionnaire encyclopédiquedu livre, A-D, (Paris 2002)Papers presented‘Cambridge University Library: from oracle bones to CD-ROMs’,Northumbrian Cambridge Association, Newcastle, October 2001;Trinity College Dublin Association, Cambridge Branch, Cambridge,November 2001‘Digital content – the pleasures & pitfalls of ownership: preservationand access. The university library perspective’, Annual Conference ofSCONUL, Cambridge, April 2002Committee membershipNational Preservation Office Board (Chairman)Wellcome Trust Library Advisory Committee (Chairman)British Library/Wellcome Trust Research Resources in Medical HistoryPanel (Chairman)Brotherton Collection Advisory Committee (Chairman)CEDARS Advisory Board (Chairman)Joint Committee on Voluntary DepositResearch Support Libraries Programme Steering GroupFriends of the National Libraries, Executive CommitteeLord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Public RecordsCharles Darwin Trust (Trustee)

24D.J. HallAssociate Editor, New Dictionary of National BiographyCommittee membershipFriends of the National Libraries, Executive CommitteeNational Preservation Office, National Committee for PreservationSurrogatesNational Preservation Office, Preservation Administrators PanelDr Williams’s Trust, adviser to Library CommitteeCambridge Bibliographical Society CommitteeFriends of Cambridge University Library (Treasurer)S.J. HillsCommittee membershipCopyright Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme, SteeringCommitteeJ.E. HoareCommittee membershipBritish Association for American Studies, Library and Resources Sub-CommitteeI.D. HolowatyPaper presented‘’Tis hard to teach old dogs new tricks: trials of an e-resources trainer’,JISC Bibliographic Dataservices User Group workshop, OxfordE.C.D. HunterPapers presentedConferences in Iraq and EnglandCommittee membershipInternational Association of Manichaean Studies (Secretary)R.C. JamiesonSaddharmapundarikasutram: Sanskrit Lotus Sutra manuscripts fromCambridge University Library, facsimile edition (Tokyo 2002)‘Kenburijji Daigaku Toshokan Shozō Bonbun Hokekyō shahon (Add.1682 oyobi 1683) shashi-ban yori’, Tōyō gokujutsu kenkyū, 41 (2002)Committee membershipNational Council on Orientalist Library Resources, AutomationWorking PartyUnion Handlist of Manuscripts in North Indian Languages (committeemember)Faculty of Divinity, Working Group on Online Resources for IndicStudies (Chairman)P. KilliardCommittee membershipCEDARS Management GroupN. Koyama‘Three Meiji marriages between Japanese men and English women’ inBritain and Japan: biographical portraits, vol. 4, ed by H Cortazzi(London 2002)Papers presented‘Ernest Satow and Japanese history following the opening of Japan,focussing on the translation of two Japanese history books’, AnnualConference of the European Association of Japanese ResourceSpecialists, Bratislava, September 2001. Also published in EAJRSNewsletter, 9 (2002)‘Research materials for Japanese studies in Great Britain’, InternationalConference on the Enhancement of Information Availability forScholarly Resources in Japanese Studies, Tokyo, December 2001Committee membershipJapan Library Group (Chair)European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (board member)S.V. LambertCommittee membershipJoint Steering Committee for the Revision of Anglo-AmericanCataloguing Rules, Format Variation Working GroupE.S. Leedham-GreenCommittee membershipCambridgeshire County Archives Advisory Group (Chairman)Bibliographical Society of London (Vice-President)Cambridge Bibliographical Society (Hon. Editor)Cambridgeshire Records Society (committee member and TechnicalEditor)Panizzi Selection Committee, British Library (member)Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Council member)Senate House, Societies and Theatre Syndicates (member)S.M. LeesCommittee membershipCopyright Libraries Agency Management CommitteeStanding Committee on Legal DepositC. Mackay‘The Macclesfield project’, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge UniversityLibrary, 22 (2001)S. Morcillo-GarcíaCommittee membershipAdvisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information ResourcesP.B. MorganBook reviews in Health Information and Libraries JournalBook reviews editor: Health Information and Libraries JournalCommittee membership8th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries (Cologne2002), International Programme CommitteeBMJ Publishing Group Library Advisory CommitteeEuropean Association for Health Information and Libraries, UKrepresentativeHealth Care Librarians of Anglia GroupClinical School/Addenbrooke’s Hospital SIFT Liaison GroupWest Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust Library CommitteeFulbourn Hospital PME Library CommitteeUniversity Medical School Librarians’ Group (Webmaster)Cambridgeshire Health Librarians’ GroupWellcome Library ‘Mapping Medicine’ Advisory BoardA.E. Murray‘Staff Development Policies 2002’, SCONUL Working Paper [with MOldroyd]Committee membershipSCONUL Advisory Committee on StaffingCURL Staffing Task ForceF. Niessen‘An anonymous Karaite commentary on the Book of Hosea’ in Exegesisand grammar in medieval Karaite texts, edited by G Khan (Oxford2001)W.A. NoblettEditor: Newsletter (Cambridge Bibliographical Society)Committee membershipCambridge Bibliographical Society CommitteeEast Anglian European Information Relay (steering committee member)A.J. Perkins‘Extraneous government business: the Astronomer Royal asGovernment Scientist. George Bidell Airy and his work on thecommissions of state and other bodies, 1838-1880’, Journal ofAstronomical History and Heritage, 4 (2001)B. Outhwaite‘Karaite epistolary Hebrew: the letters of Toviyya ben Moshe’, inExegesis and grammar in medieval Karaite texts, edited by G Khan(Oxford 2001)S.C. ReifThe Cambridge Genizah collections: their contents and significance(Cambridge 2002)‘The Cairo Genizah’, Libraries and Culture, 37 (2002)‘The Cairo Genizah’ in The Biblical world, edited by J. Barton (London2002)‘Some notions of restoration in early Rabbinic prayer’, in Restoration:Old Testament, Jewish and Christian perspectives, edited by J.M. Scott(Leiden 2001)

Book reviews in Journal of Semitic Studies, SOTS Book ListPapers presentedTwenty-four papers at various conferences and seminars.Committee membershipJewish Historical Society of England (Council member)Friedberg Genizah Project, Academic CommitteeNational Council on Orientalist Library ResourcesJ.S. Ringrose‘The legacy of M.R. James in Cambridge University Library’, in Thelegacy of M.R. James (Donington 2001)‘An early Cambridge telephone’, Pembroke College Cambridge AnnualGazette, 75 (2001)F.W. RobertsBook review in Health Information and Libraries JournalCommittee membershipAdvisory Editorial Board member: Expert Reviews in Molecular MedicineCommittee membershipEast Anglia Online Users Group (Co-ordinator)OMNI/BioResearch Advisory GroupClinical School Technical Infrastructure Management Sub-committeeCambridgeshire Health Librarians’ Group (Webmaster)G.J. Roper‘Index Islamicus: batı dillerinde İslâm dini ve İslâm dünyasıyla neşriyatıtakip eden bibliyografik yayın’ Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâmAnsiklopedisi (Istanbul 2000)Committee membershipMELCOM UK, Middle East Libraries CommitteeEuropean Association of Middle Eastern Studies (Council member)British Society for Middle Eastern StudiesUK Friends of the Alexandria Library (Executive Committee member)R. ScrivensReviews Editor: Solanus: International Journal for Russian and EastEuropean Bibliographic, Library and Publishing StudiesCommittee membershipCouncil for Slavonic and East European Libraries and InformationServicesA. Shivtiel‘An unknown message by Maimonides’, in Essays in honour of AlexanderFodor on his sixtieth birthday, edited by K. Devenyi and T. Ivanyi(Budapest 2001)‘A 19th-century blood libel and its reflection in the Arabic version ofAugust Rohling’s Der Talmudjude,’ in Hebrew language and Jewishstudies, edited by A. Ben-David and I. Gluska (Jerusalem 2002)‘On the origin of the word barid in Arabic: a brief note’, Journal ofMiddle Eastern Studies, 29 (2002)Reviews in Journal of Semitic StudiesPapers presentedLectures in England and HungaryA.E.M. TaylorBook review in Bulletin of the Society of CartographersPaper presented‘The acquisition of modern maps’, Map Curators’ Group Workshop,Liverpool, September 2001Committee membershipBritish and Irish Committee for Map Information and CatalogueSystems (BRICMICS)Friends of Cambridge University Library (Editor of Bulletin)J.R.H. TaylorCommittee membershipCopyright Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme, SteeringCommittee (Chairman)CURL Resource Discovery and Description CommitteeRLIN Database Advisory GroupBook Industry Communication, Bibliographic Standards TechnicalSubgroupN. ThwaiteCommittee membershipCambridge Bibliographical Society (Treasurer)J.D. Wells‘Purchases by the Friends: manuscripts’, Bulletin of the Friends ofCambridge University Library, 21 (2000)Committee membershipFriends of Cambridge University Library (Secretary)D.F. Wills‘The Squire Law Library: past, present and future’, Cambridge Law Link,Faculty of Law Newsletter, 2 (2001)Committee membershipBritish and Irish Association of Law Librarians, Conference Committee(Chair)P.N.R. Zutshi‘The Macclesfield Collection’, Bulletin of the Friends of CambridgeUniversity Library, 21 (2000)‘Purchases by the Friends: manuscripts’, Bulletin of the Friends ofCambridge University Library, 22 (2001)Paper presented‘The connection to purgatory: papal licences to choose a confessor’,conference: ‘Cultures of the Avignon Papacy’, University ofMinnesota, Minneapolis, April 2002Committee membershipCambridgeshire County Archives Advisory Group (member)Northamptonshire Record Office, Advisory and Technical Panel(member)East of England Regional Archives Council (SCONUL and RLGrepresentative)AbbreviationsCEDARSCHESTCMICURLHEFCEJISCNHSRLGRPIRSLPSPARCSPLCURL Exemplars in Digital ARchiveSCombined Higher Education Software TeamCambridge-MIT InstituteConsortium of University Research LibrariesHigher Education Funding Council for EnglandJoint Information Systems Committee (of thehigher education funding councils)National Health ServiceResearch Libraries GroupRetail Price IndexResearch Support Libraries ProgrammeScholarly Publishing and Academic ResourcesCoalitionScientific Periodicals Library25

annual report of the friends ofcambridge university library 2001–200226PresidentProfessor Sir Alan CookPatron MembersMr T. Aoi, Lady Butterfield, Mr D. Dibner, Mr J.Ehrman, Dr G. E. Moore, Mr N. Waddleton.Benefactor MembersSir Ian Anstruther, Bart, Mr M.E. Boston, Mr J.H.Brandi, Mr J.J.G. Brown, Mrs M.G. Cheney, Dr D.Cohen, Mr P. Durie, The Hon. Mr Stephen Evans-Freke, Mr N. Farrow, Mr R. Gidoomal, Mr G.F. Hart,Sir Kirby and Lady Laing, Dr E.S. Leedham-Green,Mr R. Menschel, Dr L. Rausing, Lady Scott, LordTugendhat, Mr D.L. Walker.MembershipIn July 2002 there were approximately 700 membersof the Friends.VolunteersOur loyal team of volunteers again staffed the salesdesk in the Library’s Entrance Hall, which opened forbusiness on every weekday in the run-up to Christmasand on Thursdays throughout the year, exceptingJanuary. Members of the same team, assisted by MrsR. Evans, Miss M. Ingham and Miss B. Wallis, helpedwith mailings to the Friends. Mrs Evans also assistedin carrying out an inspection of the greetings cardsand postcards in stock. Mr D. Turnidge has made animportant contribution to the work of the Near EasternDepartment. The Committee expresses its gratitudeto all who have volunteered their services in thepast year.The Friends’ BulletinIssue number 21 of the Friends’ Bulletin, for the year2000, and issue number 22, for the year 2001, wereposted to members in April 2002. Successive issues ofthe Library’s Readers’ Newsletter have been distributedto Friends in the regular mailings.Purchases and donationsThe Financial Panel met on 18 June 2002. Following areport by the Honorary Treasurer on the state of theFriends’ funds, the panel considered for purchase theusual variety of books, music, maps and manuscriptsselected and described by members of the Library’sstaff. The total sum expended by the Panel on thisoccasion was £7,000.The panel bought outright A new survey of the coastof Africa from Senegal and Cape Verde to Cape St. Ann… By William Woodville and others, published byRobert Sayer, on two sheets (London 1792); A plan ofthe River Sherbro, with Yawry Bay. By Ralph Fisher in theSloop Polly … 1773, published by Robert Sayer (1789);A Survey of the entrance of Sierra Leona River, by Capt’nThompson, of His Majesty’s Ship Nautilus …publishedby Robert Sayer (London 1792); [Anon], Die StadtAstracan, a mid-17th century Flugblatt; FrancisBlomefield, Collectanea Cantabrigiensia … (Norwich1750), interleaved with manuscript notes by theantiquary Robert Masters and including othercontemporary printed items relating to Cambridge, thediocese of Ely and the University, manuscript notesand sketches, and letters to Masters from Blomefieldand Richard Gough; Jeremy Collier, A short view ofthe profaneness and immorality of the English stage …,[Fifth edition], (London 1730), with marginal notesby Thomas Babington Macaulay and a letter fromA. E. Housman; and a set of manuscript letter books ofExtract from DieStadt Astracan, amid-17th centuryFlugblatt or newssheet.Purchased bythe Friends of theLibrary.

27A new survey of thecoast of Africa fromSenegal and CapeVerde to Cape St.Ann ... By WilliamWoodville andothers, published byRobert Sayer, ontwo sheets (London1972). Purchasedby the Friends ofthe Library.Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, 1878-8. In addition tothese purchases, the panel made substantialcontributions to the purchase of Ercole Silva, Dell’artedei giardini inglesi (Milan 1801); and to a collection ofautograph writings on music and autograph musicalmanuscripts by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, comprisingeighteen volumes of musical lecture notes on diversesubjects, c.1837-1854 and undated, together with 16autograph transcriptions and arrangements of works byother composers used by Bishop to illustrate hislectures, three editions of Bishop’s own compositions(‘The Aethiop’, ‘The Barber of Seville’ and ‘Zuma, orThe Tree of Health’), a volume of concert and lectureprogrammes signed and annotated by Bishop, and aposter for a concert given in Yarmouth on 3 April 1834.For individual donations of books and other items,the Committee is grateful to Mr A.J.C. Bainton;Dr A. Birrell; Professor C.N.L. Brooke; Professor T.V.Buttrey; Mr J. Chidley; Mr B.J. Ford; Dr V. Fortunati,Dr R. Monticelli and Dr M. Ascari; Mr J.F. Fuggles;Mr I. Kidman; Ms M. Moore; Dr P. Searby; Mr M.Vorberg; Mr J.D. Wells; Mrs J. Winterkorn; andMr P. Woudhuysen. The Committee thanks allFriends, in particular life members, who have madecontributions in excess of the basic subscription.ActivitiesThe year 2001-2002 saw a busy programme of activities.Friends were invited to attend two private receptionsto mark the openings of Library exhibitions: in October2001 Sir Patrick Moore opened the exhibition ‘Footprintsof the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work’ with a short butcharacteristic speech, and in April 2002 the exhibition onthe theme of colour printing, ‘Beauty and the Book’,which drew heavily on the collection transferred to theLibrary by the Friends’ Patron Member Mr NormanWaddleton, was opened by Bamber Gascoigne.There was a varied set of speaker meetings. InOctober 2001 a talk titled ‘Shakespeare in the Houseof Art: the tragedies, in pictures’ was given by JohnHarvey of Emmanuel College. On Guy Fawkes’Night the Friends were delighted to welcome backa former Secretary, Dr Mark Nicholls, who spokeon ‘What Gunpowder Plot was: the facts and fictionsof treason’, concluding in time for those who sowished to enjoy the fireworks on Jesus Green.Following the Annual General Meeting Dr MiloKeynes gave an illustrated talk on ‘The iconographyof Sir Isaac Newton: ad vivam portraits andposthumous busts’. In January 2002 Dominic Marner,a Research Assistant in the Department of Manuscripts

28Ercole Silva,Dell’arte dei giardiniinglesi (Milan 1801),an influential surveyof English landscapegardening for Italianreaders. Purchasedwith a contributionfrom the Friendsof the Library.and University Archives, spoke on one of theDepartment’s most noteworthy treasures in a talktitled ‘The sword of the spirit, the word of God, andthe Book of Deer’; this is believed to have been theonly occasion on which an image of Bart Simpson hasformed an illustration to a Friends’ talk. In FebruaryMax Egremont gave a much-enjoyed talk on ‘SiegfriedSassoon as a book collector’, and in March PatriciaFara continued the Newton theme with a talk on‘Advertising genius: images of Isaac Newton’. Achange of venue to the Law Faculty Building, onaccount of computer training in the Morison Room,did not dampen enthusiasm for a talk by the Head ofthe Library’s Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit,Professor Stefan Reif, titled ‘A medieval Mediterraneandeposit and a modern Cambridge archive’. Two otherevents formed part of the Friends’ programme forthe year: in February 2002 a concert was held, inassociation with Selwyn College Music Club, at whichmusic from the time of Isaac Newton was performed;and, in the same month, a reception was held for Friendsin the Cambridge University Press Bookshop, TrinityStreet, at which Bill Davies spoke on the history of thePress, and books were available for purchase at asubstantial discount. The Friends’ summer outing did nottake place in 2002, due to a low expression of interest.ObituaryWe record with regret the deaths of the followingmembers: Mr B.C. Bloomfield, Mr J.W. Dickson, Dr P.Gaskell, Professor P.C.G. Isaac, Dr R. Lister, Dr R.M.S.Matthews, Mrs H. Morrison, Dr D.M. Owen, Sir JohnPlumb, Dr G. Scott, and Mr C.A. Thurley.

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