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cambridge university libraryannual report for the year 2004–2005

cambridge university libraryannual report for the year 2004–2005

highlights2title pageJanuary: a manwarms himselfwhilst his wifeprepares a meal,from the calendarof a Book of Hours(Bruges, c.1490) inThe CambridgeIlluminationsexhibition.rightAt the topping-outceremony for thePhase 5 extension,Professor AndrewCliff, Chairman ofthe LibrarySyndicate, pours abottle of NewcastleBrown Ale onto theroof of the newlycompleted section,watched by themembers of theDesign Team andcontractors.Co-ordination of the University’slibrary servicesThe committee that reviewed the University Libraryfor the General Board in 2004 recommended that thereshould be greater co-ordination between the librariesof the University. In order to carry thisrecommendation forward, a new temporary post wasestablished by the General Board’s Committee onLibraries, and Ms Lesley Gray, from the UnionCatalogue Team, was appointed. The priority duringthe year has been to consolidate the journals coordinationscheme that currently exists between theUniversity Library, the departments in the School ofBiological Sciences and the department of Chemistry.This scheme has now eliminated almost allduplication of journals within these areas (excepttitles like Science and Nature) and has established amechanism to ensure that the resources available forsubscriptions are most effectively used for the benefitof all. Towards the end of the year, a number of otherparts of the University were showing signs of interestin the scheme, with the Department of Physics joiningin summer 2005. For some years many publishers ofscientific, technical and medical journals haveaggregated their titles into ‘bundles’ and sold them asan all-or-nothing deal. This practice is now beingadopted increasingly for journals in non-scientificsubjects. This, as well as the rapidly increasingdemand from users for electronic access to thosejournals, will increase the urgency to extend the coordinationscheme to the arts and humanities, anddiscussions have begun with the relevant chairs of theSchools. Support for the University Library’s efforts inthis area was demonstrated by the approval of thePlanning and Resources Committee for an addition tothe Library’s budget for 2005-6 to meet the cost ofmaintaining the present level of subscriptions, eventhough the price of these is still increasing at a levelwell in excess of underlying inflation.Library developmentThe penultimate phase of the building developmentprogramme at the main University Library (the ‘Phase5 extension’) was completed on schedule in May 2005.It comprises five floors of bookstack, constructedabove the basement floor which came into use in 1997,on the west (Grange Road) side of the Library. Theextension was designed by the Howe Partnership ofNewcastle-upon-Tyne and, like all recent additions tothe Library, it blends in almost imperceptibly with SirGiles Gilbert Scott’s 1934 creation. The newbookstacks have been constructed to meet the mostexacting standards for the storage of specialcollections materials, both in terms of security andenvironmental conditions. Strict controls oftemperature and humidity ensure the stableenvironment needed for the preservation of theLibrary’s more valuable and fragile holdings. TheUniversity Archives, dating back to 1266, and archivesof the Royal Greenwich Observatory (now onpermanent deposit in the Library) have already beenmoved onto the third floor of the extension; rare bookcollections, atlases, and older newspapers will occupythe remaining space. These moves will graduallyrelease extra space for the modern collections,allowing an eventual re-arrangement of the openlibrary, and providing room for the two kilometres ofnew accessions that enter the Library each year.The biggest challenge for the Library, however, isfundraising. There is now an obvious physical gapbetween the latest extension and the southwestcorner of the building, waiting to be filled by the finalphase of the current building programme – adevelopment which would again provide five extrafloors of bookstack and storage capacity until 2020-2025. The Library’s fundraising campaign, with thegoal both of raising sufficient resources to completethe extension as well as providing additional moneyto undertake new work, has continued, with theassistance of the University’s Development Offices inCambridge and New York. A number of the Library’sNewton manuscripts formed part of the exhibition

3Patrick SquireAerial view of theLibrary showingthe completedPhase 5 extension(immediatelybehind the crane)and the gapawaiting Phase 6rightSir DavidAttenborough, theVice-Chancellor, DrAlison Pearn and theLibrarian at theBenefactors’ Dinnerin Christ’s College inOctober 2004.‘The Newtonian Moment’ at the New York PublicLibrary in autumn 2004. Their presence in that cityallowed Cambridge in America to organise a specialevening for current and potential donors. The event,which took place at Sotheby’s and was opened byProfessor Simon Schama and attended by the Vice-Chancellor, took the form of talks and a privateviewing of Newton’s own copy of the first edition ofPrincipia mathematica and his notebook on optics. InMarch 2005 the exhibition moved to The HuntingtonLibrary in California, where a similar event was heldon the occasion of the opening of the exhibition. Themain speaker on both occasions was the curator of theexhibition, Professor Mordechai Feingold of theCalifornia Institute of Technology. The GenizahCollection also featured in similar events, whenProfessor Reif took a number of documents of themedieval Jewish scholar Moses Maimonides forprivate viewings at Christie’s in New York and theField Museum in Chicago. The annual event forbenefactors and supporters of the Library took theform of an exhibition in the Library of letters writtenby Charles Darwin and natural history specimensfrom Cambridge University museums collected onthe voyage of the Beagle. This was followed by adinner in Christ’s (Darwin’s college), with Sir DavidAttenborough as guest of honour.A major benefaction came as a result of theuntimely death in a road accident of Dr CatherineCooke, a member of Clare Hall and an intensive userof the Library. Dr Cooke not only left a substantialcollection of Russian books, journals, and postersfrom the early years of the twentieth century, andparticularly the period just after the Revolution of1917, but also made the Library the major beneficiaryof her estate. Thanks to her generosity, a financialbequest of about £1 million was received, and theLibrary Syndicate decided that the major part of itwould be used as a contribution towards the finalphase of the Library extension. The remainder of thebequest will be used to pay for the sorting andcataloguing of Dr Cooke’s collection, digitisation ofthe more fragile and vulnerable items in it, and as

4The Vice-Chancellorand Dr CharlesSimonyi, the architectof Microsoft Word, atthe ‘Newton evening’at Sotheby’s, NewYork, in October 2004rightFront cover of P.Lopatin’s bookPervyi sovetskiimetropoliten (‘Thefirst Soviet Metro’),1934, from theCatherine Cookebequest.matching funding for a number of major externallyfundedprojects due to begin in the next year or two.Strategic planThe Library’s strategic plan, which has been in placefor a number of years, is revised on a regular basis.In preparation for the introduction of the ResourceAllocation Model in August 2005, a new plan for theperiod 2005-2010 was prepared and subsequentlyapproved by the Library Syndicate. The Library’sstated mission is ‘to deliver world-class library andinformation services to meet the needs of the local,national and international scholarly community andto support the University’s mission to contribute tosociety through the pursuit of education, learningand research at the highest international levels ofexcellence.’ It aims to achieve this through theacquisition, organisation and dissemination oflibrary materials, support for the exploitation byusers of the rich and diverse collections, thedevelopment of a highly motivated, knowledgeableand skilled staff, the preservation and housing of thecollection for future generations, and the costeffectivemanagement of resources. Details of theplan are set out on the website.Legal depositThe Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 confirmed thepre-existing rights of the legal deposit libraries as far asprinted publications were concerned and extended thecoverage of legal deposit legislation to electronic andother non-print publications. It was essentially a pieceof enabling legislation, with the detail concerning eachtype of publication yet to be set out in Regulations. Toassist in the process of establishing priorities andframing the Regulations, a Legal Deposit AdvisoryPanel (LDAP) has been set up by the Secretary of Statefor Culture, Media and Sport; this includesrepresentatives of the legal deposit libraries, with theUniversity Librarian representing the interests of theuniversities of Oxford and Cambridge.In the meantime, the Joint Committee on LegalDeposit (a body that includes representatives of thelegal deposit libraries and the publishers) hasestablished a number of working groups to adviseLDAP and carry out more detailed investigations onits behalf, concentrating initially on offlinepublications, electronic journals, digitalinfrastructure, metadata and the long-termpreservation of digital publications. The e-journalsgroup made considerable progress on establishing apilot project to ingest and serve journals depositedon a voluntary basis by twenty-three publishers. Thesub-group on digital infrastructure has proposed asystem based on the storage and preservationfacilities of the British Library’s Digital ObjectManagement system and it is likely that Cambridgewill work within that infrastructure.Library publications! The Cambridge illuminations: ten centuries of bookproduction in the medieval West, ed. by Paul Binskiand Stella Panayotova (London 2005) [catalogue ofthe exhibition]! The correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 14:1866 (Cambridge 2004).

collectionsrightHenri deMontherlant, LaReine Morte.Limited edition,with illustrationsby VictorStuyvaert, Paris[1944]. From theNormanWaddletonCollection.Modern collectionsThe creation of the Collection Development andDescription Division in 2003 facilitated a majorreorganisation of the accessions and cataloguingworkflows, leading to improved budgetary control,an increased emphasis on overall value for money(not just the price charged for an item, importantthough that is), and a generally increased output.This was particularly the case for books incontinental European languages, where, in the twoyears since the reorganisation took place,cataloguing output has risen by over 40% and therehas been a significant reduction in the backlog ofbooks awaiting cataloguing, something that is amatter of frustration for both staff and readers.Title-alert services and approval plans are beingincreasingly used to reduce the amount of time takenby Library staff in browsing publishers’ catalogues,etc. to identify items for purchase. Many suppliersoffer integrated title-alert, selection and orderingservices, frequently with the additional provision offull catalogue records. The transfer of responsibilityfor monographic standing orders to the same staffwho are responsible for the selection of individualtitles has facilitated a review of such standing ordersand the cancellation of some, where the series was nolonger considered to be of sufficient quality orrelevance to justify acquisition of all volumes; thisreleased funds for more relevant purchases.The sixty volumes of the keenly-anticipated Oxforddictionary of national biography, arrived in the ReadingRoom in September 2004 and were eagerly seized uponby readers, a not insignificant number of whom werealso contributors to the work and had conducted theirresearch in that same room. The Library also subscribedto the online version of the dictionary, which wasnetworked across the University at the same time.Fewer subscriptions for new journals wereapproved this year. This partly reflects a continuedtightening of the budget but also a consciousdecision to defer all but the most urgent requestsuntil the completion of a review of journals taken bythe Library. Over the course of the year all currentsubscriptions were allocated subject codes. This willmake it possible to produce lists arranged by subjectwhich will facilitate a review by the appropriatespecialists both in the Library and in the wideracademic community to ensure that the Library buysthose journals most needed by readers.Special collectionsMr Norman Waddleton, one of the Library’s greatbenefactors of recent years, transferred a further2,700 books from his home and added them to theWaddleton Collection in the Library. He has alsofunded the post of Waddleton Bibliographer atEmmanuel College, and this year the incumbent ofthat post worked in the Library on cataloguing itemsin the Waddleton Collection and preparing digitalimages of pages from the books for Mr Waddleton’sBookartworld database.Use of the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS)collections continued to rise, in direct response to anumber of factors. These included the webpublication of online manuscript and photographcatalogues, Google indexing of the University’swebserver Janus and the RCS photograph projectwebsite, especially its gallery and photographersindex, as well as inclusion of the RCS collections innew portals such as The Southern Cross Resource Finder(resources on Australia and New Zealand in the UK)and Access Canada, the UK gateway to information onCanada. The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundationmade a further grant of $25,000 towards thephotograph project, and support for this was alsoreceived from the Smuts Fund and EEMLAC (East ofEngland Museums, Libraries and Archives Council).The Library bid successfully for funding fromthe Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) ofthe higher education funding councils for a secondphase of the project to add records to the ArchivesHub. This service, run on behalf of the Consortium5

6A grotesqueplaying thetrumpet, from theHours of Alice deReyden (c.1320-1323) in TheCambridgeIlluminationsexhibition.of University Research Libraries (CURL), provides asingle point of access to over 18,000, mainlycollection-level, descriptions of archives held inover 140 UK universities and colleges. TheUniversity Library produced collection-leveldescriptions for 1,000 of its manuscript collectionsduring the year. Following the completion in 2003 ofthe catalogue of the Macclesfield Collection ofNewton manuscripts, work was undertaken, usingthe remainder of a grant from the Andrew W.Mellon Foundation, to revise the 19th-centurycatalogue of the related Portsmouth Collection. Thiswork has now been completed and the onlinedatabase will shortly be made available to scholars.Staff from the Manuscripts Department wereheavily involved in the planning of the ‘CambridgeIlluminations’ exhibition, in which some 250 of thefinest medieval illuminated manuscripts fromUniversity and college collections in Cambridgewere on display in the University Library and theFitzwilliam Museum. The exhibition wasaccompanied by an illustrated catalogue. Thearrangements for this exhibition were unusuallycomplicated because of the large number ofmanuscripts being lent from the University Libraryto the Fitzwilliam Museum and because the majorityof items displayed in the Library came from eitherthe Fitzwilliam or the colleges, for which it wasnecessary to secure Government Indemnity cover.The move of the Faculty of Education to newpremises allowed for the emptying of its basementsin several buildings around Cambridge and thesubsequent transfer of twenty metres of records tothe University Archives. New cataloguing of theArchives was concentrated on the smaller accessionsreceived in recent years, carried out alongsideretrospective conversion of existing finding aids andtheir publication on the Janus archives webserver(http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/). This service nowincludes 111 classes from the University Archives,available for scholars to search online, comparedwith forty-four at the end of the last reporting year;the only significant lists now awaiting conversion toJanus are those of Cambridge University Press,which are vast and will require considerableeditorial work. The second phase of Janusdevelopment was completed and a period of usertestingbegan in March 2005.The Freedom of Information Act came into forcein January 2005, and the Library made preparationsto ensure that it could deal with requests speedily. Itwas expected that the effects of the legislation wouldbe slight, as the Library’s policy has always been tobe as open as possible, and a review of closurescurrently in force suggested that the majority wouldbe covered by the exemptions in the legislation. Asfar as the small number of doubtful cases wereconcerned, steps were taken to ensure compliancewith the legislation in the event that requests werereceived; there had been none up to the end of theyear. The University Archives participated in a yearlongproject run by The National Archives to monitorthe impact of the legislation on the archives servicesof ‘public authorities’.The Ministry of Defence Map Library regularlydonates surplus mapping to libraries around thecountry, including Cambridge University Library.A backlog of processing such material haddeveloped in the University Library’s MapDepartment, and during the year a concentratedeffort was made to clear this, with the result thatover 15,000 sheets were added to the catalogue. Thematerial included some First World War trenchmaps and a large collection of very detailed Frenchtown plans from the 1940s and 50s. Anothersignificant source of donated mapping is theOrdnance Survey International Library, which wasclosed in 2003. Many of its files recording thehistory of the mapping have been presented to theCharles Close Society Archives which are housed inthe Map Department.The Map Department’s policy of obtainingcurrent maps of all parts of the world continuedwith the purchase of maps at scales ranging from

1:500,000 to 1:25,000 of the Czech Republic, Italy,Brazil, Venezuela and Mongolia, and the Sovietmilitary maps of Afghanistan.Oriental collectionsThe upgrade of the Voyager system in July 2005 tothe new Unicode version was of particularsignificance for the Oriental collections, as it willnow be possible to search existing records in theNewton catalogue in the vernacular scripts ofChinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, etc. where thisinformation has been provided in the catalogueentry. Newly-added records will include thevernacular data.Contacts were developed with vendors in theMiddle East in order to improve the supply of booksfrom those areas. In particular, alternative sources ofbooks and improved services were negotiated fromvendors in Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon and Israel.Members of the Faculty of Oriental Studies wereinvited to provide guidance on the existingcollection of books in Hebrew and Arabic and tosuggest priority areas where there were gaps thatneeded to be filled.The Genizah Series has been published for theLibrary by Cambridge University Press since 1980.However, a change in its policy with regard tospecialised publications with low numbers of saleshas led the Press to ask the Library to find anotherpublisher for future volumes. Agreement wasreached with Archaeopress in Oxford to undertakethis in the future.7Plan of encampmentof the First, orWestern Battalion, ofthe Norfolk Regt.Militia nearAldborough inSuffolk (1779).Purchased 2004.

major purchases8JohannesDryander,Anatomiae(Marburg 1537).Purchased withassistance from theFriends of theLibrary, 2004.Manuscripts! Letters of J.E. Bowam to J.S. Henslow, 1839-41! Correspondence, diaries and papers of JohnHarold Goodland! Law reports of Lord Chief Justice Hobart,17th century! Letters of Neville Maskelyne, J. Pond andThomas Young, early 19th century! Letter of Sir Isaac Pennington to George Ashby, 1783! Letter of James Nasmyth to Frederick Howlett, 1864Maps! [Plan and two views of Canterbury] (London c.1707)! A map intended to illustrate the threatened invasion ofEngland by Bonaparte (London 1804)! Plan of the city of Norwich ([Norwich] 1802)[all bought with the assistance of the Friends ofthe Library]Music! Auber, Le lac des fées: opéra en cinq actes (Paris[1839]), a rare full score of an opera at an importantmoment in the history of the orchestra and of opera! Georges Bizet, Carmen: opéra comique en 4 actes(Paris [1875]), first edition of the vocal score! Salieri, Axur, Koenig von Ormus: eine Oper in vierAufzügen (Bonn [1796])! Herbert E. Haines, A bálkirá lyné: operett 2felvonásban [Catch of the season] (Budapest 1907), thefull score of an English operetta which opened inLondon in 1904, prepared for an unrecordedperformance in Hungary, and extremely rarebecause full scores were almost never published! George Garrett, The Shunammite (holographmanuscript, 1882), cantata first performed by theCambridge University Musical Society in June 1882Rare books! Arnald of Villanova, Le tresor des pauvres… (Lyon[1527]), on pharmacology and medicine [boughtwith the assistance of the Friends of the Library]! Jason Pratensis, De pariente & partu, liberobstetricibus puerperis… ([Antwerp?] 1527), the soleedition of an early Latin work on obstetrics by thiscourt physician! Johannes Dryander, Anatomiae, hoc est, corporishumani dissectionis pars prior… (Marburg 1537), afamous work on the anatomy of the head and oneof the most important illustrated anatomies beforeVesalius [bought with the assistance of the Friendsof the Library]! Sebastian a Matre Dei, Firmamentum symbolicum, inquo Deiparæ elogia… (Lublin 1652), a very rarePolish emblem book [bought with the assistance ofthe Friends of the Library]! Denis Diderot, Das Theater des Herrn Diderot. Ausdem Französischen (Berlin 1760), the earliest Germantranslations of Diderot by the great dramatistGotthold Ephraim Lessing! Giovanni Battista Gherardo d’Arco, Dellainfluenza del ghetto nello stato (Venice 1782), thefirst edition of an extremely rare economic textof the Enlightenment

donationstransfersManuscripts! Notes and lectures by John Emerich Dalberg Acton,1st Lord Acton (given by the present Lord Acton)! Correspondence of the poet George Szirtes(Mr Szirtes)! Music manuscripts of Hubert S. Middleton (CanonA.D. Caesar)! Committee minutes of Cambridge UniversitySocialist Club, 1956-59 (Birmingham UniversityLibrary)! Correspondence of solar physicists, including H.R.Newall and J.B. Hubrecht, c.1913-1916 (Dr MiloKeynes)! Correspondence and papers of Sir Geoffrey Fry,c.1850-1950 (Mrs Victoria Zinovieff)! Diaries and a notebook of Edward Rose, 1865-1904(Mrs Kate Field)Modern collections! 100 titles of French Canadian literature (Délégationgénérale du Québec à Londres)Music! 1,500 items of music, bound in about 500 volumes,from the Cambridge Union Society LibraryRare books! 2,700 books for the Waddleton Collection (MrNorman Waddleton)! T. Livii Patavini … quicquid hactenus fuit aeditum …Accesserunt autem quintae decadis libri quinque,nunquam antehac aediti… (Basle 1531), the editioprinceps of Livy, books 41-45 (Miss Alison Duke)Manuscripts and University Archives! Records of the Cambridge University Ice HockeyClub, Cambridge University Wireless Society, andthe Archimedeans! Further records from the Faculty of Education(1880s-1990s)! Papers relating to the establishment, financing andrunning of Bridget’s, the disabled students’ hostel(1988-2004)! Papers documenting the establishment andoperation of the Interdisciplinary Centre forResearch in Superconductivity at the CavendishLaboratory! Further papers of the Council of the School ofPhysical Sciences, Faculty of English, Faculty ofPhysics and Chemistry, School of BiologicalSciences, Stewards’ Committee9rightA design of part of theskeleton of an animal asit appeared on, andunited to, Allom Rocknear Whitby (1758).From the HailstoneFamily Papers;cataloguingcompleted 2005.

digital library10Improving the management and accessibility of e-journals was one of the year’s strategic aims, andthrough its portal, ejournals@cambridge, the UniversityLibrary now provides access to over 9,500 titles of e-journals for which the University has subscriptions orwhich are available on open-access. The response to thisnew service has been extremely positive from academicstaff, students and librarians alike.A number of important online databases wereadded, funded by cancellation of particularly underusedsubscriptions. These included The Times DigitalArchive 1785-1985, the Oxford Dictionary of NationalBiography, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online(ECCO). It is significant that these titles, heavilyconsulted since being made available, are all full-textdatabases. Demand for electronic resources hasshifted substantially from bibliographic and citationindexes to electronic full text, particularly e-journals,and is spread across a wider range of subjects than inprevious years. This is particularly noticeable inmusic, literature, modern languages, and economics,which are not covered by existing packages andwhere there has been less effort by faculty libraries toregister electronic access to journals on the basis ofprint subscriptions. In order to ensure that suchaccess is provided wherever possible, the coordinationof journal provision, referred toelsewhere, will have to include not just a change inthe funding structure, but also training for librariansin e-journal management and greater day-to-day coordinationbetween the University’s libraries.The number of networked CD-ROMs again fell, astitles such as Index Islamicus, Ulrich’s PeriodicalsDirectory, and the Cetedoc Library of Latin Texts migratedto online services. Technological change has made itincreasingly difficult to network titles which wereoriginally developed to run under old operatingsystems and a number of titles had to be withdrawnfrom the network in the course of the year. There is asmall but steady demand for CD-ROMs purchasedindividually or received on legal deposit to beconsulted in the Digital Resources Area. This area hasbeen a great success, with usage steadily increasing,to the extent that it has approached capacity on anumber of occasions. By the end of the year therewere over 4,200 registered users, of whom just over athird were current staff and students at theUniversity; it is not surprising that this figure is solow, as many of the online resources provided by theUniversity Library can be consulted from PCs incolleges and departments or through off-campusaccess using Athens or Raven authentication.There is a growing interest in e-book provision,which is principally led by the college librarians,given the publishers’ focus on undergraduate-leveltitles. Apart from the specialised services such asECCO, demand for e-books amongst users of theUniversity Library is relatively low at present, butthe Library will no doubt have a future role in coordinatingaccess and licensing.The Greensleeves Project is nearing a successfulconclusion, with the final delivery of recordsexpected in September 2005. By summer 2005 almost750,000 records had been added to the Newtoncatalogue. Problems continued with the quality ofthe records received from the suppliers, and in somecases entire deliveries had to be rejected. Once therecords had been loaded to the Voyager database,considerable work was involved in ensuring thatthey were linked to any existing circulation records.The records in the guardbook catalogue generallycontain no subject information; wherever possiblesuch information has been included in the newonline records. This has meant that millions ofsubject headings have been added, thus greatlyfacilitating the exploitation by readers of thecollections’ riches. Many name and subject headingshowever, do not conform to the latest standardsused by the Library’s own cataloguers, and, as aresult, a major editorial task faces the staff who willneed to remove as many as possible of the incorrectforms of name and other headings. This is a projectthat will take several years.The web-pages for the Rare Books and Mapdepartments have been completely redesigned. TheRare Books pages include digital images of itemsfrom the collections and provide rapid access tospecialist online catalogues, rare books electronicresources, and a new page listing rare books eventsin Cambridge. The Map Department’s home page isdesigned as a quick reference page providing basicinformation on opening times and contact details,with links to a series of pages providing moredetailed information about the Map Departmentcatalogues – both the card catalogue and Newton.In the Music Department, a new service givingreaders access to a library of sound recordingsonline has been introduced with our subscription tothe Naxos Music Library. A workstation in theAnderson Room has a dedicated PC set up to accessthis service.Annual snapshots of Ordnance Survey Data forthe years 1998 to 2003 inclusive have now beenmade available by Ordnance Survey and can beconsulted on a PC in the Map Department. Thisservice has proved very popular with readers. Apartfrom buying printouts, many of them find it usefulfor quick reference purposes, as a way of findingNational Grid References and of checking contourand spot-height values. The Library renewed its

11One of the RareBooks Department’sweb-pagessubscription to the EDINA current Digimap serviceand took out a new subscription to Digimap Historic,which provides access to all first edition OrdnanceSurvey County Series 1:2,500 map sheets – some ofwhich are unavailable in the Map Department inpaper form – as well as to many other editions of themaps. It also provides the opportunity to downloadthe data into geographic information systems, etc.,for manipulation. The use of equivalent maps onpaper may now decrease, something that hasadvantages from a conservation perspective.The DSpace Project continued to add material inboth increasing numbers and from an increasinglywide range of sources; by summer 2005 it containedover 100,000 items. The project is now looking to thepoint at the end of 2005 when the original fundingfrom the Cambridge-MIT Institute comes to an end.At that point it is intended that the project shouldbecome a service to the University, andpresentations were made to a number of Universitybodies during the year, in particular to the Planningand Resources Committee, which agreed to provideinterim funding from January to July 2006 to ensurethe continuation of the service until its fundingcould be built into the 2006-7 budgets for theUniversity Library and the Computing Service.

services12The unreliability of the pneumatically operatedmobile bookstacks, noted in the last report,continued despite the efforts of the TechnicalMaintenance staff to keep these thirty-year-oldunits in operation. Potential relief was signalled bythe approval from HEFCE of the University’s bidfor funding under SRIF3 (Science ResearchInfrastructure Fund), which included the bulk of thecost (around £2 million) of replacing these units.The work is planned to start in 2006 and, because ofthe logistical complexity of decanting over twomillion books and periodicals whilst maintaining afull service to readers, it will take about three yearsto complete.Many of the sequences in the closed areas of theLibrary have had to be broken and restarted inanother area because of shortage of space. Thismakes fetching particularly difficult. The opening ofthe Phase 5 extension meant that it was possible tostart restoring material to its correct sequence andproviding those sequences with expansion space.Despite these difficulties and the problems with thepneumatically-powered bookstacks, the averagetime taken to retrieve books dropped to twentythreeminutes, a commendable achievement, andone that was recognised by a grateful reader whosponsored a lunch to thank the team of bookfetchers.Fewer user-education sessions were offered, witha significant drop in Newton hands-on training asreaders became more familiar with the Voyagercatalogue. To reduce the amount of staff timeinvolved in preparing a programme, companieshave increasingly been invited to deliver trainingsessions on their own products. Such presentationsincluded the Eighteenth Century Collections Online(ECCO), Web of Knowledge, Early English Books Online(EEBO) and Literature Online (LION), including aspecial session on LION for graduate students in theEnglish Faculty.The new Assistive Technology Area 1, a namechosen in discussion with the Disability ResourceCentre and a term that is becoming recognisedacross the sector for such facilities, becameoperational. The Area, created thanks to a grant fromthe Abbey Charitable Trust in a central location offthe Catalogue Room, has been decorated indistinctive colours and is furnished with threeelectrically-operated, height-adjustable desks, afixed bench at the appropriate height for wheelchairusers, a range of ergonomic chairs and daylightlamps. It is equipped with a CCTV reader and twoPCs, one with a large and one with a flat screen, eachwith a scanner, both connected to a colour printerand loaded with voice-recognition, screen-readingand magnification software. A second similar area isplanned for noisier activities such as the voicerecognitionsoftware, a brailler and facilities forreading to tape or disk, but at other times will beavailable for quiet study to those with attentiondeficitdisorders. It is always gratifying to hear of thesuccess of readers, but particularly so in the case ofthose disabled users with whom the staff of theReference Department work very closely. One such,who suffers from severe dyslexia, this year achieveda starred first-class BA in history and subsequentlymade a point of writing to thank the Library staff,noting that ‘while other libraries… raised walls, theUL found ways to meet my needs.’The ‘digital revolution’ is nowhere more visiblethan in the changes to the output of the Library’sImaging Services. Almost all images created in thestudio are now produced digitally, rather than onfilm, and most are supplied directly to customers inelectronic form. With the growing availability ofonline resources, the demand for traditionalphotocopying continues to decline gradually,though the department nonetheless provided over2.5 million copies during the year. The oneexception to this trend is the continuing steadydemand for microfilming: economists’ papers fromboth King’s College and the Marshall Library werefilmed for the Bank of Italy, Tibetan manuscripts fora University department and local examinationpapers for the University’s Local ExaminationsSyndicate, as well as a number of large newcommercial orders from Adam MatthewPublications, ProQuest and Bell & Howell.The Library participated in a joint bid withCorpus Christi College and Stanford University forfunding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation toundertake a major project creating digital images ofall the 600 manuscripts in the Parker Library atCorpus. Funding has been secured for the first yearof what is hoped to be a four-year project, andImaging Services will be responsible for the creationof high-resolution digital images using new staffwho will be based in Corpus, supported by thetechnical staff in the department, with the Head ofImaging Services as project manager.Last year’s report noted the difficulties caused toself-financing departments such as Imaging Servicesby the imposition of overheads on staff costs and ahuge increase in employer’s contributions to theassistant staff pension scheme. The coming yearbrings a further increase of 10% in overheads and afurther rise in pension contributions of almost 3%.Given that the market will only accept a certainceiling in price rises, the future for the service is amatter for concern and a major review has begun tosee how it might need to adapt.

exhibitionsrightPictured before theGala Dinner at theopening of ‘TheCambridgeIlluminations’exhibition in July2005 are the Vice-Chancellor (right),Mr Gifford Combs,sponsor of thedinner (centre),and the Librarian.Exhibition Centre‘Writing poetry: manuscript verse 250 bc to2000 ad’May – December 2004Prepared by Mr Wells and opened by thePoet Laureate, Professor Andrew Motion‘All good Friends: donations from the Friendsof the Library’January – June 2005Prepared by Mr Jenkins, Mr Wells andDr Mark Nicholls, and opened by thePresident of the Friends of the Library,Dr David McKitterick‘The Cambridge illuminations: ten centuries ofbook production in the medieval West’July – December 2005 (jointly with theFitzwilliam Museum)Prepared by an organising committee and opened(at the Fitzwilliam Museum) by Dr David StarkeyThe receptions for the opening ceremonies weregenerously sponsored by Cambridge University Press.Exhibitions in the North-Front corridor‘French illustrated books from the 16th tothe 20th century’June – August 2004 (to accompany the AnnualConference of the Society for French Studies atFitzwilliam College)Prepared by Dr Wendy Bennett and Ms ThwaiteMichael Cameron‘70th anniversary of Penguin books’May – July 2005Prepared by Mrs Allen‘Rare books of the Spanish Golden Age’July – September 2005 (to coincide with the annualconference of the Asociacíon InternacionalSiglo de Oro at Robinson College)Prepared by Dr Anthony Close,Ms Morcillo-García and Dr MitchellItems from the Library’s collections were loanedto the following exhibitions:! New York Public Library: ‘The NewtonianMoment’13‘Liberation of Paris, 1944’August 2004Prepared by Dr Mitchell from Sir CharlesChadwyck-Healey’s photographic collection‘Aerial Photography in the twentieth centuryand beyond’August – November 2004 (to accompany the 14thConference of the Groupe des Cartothécaires deLIBER at the University Library)Prepared by Ms Taylor‘French illustrated books from the 16th to the20th century’November 2004 – February 2005 (repeat of theearlier exhibition)! The Huntington Library, San Marino, California:‘The Newtonian Moment’! Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer: ‘EuropasJuden im Mittelalter’! Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin: ‘EuropasJuden im Mittelalter’! British Museum: ‘Kabuki Heroes on the OsakaStage 1780’! Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: ‘The CambridgeIlluminations: ten centuries of book production inthe medieval West’.‘Marginalia’February – May 2005 (to coincide with the JointLibraries’ Preservation Awareness Campaign)Prepared by Mr Harper

preservation14rightThe High Priestcensing the Ark ofthe Covenant, fromNicholas of Lyra,‘Postilla litteralis inVetus et NovumTestamentum’(c.1457) in TheCambridgeIlluminationsexhibition.The Anstruther Literary Trust generously providedfunds to allow preservation assessment surveys to becarried out in collaboration with the NationalPreservation Office on the main Library’s holdings ofprint materials; these have now been completed andthe results analysed. Overall the Library emerged ina favourable light, with over 90% of its printedcollections falling into the two lowest priority bandsfor preservation needs, a figure that compares wellwith those from other legal deposit libraries andwith the UK stratified figure. However, some factorsemerging from the reports give rise for concern. Theproportion of the collections suffering from surfacedirt is unacceptably high, while the lack ofenvironmental controls in areas such as the tower,the Map Department and the open library could leadto deterioration of the stock. The Library haspurchased a high-specification book-cleaningmachine to combat the problem of surface dirt, and isreviewing the other recommendations contained inthe reports. The environment to which borrowablebooks are subject outside the Library cannot, ofcourse, be monitored.These considerations led to the Syndicate’sdecision in June 2005 to approve the removal ofseveral classes containing mainly nineteenthcenturymaterials into more suitable storage and towithdraw them from borrowable categories. Thischange was made in order to provide greaterprotection for this vulnerable material, much ofwhich is printed on poor paper and has fragilebindings.The demands of exhibition loans placedconsiderable pressure on the ConservationDepartment, which had to prepare the items fordisplay, make suitable perspex cradles, andconstruct the packing for the carrying cases toensure that the fragile documents were not damagedin transit. This applied particularly to the two largescaleexhibitions in which the Library was a majorparticipant: ‘The Newtonian Moment’ in New YorkHarpers on a sea ofglass, from acommentary onRevelation (c.1270-1275) in TheCambridgeIlluminationsexhibition.

15The Battle-Array ofCarberry-hill nearEdinburgh with thesurrender of MaryQueen of Scots…Done from theoriginal (1738).Purchased 2004.rightA man dropping aweight through animagined hole inthe earth’s surfaceand its finallodging place atthe centre, fromGossuin of Metz,‘L’image dumonde’ (c.1330),in The CambridgeIlluminationsexhibition.and California, and ‘The Cambridge Illuminations’at the Library and the Fitzwilliam Museum.A major piece of work has been theconservation of the Cambridge LuteMusic manuscripts, which constitutethe most important source ofEnglish lute music of the sixteenthcentury and earlier. Thecollection contains almost halfthe extant English lute music,with four of the volumescontaining over 700 pieces.These manuscripts have beenunavailable to readersbecause of their fragilecondition, due in part toprevious inappropriate repairsand significant weakening ofthe leaves caused by mould andwater damage. The old repairshave now been replaced withappropriate support using Japanesehand-made paper, and the manuscriptshave been rebound in a style that allowsthem to open with greater flexibility. They arealso protected in drop-spine boxes.

support services and accommodation16rightA view down KingStreet, Sydney,New South Wales,in 1908. From theRoyalCommonwealthSocietyCollections.The introduction by the University of the RAM(Resource Allocation Model) and the requirement fornew reporting and administrative procedures placedconsiderable strain on the Library Office. Thepreparation of a five-year forecast of income andexpenditure was a major undertaking, particularlygiven the complex nature of the Library’s sources ofincome and the need to make provision fordevelopments several years ahead. Links between theVoyager system and the University’s financial systemCUFS have been improved and a considerableamount of duplicated work has been eliminated.However, a number of aspects of the CUFS system,particularly the requirement for secondary approvalauthorisation, its way of handling VAT, and thecommitment reporting, are cumbersome and staffintensive. A further level of bureaucracy has been theintroduction of a requirement to report the acquisitionof ‘heritage assets’ valued at more than £10,000.Use of the Official Publications Reading Roomhas been declining steadily, mainly as a result of theincreasing number of electronic sources of access tothe documents of governments and internationalorganisations. Following a review of its use, it wasagreed that the function of the room would beextended to accommodate readers using materialsborrowed on inter-library loan, and possibly a widerrange of periodicals, thus relieving pressureelsewhere in the building. These changes will comeinto full effect during the coming year.Professor AndrewCliff, Chairman ofthe LibrarySyndicate (right),with PatrickMeyer (R.G.Carter Ltd),carrying out thetopping-outceremony for thePhase 5 extension.

dependent librariesrightSolomon’s Temple,from Nicholas ofLyra, ‘Postillalitteralis in Vetus etNovumTestamentum’(c.1457) in TheCambridgeIlluminationsexhibition.Bathing Ghats,Benares (nowVaranasi), India,c.1905-1906. Fromthe Queen MaryCollection onIndia.Medical LibraryThe Medical Library’s relationship with the NHS isalways a delicate one. This year the Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Workforce DevelopmentDirectorate (WDD) merged two of its funding streamsinto one, thus bringing an improved clarity and senseof purpose to the way in which the library receivesNHS support. On the other hand, the plans forshelving the proposed NHS University and news thatcontinuing professional development would nolonger be funded through the WDDs raised worryingdoubts about the NHS’s long-term commitment tothose activities for which library services are anintegral part. This was set against a pattern ofconstantly increasing use of the Medical Library’sservices by NHS staff who, this year, represented 65%of all new registrations.The Medical Library has consistently been aheadof the trend towards electronic informationprovision. Again this year, readers’ requests for newjournals were predominantly for online access, andwhilst there has been a rapid growth in the numberof freely-available peer-reviewed open-access titles(chiefly from the BioMed Central stable) demand forsubscription-based titles remained high.Science librariesThe Betty and Gordon Moore Library increasinglyprovides a service well beyond the confines of itsimmediate user group in the Centre forMathematical Sciences, with over half its registeredusers now coming from outside that Centre, the nextlargest category being from the Department ofEngineering. The Library’s successful bid for SRIF3funding included a further installation of mobileshelving in the Moore. This was in the original plansfor the building but had to be dropped at a late stagein the construction of the library because of lack offunds. The reinstatement will provide the librarywith additional space to store back runs of journalswhilst there is still demand to retain paper copies onsite in Cambridge.Squire Law LibraryFollowing the success of the Squire’s fundraisingcampaign in its centenary year of 2004, theCentenary Appeal Fund was boosted by £75,000thanks to the generosity of one private benefactor.The fund now stands at nearly £400,000, well on theway to its target of £2 million. In a separate gift tothe Faculty of Law the same donor provided fundsfor the cataloguing of many antiquarian law booksand the acquisition of digital copies of manuscriptlaw reports, and some other important manuscripttexts, not currently available to scholars inCambridge. Staff of the Squire continued to have asignificant input into the accredited FreshfieldsLegal Research Skills programme, teaching a rangeof courses.17

staff18The University’s decision to adopt a new pay andgrading structure, as directed by HEFCE, created animmense amount of work in all parts of the Library.New role descriptions had to be created for all jobsin the Library, and since few were so similar thatthey could be shared by more than one member ofstaff, this meant over 300 such descriptions, all ofwhich had to be drawn up by the post-holder,discussed with, and checked by, their head ofdepartment and then further checked by the DeputyLibrarian. By summer 2005 most had beencompleted and the process of matching to the newgrades was about to begin.The Library has a number of long-servingmembers of staff but few can match the record of MrBarry Eaden, who, in January 2005, completed fiftyyears of distinguished service. Mr Eaden startedwork in 1955 as a junior library assistant and formany years was responsible for maintaining theCurrent Serials list. He now edits the Readers’ Handbookand is head of the Inter-Library Loans Department.The occasion of his anniversary was marked by alunch at which the Vice-Chancellor expressed thegratitude of the University for his exemplaryservice. Two staff with careers that were almost aslong retired during the year: Miss Jill Alexander,St Martin divideshis cloak with thebeggar, detail fromthe Breviary ofMarie de St Pol(Paris c.1330-c.1342), in TheCambridgeIlluminationsexhibition.

University’s Staff Development Office. Four staffgained their City & Guilds of London Award inLibrary and Information Services: Ms UrszulaDench, Ms Angela Kiteley, Ms Jade Notley and MsTanya Zhimbiev.The University’s Health and Safety Divisioncarried out a safety audit of the main UniversityLibrary. The findings were reasonably positive but itwas clear that additional training and support wereneeded, especially at the level of departmentalmanagers. Since the audit, all heads of departmenthave received risk-assessment training from theHealth and Safety Division, and risk assessmentsand safety inspections have been carried out anddocumented for all parts of the Library.The death is recorded, with regret, of Mr A.B.(Joe) Britton (former deputy head of the ScientificPeriodicals Library).19April: a couple,from the calendarof a Book of Hours(Bruges, c.1490) inThe CambridgeIlluminationsexhibition.Munby Fellowship in BibliographyMunby Fellow 2004-5: Dr Suzanne Reynolds, ‘Acatalogue of the manuscripts of Latin classical authorsin the library of the Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall’.rightThe Pardonner,from a fifteenthcenturymanuscript ofChaucer’s‘Canterbury tales’in The CambridgeIlluminationsexhibition.who joined the Library in 1958 and retired inDecember 2004 after a career spent mostly in theCopyright (subsequently Cataloguing) Department;and Mr Peter Bowyer, who started in 1961 andretired in September 2004, after working for much ofhis career in the Periodicals Department. Mr KeithMcVeigh, formerly Librarian of the Squire LawLibrary and subsequently an Under-Librarian in theOfficial Publications Department, took earlyretirement in June 2005, Ms AnneMarie Robinsonresigned her post in the Rare Books Department,and the secondment of Mr Chris Sendall to theUniversity’s Management Information ServicesDivision, was converted into a permanent transferfrom September 2004.Among the new appointments were Dr JillWhitelock, formerly librarian of the WhippleLibrary at the Department of History andPhilosophy of Science, who took up herappointment as head of the Rare Books Department,and Dr Emily Mitchell, who was appointed as one ofthe rare books specialists.Congratulations are due to Ms Jo Phipps, whosuccessfully completed her distance-learning degreecourse at the University of Wales Aberystwyth andwas awarded a first-class honours BScEcon inInformation & Library Studies; and to Ms AnneCollins, who obtained an Introductory Diploma inManagement after completing the course run by the

calendar 2004–200520September 2004! 14th Conference of the Groupe des Cartothécairesde LIBER, held at the Library and organised by theMap Department! European EndUser Conference, a meeting of 140Voyager system managers and users, held in theLaw Faculty and organised by the ElectronicServices and Systems DivisionOctober 2004! Evening of talks, and a private viewing ofNewton’s copy of the first edition of Principiamathematica and his notebook on optics, both fromthe University Library, at Sotheby’s, New York.Speakers included Professor Simon Schama ofColumbia University and Professor MordechaiFeingold of the California Institute of Technology! Benefactors’ and supporters’ evening, in the formof an exhibition, in the Library, of letters written byCharles Darwin and natural history specimensfrom Cambridge University museums collected onthe voyage of the Beagle, followed by a dinner inChrist’s College, with Sir David Attenborough asguest of honour.April 2005! Sandars Lectures: Dr Paul Needham, ScheideLibrarian at Princeton University: ‘Fifteenthcentury printing: the work of the shops’! Private view of Maimonides items from theUniversity Library at Christie’s, New York, and theField Museum, ChicagoMay 2005! Inaugural Willi Steiner Memorial Lecture (inhonour of Willi Steiner, formerly AssistantLibrarian at the Squire Law Library) delivered bythe Law Commissioner, Professor Hugh Beale, andhosted by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer at theiroffices in LondonJuly 2005! Opening, by Dr David Starkey, of the ‘CambridgeIlluminations’ exhibition at the FitzwilliamMuseum and the University Library! Colloquium ‘The passion for manuscripts’,organised in conjunction with the ‘CambridgeIlluminations’ exhibitionJanuary 2005! Opening, by Dr David McKitterick, President of theFriends of the Library, of the exhibition ‘All goodFriends: donations from the Friends of the Library’February 2005! Lunchtime presentation: ‘“Yours sincerely, Ch.Darwin”: an insight into the work of the DarwinCorrespondence Project’, by Dr Alison PearnrightWil Frost,University ofHawaii at Manoa& President of theEndeavor EndUserBoard, speaking atthe EndUserConference inSeptember 2004.March 2005! Evening of talks, and a private viewing ofNewton’s copy of the first edition of Principiamathematica and his notebook on optics, bothfrom the University Library, on the occasion ofthe opening of the exhibition, ‘The Newtonianmoment’ at The Huntington Library inCalifornia. Speakers were the Librarian andProfessor Mordechai Feingold of the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology! Lunchtime presentation: ‘Current issues for collegelibraries’, by Joanna Ball, Sub-Librarian, TrinityCollege Cambridge

major financial donations, grants,research grants and trust-fundsexpenditure (£5,000 and over)21AcquisitionsSixth Earl of Enniskillen Fund Acquisitions of books in specified subjects £210,000Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund Acquisitions £50,000Kaplanoff Fund American studies material £30,000A D Nock Fund Modern foreign books £30,000Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Electronic legal resources £22,000City Solicitors’ Educational TrustText books, periodical subscriptions and electronicresources for the Squire Law Library £15,000LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Purchases for the Squire Law Library £15,000Gordon Duff Fund Rare books £10,000Cambridge University Press CUP books for the Central Science, Medical, Moore and Squire Libraries £10,000Dorothea Oschinsky Fund Acquisitions £8,000Friends of Cambridge University Library Acquisitions £7,000American Study Fund Acquisitions £6,000Special projectsDarwin Correspondence ProjectGenizah Research UnitWellcome Trust £166,000 Friedberg Genizah Project £56,000American Council of Learned Societies £25,000 John S. Cohen Foundation £10,000British Academy £15,000 The Bertha and Henry Kressel Foundation $10,000Royal Society £7,000Natural Environment Research Council £5,000Grants to Medical LibraryNHS Eastern Deanery £129,000NHS Addenbrooke’s Hospital Trust (SIFT grant) £32,000Medical Research Council £31,000NHS Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Workforce Development Confederation £21,000OtherHEFCE Improving access to research collections £566,000Dr C Cooke Bequest (part) £458,000Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Curator of Scientific Manuscripts (final payment) £200,000Anonymous donation Squire Law Library Centenary Fund £75,000Miss V C M London Bequest £39,000Faculty of Oriental Studies (Japanese Studies Fund) Part funding of staff in Japanese Department £34,000Munby Memorial Fund Munby Fellow in Bibliography £30,000Trinity College Cambridge Contribution towards Saturday afternoon opening £30,000JISC CUL contributions to the Archives Hub £26,000British and Foreign Bible Society Bible Society Library staff £25,000Mr Gifford Combs The Cambridge Illuminations exhibition $35,000Smuts Memorial Fund Part funding of Smuts Librarian for Commonwealth Studies £17,000Mr Gurnee F. Hart Building development $25,000Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation RCS Photographs Project $25,000Richard Tench Fund Contribution towards Saturday afternoon opening £14,000William Alwyn Foundation William Alwyn Archive Cataloguing Project £7,000Diana Herzog Family Fund General support $10,000Friends of Cambridge University Library Exhibition costs £5,000Sandars Readership in Bibliography Sandars Lectures £5,000Mr A E B Owen Catalogue of Western manuscripts £5,000

statistics22The statistics normally refer to the main University Library building only; where indicated* they include the dependent libraries.Additions to stock 2004–05 2003–04 2002–03 1994–95Books and pamphlets* 113,218 117,627 127,610 114,691Periodicals and newspapers* 150,856 153,609 149,176 135,382Microfilm reels* 4,277 4,063 3,111 4,758Microfiche units* 2,774 20,832 19,320 49,078Official Publications 26,809 37,073 41,478 47,053Maps and atlases 22,650 12,448 9,955 11,035Printed music 5,237 8,343 7,410 5,996Manuscripts and archives 3,376 4,133 3,267 2,260Cambridge theses 1,171 914 924 949New entries added to the Catalogue 73,094 71,002 58,658 63,604Items fetched:West Room bookfetching– Select books 34,003 32,994 31,345 44,890– Reading Room classes 54,337 51,428 51,732 65,089– Reserved periodicals 36,732 38,253 40,037 68,733Manuscripts Reading Room 9,776 12,616 12,785 15,441Map Room 16,798 13,633 20,215 13,555Anderson Room & East Asian RR 2,449 2,101 1,715 2,044Official Publications 7,945 8,319 10,250 24,707Microforms 9,533 14,129 15,551 12,281Rare Books Reading Room 41,862 41,773 41,083 53,430Bible Society’s Library 847 713 920 1,517TOTAL 214,282 216,229 225,633 301,687Bindery/Conservation OutputModern case work 23,179 23,342 22,349 18,446Modern repair work 1,184 1,394 1,696 2,997Rebacking and minor repairs 1,789 2,133 2,275 5,241Lyfguarding 8,749 7,572 8,676 9,851Imaging Services DepartmentDigital images 16,236 12,852 3,649Prints made from negatives 758 1,259 1,476 2,621Microfilm frames exposed 265,469 259,969 257,141 460,026Microfilm duplicates (frames) 630,000 480,000 401,000 886,080Photocopies (includes Moore, Squire and CSL) 2,502,277 2,634,796 2,979,445 1,055,056Expenditure on purchased acquisitionsMain Library £ £ £ £Modern Western books 645,013 443,342 379,897 529,440Official Publications 9,810 9,994 16,389 20,673Oriental Near Eastern 33,070 24,794 30,900 23,756Oriental Far Eastern 53,743 58,542 66,197 85,025Maps 33,177 31,974 39,887 62,085Music 33,928 30,099 36,191 42,973Rare books and manuscripts 141,691 295,218 229,813 423,196Electronic resources and microforms 459,194 475,806 402,926 179,254Periodicals 924,059 908,937 913,183 913,565TOTAL 2,333,685 2,278,706 2,115,383 2,279,967

statisticsMedical Library £ £ £ £Books 39,042 14,645 16,183 22,242Periodicals 189,313 189,887 191,000 119,70223Science LibrariesBooks 6,039 11,784 9,054 918Periodicals 805,152 821,098 774,340 407,282Squire Law LibraryBooks 34,398 25,686 25,839 20,552Periodicals 201,870 203,827 220,987 159,140TOTAL 3,609,499 3,545,633 3,352,786 3,009,803library staff – professional activitiesPublications, papers presented, membership of committeesM.C. AllenCommittee membershipAgency for the Legal Deposit Libraries, Management CommitteeLegal Deposit Libraries Committee, Collection Development SubgroupC. AnsorgeCommittee membershipNational Council on Orientalist Library Resources (Treasurer)R.M. AndrewesCommittee membershipBliss Trust (Trustee)RISM (UK) Trust (Trustee and Treasurer)William Alwyn Foundation (Trustee)Cambridge University Musical Society (Vice President, andCommittee member)RILM Technical Advisory CommitteeC.A. AylmerPaper presented‘Internet resources for Chinese Studies’, National Council on OrientalistLibrary Resources Seminar, Cambridge, September 2004Committee membershipChina Library Group, Periodicals Sub-committeeI.M. BurkeCommittee membershipLibrary Syndicate (staff representative)IT Syndicate, Technical Sub-CommitteeCambridge University Libraries Automation Group Steering CommitteeG.D. ByeCommittee membershipBritish Standards Institute, Committee for Micrographics and DigitisationNational Preservation Office, Micrographics Technical CommitteeLibrary Syndicate (staff representative)S.M. CageEditor: University Library Staff BulletinL. Chipman‘Maimonides autographs linked’, Genizah Fragments 48 (2004)C.T. ClarksonCommittee membershipUniversity’s Disability ForumWorking Group on Blind and Visually Impaired StudentsA. CollinsCommittee membershipClinical School Heads of Service GroupClinical School Learning Resources GroupHigher Education Health Librarians in the Eastern RegionNHS Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Workforce DevelopmentDirectorate Library & Knowledge Services GroupJ. Cox‘The Footlights Archive’, Cambridge University Library Readers’Newsletter(April 2005)Committee membershipJanus Steering Group (Chair)Cambridge Archivists’ Group (Secretary)Society for the Study of the History of the University (Secretary)CamSIS Steering Group‘Cantab’ Developers’ GroupL. DingleSerbia Rule of Law Project: improving the information resources andeducational facilities at Serbian law faculties, USAID Report (ArlingtonVA 2005)‘Asummary of recent constitutional reform in the United Kingdom,International Journal of Legal Information, 33 (2005) [with B. Miller]Y. FaghihiPapers presented:‘Digital cataloguing of Oriental manuscripts’, National Council onOrientalist Library Resources Seminar, Cambridge, September 2004‘Spezialsammlungen, Sammlungsschwerpunkte und Projekte derelektronischen Fachinformation zum Vorderen Orient an britischenBibliotheken’, workshop: Elektronische Fachiniformation zur Regiondes Vorderen Orients und zur Islamwissenschaft’, Halle, January 2005‘The Cambridge collections’, conference: The Islamic Manuscript,Cambridge, July 2005Committee membershipAssociation of Islamic Manuscripts, Steering CommitteeP.K. Fox‘Changing LIBER’ in Die innovative Bibliothek; Elmar Mittler zum 65.Geburtstag, hrsg. von E. Kolding Nielsen, K.G. Saur und K. Ceynowa(München 2005)Papers presented‘Cambridge University Library – from oracle bones to CD-ROM’,Cambridge in America alumni evening, New York, October 2004;evening for supporters of The Huntington Library, San Marino,California, March 2005‘Garnering support: top down and bottom up’, LEADIRS: LEArningabout Digitial Institutional RepositorieS seminars, London,November 2004Committee membershipNational Preservation Office Board (Chairman)

24Wellcome Trust Library Advisory Committee (Chairman)LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (GeneralSecretary)Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Legal Deposit Advisory PanelJoint Committee on Legal DepositFriends of the National Libraries, Executive CommitteeLord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on National Records and ArchivesInternational Editorial Board, Journal of Library AdministrationP.J. Girling‘Every which way but loose: bulk import in Cambridge’ [with J.R.H.Taylor]. European Endeavor User Group Conference, Cambridge,September 2004Committee membershipCambridge University Libraries Automation Group Steering CommitteeUnion Catalogue Working Group for Bibliographic StandardsL.J. GrayCommittee membershipEndeavor User Group, EndUser BoardEndeavor User Group: Circulation Enhancements Committee (Chair)Cambridge University Libraries Automation Group Steering CommitteeD.J. HallSeven articles in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford 2004)Associate Editor The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford 2004)Committee membershipDr Williams’ Trust (Trustee and Library Committee member)Cambridge Bibliographical SocietyFriends of Cambridge University Library (Treasurer)J.J. HallCommittee membershipCambridge Bibliographical Society (Treasurer)S.J. HillsEditor: University Library Readers’NewsletterJ.E. Hoare‘“Newly discovered documents” at the Gilder Lehrman Institute ofAmerican History’, Resources for American Studies, 58 (2005)Committee membershipBritish Association for American Studies, Library and Resources Sub-Committee (Secretary)R.C. JamiesonCommittee membershipFaculty of Divinity, Working Group on Online Resources for IndicStudies (Chairman)Union Handlist of Manuscripts in North Indian LanguagesNational Council on Orientalist Library Resources, AutomationWorking PartyB.JenkinsPaper presented‘One large collection saved: the Royal Commonwealth Society Library’,Rare Books Group/CILIP Seminar on Libraries in Danger, London,April 2005Committee membershipEnglish Short Title Catalogue, UK CommitteeNational Preservation Office, Preservation Advisory PanelLegal Deposit Libraries Committee, Preservation Sub-GroupBrotherton Collection Advisory CommitteeCambridge Bibliographical SocietyP. KilliardPaper presented‘Voyager with Unicode: the Cambridge test conversion’, UK EndUserConference, Glasgow, February 2005Committee membershipJoint Committee on Legal Deposit, E-journals Working GroupLegal Deposit Libraries Sub-Group on Digital InfrastructureLegal Deposit Libraries Sub-Group on PreservationEuropean Voyager User Group Steering CommitteeN. KoyamaArticle on James Summers in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(Oxford 2004)Articles on ‘Kikuchi Dairoku, 1855-1917: Educational Administrator andPioneer of Modern Mathematical Education in Japan’ and‘Yoshimoto Tadasu, 1878-1973: Father of the Blind in Japan’ in Britain& Japan Biographical Portraits, Volume V, ed. by Hugh Cortazzi(Folkestone 2005)Paper presented‘Early Japanese diplomats in Madrid: Inagaki Manjiro and others, usingresources for Japanese studies available from the internet’, EuropeanAssociation of Japanese Resource Specialists Annual Conference,Salamanca, September 2004.Committee membershipJapan Library Group (Chair)European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (board member)S.V. LambertBook reviews editor, The IndexerCommittee membershipJoint Committee on Legal Deposit, Territoriality Working GroupMorgan and Claypool Development Partner Program for their SynthesisDigital LibraryJ.A. LearyCommittee membershipClinical School Building Safety CommitteeClinical School Heads of Service GroupE. Lev‘The end of the traditional medicine in Jerusalem according to the Swissphysician Titus Tobler (1806-77)’[with Z. Amar], Canadian Bulletin forthe History of Medicine 21 (2004)‘The contribution of the sixteenth-century Turkish physician, Daud al-Antaki to the study of medical substances in the Levant (Biladal-Sham)’, Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, 2 (2004) [Hebrew]‘Dr Thomas Chaplin, scientist and scholar in nineteenth-centuryPalestine’ [with Y. Perry], Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 136 (2004)‘Mousterian vegetal food in Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel’ [with M.E. Kislevand O. Bar-Yosef], Journal of Archaeological Sciences, 32 (2005)Papers presentedFive conference papersD.K. LoweCommittee membershipGerman Studies Library Group (Newsletter editor)P.M. MeadowsCommittee membershipCambridgeshire County Archives Advisory GroupDegree Sub-committee for Master of Studies in Local and RegionalHistoryS. Morcillo-GarcíaCommittee membershipAdvisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information ResourcesP.B. MorganPapers presented‘Developing a digital institutional repository: the DSpace@Cambridgeproject’, European Association for Health Information & LibrariesConference, Santander, September 2004Papers at several workshops on institutional repositories and digitalarchivingCommittee membershipAddenbrooke’s NHS Trust Learning & Development Strategy GroupBMJ Publishing Group Library Advisory PanelClinical School/Addenbrooke’s Hospital SIFT Liaison GroupClinical School CBCU Management CommitteeClinical School Heads of Service GroupClinical School Learning Resources GroupEuropean Association for Health Information & Libraries, UKrepresentative, EAHIL CouncilHigher Education Health Librarians in the Eastern RegionNHS Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Workforce DevelopmentDirectorate Library & Knowledge Services GroupA.E. MurrayElected Vice-President (2005-2009) by the Fellows of Wolfson College,May 2005

Paper presented‘Cambridge University Library: preserving the past and building for thefuture’, Library Association of Ireland Academic and SpecialLibraries AGM, Dublin, June 2005.Committee membershipLegal Deposit Libraries Agency Management CommitteeSCONULAdvisory Committee on StaffingW.A. NoblettBook reviews in CILIP Rare Books Group NewsletterCommittee membershipBOPCRIS Steering CommitteeHistory of Parliament Trust Ad-hoc Committee for DigitisationESRC Population History Group, Advisory CommitteeB. Outhwaite‘Maimonides autographs linked’, Genizah Fragments, 48 (2004)‘Library yields surprise find’, Genizah Fragments, 49 (2005)A.J. PerkinsCommittee membershipInternational Astronomical Union, Commission for History ofAstronomy, Working Group on Astronomical Archives.Royal Society Library CommitteeS. C. Reif‘Ein Genisa-Fragment des Tischdank’, in Liturgie als Theologie: das Gebetals Zentrum im jüdischen Denken, ed. by W. Homolka (Berlin 2005)‘Giblews, Jews and Genizah views’, Journal of Jewish Studies 55 (2004)‘Prayer in early Judaism’, in Deuterocanonical and cognate literature,Yearbook 2004, Prayer from Tobit to Qumran, ed. by R. Egger-Wenzel andJ. Corley (Berlin 2004)‘Shema: Mittelalter und Neuzeit’ in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart,vol. 7 (Tübingen 2004)‘Tafqidam shel ha-genizah ha-qahirit be-ḥeqer toledot ha-tefillah’, inMitokh Ohalah Shel Torah, ed. by G. Patinkin, I. Gal-Dor and H. Fine(Bet Shemesh 2005)Book reviews in Journal of Theological Studies, Journal of Jewish Studies andSOTS Book ListEditor: Genizah Series, Genizah FragmentsPapers presentedThirty-seven lectures and conference papersCommittee membershipNational Council on Orientalist Library Resources (Chairman)International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and CognateLiteratureFriedberg Genizah Project, Academic CommitteeJ.S. Ringrose‘Effraim Nahum, 1918-1942’, Pembroke College Cambridge Society AnnualGazette (2004)R.Rowe‘What you didn’t expect to find in the Royal Commonwealth Societycollections in Cambridge University Library’, Cambridge UniversityLibraries Information Bulletin (2005)Paper presented‘Exhibit and be damned’ [with Dr K. Greenbank], National Council onOrientalist Library Resources Annual Conference, Cambridge,December 2004.Committee membershipSouth Asian Archives and Library Group, Steering GroupCentre of South Asian Studies, Committee of Management (Secretary)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‘Takālīd’, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 12 (Leiden 2004)‘Word-lists uncovered’, Genizah Fragments, 49 (2005)N.A. SmithCommittee membershipCambridge Bibliographical Society (Secretary)C. StaufenbielCommittee membershipGerman Studies Library GroupA.E.M. Taylor‘Cambridge University Library Map Department’, MapForum, 5 (2005)‘Map Department web pages’, Cambridge University Library Readers’Newsletter, 29 (2005)Editor, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University LibraryCommittee membershipBritish and Irish Committee for Map Information and CatalogueSystems (BRICMICS)Charles Close Society Archives Sub-committeeGroupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER (Board member)MapForum (Editorial Board member)Cambridge Library Group (Membership Secretary)Library Syndicate (staff representative)J.R.H. Taylor‘The RLG Union Catalog reveals the richness of Cambridge UniversityLibrary’s collections’, RLG Focus, 73 (2005)Committee membershipLegal Deposit Libraries Committee, Metadata GroupCURL Resource Discovery and Description CommitteeRLG Union Catalog Advisory GroupJoint Steering Committee for Revision of Anglo-American CataloguingRulesSUNCAT Bibliographic Quality Advisory Group.J.D. WellsArticles on Sir John Valentine Carden, Thomas Gilliland and Sir HarrySmith Parkes in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford2004)‘George Szirtes’ papers’, Cambridge University Library Readers’Newsletter,28 (2004)‘The Friends and the Exhibition Centre’, Bulletin of the Friends ofCambridge University Library (2004)‘Under scrutiny: an epigram and its readers’, Poetry News (2005)‘Distrest poets’ society’, RSL [magazine of the Royal Society ofLiterature] (2005)Committee membershipFriends of Cambridge University Library (Secretary)J. WhitelockEditor: Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society andMonographsCommittee membershipFriends of Cambridge University LibraryD.F. Wills‘Squire Law Library: celebrating one hundred years’, CambridgeLawLink, Faculty of Law Newsletter, 5 (2004)M.L. WilsonCommittee membershipCentral European Science Journals, Library Advisory BoardP.N.R. Zutshi‘Henry Bradshaw and the Book of Deer’, in The medieval book and amodern collector: essays in honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya, ed. by T.Matsuda, R.A. Linenthal and J. Scahill (Woodbridge 2004)‘Honorius III’s Gratiarum omnium and the beginnings of the DominicanOrder’, in Omnia disce: medieval studies in memory of Leonard Boyle, OP,ed. by A.J. Duggan, J. Greatrex and B. Bolton (Aldershot 2004)General Editor, The History of the University of Cambridge: Texts and StudiesPaper presented‘Popes, petitioners, proctors: the development of curial institutions,c.1150-c.1250’, XVI Settimana internazionale di Studi, Passo dellaMendola, August 2004Committee membershipOxford University Archives CommitteeAdvisory and Technical Panel, Northamptonshire Record OfficeEast of England Regional Archives Council (SCONUL and RLGrepresentative)‘Cambridge Illuminations’ Steering CommitteeCharles Darwin Trust (Trustee)25

annual report of the friends ofcambridge university library 2004–200526President:Dr D. J. McKitterick.Patron Members:Mr T. Aoi, Lady Butterfield, Mr D. Dibner,Mr J. Ehrman, Dr G. E. Moore and Mr N. Waddleton.Benefactor Members:Sir Ian Anstruther, Bart, Mr H. S. Barlow,Mr M. E. Boston, Mr J. H. Brandi, Mr J. J. G. Brown,Mrs M. G. Cheney, Dr D. Cohen, Major andMrs P. G. Cox, Mr P. Durie, The Hon. Mr S. Evans-Freke, Mr N. Farrow, Mr R. Gidoomal, Mr G. F. Hart,Sir Kirby and Lady Laing, Dr E. S. Leedham-Green,Professor J. Marrow, Mr R. Menschel, Mrs J. E. Mellor,Mr A. E. B. Owen, Professor N. J. G. Pounds,Dr L. Rausing, Dr E. Rose, Dr R. D. Sansom andMs E. Eligator, Lady Scott, Dr W. Stanners,Lord Tugendhat and Mr D. L. Walker.The CommitteeThe Committee members on 31 July 2005 were:Dr D. J. McKitterick (President), Mr H. J. Easterling,Professor M. M. Foot, Mr P. K. Fox, Mr R. Gaskell,Mr D. J. Hall (Hon. Treasurer), Mrs P. Hunt,Dr W. M. Keynes, Dr A. M. Nicholls, Mr A. L. Ray,Ms A. E. M. Taylor, Mr J. D. Wells (Hon. Secretary),Dr J. Whitelock (co-opted), Dr F. H. Willmoth andMrs J. Winterkorn.The Committee met four times during the year, on15 October and 10 December 2004 and 21 January and26 May 2005. At the Annual General Meeting on20 November 2004 Dr McKitterick was elected asPresident of the Friends. Mr B. J. Ford and Dr L. C. Taub,having come to the end of their second three-year termson the Committee, stood down. Mr Fox and Ms Taylor,who had previously served as co-opted members of theCommittee, were elected to three-year terms.Edwards, helped with mailings to the Friends. Mr D.Turnidge has made an important contribution to thework of the Near Eastern Department. The Committeeexpresses its gratitude to all who have volunteeredtheir services in the past year.The Friends’ BulletinIssue number 25 of the Friends’ Bulletin, for the year2004, was posted to members in January 2005.Successive issues of the Library’s Readers’ newsletterhave been distributed to Friends in the regularmailings.Purchases and DonationsThe Financial Panel met on 28 June 2005 andconsidered for purchase a variety of books, music,maps and manuscripts selected and described bymembers of the Library’s staff. The total sumexpended by the Panel on this occasion was £6,303.The Panel bought outright Christian Xavier Wabst,De hydrargyro tentamen physico-chemico-medicum, parsprior (all published) (Vindobonae [Vienna]: extypographia Trattneriana, 1754); a plan and two viewsof Canterbury (London c.1707); a map intended toillustrate the threatened invasion of England byMembershipIn July 2005 there were approximately 700 members ofthe Friends.VolunteersrightBill Wyman,former bass playerwith the RollingStones, on his visitto the Library inMay 2005.Our loyal team of volunteers again staffed the salesdesk in the Library’s Entrance Hall, which opened forbusiness on every weekday in the run-up toChristmas and on Thursdays throughout the year,excepting January. Members of the same team,assisted by Mr Easterling and Professor A. W. F.

For individual donations of books and other items,the Committee is grateful to Mr A. J. C. Bainton,Dr P. W. Hawkes, Dr W. M. Keynes, Dr M. G.Morrison, Dr A. M. Nicholls and Mr D. G. Chandler,Dr T. P. Underhill, Mr M. Vorberg, Mr J. D. Wells andDr P. N. R. Zutshi. The Committee thanks all Friends,in particular life members, who have madecontributions in excess of the basic subscription.27Arnald ofVillanova, Le tresordes pouvres (Lyon1527). Purchasedwith assistancefrom the Friends ofthe Library, 2005.Bonaparte (London 1804); a plan of the city ofNorwich, drawn by J. Ninham, engraved by T. Smith([Norwich] 1802); the autograph full score of theoratorio ‘The Shunammite’ by George Garrett; alithographic print of the full score of the operetta ‘Thecatch of the season’ (music by Herbert Edgar Hainesand Evelyn Baker) with the words in Hungarian,under the title ‘A Bálkirá lyné’ (Budapest 1907); anddiaries, correspondence and papers of John Goodland(1919-1978), editor and conservationist. In addition tothese purchases the Panel made contributionstowards the purchase of Sebastian a Matre Dei,Firmamentum symbolicum, in quo Deiparæ elogia …(Lublini: Sumptibus Georgii Forsteri, 1652), andArnald of Villanova (d.1311), Le tresor des pouvres: selonmaistre Arnoult de villenove, maistre Gerard de solo, etplusieurs aultres Docteurs en medicine de Montpellier,Nouvellement imprime et corrige (Lyon: Claude Nourry,1527). In addition to expenditure by the FinancialPanel, at its meeting on 10 December 2004 theCommittee approved a contribution of £1,000 towardsthe cost of purchasing Johannes Dryander, Anatomiae,hoc est, corporis humani dissectionis pars prior…(Marburg 1537). Donations received in memory of SirAlan Cook were also contributed to the cost of thisvolume, exemplifying as it does the field of the historyof science in which Sir Alan took so strong an interest.Activities2004-2005 saw a busy and varied programme ofactivities. The year’s set of speaker meetings wasinitiated by John Kerrigan after the Annual GeneralMeeting on 20 November 2004, with a talk entitled‘Changing the geopolitics: Shakespeare to Defoe’.On 24 November the eminent conservator NicholasPickwoad spoke of his experiences working on ‘Alittle known library in Ulster: a look at the DerryDiocesan Library’. Mr Ben Barkow gave an accountof the founding, history and collections of aremarkable specialist library on 23 February 2005, ina talk on ‘The Wiener Library: a German Jewishresponse to the Holocaust’. On 2 March Dr AlisonPearn, of the Darwin Correspondence Project basedin the Library, gave a talk entitled ‘“You can’t getthere from here”: editing the correspondence ofCharles Darwin’. An interesting overview of anotherspecialist library in London was provided on 14 Mayby Mr Bernard Nurse, who spoke on ‘The Library ofthe Society of Antiquaries of London: three centuriesof collecting’.A musical element was added to the Friends’programme on 16 March 2005, in the form of a pianorecital by Mrs Lindesay Dixon, featuring works byBach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt. The event wasorganised in conjunction with Trinity College MusicSociety, and took place in Trinity College Chapel. Weare extremely grateful to Mrs Dixon for putting hertalents at the service of the Friends.The Friends’ link with the Library’s ExhibitionCentre was emphasised by three events during thecourse of the year. On Saturday 4 December 2004,towards the close of the ‘Writing Poetry’ exhibition,Professor James Diggle, Professor Peter J. Lucas, DrDavid Money and Mr John Wells gave a reading ofpoems derived from manuscripts featured theexhibition, with introductions and translations.Friends were invited to attend a reception held on 24January 2005 to mark the opening of ‘All GoodFriends’, an exhibition highlighting the supportgiven to the Library by the Friends in the course oftheir first quarter-century. On 30 July, to mark theopening of the major medieval manuscript

28Sebastian a MatreDei, Firmamentumsymbolicum (Lublin1652). Purchasedwith assistancefrom the Friends ofthe Library, 2005.exhibition ‘The Cambridge Illuminations’, Dr StellaPanayotova of the Fitzwilliam Museum gave anillustrated talk on the themes of the exhibition,illustrated by slides of some of the treasures on show.The social highlight of the Friends’ year wasundoubtedly the 25th Anniversary Party held inTrinity College on 1 July 2005. The evening beganwith a display of rare books and manuscripts in theWren Library, with musical entertainment from‘Byrd Song’ consisting of music from the age ofWren. Drinks and a buffet supper were then servedon the Bowling Green, the Fellows’ private garden,noted for its magnificent herbaceous border and aterrace with fine views overlooking the river. We aregrateful to our President, Dr McKitterick, and toProfessor Foot of the Committee, for making thisevent possible.ObituaryWe record with regret the deaths of the followingmembers: Dame Rosemary Murray, Mr B. Blackwood,and Miss J. Smith.ABBREVIATIONSCURLHEFCEJISCLDAPLIBERMITNHSRCSRLGSCONULConsortium of University Research LibrariesHigher Education Funding Council for EnglandJoint Information Systems Committee (of the higher education funding councils)Legal Deposit Advisory PanelLigue des Bibliothèques Européennes de RechercheMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyNational Health ServiceRoyal Commonwealth SocietyResearch Libraries GroupSociety of College, National and University Libraries

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