Expressions of confidence in the quality of the Library's services and collections came from quite distinct and varied sources during the year.
In March 2008 the Higher Education Funding Council for England published its Review of HEFCE funding for research libraries, a report prepared by Professor Sir Ivor Crewe, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex. The purpose of the review was to examine the level of special funding that is provided to a small number of library collections of exceptional importance, including Cambridge University Library, which are heavily used by academic staff and research students from other universities. The report's specific comments on Cambridge were highly complimentary, noting that
the scale, distinction and uniqueness of the Cambridge University Library collection are reflected in the quality of the services and facilities it offers external users. Particularly strong features include the complete digitisation of, and thus remote on-line access to, the main catalogue…, the almost complete digitisation of the manuscript catalogue (at the collection level), the ambitious rolling programme of digitisation of special collections and the extensive volume of e-journal subscriptions. The immensity of CUL's holdings restricts open access to about 30% of its collection but this is mitigated by an on-line advance ordering system and a rapid fetching time (18 minutes). Comment from external users in the consultation was overwhelmingly positive (all 46 user-respondents rated it 'excellent' or 'good').
The report recommended that 'HEFCE should designate the libraries of Cambridge, LSE, Manchester, Oxford and SOAS as National Research Libraries, entitled to renewable long-term supplementary funding in return for a specified and periodically assessed quality of provision and collaboration in national strategic programmes for collections development and services.' It also noted that the current level of special funding fell well short of the actual cost of providing services to external users and that, therefore, those users were being subsidized by the five institutions with major library collections, but, regrettably, failed to recommend that HEFCE should increase this funding to meet the actual costs.
Closer to home, in October 2007 the General Board of the Faculties set up a committee to review teaching and learning support services in the University. The review principally concerned activities currently carried out by the University Library (UL), the Computing Service (UCS), the Language Centre, the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET), as well as the co-ordination of pedagogic support. The purpose of the review was to examine the University's provision for the support of teaching and learning, and to make recommendations for the future provision of such support to ensure that Cambridge is at the forefront of teaching and learning in a period of rapid change. It recommended that the University Library's role should be expanded and that it should become responsible for the provision and dissemination of electronic materials for teaching and learning across the University. The report noted that 'The UL can provide the structure necessary for the management of all content. The UL could oversee and focus innovation in CARET and the Language Centre without restricting the ability of the smaller organisations to manoeuvre. In this way, the UL would co-ordinate the development and maintenance of the necessary pedagogic support to be delivered over the networks maintained by the UCS.' In order to achieve this, it recommended that, following the retirement in March 2009 of the present University Librarian, the role of the Librarian 'should be rapidly developed to become de facto Director of Library Services to oversee the broader remit of all the University libraries in pedagogic support'.
The third expression of support came in the form of a munificent donation of £500,000 from the Arcadia Trust. The principal condition attached to the gift was that it should be 'transformational'. The donor recognized that the Library was wrestling with issues that are affecting all academic libraries: how to communicate with students, both physically and virtually, in their preferred modes, whether that be through a laptop, iTunes, Facebook or something not yet invented. The University Library's response to the challenge laid down by the donor was to propose that the bulk of the grant be used to support a Fellowship programme which would explore the role of academic libraries in a digital age, create new programmes and services, particularly for undergraduates, and lead the transformation in academic library services by helping to prepare a new generation of librarians to meet the demands of the 'Amazoogle Generation'. This proposal was greeted with enthusiasm and by the summer of 2008 the first Arcadia Fellow was in post.
The findings and outputs of the programme, which is guided by John Naughton, Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, will be shared with the academic library community worldwide. The first project is an initiative to increase access to, and knowledge of, scientific electronic resources through the creation of a web-based portal, science@cambridge. This is intended to help users discover, search across, and improve their use of scientific e-resources, and acknowledges that for many of those working in contemporary science the library is now largely a 'virtual' resource. Users want prompt access to electronic information from their desktop, and to tools that help them navigate through the vast number of sources available. Science@cambridge will draw users into a virtual library space with online real-time help being made available from library subject experts, alongside assistance on using the resources. The service will go live at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term 2008.
Fourthly, following several months of discussions, the donation of the hugely important Montaigne collection assembled by Gilbert de Botton acknowledged the Library's reputation as a place that could provide suitably secure and environmentally sound storage for the collection as well as complementary research resources and an attractive working environment for scholars. De Botton, who died in 2000, was a scholar and financier, whose life's ambition was to recreate Montaigne's library, either by buying the writer's personal copies where these could be obtained, or other copies of works known to have belonged to or been read by him. The collection, comprising some 1,400 works, includes ten books from Montaigne's own library, including his heavily annotated copy of Lucretius' De rerum natura of 1563. There is also a fine set of early printed editions of Montaigne's works, including copies owned by Ben Jonson, Napoleon I, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as modern editions and a substantial body of secondary literature. The majority of the collection will be housed in the newly created 'Montaigne Room' in the Munby Rare Books Reading Room.
Following the announcement of funding through HEFCE's Capital Investment Framework (CIF), approval was given for the construction of the final stage (Phase 6) of the extension to the West Road building, which will provide a further 30 km of storage space and release one complete floor of the West Bookstack (5 km of shelving) for open-access collections. By the end of the reporting year, the design team had reached an advanced stage of planning, and it was expected that work on site would begin in the Michaelmas Term 2008, with completion due early in 2010.
In May 2008 the Library was honoured by a visit from His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who saw a display of materials from the Royal Commonwealth Society's collections and unveiled a plaque in the Commonwealth Room. Those attending the event, which was hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, included the Lord Lieutenant, the Mayor of Cambridge, Mr David Howarth (MP for Cambridge), Sir Patrick Sheehy (Chairman of the Appeal to Save the Royal Commonwealth Society Library for the Nation), Mr Stuart Mole (Director General of the Royal Commonwealth Society), members of the Library's Visiting Committee, students and staff from the Commonwealth, and members of the University's academic staff with research interests in Commonwealth studies. The visit also provided an opportunity to launch an online show featuring highlights from the RCS photograph gallery which became a regularly changing feature of the Library's website throughout the summer.
During the year the Librarian announced his intention to retire with effect from 31 March 2009, and the University put in place procedures for the choosing of a successor.
The Library Syndicate wishes to place on record its warmest thanks to Mr Peter Fox for his vision and leadership during the fifteen years that he will have served as University Librarian. During this time he has made a remarkable contribution in the enhancement of the Library's world-class collections, in the development of innovative and forward-looking library services, and in the expansion of the Library's physical space. Much of what has been achieved in recent years is, moreover, the direct result of his success in fundraising for both buildings and service initiatives. Mr Fox will retire at a time when the national and international reputation of the University Library is higher than ever, and the University owes him a very considerable debt of gratitude.
(Professor Richard Hunter, Chairman)
Use of electronic resources continued to rise at a staggering rate, not just in the sciences and technology. A 41% increase in the number of downloaded articles was recorded, with the JSTOR and ScienceDirect packages being by far the most heavily used. Cambridge is the heaviest user of ScienceDirect in the UK. The two electronic journals most in demand were, hardly surprisingly, Nature and Science, followed by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Cambridge Law Journal.
In a major enhancement to information provision in support of research and teaching in the sciences and social sciences the University Library subscribed to Elsevier's Scopus database. Developed in conjunction with researchers to provide an easily navigated single entry-point to the world's scientific information, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database for the sciences and social sciences. Containing 33 million abstracts, it covers 15,000 peer-reviewed journals, including open-access titles and conference proceedings. It also indexes 386 million scientific web pages, including 22 million patents from five patent offices, an area for which existing provision was lacking.
As resources permit, the Library is purchasing full electronic backfiles of major journals. During the year the most significant of these were the complete Nature Archives which provides online access from the first issue of the journal in 1869 to the present, and the backfiles of over 1,700 journals in the Springer Online Archives Collection.
The Legal Deposit Advisory Panel, of which the University Librarian is a member and which reports to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport, prepared recommendations for the legal deposit of offline electronic publications (such as CD-ROMs) and publications available freely on the web. For the former, it was felt that, as the market was relatively small, and declining, a voluntary deposit scheme was sufficient to meet the needs of the legal deposit libraries and regulations were not appropriate. The situation for web publications was quite different. A pilot scheme had been run, which involved seeking permission from the publishers to download such material. The response rate had been poor and it was clear to the Panel that legislation would be needed if such material was to be harvested by the legal deposit libraries for long-term preservation and access. Both of these recommendations are expected to be considered by the Secretary of State during 2008-09.
The receipt of printed legal deposit books and journals remains a major area of activity for all the legal deposit libraries, and, despite projections of 'the death of the book', there is still no sign of a reduction in print publication, at least as far as monographs are concerned. The Bookseller reported that the number of books published in the UK in 2007 was almost identical to that of the previous year at around 115,000 titles. During the year, the five libraries which administer the Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries agreed that the Agency would move from its current location in central London and would be based at the National Library of Scotland's premises in Edinburgh from early 2009. The planning for this move occupied much time and involved not just Library staff but also the University's Legal Services, the Human Resources Division, and the Estate Management and Building Service.
The volatility of sterling against the dollar and the euro indicates the impact that exchange rates can have on the Library's ability to meet its readers' needs. Since a significant proportion of English language purchasing is of items priced in US dollars, that currency's relative weakness against sterling during the year was greatly to the Library's advantage, and a record number of English language books (about 12,000) were ordered, especially from US publishers. However, that advantage was offset by the strengthening of the euro during the financial year, with the result that the number of French and German books purchased was about 2,500 fewer than in the previous year.
Most book purchases are initiated by Library staff but readers are also encouraged to submit recommendations. The newly introduced facility of an online recommendation form is clearly a service that meets the needs of the academic community and this year the number of reader recommendations increased by 45% to almost 1,500.
Since 1998 the University Library, along with the other legal deposit libraries, has received an annual snapshot from Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (OS) of its large scale map data. Mapping at these scales was originally received under legal deposit in paper form and then microfilm, resulting in comprehensive collections of these detailed maps in the legal deposit libraries. Since 1998, however, prompted by the shift away from the conventional printing of maps towards a print-on-demand service from digital data, OS have voluntarily deposited annual snapshots to enable the legal deposit libraries to continue to maintain their valuable mapping archive in the digital age. The data format is a complex one which required the libraries to develop new software for viewing it. This has now been installed in the Map Room, where the data can be viewed on a dedicated PC and it is possible to take colour printouts which can be centred on any location, to compare two maps of different date side by side, to zoom and pan, to turn contours and grid lines on or off, and to measure distance. The same software can also be used to view detailed Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland mapping, of which several snapshots have been received since 2004.
Two important collections of archives were donated during the year. The most substantial was that of the publishing firm Chadwyck-Healey Ltd and associated companies, presented by the new owners at the instigation of the company's founder, Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey. These papers chart the entire history of the Cambridge based company Chadwyck-Healey Ltd, publisher of scholarly reference and full-text materials, from its foundation in 1973 until its sale in 1999. Sir Charles generously funded the cataloguing of the archive before its transfer to the Library. In May 2008 Dr Rosemary Summers presented to the Library the archives of the composer Roberto Gerhard. The first part of the archive was placed on deposit in the Library in 1971, and since then much further material has been added. It comprises over 300 holograph manuscripts, several hundred letters, photographs, much other supporting documentation, and his library of books and music. Discussions are under way with the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona on the digitization of some of the Gerhard archive, particularly the sound recordings.
With the agreement of the Law Library Sub-Syndicate the Squire embarked on a collaborative venture with the Bodleian Law Library and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library to rationalize holdings of the US National Reporter System. It was agreed that each library would retain certain important US Reporter series whilst dividing the other Reporters between the three libraries, ensuring that one set is retained within the United Kingdom. The three libraries would then offer a free document delivery service between them so that case material could be transferred efficiently on request. This arrangement will save approximately $15,000 a year for the Squire, which will be redirected to building up other parts of the comparative law collection.
Bought with the assistance of the Friends of the Library:
Bought with the assistance of the Friends of the Library:
Bought with the assistance of the Friends of the Library:
Received on deposit:
During the Easter Term 2008, the Library launched eresources@cambridge, a new service which provides users with seamless access to the University's growing collection of subscribed electronic resources. Users can search for article citations and full-text resources by using CrossSearch, a new service which makes it possible to carry out a simultaneous search of over 300 key resources, including Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and major e-journal providers.
The electronic journals service, ejournals@cambridge, was enhanced with the provision of expanded search options including the ability to view all the e-journals to which the University Library subscribes from a particular publisher. Citation searches are also available, enabling searches to be run by article title, author, date, volume, issue, and page numbers. In addition, when searching abstracting and indexing databases such as Google Scholar, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and Web of Science, links to Cambridge holdings of e-journals can be found alongside article citations.
A collection of gadgets, toolbars, and other plug-ins that can operate alongside the Newton catalogue and electronic resources was made available to members of the University and Library readers. These include search plug-ins for iGoogle and Opensearch compatible browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer. A fully featured toolbar for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox is also available, allowing complex searches to be conducted away from the catalogue interface.
The introduction of online loan renewals has been very successful, resulting in an overall increase in borrowing figures. About 77% of renewals were carried out online during the year. Statistics for recalled items indicate that readers have renewed faith in the effectiveness of the system to retrieve books that they need from other users, with 30,155 items recalled in the past twelve months, compared to 17,474 in the previous year.
The number of enquiries received by letter, fax, and email continued to increase, and the Library Syndicate approved an enquiry policy which codified and clarified the existing informal arrangements. This policy sets out priorities for response in respect of the status and location of the enquirer and the subject of enquiry, lists categories of enquiry which will not be answered, and advertises the level of service which can be expected. Enquiries are now directed to an online form which allows information about the status of the enquirer to be obtained and facilitates the direction of enquiries to the most appropriate department.
The online application form for admission to the Library was introduced during the autumn of 2007 and has been received very positively, with about 15% of applications now being made by this method.
In August 2007 the Inter-Library Loans Department began trial use of the IFLA voucher scheme, which, at a cost of **L333**8 per voucher, eliminates invoices and bank charges. Previously, items not available in UK libraries had been requested via the British Library, which offered an increasingly slow and expensive service, with charges of £47 for the supply of a photocopy and £50 for a loan.
The experiment of 'fast-tracking' the processing of specific categories of books received under legal deposit was successful and has resulted in many academic items being available to readers much sooner than before. Approximately 16,000 books were processed during the year using the 'fast-track' procedure, which represents an increase of around 50% in the number of legal-deposit books made available during the year for readers' use.
The work of the Tower Project, which is creating electronic catalogue records for nineteenth century books stored in the tower and is funded by a $1m grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, continued to attract widespread interest. On Valentine's Day 2008 The Guardian published a piece based on the collection, entitled 'The secret love lives of the Victorians', and the Daily Telegraph also carried a feature on the project. During the year the project staff catalogued 38,030 volumes and added the records to the Newton catalogue; the books are also cleaned and checked for damage before being returned to the tower.
Work continued on making the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) collections more accessible, using funding from the RCS appeal released by the Trustees. In total, records for 275 RCS manuscript collections and 729 photograph collections are now accessible through Janus, the Cambridge archives database. Those completed this year included papers and photographs of Cuthbert Christy (1863-1932), explorer and zoologist; the Kenya diaries and letters of Arnold Paice (1879-1963), tea trader and farmer; T. O. Fraser's Notes on the Boer War; and the 1838 journal of Major General William Napier. Significant progress was made with the rare Blue Books and locally published government publications; almost 18,000 items, representing 300 metres of shelving, have now been cleaned, boxed, and catalogued. Two RCS African collections were microfilmed for publication by Adam Matthew Publications as part 5 of Africa through Western Eyes.
Cataloguing of the very substantial archive of the writer Hammond Innes, acquired a few years ago, was completed, and the papers of Lord Butterfield, former Regius Professor of Physic, and Neil Wiseman (computer scientist, 1934-95) were catalogued for the Library by the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists at the University of Bath. The project to catalogue the archives of University clubs and societies, part-funded by a grant from the Gladys Kreble Delmas Foundation of New York, proceeded on schedule and was due for completion during the summer of 2008. Work continued on the two catalogues of medieval manuscripts that are planned for publication in the near future, with a proposal for the Catalogue of medieval additional manuscripts being submitted to a publisher and descriptions for the Catalogue of medieval illuminated and decorated manuscripts reaching a late stage of revision.
Thanks to a collaborative project with the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, five of the Islamic manuscript catalogues are now available online through that institution's website, reproduced photographically from the printed catalogues produced in the early part of the twentieth century. This has opened up these collections to a wider audience but must be regarded merely as a stopgap until resources can be found to undertake full online cataloguing of the Library's important collection of Islamic manuscripts. John Tait, Professor of Egyptology at UCL donated a manuscript catalogue of the Ostraca Collection which he had compiled over many years but which remains unpublished. This is a most valuable resource describing a formerly uncatalogued collection.
The Genizah Research Unit continued to work closely with the Friedberg Genizah Project and to receive generous funding from it for research. Negotiations for a major digitization programme funded from the same source have almost been concluded. The Friedberg Online Research Platform, a portal to catalogues and tools for Genizah research and likely to become the single most important online destination for Genizah researchers, relies heavily upon the work of the Cambridge Unit. All but the most recent of the Unit's catalogues, handlists, and bibliographies have been digitized and made accessible through the Project's website.
The eighteen-month project to digitize and describe 1,000 fragments from the Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection was successfully concluded, with delivery of the digitized material to the British Library, where the images and associated metadata will be displayed on the Endangered Archives website in due course. The project was supported by the Endangered Archives Programme, funded by the Arcadia Trust.
In June 2008 Anglia TV broadcast, as part of its Closer to Home series, a sequence about the Library's map collections and the refurbishment of the Map Department, which included some of the treasures from the collection and an interview with the Head of the Map Department.
From August 2007 to March 2008 the Map Department operated in cramped conditions in the West Room whilst its reading room was being refurbished. The refurbishment was part-funded by a grant from the Wolfson Foundation under its CURL Library Programme. The changes to the Map Room, which had been largely unaltered since it opened in 1934, are dramatic, and the new environment was described by a grateful regular reader in an email as 'a joy to work in, with excellent light, table space, power supply, comfortable chairs, and of course your usual efficient and friendly staff'. The Map Room was officially opened on 13 June 2008 by Dr Vanessa Lawrence, Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, in the presence of around 50 invited guests from the University, Library, and the local and national cartographic community.
At the Medical Library, the year was dominated by preparations for the major refurbishment project, also part-funded by a grant from the Wolfson Foundation under the CURL Library Programme. The design provides for a new IT study area on the upper floor, replacing journal stacks; and on the lower floor a completely rebuilt reception area, new staff offices, and the creation of two new small seminar rooms and an IT training room (these latter three rooms all available to the Library and also bookable as part of the Clinical School's teaching accommodation). At the School's request the upper floor IT area was designed as a dual-purpose room to serve both as a general study area and, when the need arose, as an examination room for computer-based assessments. In planning the staff offices and reception area, the Library staff have taken the opportunity to review work flows and the functions of service delivery points, while also preparing to absorb a reduction in the amount of office space. Construction work began on site at the end of June 2008 and is scheduled for completion in mid-November 2008.
The decision to convert journal stacks in the Medical Library into an IT study area was seen as an important step towards implementing that Library's strategic objective of greater reliance on the use of e-journals in place of printed resources. Freeing the space required for the new IT area meant the loss of about 1,000 metres of shelving, and a large-scale survey of journal usage was undertaken in order to identify low-use dead titles that could be considered for removal. Titles duplicated elsewhere in Cambridge were disposed of and those for which there were no other copies in Cambridge were either retained in the Medical Library, transferred to the Central Science Library or placed in a temporary store until a long-term decision was made on their future. From the responses to the survey, it was clear that the majority of users of the Medical Library were quite content with these arrangements, but the decision to remove some titles, albeit on a temporary basis, raised concerns among historians of medicine. Given the widespread expectation, particularly in the sciences, that e-journals will replace printed collections, it is a matter of some urgency for the University to agree on a policy that recognizes both the needs of long-term scholarship and the realities of economically sustainable retention practices. This is a matter that the University as a whole will have to grapple with over the next few years, as Heads of Science Departments are increasingly likely to see the space occupied by unused back-runs of print journals in departmental libraries as space that could be released for other purposes.
In Michaelmas Term 2007 the Library Syndicate established a review group under the chairmanship of Professor John Bell, Chairman of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, to make recommendations on the future of the Central Science Library (CSL). This review was precipitated by the decline in use of the physical library space and an acknowledgement that the current accommodation is no longer fit for purpose, either for the provision of library services or the adequate storage of material. The report of the review group recommended that long-term plans for the physical library should form part of the New Museums Site development plans, but it was agreed that a number of short-term recommendations would be implemented. These included investigation of alternative forms of document delivery for CSL material which is currently fetched from closed access, a comprehensive audit to assess what CSL material is unique in Cambridge and what is unique nationally, and closure of the library on Saturdays. Staff have also been identifying new ways of promoting the library as a physical space and planning services offered to virtual users through the medium of web 2.0 technologies like Facebook.
The physical relocation of print journal sequences from the West Road building to the Betty and Gordon Moore Library, which started last year, continued, with several titles being transferred each week. A further 195 titles, representing 2,928 bound volumes, were transferred. This major project was completed in March 2008. Binding of these journal sequences continued to place pressure on the limited binding budget, and it was decided that journals in the Moore Library and Central Science Library which were available electronically would no longer be bound, although binding of print-only titles would continue. Income saved will be used for the purchase of monographs.
With the aim of consolidating the holdings of recent physical sciences material at the Moore Library, the transfer of about 3,500 monographs from the West Road building to the Moore took place during the summer of 2008. The material comprises recent (post-2000) monographs in statistics, astronomy, geophysics, meteorology, mathematics, computing, and physics.
These moves enabled an extensive re-spacing exercise to take place on the South Front and South Wing of the West Road building to restore books to the shelves and return the tables for readers' use. The subject areas stored on the North side of the building did not lend themselves to similar transfer, but as these areas were also so overcrowded that they were close to unusable, the Library Syndicate decided to move some older books into closed access to provide space for newer titles to be shelved in a satisfactory way. This process began early in 2008 and will continue into the following year.
The programme to replace the 1970s mobile cases in the West Bookstack with state-of-the-art, easily maintained mobile shelving was completed on schedule in August 2008. This project, funded by HEFCE's SRIF3 Programme involved the removal, in carefully planned stages, of about two million volumes, without any visible sign of disruption to service, a magnificent achievement by the Collection Management staff.
The final year of SRIF funding for public PCs saw a major programme of equipment replacement in the West Road building and the Betty and Gordon Moore Library. The Squire Law Library was entirely re-equipped, and all 30 PCs in the Wolfson Suite at the Medical Library were replaced. A further 73 were acquired to equip the new IT Research Suite in the Medical Library.
New catalogue PCs were installed in the South Wing of the West Road building, and this provision will be extended to the North Wing when the new wiring has been installed and table space again becomes available.
Information about new services, exhibitions, classes in research skills, etc., is now provided via digital display screens at various locations in the West Road building.
The Library's Health and Safety Committee met once a term and its minutes were reviewed by the Senior Management Team. A rolling, in-house, manual-handling training course is carried out, and a total of 85 staff have now been trained.
Work continued on the conservation of the fragments from the Jacques Mosseri Genizah collection, deposited in the Library in 2005, and a further 466 were completed, bringing the total to 1,315, out of an estimated 7,000. The manuscripts' extremely poor state of preservation has meant that work has proceeded more slowly than expected, but the rate of progress has increased and is expected to increase further. The first two volumes containing the conserved and digitized documents have been bound. Concern for the condition of some of the inks in which the manuscript fragments are written has meant that research has had to be undertaken to determine possible consolidation materials and methods. As a result, a special dosing device to be used for the treatment of the flaking inks has been acquired.
The Mosseri collection contains a letter with a seal still attached. The survival of such an artefact is very rare, and, while it remains largely intact, it is crumbling and very fragile. Before the necessary consolidation of this seal could be carried out, elemental analysis was carried out at the Hamilton Kerr Institute to confirm its composition. The analysis established that the seal was made of clay, and research into the most appropriate treatment for this material is now underway.
As the Royal Commonwealth Society collections are being sorted and catalogued, metal fastenings are being removed, acidic files and boxes replaced with acid-free ones, and fragile pages sleeved in inert clear plastic. Conservation work on the important British Association of Malaysia photograph collection was completed, and the collection has now been sleeved, conserved, and re-boxed. Nine tightly rolled photographic panoramas, in very poor condition, were taken to Museum Conservation Services, Duxford, where they are being treated by a specialist photographic conservator to enable them to be safely unrolled.
Following the appointment of a new Head of Science Information Services, a programme of meetings with the Heads of Departments in the Schools of Physical Sciences, the Biological Sciences, and Technology was initiated. Feedback from these helped to determine policy on the provision of information services in the sciences and will continue to do so. They have been welcomed by the academic staff as evidence of the University Library's desire to find better ways of understanding and responding to the needs of all its users, not just those who use the physical buildings on a regular basis but also those hundreds who rarely, if ever, set foot in the Library but who use its electronic services on a daily basis. Following concerns raised by some Departments, Science Library staff have begun a review of the funding options that the University might wish to adopt in relation to open-access publishing models.
In an attempt to provide better strategic representation of the various bodies with an interest in the Medical Library, the Library Syndicate has begun to investigate the possibility of replacing the Medical Library Sub-syndicate with a new body, provisionally entitled the Medical Library Policy Advisory Group. This would have explicit responsibility for the Medical Library's policy and strategic planning, with an invited membership representative of senior management in the University Library, the Clinical School, the NHS, and the Medical Research Council. To complement the Policy Group a User Advisory Panel has been formed, consisting of volunteers from a cross-section of the Medical Library's readership. The Panel is essentially a virtual body relying on communication by email, and members are invited to contribute their opinions and advice in response to questions regarding the library's day-to-day operations and services.
With a full complement of staff in place, the DSpace@Cambridge team were able to create a strategy for the institutional repository, drawing up policies and licences with support from the University's Legal Services, and launching a new DSpace@Cambridge support website. They also visited existing DSpace@Cambridge users to acquire feedback on their experience with the service in order to inform future developments. New services included mediated deposit of scholarly publications for academic departments and Citations@Cambridge, a publication database where metadata is available but, as yet, the full-text articles are not.
The Scott Polar Research Institute deposited the output from their Freeze Frame project in the DSpace repository. Currently five collections have been imported (228 images) and this number is expected to increase throughout the year. The Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, and the Cambridge eScience Centre were established as DSpace communities; the latter has deposited the output from the CamGrid seminar of 2008 and their departmental papers. The Faculty of English Scriptorium project has deposited fifteen digitized manuscripts. For the Department of Archaeology a collection of scholarly papers has been set up and the repository has made available the Nostratic Dictionary for the McDonald Institute. A significant number of additional departments are in the process of discussing deposit of material in DSpace, including Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Experimental Psychology, Philosophy, and Veterinary Medicine.
The DSpace team contributed a case study to the JISC report Keeping research data safe, which investigated the medium- to long-term costs to universities of the preservation of research data. The Library continued to be a partner in two JISC repository projects relating to DSpace@Cambridge: CTREP - Cambridge Tetra Repositories Enhancement Project (with CARET) - and FAR - Federated Access to Repositories (with the London School of Economics). The latter was successfully completed in July 2008.
The SPECTRa-T (Submission Preservation Exposure of Chemistry Teaching and Research Data from Theses) project, funded by JISC's Digital Repositories Programme as a joint project between Cambridge University Library and the Chemistry Departments of the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, came to a successful conclusion in March 2008. It was designed as a proof-of-concept approach to develop software to extract automatically chemical terms and objects contained within electronic theses. Much of the experimental data generated by postgraduate researchers in Chemistry and related Departments are conventionally reported in theses, and much of this is not communicated in peer-reviewed publication to the scientific community in an appropriate form. The project demonstrated that it was possible to identify organic chemical terms and to extract and deposit these automatically in a suitable repository.
During the Easter Term 2008 the Library hosted the art project Powerhouse by Bettina Furnée, that term's Artist in Residence at Kettles' Yard. The project consisted of an eight-week long word association game, which started with the first word 'Powerhouse'. Each chosen word was displayed on an LED screen in the West Road building Entrance Hall, with a second smaller screen in the Tea Room, and over the eight-week term many students, staff, and readers engaged with the project. It was an unusual project and the installation became an interesting focus without intruding on or negatively affecting regular Library business.
'Through the whole island: excursions in Great Britain'
July-December 2007
Prepared by Mr Wells, and opened by Mr Nicholas Crane
'Living at this hour: John Milton 1608-2008'
January-July 2008
Prepared by Mr Wells, and opened by the Rt Hon. The Earl Howe
The receptions for the opening ceremonies were generously sponsored by Cambridge University Press.
'100 years ago today: a miscellany from 1907'
August-September 2007
Prepared by Dr Dourish
'Archives of the Cambridge Greek Play'
September-October 2007
Prepared by Mrs Lacey
'Medieval psalters, prayer books, and books of hours'
November 2007-January 2008
A display of facsimile editions
Prepared by Professor Nigel Morgan (Corpus Christi College)
'Conversation after conversation: creativity and collaboration in science'
Part of the University's Science Festival
February-April 2008
Prepared by Ms Sophie Bridges and Ms Sandra Marsh (Churchill Archives Centre), with Mr Perkins
'Living twice: Ian Fleming (1908-1964) and James Bond'
April-June 2008
Prepared by Ms Jones
'From Benjamin to Boris: politicians write fiction'
June-September 2008
Prepared by Mr Lees
Items from the Library's collections were loaned to the following exhibitions:
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne: 'The medieval imagination: illuminated manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia, and New Zealand'
New York Botanic Garden: 'Darwin's garden: an evolutionary adventure'
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: 'From reason to revolution: art and society in eighteenth century Britain'
Miss Valerie Phipps retired in April 2008 after over 35 years' service, including many in which she organized the annual Inspection.
Mr Donald Manning moved from the University Computing Service to become Head of Imaging Services, and Mr James Cauldwell came from the Bodleian Library in Oxford to become Deputy Head of Periodicals and Electronic Subscriptions Manager. Ms Yvonne Nobis was appointed to a new post of Head of Science Information Services, overseeing the Central Science Library and the Betty and Gordon Moore Library, and reporting to Mr Peter Morgan, whose role was expanded to cover Medical and Science Libraries. The DSpace@Cambridge team reached full strength with the appointments of Ms Elin Stangeland as Repository Manager and Mrs Barbara Bultmann as Support and Liaison Officer.
Dr Emily Dourish was awarded the M.A. in Library and Information Studies from University College London, with distinction; Ms Alexandra Fisher was presented with her City and Guilds Award in Library and Information Service, having achieved one distinction and three credits in the four written examinations; and Ms Deborah Farndell has now qualified as an Accredited Member of the Institute of Conservation.
Library staff and fellow Syndics were stunned by the sudden death in November 2007 of Professor Peter Lipton, who had become Chairman of the Library Syndicate the previous month. The death also occurred, in February 2008 at the age of 91, of Mr Norman Waddleton, Honorary Keeper of the Illustrated Printed Books and a major donor of colour-printed books over many years. Both of these supporters of the Library will be much missed.
The Munby Fellow for 2007-08 was Dr Andrea Worm, whose research topic was 'The study of medieval manuscript illumination in the eighteenth century: Jean Joseph Rive and his impact on France and England'.
With the donations from the Arcadia Trust, the Wolfson Foundation, and that of the Montaigne collection, together with a range of smaller gifts, the Library made a significant contribution towards the University's 800th Anniversary Campaign.
The first meeting of the new Visiting Committee took place in October 2007. This committee, composed of prominent individuals from outside the University's academic body, was established to consider how the Library might make itself more attractive to potential donors and to serve as a means whereby potential supporters could become more engaged with the Library's activities and goals. The donation from the Arcadia Trust was a splendid first fruit of the committee's activities.
A donation of $500,000 from an anonymous private benefactor, reported last year, arrived in August 2007 and was used to appoint a digitization and digital preservation specialist, who will have responsibility for ensuring that the digital information created in the University can be preserved for the use of future generations and for developing the Library's digitization strategy.
HEFCE's Capital Investment Framework and funding from the Cambridge University Press Special Fund allowed work to start on the final phase of the extension to the West Road building.
The acquisition of the OpenURL resolver and federated search software to enhance the users' experience of e-journal and database consultation were funded from the final tranche of HEFCE's Science Research Infrastructure and Project Capital funds, as was the upgrade of public IT facilities and the purchase of major hardware for DSpace, including 200TB of disk storage.
| 'The Chest' | £11,299,000 | |
| HEFCE Access Strand | Improving access to research collections | £566,000 |
| HEFCE SRIF 3 | Digital library infrastructure | £465,000 |
| HEFCE Project Capital 4 | Digital library infrastructure | £22,000 |
| Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | Part funding of staff in Japanese Department | £36,000 |
| Trust Funds | ||
| Sixth Earl of Enniskillen Fund | Acquisitions of books in specified subjects | £177,000 |
| Commonwealth Library Fund | Royal Commonwealth Society Library projects | £73,000 |
| Kaplanoff Fund | American studies material | £65,000 |
| Munby Memorial Fund | Munby Fellow in Bibliography | £27,000 |
| Smuts Memorial Fund | Part funding of Smuts Librarian for Commonwealth Studies | £19,000 |
| Oschinsky Fund | Support for research in medieval history | £16,000 |
| Wilson-Barkworth Fund | Special Collections material | £15,000 |
| Richard Tench Fund | Contribution towards Saturday afternoon opening | £14,000 |
| Gordon Duff Fund | Special Collections material | £9,000 |
| Rustat Fund | Special Collections material | £5,000 |
| External donations and grants (£5,000 and over) | ||
| Acquisitions | ||
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Electronic resources for the Squire Law Library | £27,000 |
| Friends of Cambridge University Library | Special Collections material | £26,000 |
| City Solicitors' Educational Trust | Text books, periodical subscriptions, and electronic resources for the Squire Law Library | £15,000 |
| Cambridge Law Journal | Purchases for the Squire Law Library | £14,000 |
| LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell | Purchases for the Squire Law Library | $22,000 |
| Special projects | ||
| Darwin Correspondence Project | ||
| John Templeton Foundation | £149,000 | |
| Isaac Newton Trust | £96,000 | |
| Cambridge University Press | £52,000 | |
| British Ecological Society | £20,000 | |
| American Council of Learned Societies | £20,000 | |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | £25,000 | |
| Natural Environment Research Council | £5,000 | |
| Genizah Research Unit | ||
| Arts and Humanities Research Council | £126,000 | |
| Friedberg Genizah Unit | £40,000 | |
| Mrs Mir Wieder bequest | £20,000 | |
| Grants to Medical Library | ||
| NHS East of England Strategic Health Authority | £139,000 | |
| Cambridge University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | £38,000 | |
| Medical Research Council | £35,000 | |
| Other | ||
| Arcadia Trust | Transforming library services | £500,000 |
| Wolfson Foundation | Map Room refurbishment | £350,000 |
| Anonymous donation | Digital preservation specialist | $500,000 |
| JISC | SPECTRa-T: Preservation of chemistry data | £96,000 |
| Matheson & Co. | Cataloguing/digitization of Matheson Collection | £53,000 |
| Professor N. J. Pounds | Bequest for Library Staff Welfare Fund (part) | £34,000 |
| British and Foreign Bible Society Bible Society | Library staff | £31,000 |
| Isaac Newton Trust | Manuscripts specialist | £23,000 |
| William Alwyn Foundation | William Alwyn Archive Cataloguing Project | £14,000 |
| Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation | Cataloguing of University Archives | $25,000 |
| Anstruther Literary Trust | Preservation assessment survey | £7,000 |
| Friends of Cambridge University Library | Exhibition costs | £5,000 |
| Blackwell's Book Services | Libraries@cambridge Day 2007 | £5,000 |
Library Syndicate Statistical Appendix, pp. 26-27| RICHARD HUNTER (Vice-Chancellor's Deputy) | IAN HUTCHINGS | MORAG STYLES |
| JOHN BELL | GORDON JOHNSON | LIBA TAUB |
| HARVEY DEV | PETER KORNICKI | JILL WHITELOCK |
| R. C. GLEN | D. J. MCKITTERICK | GOTTHELF WIEDERMANN |
| C. HANDSCOMB | JOHN MORRILL | DIANA F. WOOD |
| CHRISTOPHER HOWE | J. R. SPENCER |
Publications, papers presented, membership of committees
M. C. Allen
Committee membership
Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries, Management Committee
R. M. Andrewes
Committee membership
Bliss Trust (Trustee)
RISM (UK) Trust (Trustee and Treasurer)
RILM Technical Advisory Committee
William Alwyn Foundation (Trustee)
Cambridge University Musical Society (Vice President)
C. A. Aylmer
Paper presented
'Internet resources for Chinese studies', NCOLR Professional Development Seminar on Internet and Related Resources for Oriental Studies, Cambridge, September 2007
Committee membership
China Library Group, Periodicals Sub-Committee
J. Bloxham
Led a workshop on the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, known as the Stonyhurst Gospel, Guild of Book Workers, New York and Boston, October 2007 [with Kristine Rose]
I. M. Burke
Committee membership
IT Syndicate, Technical Sub-Committee
Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries IT Project Board
S. H. M. Cameron
Joint editor: Cambridge University Libraries Information Bulletin
M. J. Cardwell
Papers presented
'Arms in the Tower: nineteenth-century military history and fiction in the Tower Collection', Cambridge Bibliographic Society, February 2008
'Queen Mary's Indian Collection', South Asia Archive and Library Group Conference, Cambridge, June 2008
J. W. Caudwell
Committee membership
CILIP-British Library Committee on Resource Description and Access
ARLIS UK and Ireland Cataloguing and Classification Committee
E. M. Chamberlain
Paper presented
'New interfaces: the future of the OPAC at Cambridge', libraries@cambridge2008, January 2008
C. T. Clarkson
Committee membership
University's Disability Forum
A. Collins
Paper presented
'Making a virtue out of virtual communities: working electronically with an advisory panel of library users', European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Helsinki, June 2008 [with I. L. Kuhn and P. B. Morgan]
Committee membership
NHS Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance
Higher Education Health Librarians in the Eastern Region
Clinical School Building Safety and Users Committee
Clinical School Educational Resources Working Group
E. M. Coonan
Committee membership
Cambridge Library Group
J. Cox
Committee membership
Janus Steering Group (Chair)
Cantab Developers' Group (Chair)
Cambridge Archivists Group (Secretary)
Society for the History of the University (Secretary)
Society of Archivists Data Standards Group
Information Strategy Task Force
L. Dingle
'Conversations with Professor Sir Derek William Bowett: a contribution to the Squire Law Library Eminent Scholars Archive', Legal Information Management (2007) [with D. Bates]
'Eminent Scholars Archive at the Squire Law Library and Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge', Legal History and Rare Books Newsletter of the American Association of Law Libraries (2008) [with D. Bates and M. Martin]
'Eminent Scholars Archive', Cambridge Lawlink (2008) [with D. Bates and M. Martin]
Book reviews in Legal Information Management
Papers presented
'Where does international law come from?', Foreign and Commonwealth Law Course, Cambridge, September 2007
Committee membership
FLARE (Foreign Law Research Consortium)
Freshfields/Faculty of Law Liaison Committee
American Association of Law Libraries, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Advisory Committee
E. Dourish
Committee membership
Cambridge Bibliographical Society
P. K. Fox
'LIBER: past, present and future' Alexandria (2007)
'CURL: research libraries in the British Isles', in Digital convergence: libraries of the future, ed. by Rae Earnshaw and John Vince (London 2008)
Committee membership
LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries (Vice-President)
Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, Legal Deposit Advisory Panel
Curators of the University Libraries, University of Oxford
Joint Committee on Legal Deposit
Friends of the National Libraries, Executive Committee
National Preservation Office Board
International Editorial Board, Journal of Library Administration
P. J. Girling
Paper presented
'From data to discovery', libraries@cambridge2008, January 2008
L. J. Gray
Paper presented
'Raising the profile, changing the image: maintaining the value of libraries in the digital age', Library Staff Development Day, Cambridge, June 2008
Committee membership
International Group of Ex Libris Users, Steering Committee
libraries@cambridge2007 Planning Committee (Chair)
Cambridge Journals Advisory Group
W. A. Hale
'Hibernica from the Library at Florence Court', The National Trust historic houses and collections annual (2008)
Paper presented
'DCRM(B): a very short introduction', libraries@cambridge2008, January 2008
Committee membership
CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group, Bibliographic Standards Committee
S. J. Hills
University Library Staff Club (President)
Editor: University Library Readers' Newsletter
C. N. Hudson
University Vice-Marshal
R. C. Jamieson
Committee membership
Union Handlist of Manuscripts in North Indian Languages
National Committee for Information Resources on Asia, Automation Working Party
R. Jefferson
'Genizah marriage contracts: contrasting Biblical law and Halakhah with mediaeval practice' in A question of sex: gender and difference in the Hebrew Bible and beyond, ed. by Deborah W. Rooke (Sheffield 2007)
Editor: Genizah Fragments
Paper presented
'A Genizah secret', 1st International Conference on Genizah Studies, Cambridge, August 2007
B. Jenkins
Committee membership
English Short Title Catalogue, UK Committee
National Preservation Office, Preservation Advisory Panel
Brotherton Collection Advisory Committee
Cambridge University Joint Committee on Museums
H. E. Jones
'From data to discovery', libraries@cambridge2008, January 2008
Committee membership
libraries@cambridge Advisory Group
J. E. Kelly
Committee membership
British Association of American Studies, Library and Resources Sub-Committee (Secretary)
P. Killiard
Committee membership
JCLD/LDAP joint committee on e-journals
Legal Deposit Libraries Act Implementation Group
University Telephone Project Board
Library Syndicate (staff representative)
libraries@cambridge Advisory Group
Cambridge College Libraries Forum ebooks Group
N. Koyama
'Hei-on-Wai no koshoten to intanetto (Bookshops in Hay on Wye and the internet)', in Kanda Jibocho to Hei-on-Wai: kosho to machizukuri no hikaku shakaigaku (Kanda Jibocho and Hay on Wye: comparative sociological studies on antiquarian books and town planning), ed. by Tazuko Ouchi (Tokyo 2008)
Paper presented
'An introduction to the Kikutei manuscripts of Japanese music in the Lawrence Picken Collection at Cambridge University Library', 18th Annual Conference of the European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists, Rome, September 2007
Committee membership
Japan Library Group (Chair)
European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (Board Member)
I. L. Kuhn
Papers presented
'Making a virtue out of virtual communities: working electronically with an advisory panel of library users', European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Helsinki, June 2008 [with A. Collins and P. B. Morgan]
'Evaluating your training, a pragmatic approach: the East of England experience', Health Libraries Group Conference, Cardiff, July 2008 [with D. Lepley and P. Hockley]
Committee membership
Clinical School Educational IT Steering Group
NHS Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance
East of England Health Information Skills Trainers (Chair)
S. V. Lambert
Assistant Editor, The Indexer
D. K. Lowe
Committee membership
West European Studies Library and Information Network (Convenor)
French Studies Library Group
D. Manning
Paper presented
'Keep it on the straight and narrow', Library Staff Development Day, Cambridge, June 2008
Committee membership
National Preservation Office, Working Group on Preservation Microfilming
P. M. Meadows
'Pembroke Chapel, 1665-1880', Pembroke College Cambridge Society Annual Gazette (2007)
Committee membership
Cambridgeshire County Archives Advisory Group
Degree Sub-Committee for Master of Studies in Local and Regional History
S. Morcillo-García
Committee membership
Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources
P. B. Morgan
Project SPECTRa-T (Submission, Preservation, and Exposure of Chemistry Teaching and Research data in Theses): JISC final report (2008) [with A. Tonge]
'SPECTRa: the deposition and validation of primary chemistry research data in digital repositories', Journal of Chemistry Information Modeling (2008) [with others]
Papers presented
'Extracting and re-using research data from chemistry e-theses: the SPECTRa-T Project', 'Spreading the Light': 11th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Aberdeen, June 2008 [with others]
'Making a virtue out of virtual communities: working electronically with an advisory panel of library users', European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Helsinki, June 2008 [with I. L. Kuhn and A. Collins]
Committee and representative membership
Research Information Network, Librarianship and Information Science Consultative Group
University Health and Medical Librarians Group
NHS Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance
Higher Education Health Librarians in the Eastern Region
SHERPA Management Group
SPECTRa-T Project Steering Group
Clinical School/Addenbrooke's Hospital SIFT Liaison Group
Clinical School Building Safety and Users Committee
Clinical School Educational Resources Working Group
A. E. Murray
'Growing your own: developing leaders through succession planning', LIBER Quarterly: the Journal of European Research Libraries (2007)
Paper presented
'Growing your own: developing the next generation of leaders at Cambridge University Library', Irish National and University Library Staff Conference, Dublin, June 2008
Committee membership
LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries, Library Management and Administration Division (Secretary)
Research Libraries Group, Program Council
Research Libraries UK, Workforce Think-Tank
F. Niessen
'Genizah', in Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam, ed. by G.-'A. Haddād 'Ādel (Tehran 2007) (in Persian)
'A hospital handbook for the community: evidence for the extensive Use of Ibn Abī'l-Bayān's al-Dustūr al-bīmāristānī by the Jewish Practitioners of Medieval Cairo' [with L. Chipman and E. Lev], Journal of Semitic Studies (2008)
Papers presented
'Early Karaite grammatical thought as reflected in a commentary on Hosea', 1st International Conference on Genizah Studies, Cambridge, August 2007
'New Testament translations from the Cairo Genizah', Second International Congress on Eastern Christianity, Madrid, April 2008
Y. Nobis
Paper presented
'Get out of my (face) book', libraries@cambridge2008, January 2008
Committee membership
libraries@cambridge Advisory Group
W. A. Noblett
Book reviews in CILIP Rare Books Group Newsletter
B. M. Outhwaite
'Taylor-Schechter developments', Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library (2006-07)
Book review in Journal of Semitic Studies
Affiliated lecturer in Medieval and Rabbinic Hebrew, Faculty of Asian and Middle-Eastern Studies
Papers presented
'The Mosseri Collection today', 1st International Conference on Genizah Studies, Cambridge, August 2007
'The Mosseri Genizah Collection', Hebrew, Jewish, and Early-Christian Studies Seminar, Cambridge, March 2008
'The Mosseri Collection: a new Genizah at Cambridge', Newcastle Jewish Literary Society, March 2008
Committee membership
AHRC John Rylands Genizah Project, Advisory Board
A. J. Perkins
Committee membership
International Astronomical Union, Commission 41/Inter-Union Commission for History of Astronomy, Working Group on Astronomical Archives.
A. E. Pittock
Committee membership
libraries@cambridge Advisory Group
S. M. Preston
'The Colonial Blue Books: a major resource in the Royal Commonwealth Society Library', Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library (2006-07)
B. M. Rex
Committee membership
Italian Studies Library Group
K. Rose
Led a workshop on the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, known as the Stonyhurst Gospel, Guild of Book Workers, New York and Boston, October 2007 [with James Bloxam]
R. Rowe
Committee membership
South Asia Archive and Library Group (Chairman)
N. A. Smith
'Norman Waddleton', in A modest collection: Private Libraries Association, 1956-2006 (Pinner 2007)
Committee membership
Cambridge Bibliographical Society (Secretary)
Cambridge Museum of Technology (Treasurer)
C. Staufenbiel
Committee membership
German Studies Library Group (Treasurer)
A. E. M. Taylor
Editor, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library
Committee membership
British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Catalogue Systems (BRICMICS)
Charles Close Society Archives Sub-Committee
United Kingdom Cartography Committee
MapForum (Editorial Board member)
Cambridge Library Group (Membership Secretary)
J. R. H. Taylor
Paper presentated
'RDA: the current state of play', International Association of Music Libraries (UK and Ireland) Academic Librarians' Seminar, Birmingham, May 2008
Committee membership
Legal Deposit Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme, Steering Group (Chair)
RLG Union Catalog Advisory Group
Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (CILIP representative)
SUNCAT Bibliographic Quality Advisory Group
RLG Programs Working Group 'Implications of MARC Tag Usage on Library Metadata Practices'
E.-M. Wagner
Papers presented
'The weakening of the bourgeoisie: social changes mirrored in the language of the Genizah letters', 1st International Conference on Genizah Studies, Cambridge, August 2007
Lectures at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, July 2008
J. D. Wells
Living at this hour: John Milton 1608-2008. An exhibition in Cambridge University Library (Cambridge 2008)
'A logbook of HMS Elk' and 'Prices current, times past', Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library (2008)
Committee membership
Friends of Cambridge University Library (Secretary and Treasurer)
Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts
Committee for the Commemoration of the Quatercentenary of the Birth of John Milton
J. Whitelock
''My booke and my selfe': Michel de Montaigne 1533-1592. An exhibition in Cambridge University Library 4 August - 23 December 2008', in Philip Ford, The Montaigne Library of Gilbert de Botton at Cambridge University Library (Cambridge 2008)
Editor: Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society and Monographs
Committee membership
Library Syndicate (staff representative)
Cambridge Bibliographical Society
Friends of Cambridge University Library
G. H. Wiedermann
Committee membership
Coutts OASIS Advisory Group
Library Syndicate (staff representative)
D. F. Wills
Committee Membership
BIALL Awards and Bursaries Committee (Chair)
FLARE (Foreign Law Research Consortium)
Freshfields/Faculty of Law Liaison Committee
P. Zawada
Committee membership
EU Databases User Group (EUDUG)
P. N. R. Zutshi
'Petitioners, popes, proctors: the development of curial institutions, c. 1150-1250', in Pensiero e sperimentazioni istitutuzionali nella Societas Christiana, ed. by G. Andenna (Milano 2007)
General Editor, The History of the University of Cambridge: Texts and Studies
Paper presented
'The Benedictional of Robert de Clercq (Cambridge University Library, MS. Nn.4.1)', State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, March 2008
Committee membership
Oxford University Archives Committee
Advisory and Technical Panel, Northamptonshire Record Office
SCONUL representative, East of England Regional Archives Council
Charles Darwin Trust (Trustee)
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
PSQG Access and Security Working Party