The committee that reviewed the University Library for the General Board in 2004 recommended that there should be greater co-ordination between the libraries of the University. In order to carry this recommendation forward, a new temporary post was established by the General Board's Committee on Libraries, and Ms Lesley Gray, from the Union Catalogue Team, was appointed. The priority during the year has been to consolidate the journals co-ordination scheme that currently exists between the University Library, the Departments in the School of Biological Sciences, and the Department of Chemistry. This scheme has now eliminated almost all duplication of journals within these areas (except titles like Science and Nature) and has established a mechanism to ensure that the resources available for subscriptions are most effectively used for the benefit of all. Towards the end of the year, a number of other parts of the University were showing signs of interest in the scheme, with the Department of Physics joining in summer 2005. For some years many publishers of scientific, technical, and medical journals have aggregated their titles into 'bundles' and sold them as an all-or-nothing deal. This practice is now being adopted increasingly for journals in non-scientific subjects. This, as well as the rapidly increasing demand from users for electronic access to those journals, will increase the urgency to extend the co-ordination scheme to the arts and humanities, and discussions have begun with the relevant Chairs of the Schools. Support for the University Library's efforts in this area was demonstrated by the approval of the Planning and Resources Committee for an addition to the Library's budget for 2005-06 to meet the cost of maintaining the present level of subscriptions, even though the price of these is still increasing at a level well in excess of underlying inflation.
The penultimate phase of the building development programme at the main University Library (the 'Phase 5 extension') was completed on schedule in May 2005. It comprises five floors of bookstack, constructed above the basement floor which came into use in 1997, on the west (Grange Road) side of the Library. The extension was designed by the Howe Partnership of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and, like all recent additions to the Library, it blends in almost imperceptibly with Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's 1934 creation. The new bookstacks have been constructed to meet the most exacting standards for the storage of special collections materials, both in terms of security and environmental conditions. Strict controls of temperature and humidity ensure the stable environment needed for the preservation of the Library's more valuable and fragile holdings. The University Archives, dating back to 1266, and archives of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (now on permanent deposit in the Library) have already been moved onto the third floor of the extension; rare book collections, atlases, and older newspapers will occupy the remaining space. These moves will gradually release extra space for the modern collections, allowing an eventual re-arrangement of the open library, and providing room for the two kilometres of new accessions that enter the Library each year.
The biggest challenge for the Library, however, is fund-raising. There is now an obvious physical gap between the latest extension and the southwest corner of the building, waiting to be filled by the final phase of the current building programme - a development which would again provide five extra floors of bookstack and storage capacity until 2020-2025. The Library's fund-raising campaign, with the goal both of raising sufficient resources to compete the extension as well as providing additional money to undertake new work, has continued, with the assistance of the University's Development Offices in Cambridge and New York. A number of the Library's Newton manuscripts formed part of the exhibition 'The Newtonian Moment' at the New York Public Library in autumn 2004. Their presence in that city allowed Cambridge in America to organize a special evening for current and potential donors. The event, which took place at Sotheby's and was opened by Professor Simon Schama and attended by the Vice-Chancellor, took the form of talks and a private viewing of Newton's own copy of the first edition of Principia mathematica and his notebook on optics. In March 2005 the exhibition moved to The Huntington Library in California, where a similar event was held on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition. The main speaker on both occasions was the curator of the exhibition, Professor Mordechai Feingold, of the California Institute of Technology. The Genizah Collection also featured in similar events, when Professor Reif took a number of documents of the medieval Jewish scholar Moses Maimonides for private viewings at Christie's in New York and the Field Museum in Chicago. The annual event for benefactors and supporters of the Library took the form of an exhibition in the Library of letters written by Charles Darwin and natural history specimens from Cambridge University museums collected on the voyage of the Beagle. This was followed by a dinner in Christ's (Darwin's College), with Sir David Attenborough as guest of honour.
A major benefaction came as a result of the untimely death in a road accident of Dr Catherine Cooke, a member of Clare Hall and an intensive user of the Library. Dr Cooke not only left a substantial collection of Russian books, journals, and posters from the early years of the twentieth century, and particularly the period just after the Revolution of 1917, but also made the Library the major beneficiary of her estate. Thanks to her generosity, a financial bequest of about £1 million was received, and the Library Syndicate decided that the major part of it would be used as a contribution towards the final phase of the Library extension. The remainder of the bequest will be used to pay for the sorting and cataloguing of Dr Cooke's collection, digitization of the more fragile and vulnerable items in it, and as matching funding for a number of major externally funded projects due to begin in the next year or two.
The Library's strategic plan, which has been in place for a number of years, is revised on a regular basis. In preparation for the introduction of the Resource Allocation Model in August 2005, a new plan for the period 2005-2010 was prepared and subsequently approved by the Library Syndicate. The Library's stated mission is 'to deliver world-class library and information services to meet the needs of the local, national, and international scholarly community and to support the University's mission to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.' It aims to achieve this through the acquisition, organization, and dissemination of library materials, support for the exploitation by users of the rich and diverse collections, the development of a highly motivated, knowledgeable, and skilled staff, the preservation and housing of the collection for future generations, and the cost-effective management of resources. Details of the plan are set out on the website.
The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 confirmed the pre-existing rights of the legal deposit libraries as far as printed publications were concerned and extended the coverage of legal deposit legislation to electronic and other non-print publications. It was essentially a piece of enabling legislation, with the detail concerning each type of publication yet to be set out in Regulations. To assist in the process of establishing priorities and framing the Regulations, a Legal Deposit Advisory Panel (LDAP) has been set up by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport; this includes representatives of the legal deposit libraries, with the University Librarian representing the interests of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
In the meantime, the Joint Committee on Legal Deposit (a body that includes representatives of the legal deposit libraries and the publishers) has established a number of working groups to advise LDAP and carry out more detailed investigations on its behalf, concentrating initially on offline publications, electronic journals, digital infrastructure, metadata, and the long-term preservation of digital publications. The e-journals group made considerable progress on establishing a pilot project to ingest and serve journals deposited on a voluntary basis by twenty-three publishers The sub-group on digital infrastructure has proposed an system based on the storage and preservation facilities of the British Library's Digital Object Management system and it is likely that Cambridge will work within that infrastructure.
The Cambridge illuminations: ten centuries of book production in the medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London, 2005) [catalogue of the exhibition].
The creation of the Collection Development and Description Division in 2003 facilitated a major reorganization of the accessions and cataloguing workflows, leading to improved budgetary control, an increased emphasis on overall value for money (not just the price charged for an item, important though that is), and a generally increased output. This was particularly the case for books in continental European languages, where, in the two years since the reorganization took place, cataloguing output has risen by over 40% and there has been a significant reduction in the backlog of books awaiting cataloguing, something that is a matter of frustration for both staff and readers.
Title-alert services and approval plans are being increasingly used to reduce the amount of time taken by Library staff in browsing publishers' catalogues, etc. to identify items for purchase. Many suppliers offer integrated title-alert, selection, and ordering services, frequently with the additional provision of full catalogue records. The transfer of responsibility for monographic standing orders to the same staff who are responsible for the selection of individual titles has facilitated a review of such standing orders and the cancellation of some, where the series was no longer considered to be of sufficient quality or relevance to justify acquisition of all volumes; this released funds for more relevant purchases.
The sixty volumes of the keenly anticipated Oxford dictionary of national biography, arrived in the Reading Room in September 2004 and were eagerly seized upon by readers, a not insignificant number of whom were also contributors to the work and had conducted their research in that same room. The Library also subscribed to the online version of the dictionary, which was networked across the University at the same time.
Fewer subscriptions for new journals were approved this year. This partly reflects a continued tightening of the budget but also a conscious decision to defer all but the most urgent requests until the completion of a review of journals taken by the Library. Over the course of the year all current subscriptions were allocated subject codes. This will make it possible to produce lists arranged by subject which will facilitate a review by the appropriate specialists both in the Library and in the wider academic community to ensure that the Library buys those journals most needed by readers.
Mr Norman Waddleton, one of the Library's great benefactors of recent years, transferred a further 2,700 books from his home and added them to the Waddleton Collection in the Library. He has also funded the post of Waddleton Bibliographer at Emmanuel College, and this year the incumbent of that post worked in the Library on cataloguing items in the Waddleton Collection and preparing digital images of pages from the books for Mr Waddleton's Bookartworld database.
Use of the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) collections continued to rise, in direct response to a number of factors. These included the web publication of online manuscript and photograph catalogues, Google indexing of the University's webserver Janus and the RCS photograph project website, especially its gallery and photographers index, as well as inclusion of the RCS collections in new 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 on Canada. The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation made a further grant of $25,000 towards the photograph project, and support for this was also received from the Smuts Fund and EEMLAC (East of England Museums, Libraries, and Archives Council).
The Library bid successfully for funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the higher education funding councils for a second phase of the project to add records to the Archives Hub. This service, run on behalf of the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL), provides a single point of access to over 18,000, mainly collection-level, descriptions of archives held in over 140 UK universities and colleges. The University Library produced collection-level descriptions for 1,000 of its manuscript collections during the year. Following the completion in 2003 of the catalogue of the Macclesfield Collection, work was undertaken, using the remainder of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to revise the nineteenth-century catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection. This work has now been completed and the online database will shortly be made available to scholars.
Staff from the Manuscripts Department were heavily involved in the planning of the 'Cambridge illuminations' exhibition, in which some 250 of the finest medieval illuminated manuscripts from University and college collections in Cambridge were on display in the University Library and the Fitzwilliam Museum. The exhibition was accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. The arrangements for this exhibition were unusually complicated because of the large number of manuscripts being lent from the University Library to the Fitzwilliam Museum and because the majority of items displayed in the Library came from either the Fitzwilliam or the Colleges, for which it was necessary to secure Government Indemnity cover.
The move of the Faculty of Education to new premises allowed for the emptying of its basements in several buildings around Cambridge and the subsequent transfer of twenty metres of records to the University Archives. New cataloguing of the Archives was concentrated on the smaller accessions received in recent years, carried out alongside retrospective conversion of existing finding aids and their publication on the Janus archives webserver (http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/). This service now includes 111 classes from the University Archives, available for scholars to search online, compared with forty-four at the end of the last reporting year; the only significant lists now awaiting conversion to Janus are those of Cambridge University Press, which are vast and will require considerable editorial work. The second phase of Janus development was completed and a period of user-testing began in March 2005.
The Freedom of Information Act came into force in January 2005, and the Library made preparations to ensure that it could deal with requests speedily. It was expected that the effects of the legislation would be slight, as the Library's policy has always been to be as open as possible, and a review of closures currently in force suggested that the majority would be covered by the exemptions in the legislation. As far as the small number of doubtful cases were concerned, steps were taken to ensure compliance with the legislation in the event that requests were received; there had been none up to the end of the year. The University Archives participated in a year-long project run by The National Archives to monitor the impact of the legislation on the archives services of 'public authorities'.
The Ministry of Defence Map Library regularly donates surplus mapping to libraries around the country, including Cambridge University Library. A backlog of processing such material had developed in the University Library's Map Department, and during the year a concentrated effort was made to clear this, with the result that over 15,000 sheets were added to the catalogue. The material included some First World War trench maps and a large collection of very detailed French town plans from the 1940s and 50s. Another significant source of donated mapping is the Ordnance Survey International Library, which was closed in 2003. Many of its files recording the history of the mapping have been presented to the Charles Close Society Archives which are housed in the Map Department.
The Map Department's policy of obtaining current maps of all parts of the world continued with 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 Soviet military maps of Afghanistan.
The upgrade of the Voyager system in July 2005 to the new Unicode version was of particular significance for the Oriental collections, as it will now be possible to search existing records in the Newton catalogue in the vernacular scripts of Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, etc. where this information has been provided in the catalogue entry. Newly-added records will include the vernacular data.
Contacts were developed with vendors in the Middle East in order to improve the supply of books from those areas. In particular, alternative sources of books and improved services were negotiated from vendors in Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, and Israel. Members of the Faculty of Oriental Studies were invited to provide guidance on the existing collection of books in Hebrew and Arabic and to suggest priority areas where there were gaps that needed to be filled.
The Genizah Series has been published for the Library by Cambridge University Press since 1980. However, a change in its policy with regard to specialized publications with low numbers of sales has led the Press to ask the Library to find another publisher for future volumes. Agreement was reached with Archaeopress in Oxford to undertake this in the future.
All bought with the assistance of the Friends of the Library.
Improving the management and accessibility of e-journals was one of the year's strategic aims, and through its portal, ejournals@cambridge, the University Library now provides access to over 9,500 titles of e-journals for which the University has subscriptions or which are available on open-access. The response to this new service has been extremely positive form academic staff, students, and librarians alike.
A number of important online databases were added, funded by cancellation of particularly under-used subscriptions. These included The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). It is significant that these titles, heavily consulted since being made available, are all full-text databases. Demand for electronic resources has shifted substantially from bibliographic and citation indexes to electronic full text, particularly e-journals, and is spread across a wider range of subjects than in previous years. This is particularly noticeable in music, literature, modern languages, and economics, which are not covered by existing packages and where there has been less effort by Faculty libraries to register electronic access to journals on the basis of print subscriptions. In order to ensure that such access is provided wherever possible, the co-ordination of journal provision, referred to elsewhere, will have to include not just a change in the funding structure, but also training for librarians in e-journal management and greater day-to-day co-ordination between the University's libraries.
The number of networked CD-ROMs again fell, as titles such as Index Islamicus, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, and the Cetedoc Library of Latin Texts migrated to online services. Technological change has made it increasingly difficult to network titles which were originally developed to run under old operating systems and a number of titles had to be withdrawn from the network in the course of the year. There is a small but steady demand for CD-ROMs purchased individually or received on legal deposit to be consulted in the Digital Resources Area. This area has been a great success, with usage steadily increasing, to the extent that it has approached capacity on a number of occasions. By the end of the year there were over 4,200 registered users, of whom just over a third were current staff and students at the University; it is not surprising that this figure is so low, as many of the online resources provided by the University Library can be consulted from PCs in Colleges and Departments or through off-campus access 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-level titles. Apart from the specialized services such as ECCO, demand for e-books amongst users of the University Library is relatively low at present, but the Library will no doubt have a future role in co-ordinating access and licensing.
The Greensleeves Project is nearing a successful conclusion, with the final delivery of records expected in September 2005. By summer 2005 almost 750,000 records had been added to the Newton catalogue. Problems continued with the quality of the records received from the suppliers, and in some cases entire deliveries had to be rejected. Once the records had been loaded to the Voyager database, considerable work was involved in ensuring that they were linked to any existing circulation records. The records in the guardbook catalogue generally contain no subject information; wherever possible such information has been included in the new online records. This has meant that millions of subject headings have been added, thus greatly facilitating the exploitation by readers of the collections' riches. Many name and subject headings however, do not conform to the latest standards used by the Library's own cataloguers, and, as a result, a major editorial task faces the staff who will need to remove as many as possible of the incorrect forms of name and other headings. This is a project that will take several years.
The Web pages for the Rare Books and Map departments have been completely redesigned. The Rare Books pages include digital images of items from the collections and provide rapid access to specialist online catalogues, rare books electronic resources, and new page listing rare books events in Cambridge. The Map Department's home page is designed as a quick reference page providing basic information on opening times and contact details, with links to a series of pages providing more detailed information about the Map Department catalogues - both the card catalogue and Newton.
In the Music Department, a new service giving readers access to a library of sound recordings online has been introduced with our subscription to the Naxos Music Library. A workstation in the Anderson Room has a dedicated PC set up to access this service.
Annual snapshots of Ordnance Survey Data for the years 1998 to 2003 inclusive have now been made available by Ordnance Survey and can be consulted on a PC in the Map Department. This service has proved very popular with readers. Apart from buying printouts, many of them find it useful for quick reference purposes, as a way of finding National Grid References and of checking contour and spot-height values. The Library renewed its subscription to the EDINA current Digimap service and took out a new subscription to Digimap Historic, which provides access to all first edition Ordnance Survey County Series 1:2,500 map sheets - some of which are unavailable in the Map Department in paper form - as well as to many other editions of the maps. It also provides the opportunity to download the data into geographic information systems, etc., for manipulation. The use of equivalent maps on paper may now decrease, something that has advantages from a conservation perspective.
The DSpace Project continued to add material in both increasing numbers and from an increasingly wide range of sources; by summer 2005 it contained over 100,000 items. The project is now looking to the point at the end of 2005 when the original funding from the Cambridge-MIT Institute comes to an end. At that point it is intended that the project should become a service to the University, and presentations were made to a number of University bodies during the year, in particular to the Planning and Resources Committee, which agreed to provide interim funding from January to July 2006 to ensure the continuation of the service until its funding could be built into the 2006-07 budgets for the University Library and the Computing Service.
The unreliability of the pneumatically operated mobile bookstacks, noted in the last report, continued despite the efforts of the Technical Maintenance staff to keep these thirty-year-old units in operation. Potential relief was signalled by the approval from HEFCE of the University's bid for funding under SRIF3 (Science Research Infrastructure Fund), which included the bulk of the cost (around £2 million) of replacing these units. The work is planned to start in 2006 and, because of the logistical complexity of decanting over two million books and periodicals whilst maintaining a full service to readers, it will take about three years to complete.
Many of the sequences in the closed areas of the Library have had to be broken and restarted in another area because of shortage of space. This makes fetching particularly difficult. The opening of the Phase 5 extension meant that it was possible to start restoring material to its correct sequence and providing those sequences with expansion space. Despite these difficulties and the problems with the pneumatically powered bookstacks, the average time taken to retrieve books dropped to twenty-three minutes, a commendable achievement, and one that was recognized by a grateful reader who sponsored a lunch to thank the team of bookfetchers.
Fewer user-education sessions were offered, with a significant drop in Newton hands-on training as readers became more familiar with the Voyager catalogue. To reduce the amount of staff time involved in preparing a programme, companies have increasingly been invited to deliver training sessions on their own products. Such presentations included the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Web of Knowledge, Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Literature Online (LION), including a special session on LION for graduate students in the English Faculty.
The new Assistive Technology Area 1, a name chosen in discussion with the Disability Resource Centre and a term that is becoming recognized across the sector for such facilities, became operational. The Area, created thanks to a grant from the Abbey Charitable Trust in a central location off the Catalogue Room, has been decorated in distinctive colours and is furnished with three electrically operated, height-adjustable desks, a fixed bench at the appropriate height for wheelchair users, a range of ergonomic chairs and daylight lamps. It is equipped with a CCTV reader and two PCs, one with a large and one with a flat screen, each with a scanner, both connected to a colour printer and loaded with voice-recognition, screen-reading and magnification software. A second similar area is planned for noisier activities such as the voice-recognition software, a brailler, and facilities for reading to tape or disk, but at other times will be available for quiet study to those with attention-deficit disorders. It is always gratifying to hear of the success of readers, but particularly so in the case of those disabled users with whom the staff of the Reference Department work very closely. One such, who suffers from severe dyslexia, this year achieved a starred first-class B.A. in History and subsequently made a point of writing to thank the Library staff, noting that 'while other libraries … raised walls, the UL found ways to meet my needs.'
The 'digital revolution' is nowhere more visible than in the changes to the output of the Library's Imaging Services. Almost all images created in the studio are now produced digitally, rather than on film, and most are supplied directly to customers in electronic form. With the growing availability of online resources, the demand for traditional photocopying continues to decline gradually, though the department nonetheless provided over 2.5 million copies during the year. The one exception to this trend is the continuing steady demand for microfilming: economists' papers from both King's College and the Marshall Library were filmed for the Bank of Italy, Tibetan manuscripts for a University Department, and local examination papers for the University's Local Examinations Syndicate, as well as a number of large new commercial orders from Adam Matthew Publications, ProQuest and Bell & Howell.
The Library participated in a joint bid with Corpus Christi College and Stanford University for funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to undertake a major project creating digital images of all the 600 manuscripts in the Parker Library at Corpus. Funding has been secured for the first year of what is hoped to be a four-year project, and Imaging Services will be responsible for the creation of high-resolution digital images using new staff who will be based in Corpus, supported by the technical staff in the department, with the Head of Imaging Services as project manager.
Last year's Report noted the difficulties caused to self-financing departments such as Imaging Services by the imposition of overheads on staff costs and a huge increase in employer's contributions to the assistant staff pension scheme. The coming year brings a further increase of 10% in overheads and a further rise in pension contributions of almost 3%. Given that the market will only accept a certain ceiling in price rises, the future for the service is a matter for concern and a major review has begun to see how it might need to adapt.
'Writing poetry: manuscript verse 250 BC to 2000 AD'
May - December 2004
Prepared by Mr Wells and opened by the Poet Laureate, Professor Andrew Motion
'All good Friends: donations from the Friends of the Library'
January - June 2005
Prepared by Mr Jenkins, Mr Wells, and Dr Mark Nicholls, and opened by the President of the Friends of the Library, Dr David McKitterick
'The Cambridge illuminations: ten centuries of book production in the medieval West'
July - December 2005 (jointly with the Fitzwilliam Museum)
Prepared by an organizing committee and opened (at the Fitzwilliam Museum) by Dr David Starkey
The receptions for the opening ceremonies were generously sponsored by Cambridge University Press.
'French illustrated books from the sixteenth to the twentieth century'
June - August 2004 (to accompany the Annual Conference of the Society for French Studies at Fitzwilliam College)
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Prepared by Dr Wendy Bennett and Ms Thwaite
'Liberation of Paris, 1944'
August 2004
Prepared by Dr Mitchell from Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey's photographic collection
'Aerial Photography in the twentieth century and beyond'
August - November 2004 (to accompany the Fourteenth Conference of the Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER at the University Library)
Prepared by Ms Taylor
'French illustrated books from the sixteenth to the twentieth century'
November 2004 - February 2005 (repeat of the earlier exhibition)
'Marginalia'
February - May 2005 (to coincide with the Joint Libraries' Preservation Awareness Campaign)
Prepared by Mr Harper
'Seventieth anniversary of Penguin books'
May - July 2005
Prepared by Mrs Allen
'Rare books of the Spanish Golden Age'
July - September 2005 (to coincide with the annual conference of the Asociacíon Internacional Siglo de Oro at Robinson College)
Prepared by Dr Anthony Close, Ms Morcillo-García, and Dr Mitchell
New York Public Library: 'The Newtonian Moment'
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California: 'The Newtonian Moment'
Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer: 'Europas Juden im Mittelalter'
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin: 'Europas Juden im Mittelalter'
British Museum: 'Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage 1780'
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: 'The Cambridge Illuminations: ten centuries of book production in the medieval West'.
The Anstruther Literary Trust generously provided funds to allow preservation assessment surveys to be carried out in collaboration with the National Preservation Office on the main Library's holdings of print materials; these have now been completed and the results analysed. Overall the Library emerged in a favourable light, with over 90% of its printed collections falling into the two lowest priority bands for preservation needs, a figure that compares well with those from other legal deposit libraries and with the UK stratified figure. However, some factors emerging from the reports give rise for concern. The proportion of the collections suffering from surface dirt is unacceptably high, while the lack of environmental controls in areas such as the tower, the Map Department, and the open library could lead to deterioration of the stock. The Library has purchased a high-specification book-cleaning machine to combat the problem of surface dirt, and is reviewing the other recommendations contained in the reports. The environment to which borrowable books are subject outside the Library cannot, of course, be monitored.
These considerations led to the Syndicate's decision in June 2005 to approve the removal of several classes containing mainly nineteenth-century materials into more suitable storage and to withdraw them from borrowable categories. This change was made in order to provide greater protection for this vulnerable material, much of which is printed on poor paper and has fragile bindings.
The demands of exhibition loans placed considerable pressure on the Conservation Department, which had to prepare the items for display, make suitable perspex cradles, and construct the packing for the carrying cases to ensure that the fragile documents were not damaged in transit. This applied particularly to the two large-scale exhibitions in which the Library was a major participant: 'The Newtonian Moment' in New York and California, and 'The Cambridge Illuminations' at the Library and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
A major piece of work has been the conservation of the Cambridge Lute Music manuscripts, which constitute the most important source of English lute music of the sixteenth century and earlier. The collection contains almost half the extant English lute music, with four of the volumes containing over 700 pieces. These manuscripts have been unavailable to readers because of their fragile condition, due in part to previous inappropriate repairs and significant weakening of the leaves caused by mould and water damage. The old repairs have now been replaced with appropriate support using Japanese hand-made paper, and the manuscripts have been rebound in a style that allows them to open with greater flexibility. They are also protected in drop-spine boxes.
The introduction by the University of the RAM (Resource Allocation Model) and the requirement for new reporting and administrative procedures placed considerable strain on the Library Office. The preparation of a five-year forecast of income and expenditure was a major undertaking, particularly given the complex nature of the Library's sources of income and the need to make provision for developments several years ahead. Links between the Voyager system and the University's financial system CUFS have been improved and a considerable amount of duplicated work has been eliminated. However, a number of aspects of the CUFS system, particularly the requirement for secondary approval authorization, its way of handling VAT, and the commitment reporting, are cumbersome and staff intensive. A further level of bureaucracy has been the introduction of a requirement to report the acquisition of 'heritage assets' valued at more than £10,000.
Use of the Official Publications Reading Room has been declining steadily, mainly as a result of the increasing number of electronic sources of access to the documents of governments and international organizations. Following a review of its use, it was agreed that the function of the room would be extended to accommodate readers using materials borrowed on inter-library loan, and possibly a wider range of periodicals, thus relieving pressure elsewhere in the building. These changes will come into full effect during the coming year.
The Medical Library's relationship with the NHS is always a delicate one. This year the Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Workforce Development Directorate (WDD) merged two of its funding streams into one, thus bringing an improved clarity and sense of purpose to the way in which the library receives NHS support. On the other hand, the plans for shelving the proposed NHS University and news that continuing professional development would no longer be funded through the WDDs raised worrying doubts about the NHS's long-term commitment to those activities for which library services are an integral part. This was set against a pattern of constantly increasing use of the Medical Library's services by NHS staff who, this year, represented 65% of all new registrations.
The Medical Library has consistently been ahead of the trend towards electronic information provision. Again this year, readers' requests for new journals were predominantly for online access, and whilst there has been a rapid growth in the number of freely available peer-reviewed open-access titles (chiefly from the BioMed Central stable) demand for subscription-based titles remained high.
The Betty and Gordon Moore Library increasingly provides a service well beyond the confines of its immediate user group in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, with over half its registered users now coming from outside that Centre, the next largest category being from the Department of Engineering. The Library's successful bid for SRIF 3 funding included a further installation of mobile shelving in the Moore. This was in the original plans for the building but had to be dropped at a late stage in the construction of the library because of lack of funds. The reinstatement will provide the library with additional space to store back runs of journals whilst there is still demand to retain paper copies on site in Cambridge.
Following the success of the Squire's fund-raising campaign in its centenary year of 2004, the Centenary Appeal Fund was boosted by £75,000 thanks to the generosity of one private benefactor. The fund now stands at nearly £400,000, well on the way to its target of £2 million. In a separate gift to the Faculty of Law the same donor provided funds for the cataloguing of many antiquarian law books and the acquisition of digital copies of manuscript law reports, and some other important manuscript texts, not currently available to scholars in Cambridge. Staff of the Squire continued to have a significant input into the accredited Freshfields Legal Research Skills programme, teaching a range of courses.
The University's decision to adopt a new pay and grading structure, as directed by HEFCE, created an immense amount of work in all parts of the Library. New role descriptions had to be created for all jobs in the Library, and since few were so similar that they could be shared by more than one member of staff, this meant over 300 such descriptions, all of which had to be drawn up by the post-holder, discussed with, and checked by, their head of department and then further checked by the Deputy Librarian. By summer 2005 most had been completed and the process of matching to the new grades was about to begin.
The Library has a number of long-serving members of staff but few can match the record of Mr Barry Eaden, who, in January 2005, completed fifty years of distinguished service. Mr Eaden started work in 1955 as a junior library assistant and for many years was responsible for maintaining the Current Serials list. He now edits the Readers' Handbook and is head of the Inter-Library Loans Department. The occasion of his anniversary was marked by a lunch at which the Vice-Chancellor expressed the gratitude of the University for his exemplary service. Two staff with careers that were almost as long retired during the year: Miss Jill Alexander, who joined the Library in 1958 and retired in December 2004 after a career spent mostly in the Copyright (subsequently Cataloguing) Department; and Mr Peter Bowyer, who started in 1961 and retired in September 2004, after working for much of his career in the Periodicals Department. Mr Keith McVeigh, formerly Librarian of the Squire Law Library and subsequently an Under-Librarian in the Official Publications Department, took early retirement in June 2005, Ms AnneMarie Robinson resigned her post in the Rare Books Department. and the secondment of Mr Chris Sendall to the University's Management Information Services Division, was converted into a permanent transfer from September 2004.
Among the new appointments were Dr Jill Whitelock, formerly librarian of the Whipple Library at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, who took up her appointment as head of the Rare Books Department, and Dr Emily Mitchell, who was appointed as one of the rare books specialists.
Congratulations are due to Ms Jo Phipps, who successfully completed her distance-learning degree course at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and was awarded a first-class honours BScEcon in Information and Library Studies; and to Ms Anne Collins, who obtained an Introductory Diploma in Management after completing the course run by the University's Staff Development Office. Four staff gained their City and Guilds of London Award in Library and Information Services: Ms Urszula Dench, Ms Angela Kiteley, Ms Jade Notley, and Ms Tanya Zhimbiev.
The University's Health and Safety Division carried out a safety audit of the main University Library. The findings were reasonably positive but it was clear that additional training and support were needed, especially at the level of departmental managers. Since the audit, all heads of department have received risk-assessment training from the Health and Safety Division, and risk assessments and safety inspections have been carried out and documented for all parts of the Library.
The death is recorded, with regret, of Mr A. B. (Joe) Britton (former deputy head of the Scientific Periodicals Library).
Munby Fellow 2004-05: Dr Suzanne Reynolds, 'A catalogue of the manuscripts of Latin classical authors in the library of the Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall'.
| A. D. CLIFF (Vice-Chancellor's Deputy) | CATHERINE HILLS | JOHN MORRILL |
| RICHARD BEADLE | CHRISTOPHER HOWE | ROGER PARKER |
| IAIN BURKE | IAN HUTCHINGS | T. G. RODGERS |
| G. D. BYE | PETER HUTCHINSON | J. R. SPENCER |
| JOHN FLOWERDEW | GORDON JOHNSON | MORAG STYLES |
| R. C. GLEN | D. J. MCKITTERICK | DIANA F. WOOD |
| Sixth Earl of Enniskillen Fund | Acquisitions of books in specified subjects | £210,000 |
| Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund | Acquisitions | £50,000 |
| Kaplanoff Fund | American studies material | £30,000 |
| A. D. Nock Fund | Modern foreign books | £30,000 |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Electronic legal resources | £22,000 |
| City Solicitors' Educational Trust | Text books, periodical subscriptions and electronic resources for the Squire Law Library | £15,000 |
| LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell | Purchases for the Squire Law Library | £15,000 |
| Gordon Duff Fund | Rare books | £10,000 |
| Cambridge University Press | CUP books for the Central Science, Medical, Moore, and Squire Libraries | £10,000 |
| Dorothea Oschinsky Fund | Acquisitions | £8,000 |
| Friends of Cambridge University Library | Acquisitions | £7,000 |
| American Study Fund | Acquisitions | £6,000 |
Darwin Correspondence Project | |
| Wellcome Trust | £166,000 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | £25,000 |
| British Academy | £15,000 |
| Royal Society | £7,000 |
| Natural Environment Research Council | £5,000 |
Genizah Research Unit | |
| Friedberg Genizah Project | £56,000 |
| John S. Cohen Foundation | £10,000 |
Grants to Medical Library | |
| NHS Eastern Deanery | £129,000 |
| NHS Addenbrooke's Hospital Trust (SIFT grant) | £32,000 |
| Medical Research Council | £31,000 |
| NHS Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Workforce Development Confederation | £21,000 |
| HEFCE | Improving access to research collections | £566,000 |
| Dr C. Cooke | Bequest (part) | £458,000 |
| Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council | Curator of Scientific Manuscripts (final payment) | £200,000 |
| Anonymous donation | Squire Law Library Centenary Fund | £75,000 |
| Miss V. C. M. London | Bequest | £39,000 |
| Faculty of Oriental Studies (Japanese Studies Fund) | Part funding of staff in Japanese Department | £34,000 |
| Munby Memorial Fund | Munby Fellow in Bibliography | £30,000 |
| Trinity College Cambridge | Contribution towards Saturday afternoon opening | £30,000 |
| JISC | CUL contributions to the Archives Hub | £26,000 |
| British and Foreign Bible Society | Bible Society Library staff | £25,000 |
| Mr Gifford Combs | The Cambridge Illuminations exhibition | $35,000 |
| Smuts Memorial Fund | Part funding of Smuts Librarian for Commonwealth Studies | £17,000 |
| Mr Gurnee F. Hart | Building development | $25,000 |
| Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation | RCS Photographs Project | $25,000 |
| Richard Tench Fund | Contribution towards Saturday afternoon opening | £14,000 |
| William Alwyn Foundation | William Alwyn Archive Cataloguing Project | £7,000 |
| Diana Herzog Family Fund | General support | $10,000 |
| Friends of Cambridge University Library | Exhibition costs | £5,000 |
| Sandars Readership in Bibliography | Sandars Lectures | £5,000 |
| Mr A. E. B. Owen | Catalogue of Western manuscripts | £5,000 |
The 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 | 1994-95 |
| Books and pamphlets* | 113,218 | 117,627 | 127,610 | 114,691 |
| Periodicals and newspapers* | 150,856 | 153,609 | 149,176 | 135,382 |
| Microfilm reels* | 4,277 | 4,063 | 3,111 | 4,758 |
| Microfiche units* | 2,774 | 20,832 | 19,320 | 49,078 |
| Official Publications | 26,809 | 37,073 | 41,478 | 47,053 |
| Maps and atlases | 22,650 | 12,448 | 9,955 | 11,035 |
| Printed music | 5,237 | 8,343 | 7,410 | 5,996 |
| Manuscripts and archives | 3,376 | 4,133 | 3,267 | 2,260 |
| Cambridge theses | 1,171 | 914 | 924 | 949 |
| New entries added to the Catalogue | 73,094 | 71,002 | 58,658 | 63,604 |
| Items 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 | 68,733 |
| Manuscripts Reading Room | 9,776 | 12,616 | 12,785 | 15,441 |
| Map Room | 16,798 | 13,633 | 20,215 | 13,555 |
| Anderson Room and East Asian RR | 2,449 | 2,101 | 1,715 | 2,044 |
| Official Publications | 7,945 | 8,319 | 10,250 | 24,707 |
| Microforms | 9,533 | 14,129 | 15,551 | 12,281 |
| Rare Books Reading Room | 41,862 | 41,773 | 41,083 | 53,430 |
| Bible Society's Library | 847 | 713 | 920 | 1,517 |
| TOTAL | 214,282 | 216,229 | 225,633 | 301,687 |
| Bindery/Conservation Output | ||||
| Modern case work | 23,179 | 23,342 | 22,349 | 18,446 |
| Modern repair work | 1,184 | 1,394 | 1,696 | 2,997 |
| Rebacking and minor repairs | 1,789 | 2,133 | 2,275 | 5,241 |
| Lyfguarding | 8,749 | 7,572 | 8,676 | 9,851 |
| Imaging Services Department | ||||
| Digital images | 16,236 | 12,852 | 3,649 | |
| Prints made from negatives | 758 | 1,259 | 1,476 | 2,621 |
| Microfilm frames exposed | 265,469 | 259,969 | 257,141 | 460,026 |
| Microfilm duplicates (frames) | 630,000 | 480,000 | 401,000 | 886,080 |
| Photocopies (includes Moore, Squire, and CSL) | 2,502,277 | 2,634,796 | 2,979,445 | 1,055,056 |
| Expenditure on purchased acquisitions | £ | £ | £ | £ |
| Main Library | ||||
| Modern Western books | 645,013 | 443,342 | 379,897 | 529,440 |
| Official Publications | 9,810 | 9,994 | 16,389 | 20,673 |
| Oriental Near Eastern | 33,070 | 24,794 | 30,900 | 23,756 |
| Oriental Far Eastern | 53,743 | 58,542 | 66,197 | 85,025 |
| Maps | 33,177 | 31,974 | 39,887 | 62,085 |
| Music | 33,928 | 30,099 | 36,191 | 42,973 |
| Rare books and manuscripts | 141,691 | 295,218 | 229,813 | 423,196 |
| Electronic resources and microforms | 459,194 | 475,806 | 402,926 | 179,254 |
| Periodicals | 924,059 | 908,937 | 913,183 | 913,565 |
| TOTAL | 2,333,685 | 2,278,706 | 2,115,383 | 2,279,967 |
| Medical Library | ||||
| Books | 39,042 | 14,645 | 16,183 | 22,242 |
| Periodicals | 189,313 | 189,887 | 191,000 | 119,702 |
| Science Libraries | ||||
| Books | 6,039 | 11,784 | 9,054 | 918 |
| Periodicals | 805,152 | 821,098 | 774,340 | 407,282 |
| Squire Law Library | ||||
| Books | 34,398 | 2,686 | 25,839 | 20,552 |
| Periodicals | 201,870 | 203,827 | 220,987 | 159,140 |
| TOTAL | 3,609,499 | 3,545,633 | 3,352,786 | 3,009,803 |
Publications, papers presented, membership of committees
M. C. Allen
Committee membership
Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries, Management Committee
Legal Deposit Libraries Committee, Collection Development Subgroup
C. Ansorge
Committee membership
National Council on Orientalist Library Resources (Treasurer)
R. M. Andrewes
Committee membership
Bliss Trust (Trustee)
RISM (UK) Trust (Trustee and Treasurer)
William Alwyn Foundation (Trustee)
Cambridge University Musical Society (Vice President, and Committee member)
RILM Technical Advisory Committee
C. A. Aylmer
Paper presented
'Internet resources for Chinese Studies', National Council on Orientalist Library Resources Seminar, Cambridge, September 2004
Committee membership
China Library Group, Periodicals Sub-committee
I. M. Burke
Committee membership
Library Syndicate (staff representative)
IT Syndicate, Technical Sub-Committee
Cambridge University Libraries Automation Group Steering Committee
G. D. Bye
Committee membership
British Standards Institute, Committee for Micrographics and Digitization
National Preservation Office, Micrographics Technical Committee
Library Syndicate (staff representative)
S. M. Cage
Editor: University Library Staff Bulletin
L. Chipman
'Maimonides autographs linked', Genizah Fragments 48 (2004)
C. T. Clarkson
Committee membership
University's Disability Forum
Working Group on Blind and Visually Impaired Students
A. Collins
Committee membership
Clinical School Heads of Service Group
Clinical School Learning Resources Group
Higher Education Health Librarians in the Eastern Region
NHS Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Workforce Development Directorate Library and Knowledge Services Group
J. Cox
'The Footlights Archive', Cambridge University Library Readers' Newsletter (April 2005)
Committee membership
Janus Steering Group (Chair)
Cambridge Archivists' Group (Secretary)
Society for the Study of the History of the University (Secretary)
CamSIS Steering Group
'Cantab' Developers' Group
L. Dingle
Serbia Rule of Law Project: improving the information resources and educational facilities at Serbian law faculties, USAID Report (Arlington VA 2005)
'A summary of recent constitutional reform in the United Kingdom', International Journal of Legal Information, 33 (2005) [with B. Miller]
Y. Faghihi
Papers presented
'Digital cataloguing of Oriental manuscripts', National Council on Orientalist Library Resources Seminar, Cambridge, September 2004
'Spezialsammlungen, Sammlungsschwerpunkte und Projekte der elektronischen Fachinformation zum Vorderen Orient an britischen Bibliotheken', workshop: Elektronische Fachiniformation zur Region des Vorderen Orients und zur Islamwissenschaft', Halle, January 2005
'The Cambridge collections', conference: The Islamic Manuscript, Cambridge, July 2005
Committee membership
Association of Islamic Manuscripts, Steering Committee
P. 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: LEArning about Digitial Institutional RepositorieS seminars, London, November 2004
Committee membership
National Preservation Office Board (Chairman)
Wellcome Trust Library Advisory Committee (Chairman)
LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (General Secretary)
Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, Legal Deposit Advisory Panel
Joint Committee on Legal Deposit
Friends of the National Libraries, Executive Committee
Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on National Records and Archives
International Editorial Board, Journal of Library Administration
P. J. Girling
'Every which way but loose: bulk import in Cambridge' [with J. R. H. Taylor]. European Endeavor User Group Conference, Cambridge, September 2004
Committee membership
Cambridge University Libraries Automation Group Steering Committee
Union Catalogue Working Group for Bibliographic Standards
L. J. Gray
Committee membership
Endeavor User Group, EndUser Board
Endeavor User Group: Circulation Enhancements Committee (Chair)
Cambridge University Libraries Automation Group Steering Committee
D. J. Hall
Seven articles in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford 2004)
Associate Editor The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford 2004)
Committee membership
Dr Williams' Trust (Trustee and Library Committee member)
Cambridge Bibliographical Society
Friends of Cambridge University Library (Treasurer)
J. J. Hall
Committee membership
Cambridge Bibliographical Society (Treasurer)
S. J. Hills
Editor: University Library Readers' Newsletter
J. E. Hoare
''Newly discovered documents' at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History', Resources for American Studies, 58 (2005)
Committee membership
British Association for American Studies, Library and Resources Sub-Committee (Secretary)
R. C. Jamieson
Committee membership
Faculty of Divinity, Working Group on Online Resources for Indic Studies (Chairman)
Union Handlist of Manuscripts in North Indian Languages
National Council on Orientalist Library Resources, Automation Working Party
B. Jenkins
Paper presented
'One large collection saved: the Royal Commonwealth Society Library', Rare Books Group/CILIP Seminar on Libraries in Danger, London, April 2005
Committee membership
English Short Title Catalogue, UK Committee
National Preservation Office, Preservation Advisory Panel
Legal Deposit Libraries Committee, Preservation Sub-Group
Brotherton Collection Advisory Committee
Cambridge Bibliographical Society
P. Killiard
Paper presented
'Voyager with Unicode: the Cambridge test conversion', UK EndUser Conference, Glasgow, February 2005
Committee membership
Joint Committee on Legal Deposit, E-journals Working Group
Legal Deposit Libraries Sub-Groups on Digital Infrastructure and Preservation European Voyager User Group Steering Committee
N. Koyama
Article on James Summers in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford 2004)
Articles on 'Kikuchi Dairoku, 1855-1917: Educational Administrator and Pioneer of Modern Mathematical Education in Japan' and 'Yoshimoto Tadasu, 1878-1973: Father of the Blind in Japan' in Britain and Japan Biographical Portraits, Volume V, ed. by Hugh Cortazzi (Folkestone 2005)
Paper presented
'Early Japanese diplomats in Madrid: Inagaki Manjiro and others, using resources for Japanese studies available from the internet', European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists Annual Conference, Salamanca, September 2004.
Committee membership
Japan Library Group (Chair)
European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (board member)
S. V. Lambert
Book reviews editor, The Indexer
Committee membership
Joint Committee on Legal Deposit, Territoriality Working Group
Morgan and Claypool Development Partner Program for their Synthesis Digital Library
J. A. Leary
Committee membership
Clinical School Building Safety Committee
Clinical School Heads of Service Group
E. Lev
'The end of the traditional medicine in Jerusalem according to the Swiss physician Titus Tobler (1806-77)' [with Z. Amar], Canadian Bulletin for the 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 (Bilad al-Sham)', Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, 2 (2004) [Hebrew]
'Dr Thomas Chaplin, scientist and scholar in nineteenth-century Palestine' [with Y. Perry], Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 136 (2004)
'Mousterian vegetal food in Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel' [with M. E. Kislev and O. Bar-Yosef], Journal of Archaeological Sciences, 32 (2005)
Papers presented
Five conference papers
D. K. Lowe
Committee membership
German Studies Library Group (Newsletter editor)
P. M. Meadows
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
Papers presented
'Developing a digital institutional repository: the DSpace@Cambridge project', European Association for Health Information and Libraries Conference, Santander, September 2004
Papers at several workshops on institutional repositories and digital archiving
Committee membership
Addenbrooke's NHS Trust Learning and Development Strategy Group
BMJ Publishing Group Library Advisory Panel
Clinical School/Addenbrooke's Hospital SIFT Liaison Group
Clinical School CBCU Management Committee
Clinical School Heads of Service Group
Clinical School Learning Resources Group
European Association for Health Information and Libraries, UK representative, EAHIL Council
Higher Education Health Librarians in the Eastern Region
NHS Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Workforce Development Directorate Library and Knowledge Services Group
A. E. Murray
Elected Vice-President (2005-09) by the Fellows of Wolfson College, May 2005
Paper presented
'Cambridge University Library: preserving the past and building for the future', Library Association of Ireland Academic and Special Libraries AGM, Dublin, June 2005.
Committee membership
Legal Deposit Libraries Agency Management Committee
SCONUL Advisory Committee on Staffing
W. A. Noblett
Book reviews in CILIP Rare Books Group Newsletter
Committee membership
BOPCRIS Steering Committee
History of Parliament Trust Ad-hoc Committee for Digitisation
ESRC Population History Group, Advisory Committee
B. Outhwaite
'Maimonides autographs linked', Genizah Fragments, 48 (2004)
'Library yields surprise find', Genizah Fragments, 49 (2005)
A. J. Perkins
Committee membership
International Astronomical Union, Commission for History of Astronomy, Working Group on Astronomical Archives.
Royal Society Library Committee
S. C. Reif
'Ein Genisa-Fragment des Tischdank', in Liturgie als Theologie: das Gebet als 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 and J. Corley (Berlin 2004)
'Shema: Mittelalter und Neuzeit' in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 7 (Tübingen 2004)
'Tafqidam shel ha-genizah ha-qahirit be-.heqer toledot ha-tefillah', in Mitokh 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 and SOTS Book List
Editor: Genizah Series, Genizah Fragments
Papers presented
Thirty-seven lectures and conference papers
Committee membership
National Council on Orientalist Library Resources (Chairman)
International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
Friedberg Genizah Project, Academic Committee
J. S. Ringrose
'Effraim Nahum, 1918-1942', Pembroke College Cambridge Society Annual Gazette (2004)
R. Rowe
'What you didn't expect to find in the Royal Commonwealth Society collections in Cambridge University Library', Cambridge University Libraries Information Bulletin (2005)
Paper presented
'Exhibit and be damned' [with Dr K. Greenbank], National Council on Orientalist Library Resources Annual Conference, Cambridge, December 2004.
Committee membership
South Asian Archives and Library Group, Steering Group
Centre of South Asian Studies, Committee of Management (Secretary)
R. Scrivens
Reviews Editor: Solanus: International Journal for Russian and East European Bibliographic, Library and Publishing Studies
Committee membership
Council for Slavonic and East European Libraries and Information Services
A. Shivtiel
'Takālād', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 12 (Leiden 2004)
'Word-lists uncovered', Genizah Fragments, 49 (2005)
N. A. Smith
Committee membership
Cambridge Bibliographical Society (Secretary)
C. Staufenbiel
Committee membership
German Studies Library Group
A. 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 Library
Committee membership
British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Catalogue Systems (BRICMICS)
Charles Close Society Archives Sub-committee
Groupe 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 University Library's collections', RLG Focus, 73 (2005)
Committee membership
Legal Deposit Libraries Committee, Metadata Group
CURL Resource Discovery and Description Committee
RLG Union Catalog Advisory Group
Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
SUNCAT Bibliographic Quality Advisory Group.
J. D. Wells
Articles on Sir John Valentine Carden, Thomas Gilliland and Sir Harry Smith Parkes in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford 2004)
'George Szirtes' papers', Cambridge University Library Readers' Newsletter, 28 (2004)
'The Friends and the Exhibition Centre', Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library (2004)
'Under scrutiny: an epigram and its readers', Poetry News (2005)
'Distrest poets' society', RSL [magazine of the Royal Society of Literature] (2005)
Committee membership
Friends of Cambridge University Library (Secretary)
J. Whitelock
Editor: Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society and Monographs
Committee membership
Friends of Cambridge University Library
D. F. Wills
'Squire Law Library: celebrating one hundred years', Cambridge LawLink, Faculty of Law Newsletter, 5 (2004)
M. L. Wilson
Committee membership
Central European Science Journals, Library Advisory Board
P. N. R. Zutshi
'Henry Bradshaw and the Book of Deer', in The medieval book and a modern 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 Dominican Order', 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 Studies
Paper presented
'Popes, petitioners, proctors: the development of curial institutions, c. 1150 - c. 1250', XVI Settimana internazionale di Studi, Passo della Mendola, August 2004
Committee membership
Oxford University Archives Committee
Advisory and Technical Panel, Northamptonshire Record Office
East of England Regional Archives Council (SCONUL and RLG representative)
'Cambridge Illuminations' Steering Committee
Charles Darwin Trust (Trustee)