Annual Review 2007-2008 continued (page 2 of 2)

The year in review

NLS Highlights in the 2007-2008 financial year

• April: Sir Sean Connery launches the John Murray Archive public fundraising campaign.
• May: 1707 Act of Union debated at NLS with historians Michael Fry, Christopher Whateley, Paul Henderson Scott and Brian Taylor.
• June: The Roy Military Map of Scotland goes online.
• July: HRH Prince Philip pays the Library a visit and formally opens the 'Tea and Tigers: Stories of Scotland and South Asia' exhibition.
• August: Andrew Marr surveyed the Scottish political landscape in the 2007 NLS Donald Dewar Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
• September: Rigorous preservation work by NLS staff saved thousands of collection items from accidental flood damage.
• October: Ian Rankin opens 'Crime Scene Edinburgh: 20 Years of Rankin and Rebus', the exhibition that celebrated his well-loved detective, literary development and the progress made in forensic policing over the past two decades.
• November: Conservators start work on the Bartholomew Archive, funded by the John R Murray Charitable Trust. The Archive records the business of the internationally renowned mapmaking firm, Bartholomew, established in 1826.
• December: Subject headings for 'Scottish literature' successfully retained in the Library of Congress cataloguing rulebook.
• January: Celebrations for the anniversary of 500 Years of Printing in Scotland begin.
• February: A digital resource offering full-text access to over 100 19th-century periodicals goes online.
• March: Four Arts and Humanities Research Council awards received by NLS to work in partnership with universities.

 

Saying thanks

Supporters

This year was marked by extremely generous support for our John Murray Archive Project, which is helping to transform your National Library by bringing to life a remarkable collection of manuscripts, business papers and characters credited with generating the ideas that shaped the modern world. Building on the groundbreaking John Murray Archive exhibition, we are developing our buildings to provide unprecedented access to the national collection with a capital funding project that has already attracted high level support. NLS gratefully acknowledges the assistance of all our funders and supporters from April 2007 to March 2008, listed below.

Supporters of the National Library of Scotland

• The Scottish Government
• The Scottish Arts Council
• The Heritage Lottery Fund

Donors

• The John R Murray Charitable Trust
• The Michael Marks Charitable Trust
• William Grant & Sons
• Robin Leith Trust
• The Craignish Trust
• Mr J S Coduri

The campaign for the John Murray Archive (JMA)

JMA major donors

• The Darwin Trust of Edinburgh
• Dunard Fund
• The MacRobert Trust
• Sir Siegmund Warburg Voluntary Settlement

JMA sponsors

• Binks Trust
• The John Ellerman Foundation
• The Michael Marks Charitable Trust
• John Menzies plc (in memory of the late J M Menzies)
• The North British Hotel Trust
• Dr William Zachs and Mr Martin Adam

JMA benefactors

• Professor Michael Anderson OBE FRSE FBA
• The John S Cohen Foundation
• The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
• Mr Stephen W Dunn
• The Lord Laing of Dunphail FRSE and Lady Laing
• Mr and Mrs Mark H Laing
• Mr and Mrs James Miller CBE
• Mr and Mrs Charles E P Plowden
• The Radcliffe Trust
• Scottish & Newcastle plc
• The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
• Tulip Charitable Trust

 

 

JMA patrons

• Aberdeen Asset Management
• Anderson Strathern
• Mr and Mrs Robin Angus
• Professor Sir Michael Bond and Lady Bond
• Mr and Mrs H Bruce Field
• Professor Graham D Caie
• Professor Sir Kenneth Calman and Lady Calman
• Mr Ewen K Cameron
• Mr Kenneth J Campbell
• Career Associates (UK) Ltd
• Cruden Foundation Ltd
• Edinburgh Decorative and Fine Arts Society
• Professor Sir David Edward KCMG QC FRSE and Lady Edward
• The Golden Bottle Trust
• Mr and Mrs Edward M Green
• The Rt Hon Lord Hope of Craighead PC FRSE and Lady Hope
• Mr and Mrs Ian E Ivory
• The Anthony Laing Charitable Trust
• Mr and Mrs Timothy J A Laing
• Timothy and Charlotte Laing Trust
• Lazard Charitable Trust
• Professor Alexander McCall Smith CBE and Dr Elizabeth McCall Smith
• Dr Anita McConnell FRGS
• Mr and Mrs Ewen C S Macpherson
• Mr Roy L Martin QC
• Sir Thomas Risk FRSE and Lady Risk
• Mrs Janet Saint Germain
• Mr and Mrs Robert Speirs
• Mr Martyn Wade and Mrs Anne Wade
• Ms Teri Wishart
• The Alma and Leslie Wolfson Charitable Trust

JMA supporters

• Mr Andy Agnew
• Mrs Darlene T Anderson
• Mr William Berry WS and Mrs Elizabeth Berry
• Mr Crawford Beveridge CBE
• Mr and Mrs Ian Carmichael
• Mr Rob Carpenter
• Mrs Gwen Chessell
• Mr and Mrs Simon H T Clark
• Miss Pauline A M Clarke and Miss Patricia Clarke
• Mr J S Coduri
• Mr Nicholas Craib
• Mr Piers Currie
• Dr Jean Curtis-Raleigh
• Falkirk Archaeological and Natural History Society
• Mr Alastair D B Gavin
• Mr Malcolm J Good
• Ms Rita A Gow
• Mr J A Howe
• Dr Kenneth R Hunter
• Mr Norman Lessels and Mrs Christine S Lessels
• Ms Briony Llewellyn
• Lady Lucinda Mackay
• Ms Margaret Mearns
• Mr and Mrs Harry J Morgan
• Sir Iain Noble Bt OBE and Lady Noble
• Mrs Carole Orpen
• Mr and Mrs Sandy Orr
• Royal Over-Seas League
• Saltire Society
• Mr Paul Sanderson
• Professor James A Secord
• Mr and Mrs Frank Scott
• Lady Tumim CBE
• Mr and Mrs Anthony E Weld Forester

 

 

Exhibition sponsors

• D C Thomson (in-kind)
• Eastern Exhibition & Display (in-kind)
• Edinburgh Indian Association (in-kind)
• Henzteeth
• Lothian and Borders Police(in-kind)
• Orion Books
• Scottish Forensics Service (in-kind)
• Scottish & Newcastle plc
• ScottishPower (in-kind)

General donors

• Robin Leith Trust
• The John R Murray Charitable Trust
• Ms J S Coduri

A' Adams Bairns

• The Craignish Trust

Callum Macdonald Memorial Award supporters

• Mrs C Cighill
• Mr and Mrs R Gregor
• Institute of Contemporary Scotland
• John McClean
• The Michael Marks Charitable Trust

Visitor centre project

• William Grant and Sons

Collection donors

Every year the nation benefits from the generosity of hundreds of individuals and organisations who donate all manner of material to the Library. While space unfortunately, does not permit us to list them all here, we remain extremely grateful to all our donors who make unique and much-valued contributions to our national collections.

 

Board of Trustees

Chairman

• Professor Michael Anderson, OBE, MA, PhD, FBA, FRSE

Ex-officio

• The Lord President of the Court of Session
• The Lord Advocate
• The First Minister, Scottish Parliament
• The Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh Central
• The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates
• The Minister of the High Kirk (St Giles'), Edinburgh
• The Crown Agent
• The Lord Provost of Aberdeen
• The Lord Provost of Dundee
• The Lord Provost of Edinburgh
• The Lord Provost of Glasgow

Appointed by the Crown

• Professor Michael Anderson, OBE, MA, PhD, FBA, FRSE
• Andrea M Batchelor
• A Lorraine Fannin, BA, DipEd
• Dr Willis Pickard

Appointed by the Faculty of Advocates

• The Hon Lord Coulsfield, QC
• Richard Keen QC
• Malcolm C N Scott, QC
• Malcolm G Thomson, QC
• Stephen Woolman, QC

Appointed by the universities

• Professor Graham D Caie, MA, PhD, FRSA, FEA, FRSE
• Ivor G Lloyd, BA, DipLib, MLib,ALA
• Peter Kemp, MA, PhD
• Dr Judith Vincent, BA, PhD

Appointed by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities

• Councillor Martin Greig
• Councillor Kathy Morrice

Co-opted

• Lady Balfour of Burleigh, CBE, MA, DPhil, FSAScot, FRSE
• Ishbel Maclean, MA
• Moira Methven, MCILIP
• Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, MA, Phd, FRHistS

 

 

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