Rare Book Collections Staff - responsibilities and interests

This lists staff in alphabetical order and their email addresses. The index at the end of the page shows which staff have a particular interest in or knowledge of particular collections.

Robert L Betteridge

Email: r.l.betteridge@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Catalogue retroconversion and maintenance; ESTC liaison; additional duties as required.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Cataloguing policy and standards; retroconversion project, especially pre-1801 material; provenance, bookplates, heraldry; digital photography. Collections: Antiquaries, Chinese Books, Egypte, Graham Brown, Henderson Smith, Lloyd, Naismith, Roxburghe, Stevenson, Sutherland, Walter Blaikie.
• Languages:
  Basic Latin

Anette Hagan

Email: a.hagan@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Services to remote users; all Rare Book web pages; Digital Library liaison; overview of Rare Book contributions to digitisation programme; liaison regarding Digital Objects Database and Digital Archive; co-ordination of remote enquiries; reporting key acquisitions to the Library's Trustees; promotion of collections through web pages; departmental representative on OPAC Functional Group and Intellectual Property Committee.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Digitisation and metadata creation; history of Lowland Scots, contemporary Gaelic; modern Scottish fiction; post-Reformation history of Scotland; the Highland bagpipe; Protestant Reformation on the Continent and in Scotland, especially Luther, Calvin and Knox; 18th- to 20th-century German theology, esp. Schleiermacher; Scottish Enlightenment; 18th- to 19th-century Continental philosophy, especially Kierkegaard; Romanticism in Continental and Scottish literature. Collections: Abbotsford, Astorga, Auld, Balmoral, Blair, Borrow, Cassidy, Combe, Cowan, Cox, Crawford Indulgences, Crawford Reformation and Lutheran Tracts, Dieterichs, Fort Augustus, Haxton, Henderson Memorial Library, Hew Morrison, J F Campbell, Keiller, Matheson, Oban Cathedral, Ossian, Polish Collections, Robert McKinlay, Saltoun Manse, Scottish Catholic Archives, Thorkelin, Westlake.
• Languages:
  Native German speaker, working knowledge of French, Gaelic and Scots, rudimentary Latin.

Brian Hillyard (Rare Book and Music Manager)

Email: b.hillyard@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Policy, planning, training and support; member of Management Forum.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Digitisation; cataloguing rules and systems; history of libraries and scholarship; Scottish book collectors (especially pre-1850); history of Library collections (especially 18th century); Greek and Latin classics; Gutenberg, incunabula, and early foreign printing; Chepman and Myllar and early Scottish printing; Online Aldis; Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO); bibliographical fingerprints. Collections: A J Beattie, Alexander Law, Alva, Auld, Blairs College, Borrow, Cassidy, Crawford Collections, Durdans, Fort Augustus, Gilson, Keiller, Lord George Douglas, Lord Murray, Lyle, Newbattle, Newhailes, Orrock, Rosebery, Royal Blind School, Saltoun Manse, Sunderland Hall, Suttie, Tyninghame House, William Beattie.
• Other, including languages:
  Committees, etc.: CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group Committee; Bibliographic Standards Committee of the CILIP Rare Books Group (chair); Advisory Board for the History of the Book in Scotland; Council of the Scottish Text Society; Statistical Accounts Editorial Committee; ESTC/UK & Ireland Management Board. Member of: Bibliographical Society (London), Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, Book Trade History Group, Children's Book History Society. Main languages: Greek and Latin; others read: French, German, Italian.

Graham Hogg

Email: g.hogg@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Collection development (purchasing, deposits and donations); co-ordinating user services in the Special Materials Reading Room; microfilming/digitisation projects (Cengage Gale 19th-Century UK Periodicals Project); collection management (buildings) regarding storage and disposition of rare books collections; Rare Books in Scotland (RBiS) Forum (convener). Collections: Bute, Crawford English Newspapers, Dieterichs, Dowden, Gray, Henderson Smith, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Leslie Sanderson, Meriden Gravure Company, Newbattle, Newhailes, Photographs, Ronald W Clark, Ruari McLean, Savage, W A Dwiggins.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Microfilming projects; collection management; preservation management; typography; private press books; post-Reformation British and German history; influence of classical literature on Renaissance literature; sporting literature; military history.
• Languages:
  Working knowledge of German, Greek, Latin and French.

Karen Lindsay

Email: k.lindsay@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Gale, Proquest; liaison with Information Systems; Health and Safety.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Cataloguing policy and standards, projects, microfilming, provenance, IT, databases, internet, serials. Collections: Cain, Cunninghame Graham, F E MacDonald, George Campbell Hay, Hew Morrison, J F Campbell, Lyle, Newman, Ossian.

  Languages:
  Gaelic (learning).

Stuart Malcolm

Email: s.malcolm@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Rare Book involvement in the Special Collections Reading Room; reprographic orders; invoicing; liaising with Bookfetching Unit; use of Voyager Circulation.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Spanish Civil War, Renaissance Venice, 20th century Cuban history, medieval saints.
• Collections: Cuthbert, Hume, MacNaughton.

James Mitchell

Email: james.mitchell@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Cataloguing of current accessions; co-ordination of shelfmarking; creation of collection level records; maintenance of NRR/SU reference stock.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Cataloguing; digitisation; critical editing; the applicability of textual bibliography for the critical editing of music; Renaissance lute tablature and Renaissance polyphony 1400-1550; European Continental music 1875-1945; the Scottish diaspora, especially Canada and USA; religious controvery in the Scottish church 1700-1900; English poetry, especially the Modernists. Collections: Balfour, Begg, Edinburgh Society of Musicians, Glen, Hopkinson, ICAS, Inglis, Macadam, Mackie, Mercier, Moir, Murdoch Henderson, Social Credit, Stevenson, Tweedsmuir.
• Other, including languages:
  Working knowledge of French and German; contemporary musical notation; white and black mensural notation, French and Italian lute tablature.

Colin Pilz

Email: c.pilz@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Invigilation of the Special Collections Reading Room.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Cataloguing, Islands of St Kilda. Collections: Crawford English Tracts.

Keith Skakle

Email: k.skakle@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Rare Book involvement in the Special Collections Reading Room; digitisation and microfilming administration.
• Collections: Crawford English Ballads, Crawford Miscellaneous Broadsides, Erickson, Lauriston Castle, Photographs, Townley, Weir.

George Stanley

Email: g.stanley@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Rare Book involvement in the Special Collections Reading Room; reprographic orders; invoicing; liaising with Bookfetching Unit; audit and movement of stock.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Online Aldis; broadsides; sporting history; newspapers. Collections: Crawford Collections, Stevenson.

Helen Vincent

Email: h.vincent@nls.uk

• Responsibilities:
  Co-ordinating promotion of Rare Book collections and services, including visits to and from external groups; schools activities; higher education, including postgraduate inductions, teaching sessions and courses; liaison with External Relations division; collection management (books) regarding stock audit of collections and liaison with Preservation and Conservation division; Outlook development; incunabula matters; internal rolling divisional training programme.
• Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with:
  Incunabula; Early Modern English and continental literature; History of the Book, especially 16th-century English and Italian; humanism; textual criticism; Reformation history (Anglican/Episcopal and Calvinist); women's writing; women and the book trade; children's literature. Collections: Aitken, Antiquaries, Birkbeck, Blairs College, Bute, Castle Fraser, Cathedral of the Isles, Crawford Collections, Crawford Borghese, Crawford Indulgences, Dowden, Drygrange, Episcopal Church of Scotland, Ferguson, Fort Augustus, Gray, Grindlay, Haxton, Hugh Sharp, J G Scott, James Ramsay MacDonald, Jolly, Keiller, Kelmscott Press, Lauriston Castle, Lord George Douglas, MacCurdy, MacNaughton, Maitland Thomson, Martin, Maxwell A Begg, Nichol Smith, Oliphant, Paterson, Perth St Ninian's Cathedral, Protestant Institute, Renwick, Rosebery, Royal High School, Saltoun Manse, Walter Blaikie, Warden, Woodburn.
• Languages:
  Fluent at reading Latin, French, Italian; working knowledge of Greek.

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