Rare Books

Staff and Contact Information

Rare Book Collections Staff: Responsibilities and Interests

This lists current 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

  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

• IRENE DANKS

  i.danks@nls.uk

  Responsibilities

  Rare Book involvement in the North Reading Rooms; reprographic and digitisation administration; stationery.

  Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with

  20th-century politics and trade union history.

• ANETTE HAGAN

  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: 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 Collections Manager)

  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 & 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

  g.hogg@nls.uk

  Responsibilities

  Collection development (purchasing, deposits and donations); co-ordinating user services in the Rare Books and Music 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

  k.lindsay@nls.uk

  Responsibilities

  Gale, Proquest; liaison with ICT division, 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

  s.malcolm@nls.uk

  Responsibilities

  Rare Book involvement in the North Reading Rooms; 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

  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

  c.pilz@nls.uk

  Responsibilities

  Invigilation of the Rare Books and Music Reading Room.

  Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with

  Cataloguing, Islands of St Kilda. Collections: Crawford English Tracts.

• EOIN SHALLOO

  e.shalloo@nls.uk (On career break until May 2011)

  Responsibilities

  Cataloguing policy and standards; co-ordinating user services, particularly Rare Books involvement in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room; access to Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO); maintaining programme of talks on collections; arranging visits from other staff.

  Interests, including areas of particular experience, collections worked with

  Irish, British and European history 1850-1921; nineteenth century literature; book illustration history and techinques; bookbindings; book history; early photography; chapbooks, broadsides and ephemera; mountaineering collections; children's books; indexing of images and digitisation. Collections: Astorga, Crawford English Ballads, Cuthbert, Fort Augustus (St Benedict's Abbey), Graham Brown, Findlay, Haig, Lauriston Castle, Lloyd, Eudo Mason, Thomas Murray, Romanian, School Prize Books, Scottish Mountaineering Club, J G Scott, Hugh Sharp, Annie S Swan, Wordie.

  Languages

  Fluent Irish; working knowledge of French and German.

• KEITH SKAKLE

  k.skakle@nls.uk

  Responsibilities

  Rare Book involvement in the North Reading Rooms; digitisation and microfilming administration.

  Interests

  Collections: Crawford English Ballads, Crawford Miscellaneous Broadsides, Erickson, Lauriston Castle, Photographs, Townley, Weir.

• GEORGE STANLEY

  g.stanley@nls.uk

  Responsibilities

  Rare Book involvement in the North Reading Rooms; 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

  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 Educational and Interpretative Services and Marketing Divisions; 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.

Collections and staff - index

Abbotsford	Anette		James Ramsay MacDonald	Helen
A J Beattie	Brian		Jolly	Helen
Agnes Miller Parker	Eoin		Keiller	Brian, Anette, Helen
Aitken	Helen		Keir Hardie / Emrys Jones	Eoin
Alexander Law	Brian		Kelmscott	Helen
Alva	Brian		Lauriston Castle	Keith, Eoin, Helen
Annie S Swan	Eoin		Lloyd	Robert, Eoin
Antiquaries	Helen, Robert		Lord George Douglas	Brian, Helen
Astorga	Anette, Eoin		Lord Murray	Brian
Auld	Brian, Anette		Lyle	Karen, Brian
Balfour Handel	James		Macadam	James
Balmoral	Anette		MacCurdy	Helen
Begg	James, Helen		Mackie	James
Birkbeck	Helen		MacNaughton	Helen, Stuart
Blaikie	Helen, Robert		Maitland Thomson	Helen
Blair	Anette		Martin	Helen
Blairs College	Brian, helen		Mason	Eoin
Borrow	Anette, Brian		Matheson	Anette
Bute	Graham, Helen		Mercier	James
Cain	Karen		Meriden Gravure Company	Graham
J F Campbell	Karen, Anette		Moir	James
Cassidy	Anette, Brian		Murdoch Henderson	James
Castle Fraser	Helen		Naismith	Robert
Chinese books	Robert		Newbattle	Brian, Graham
Clark	Graham		Newhailes	Graham, Brian
Combe	Anette		Newman	Karen
Cowan	Anette		Nicol Smith	Helen
Cox	Anette		Oban Cathedral	Anette
Crawford English Ballads	Eoin, Keith		Oliphant	Helen
Crawford English Newspapers	Graham		Orrock	Brian
Crawford English Tracts	Colin		Ossian	Karen, Anette
Crawford Indulgences	Helen, Anette		Paterson	Helen
Crawford Miscellaneous Broadsides	Keith		Perth St Ninian's	Helen
Crawford Reformation Tracts	Anette		Photographs	Graham, Keith
Cunninghame Graham	Karen		Polish Collections	Anette
Cuthbert	Stuart		Preshome Chapel	Anette
Dieterichs	Anette, Graham		Protestant Institute	Helen
Dowden	Helen, Graham		Renwick	Helen
Drygrange	Helen		Robert McKinlay	Anette
Durdans	Brian		Romanian	Eoin
Dwiggins	Graham		Rosebery	Brian, Helen
Edinburgh Society of Musicians	James		Roxburghe	Robert
Egypte	Robert		Royal Blind School	Brian
Episcopal Church of Scotland	Helen		Ruari MacLean	Graham
Erickson	Keith		Saltoun Manse	Anette, Brian, Helen
F E MacDonald	Karen		Sanderson	Graham
Ferguson	Helen		Savage	Graham
Findlay	Eoin		School Prize Books	Eoin
I H Finlay	Graham		J G Scott	Eoin, Helen
Fort Augustus	Brian, Anette, Helen, Eoin		Scottish Catholic Archives	Anette
George Campbell Hay	Karen		Scottish Mountaineering Club	Eoin
Gilson	Brian		Social Credit	James
Glen	James		Stevenson	George, Robert, James
Graham Brown	Eoin, Robert		Sunderland Hall	Brian
Gray	Helen, Graham		Sutherland	Robert
Gregynog	Eoin		Suttie	Brian
Grindlay	Helen		Thomas Murray	Eoin
Haig	Eoin		Thorkelin	Anette
Haxton	Anette, Helen		Townley	Keith
Henderson Memorial	Anette		Tweedsmuir	James
Henderson Smith	Robert, Graham		Tyninghame	Brian
Hew Morrison	Karen, Anette		Warden	Helen
Hopkins Berlioz	James		Weir	Keith
Hopkinson Verdi	James		Westlake	Anette
Hugh Sharp	Eoin, Helen		William Beattie	Brian
Hume	Stuart		Woodburn	Helen
ICAS	James		Wordie	Eoin
Inglis	James

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