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MLAG MeetingFriday 15th March 2019Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew10:30 – 12:00?AttendeesSarah Abbot (National Archives)Leah Benson (National Gallery of Ireland)Jane Bramwell (Tate)Craig Brough (Royal Botanic Garden, Kew)Martin Cherry (Library and Museum of Freemasonry)Louise Ellis-Barrett (British Museum)Martin Flynn (V&A) Jonathan Franklin (National Gallery)Andrea Gilbert (Wallace Collection)Mark Glancy (National Museums Scotland) – SecretaryAntony Loveland (British Museum) – ChairHellen Pethers (Natural History Museum)Helen Pye-Smith (Bank of England)Adam Waterton (Royal Academy)Nick Wyatt (Science Museum)1. Welcome, introductions and apologiesApologies from:Penny Allen (Royal Museums Greenwich)Kristine Chapman (National Museum Wales)Melanie Grant (Wellcome Collection)Nina Hadaway (RAF Museum)Heather Johnson (National Museum Royal Navy)*Maxine Miller (Tate)Emer Ni Cheallaigh (National Museum of Ireland)Judith Phillips (Bowes Museum)Julie Robertshaw (Imperial War Museum)Lluis Tembleque Teres (Museum of London)Marjolijn Verbrugge (Army Flying Museum)Caroline Warhurst (London Transport Museum)Antony thanked Craig for hosting this meeting.2. Minutes of last meetingMinutes approved and will now replace the draft version on the MLAG blog.3. Actions from last meetingEvents: AL to set up an organising committee for the next MLAG event (a half-day event of research data management) – ongoing.4. Social media update- Hellen PethersWe currently have 463 followers.The @MLAGuk twitter account aims to retweet tweets from our member’s own accounts or those of their organisation which they relate to the Library and Archive collections. I do my best to look out for material to retweet, but if you know that you are going to be tweeting material for a specific event or your organisation is tweeting about a current exhibition that you know has Library and Archive material in, that we can be promoting, please email me h.pethers@nhm.ac.uk or send a direct message to the MLAG twitter account and I will do my best to retweet.Museum Week 13-19 May 2019 (please note this is different to original advertised dates and themes)#WomenInCulture Monday, May 13th#SecretsMW Tuesday, May 14th#PlayMW Wednesday, May 15th#RainbowMW Thursday, May 16th#ExploreMW Friday, May 17th#PhotoMW Saturday, May 18th#FriendsMW Sunday, May 19thMore information can be found: If you know that you are going to be getting involved, let Hellen know (h.pethers@nhm.ac.uk).5. British Library/Shared IRO repository updateThere was a technical meeting of the five participating institutions – BL, BM, NMS, Tate, MoLA on 14th February where the British Library gave an update on progress. All of the participants have been allocated a landing page on the repository for their publications and all of them have submitted data to the BL. The home page also enables featured items and themed collections of material.NMS already have a repository and were able to assist in testing bulk uploads. The system the BL use does not use Dublin Core metadata, we did not have data in Hyku mandatory fields and there were some inconsistencies in our data, so there was a bit of tweaking required to map the data to the new fields. We now have all our records and attached files on the repository (2019) and are now looking at research data in different formats to test – CT scans, 3D models, etc.Tate have concentrated on Tate Papers but linking to their website, rather than having files attached to the repository record (pdfs are not suitable and lose context). They will investigate using the web archive option at BL to make a copy available. Tate is now carrying out a trawl of bibliographies and research data from conservation science.BM are testing the functionality of the metadata, but find it difficult as there are 140 fields to consider, many of them duplicating similar information. There is a paper going to the Directorate to consider the management of a repository, the content to be included and how to deal with images, particularly in relation to Plan S impact to make research content open access and the heavy use of third party images that cannot have a CC-BY licence applied to them. BL are currently testing google analytics for metrics and DataCite DOI look-up and the next stage of development will look at a shared search facility.The cost will be ?10.8K per year for the first 3 subsidised years – that is based on having 10 partner institutions, with the BL taking 2/12ths of the cost. At the end of the three years the system will be self-sustaining. Bandwidth is unlimited and there is no limit on file transfer sizes.DataCite integration is in development, but there will be a charge for this. The BL is waiving the ?200 set-up fee, but for repository use only it will be ?500 p.a.; or ?1500 if you wish to mint your own DOIs for use in the repository and other locations (an option if you moved repository at a later date).BL are also developing a Digital Asset Management and Preservation System which will become available to others in the future.Following the Plan S responses from IROs, there has been some discussion about a potential IRO open access journal. SCURL are also investigating a Scottish Universities OA Press.6. Date, venue and themes of future meetingsPenny at National Maritime Museum will investigate the possibility of the June meeting at their brand new purpose built stores at Kidbrooke. Provisional date is Friday 14th June 2019. Action: Mark to confirm date and arrangements with Penny.National Museums Scotland will host the September 2019 meeting in Edinburgh.Science Museum will host the December 2019 meeting.For 2020 we have the offer of a meeting in Dublin hosted by the National Gallery of Ireland and the National Museum of Ireland. The Museum of London have also offered to host an MLAG meeting at the Docklands Museum in 2020.There was also a suggestion to approach Zoological Society of London. Penny and Mark previously discussed having a couple of people presenting a topic at our meetings – not as formal as a half-day event – possibly archive accreditation for museums and galleries with people sharing experience, lessons learned and top tips. SM have a member of staff who is an assessor and there is a museum archivists’ group in Ireland, so there is a pool of expertise we could call on.7. Library and archive updates from membersBank of England - Helen Pye-SmithWe are pleased with our new LMS, Soutron but there is no progress yet on acquiring a digital archive.? There have been several changes to the Information Centre team over the last year.? A new Collection management librarian will join us on 1st April. After that we will be advertising maternity cover for a serials/e-resources librarian.British Museum - Antony Loveland Collections Administration ReviewThe new structure officially went live on 1st March, although in practice it is much more of a transitional phase, as the new financial structures do not take effect until 1st April and there is still much work to do on issues like staff accommodation.? Despite this the review is, ?in one way or another, taking up a considerable amount of my time as I work to address a mixture of short and longer term issues.As a result of the review, we currently have two vacancies: an 18-month secondment cover for an Assistant Librarian and a maternity cover post for a Serials and E-resources Librarian.Digital repositoryThe library is becoming increasingly involved with the shared IRO repository project, led by the BL.? We will be contributing to a paper which will go to the Museum’s Directorate Group later this year. It will set out in more detail how we are going to manage the repository internally. E-resourcesThe library continues to expand its e-resource portfolio, with the acquisition of the 2019 archaeology titles from the Oxford Handbooks Online platform.? It is also going ahead with its first purchase of ebooks from JSTOR.ExhibitionsFollowing on from the extremely successful Hokusai exhibition, Manga opens on 23.5.19. WebsiteThe Museum is working on a major website refresh and has chosen Numiko to deliver the project. Numiko have worked with a number of high profile clients in the HE and cultural sectors, including the Wallace Collection and the Science Museum Group.British Museum - Louise Ellis-BarrettI am now Librarian Acquisitions and Projects and one of my first project related tasks will be to carry out an audit of the collections of the 8 BM curatorial Libraries plus our additional collections to identify duplication and streamline processes.?I am working with the International Training Programme team again this year in my capacity as an Egyptologist and at the same time they have tasked me with trying to establish a Libraries hub – making contact with Museum librarians and archivists more globally with a view to engaging them with the programme and beginning to share good practice.?Library and Museum of Freemasonry - Martin Cherry The Library and Museum of Freemasonry is currently going through a rebranding exercise that will see us emerging with a new name, The Museum of Freemasonry and a new logo by the middle of this year. We have also stepped up our marketing this year, employing a marketing executive and promoting the museum through using Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, as well as taking out adverts on London Underground. This does appear to be paying dividends with visitor numbers to both the museum and the library/archives increasing. As the museum is going through the Accreditation process again, we have been reviewing our policies, including the Collections Development Policy for the museum, library and archives. We have also just embarked a weeding programme to remove some of the unneeded duplicates from the library collection and possibly some of the non-masonic books that don’t fit within the new collecting policy.Our current library exhibition is Decoded: Freemasonry’s Illustrated Rulebooks, is about the symbolism on 18th Century frontispieces. It runs until the end of June and will be replaced with an archival based exhibition on William Perfect, an 18th Century freemason, medic and poet. We are also working on exhibitions scheduled for later in the year on Knights Templar and the following year on cartoons.National Archives - Sarah Abbot The Library team will shortly be taking delivery of some new furniture, including? a display case which we will use to show off some of our rare books – something we haven’t been able to do until now.?We are also intending to review our cataloguing of our journal collection with the intention of using the catalogue entries to?improve promotion of both the online and print journals that we hold.?The National Archives’ launches its Cold War season in April. This includes a free exhibition, Protect and Survive: Britain’s cold war revealed and lots of events including lates, talks, panel discussions, film screenings, workshops and family activities between 4th April and 9th November. It has its own twitter handle, #ColdWarSeason, for those that prefer to use social media to keep up to date. The library team have been busy purchasing and cataloguing new books related to the Cold War, ready for use by researchers and to be included in displays alongside some of the events.?The London Family Search Centre vacated The National Archives on 25th March. Instead, we have become a FamilySearch Affiliate Library meaning that access to all digitised records on?FamilySearch?will continue on PCs located in the reading rooms. ?We are undergoing a review of The National Archives brand. The last time this was done was 2003 and there has been a lot of change at TNA since then such as more emphasis on the organisation as a cultural destination as well as being an archive and research centre.National Gallery - Jonathan Franklin The third phase of our retrospective conversion project with OCLC is complete. A shorter phase 4 in fiscal year 2019/20 is anticipated in order to deal with part of our auction catalogue collection.? 17 early National Gallery collection catalogues dating from 1824 to 1850 are now available in digital format via the Getty Research Portal. Another 12 catalogues have just been digitised for us by the National Archives, and will be made available via the Getty Research Portal shortly. We have embarked on the reclassification of the Scientific Library, also known as the Technical Library, which is conservation-related, from UDC to Library of Congress. A new Archivist has been appointed, and security clearance is underway. In the Employment Tribunal case which was brought by a number of educators against the Gallery (the “NG27”) the Judge found that the claimants concerned were at the relevant times neither employees nor independent contractors but workers.?Several of them are continuing to use the Library, as external researchers.National Gallery of Ireland - Leah Benson Exhibitions[In]Visible: Irish Women Artists from the Archives19 July – 3 March 2019Letters, scrapbooks, photographs, and art materials shed light on the education, career and recognition of artists such as Mary Swanzy, Sarah Purser, Mainie Jellett, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Evie Hone. The exhibition showcased archival material related to Irish women artists, drawn from the collection of the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art, marking the start of the digitisation project Source—an ambitious three-year project to catalogue the Gallery’s archive and library collections relating to Irish art, and make them accessible online.Perspective: World War I Stories from the National Gallery of Ireland10 November – 1 FebruaryThis exhibition drew on the Gallery's rich library and archive collections to reveal a range of narratives about art and society during the period 1914–1918. The material on display presented the experiences of individuals who lived through World War I and focused on a number of hidden and untold stories from this time. The history of the events of World War I is well-documented, but there are certain voices that are much quieter than others, whose experiences of this time are less discernible. To coincide with the loan of drawings by the artist Bice Visconti, who volunteered with the Italian Red Cross during World War I, we investigated some of the less visible stories of the Great War held in the Gallery's collections.The Voyage of Italy: 200 Years of Travel Guides16 March – 15 SeptemberOver the centuries, Italy has attracted an array of travellers including religious pilgrims, grand tourists, scholars of antiquity, merchants, artists, architects, exiles and poets. As travel in Europe became increasingly common among?the European elite, guidebooks describing Italy — its towns, cities, regions, art and antiquities — multiplied. These books?were consulted by an array of readers from armchair travellers to scholars of antiquities and young men on the Grand Tour.Such travel guides from the past serve as indispensable research resources. Not only do they record the changing streetscapes of significant towns and cities, but they also offer insights into specific categories of taste through their descriptions of admired works of art and architecture. Many of these valuable texts are also rich with provenance data:?detailing, describing and cataloguing works of art held in prominent collections of the time.Records ManagementWe are mid-way through phase one of this project during which Records Management consultants have conducted a full records survey of the organisation. They are currently assimilating the information gathered and creating policies and procedures which our steering group will review and disseminate for comment. The recruitment of a records manager was stalled due to issues over placement of the project and grading of the position but we believe we now have a positive and can seek official sanction for the position for an initial 2 year contract.SourceThe Library and Archives government funded cataloguing and digitation project is moving forward. A PQQ was issued seeking a contract for cataloguing services and a number of companies submitted. This will now go to tender and we hope to have people in place in about 8 weeks to begin cataloguing selected collections and earmarking those for digitation.We are also in a mini tender process so acquire a new A1 Book-scanner and a new flatbed scanner which will go with our current A2 Book-scanner to create a digital hub to scan the collections.We are looking at Discovery platforms which will allow us to integrate Sirsi and Calm.Collections MoveWe have been notified that the Georgian Houses owned by the Gallery will need to be vacated and upgraded. Currently our Library reading room is located here as well as the Sir Denis Mahon reading room and staff offices, processing areas etc… We have been given no specific date but September has been mentioned. We are currently looking to see what our best options are in relation to this.Conferences/SeminarsOuting the Past 23rd March 2019OUTing the Past: The Festival of LGBT History?will be in Dublin?for the first time on Saturday, 23 March at the National Gallery of Ireland. The festival will include a morning of keynote speakers and talks followed by breakout sessions in the afternoon to include the Library and Archive collections,GDPR in cultural institutions 30th May 2019 Line up almost set…National Museums Scotland - Mark Glancy Last month saw the final phase of our 15 year ?80m redevelopment of the National Museum of Scotland building, with the opening of 3 new galleries: Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (200 years after the first Egyptian objects entered the collection); Exploring East Asia and Art of Ceramics.The National Museum of Scotland was named the top visitor attraction in Scotland in 2018 with over 2m visitors.Current exhibitions are: Robots (to 5 May), Embroidered Stories: Scottish Samplers (to 21 April) and a new exhibition at the National War Museum, Conscience Matters (to Jan 2020) which explores the story of British conscientious objectors of the Second World War through paintings, poems, letters, music and speeches.The library is just working through a large donation of archaeology books from a selection of over 2000 titles. We are currently reviewing long-term loans of manuscript material distributed around several national institutions for either return or transfer of title.We’re taking on a work placement librarianship student from Robert Gordon’s University next month.Natural History Museum - Hellen Pethers The Museum as a whole is in the process of developing its strategic framework for the next ten years – so more to share on this in forthcoming meetings.We closed in February for our Spring audit, during which time we audited and barcoded 2833 books held within out Zoology Fish and Reptile sectional libraries. This work enables us to make are collections more discoverable via Primo (discovery layer). We’re implementing Primo VE which will give us more control over optimising our discovery layer for our users We’ve configured Primo to display digital assets for our library collections (permissions permitting of course) and are now populating it with some content before a soft launch. This will allow images from our special collections (mainly artwork and manuscripts) to be viewed through our discovery layer on our webpage, this would be a first for us.Biodiversity Heritage Library – Since BHL launched in 2006, the NHM Library have digitised 9,300 volumes, which equates to 4,175,657 pages. We are very proud of our role in this digital library, providing free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on Earth 2018-2019 for 1 week a month, we have been closed to external enquiries and appointments in order to allow out staff to work on collection management projects. Image of Nature Gallery – the current theme of our art gallery is Expeditions and Endeavours, every 4 months during the 16 months that this exhibition is up, we rotate the artwork on display. We are currently on the 3rd rotation, which a feature case dedicated to the HMS Challenger Expedition 1872-76. The final rotation will be in July and the feature case will be related to the artist Sydney Parkinson.NHM publishing have a new book – Nature’s Explorers – due to be published in September. 10 of the 23 essays have been written by Library staff.Temporary loans – Until 12 May 2019, 38 illustrations by brothers Franz and Ferdinand Bauer, from our collections are on display in a stunning new exhibition at Teylers Museum, ?Haarlem, The Netherlands. The exhibition is called '200 Kinds of Green'. We have loaned items to the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff for an exhibition on locusts and the British Empire. This is in collaboration with Portsmouth University, Glasgow School of Art and Warwick University. It runs from March – September 2019.Museum of the Moon is a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram. Visit the free installation at the Museum from 17 May – 8 September, and there will be a programme of events based around this installation and the theme of the moon. Academy - Adam Waterton 2018 was the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts. To mark this, the RA Library has digitised the entire run of 250 annual Summer Exhibition catalogues from 1769 to 2018 and made them fully searchable and browsable on the RA website. The project was generously funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 2019 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Academy Schools, our post-graduate art school. To mark the occasion we are planning to digitise, transcribe and publish to the web the Schools Registers, listing all the students who have attended the RA Schools - from JMW Turner, John Constable and Sir John Soane, to John?Hoyland, Richard Hamilton, Sandra Blow, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Eddie Peake. ?The RA has begun fund-raising to refurbish the Royal Academy Schools. The project is scheduled to begin in early 2020. It will include a new, larger, Schools Library designed by David Chipperfield Architects. Charles Saumarez Smith, Secretary & Chief Executive of the Royal Academy left the Academy in December 2018. The new Chief Executive is Axel Ruger, who is currently Director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. He will join the RA in May 2019. The RA is collaborating with the University of Maastricht to offer an Executive Master in Cultural Leadership degree. There are currently 20 students enrolled on the course but it’s hoped to substantially increase the numbers over the next couple of years. The RA library is supporting the students on the course by offering library inductions to all students and by working with the course organisers to ensure that the library stocks loan copies of all of the books on the required reading lists. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew - Craig Brough Rosie Eddisford joined us as Collections & Services Librarian in JanuaryCurrently recruiting Library Graduate Trainee & Archives Graduate Trainee and a part-time Project Officer for the Sir Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project (18h pw)Taking part in Science Festivals Wakehurst 25-26 May / Kew 20-21 JulyVarious items from our collections are to be referred to in a Women in Science source book being developed by UCLOne of our Darwin letters is in Cambridge University Library’s exhibition Discovery: 200 Years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 8th March – 31st August.11 paintings by Marianne North, Sarah Ann Drake and Ann Lee and a Wardian case will be in the exhibition The Lie of the Land, from March to June at the MK Gallery, Milton Keynes.3 paintings by Margaret Mee will be loaned to a museum in Dresden, for its People and Plants exhibition, from April 2019 to April 2020.Kew’s website has been refreshed! We are to be found under Kew Science (with pages for The Library, Illustrations and Artefacts Collection, The Archive Collection) and What’s in the Gardens (Library, Art and Archives). Blogs are under Read and Watch.Science Museum - Nick Wyatt Visitor figures for the Dana Research Centre & Library for readers using the collections or the space to study have seen a 28% increase over past 11 months, compared with the same period last year. Use of special collections has increased, specifically archives (a 21% increase) and Museum files (a 62% increase). In addition, use of the book collections in London has increased by 23% and book loans by 9%. Readers are consulting a wide range of material including Archives, rare books, trade literature, other stored collections and technical files. The Library has had a Wellcome Research Secondment Fellow since October, and she gave a “show and tell” for 30 staff and visitors for several early English medical books published before 1800 over two evenings in March. The Library is also becoming a favoured location for filming. As a part of our long-term initiative to retrospectively enhance archive cataloguing and its online offer, we have been upgrading records and publishing associated images on Collections Online, for example a Collection of John Herschel’s Notebooks. The digitisation of photographs from the recently acquired John Evershed Archive has been completed and over 450 photographs have been published online depicting sun eclipses and work in observatories in India and England (for example: ). The archive complements the Sun exhibition and the digitised images have already been requested for SMG publications.The clearance of Blythe House liberated from storage quite a few unaccessioned archives that an assistant archivist is sorting through, cleaning and repackaging, presenting acquisition cases to our Collecting Board (for example is The Whitcombe Collection of Tramway Photographs) and cataloguing. Google Arts & Culture launched its latest project – Once Upon A Try – from the Science Museum. The Group worked with Google, together with NASA, CERN and over 120 partners across the globe, to share stories of humanity’s greatest inventions and discoveries. You can see 15 new online exhibits we created, including one on the alchemical manuscript of Flamel’s Trésor des Trésors.Her Majesty the Queen visited the Museum recently to open the new Smith Centre (for patrons and fundraising events) and to announce a new exhibition opening in July, Top Secret: From Cyphers to Cyber Security, which will include loaned-in artefacts from the GCHQ historic collections. The Queen also posted on Instagram for the first time On a broader note across the Science Museum Group, there is a lot of work being done to support the Museum’s forthcoming application for archives accreditation, which will start with the Railway Museum’s archives. The Science and Media Museum in Bradford has a new Archives and Library Manager, Claire Mayoh.Tate - Jane Bramwell Tate Library and Archive is in the process of embedding changes within our department following an internal restructure in 2018.? The new systems and discovery manager will be undertaking a review of Symphony, CALM, and EBSCO, to improve functionality and investigate online registration and electronic ordering.? We are in the process of installing new shelving at our Tate Britain store and working with the Collection Care division on a project to increase capacity at our off-site storage facility. We have been working with the British Library and project partners on the development of the open access repository.? The Library team are continuing with the cataloguing the Martin Parr photobook collection which will be completed in the autumn of 2019.? We are preparing for a re-hang of the collection displays at Tate Britain in 2020, including the Archive Gallery which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tate Archive.? The Don McCullin exhibition at Tate Britain is proving popular and increasing footfall to the Library and Archive Reading Rooms. V&A - Martin Flynn Our annual subscription to WordPress to secure our domain name has just been renewed.Our current Dior exhibition is sold out until May and is being extended by 7 weeks.? Frida Kahlo also did exceptionally well.? However ‘The Future Starts Here’, ‘Videogames’ and ‘Fashioned from Nature’ had low take-up.Thanks to all MLAG colleagues for their help in identifying a GDPR and CyberEssentials compliant competition software system for our annual Illustration Awards competitionWallace Collection - Andrea Gilbert Events: Library Highlights Tours and Library and Archive in Focus evenings.The first public Library and Archive highlights tour was held on Monday 25th February and was a great success; another one is planned for 25th March, and like the previous one, it is totally booked. These tours are intended to advertise our collections, so that we can encourage more readers. We are also happy for the Visitors’ Library to be used as a place for private study, although we encourage visitors to let us know in advance when they plan to arrive. Because of the Easter Holiday, we won’t be holding a tour in April, but the aim is to hold them monthly, if possible.We aim to schedule Four Library and Archives in Focus evenings per annum. The next one, ‘The woman behind the bequest: Lady Wallace in the Library and Archives’, is being held on on 18th March.The Library and Archives in Focus evenings are presented by a member of Curatorial staff, with input from Library and Archive staff. They are generally related to recent exhibitions; this one follows on from our Richard Wallace and his Age exhibition, which ran from June last year until 6th January.Our next one will be 3rd June, entitled ‘Armour in the Archives’. This coincides with our current exhibition: Henry Moore: the Helmet Heads, which opened on 6th March, and runs until 23rd June.Also on 18th March, there will be a day conference: ‘Celebrating Lady Wallace: women philanthropists in the gilded age’. Helen Jones, Research Librarian, will be giving a talk at the conference on Richard and Lady Wallace’s Visitors’ book. She undertook considerable research on the people who came to the collection before it became a public museum, 1876-1897.These are free events, but, like the tours, they have an upper limit of 20 visitors, so have to be booked in advance.Digitisation newsIn November, the Friends of the National Libraries gave us a grant for digitising a rare 18th century treatise on Venetian cannons, Artigliera Venetà, c.1782 by Domenico Gasperoni, the last director of the Venetian Arsenal. We have a Venetian cannon by Giovanni Mazzaroli, c.1688 in the Wallace Collection. After Venice was occupied by the French in 1797, all the Venetian ordnance was destroyed.The Visitors’ Book, mentioned above, has recently been digitised for us by the British Library. Unfortunately, page turning software is too expensive an option for us. The Research Librarian has been investigating alternative methods, such as being hosted on other websites via open source software, but we don’t have the in-house IT capability for this.We also received updates from:Army Flying Museum - Marjolijn VerbruggeThe Museum’s redevelopment project is nearing its completion and we are still on course to re-open on the 1st of April. The new archive suite has been completed and the material moved from temporary storage into their new home. This area has a separate reading room and store. The latter is climate controlled and locked at all times. The reading room allows us to welcome more visitors and volunteers.The building works have all been completed and most of the aircraft moves have been completed. This includes the creation of individual mounts for aircraft to give them a dynamic appearance and the suspension of 6 aircraft. A full list of other developments is probably too detailed to mention but it includes the completion of 188 new graphic panels which are currently coming in, the addition of oral histories to displays and a large audiovisual show on the development of the attack helicopter. Museum of London – Lluis Tembleque TeresIn the last few months I have been busy shaping up several of the projects projected for 2019:Book disposal: a complete list of the volumes available should be on your inboxes at some point today Friday 15th (or soon after); please feel free to request any titles but collection will have to be arranged from our main site in the Barbican estate. A proposal has been written to release the library catalogue on the museum’s website during the first half of the year; I will visit Jonathan at the NG later this month to hear about their experience, hopefully learning what to expect, pros and cons etc.I am currently working in another proposal to start managing internal library loans via the LMS; this could be key when preparing for the complete library stocktake that will come with the move to the new museum. Business as usual in several other areas: cataloguing of the library backlog; editing of authorities to Library of Congress standards; internal promotion of the library via inductions and improved intranet presence.Having now passed my probation, I would like to start being more proactive towards visiting other libraries. As my projects develop I shall look for other MLAG members with experience in areas new to our library service. 2019 will be the year of the Beast at the Museum. Our exhibition Beast of London opens next month and explores the role animals have played in shaping the history of the city. The exhibition is a fully interactive experience created with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The animals (from lions to elephants and pigeons) are voiced by some famous names like Brian Blesses and Joe Pasquale;The first project of our new Curating London programme has just been launched. Called Brexit Talks, it will record Londoner’s views on Brexit;The next exhibition at our Docklands branch will open in May: Secret Rivers will use artefacts to tell the story of London’s rivers and streams, many lost over time.National Museum of Ireland - Emer Ni Cheallaigh Our records management survey is scheduled for May and staff interviews are being scheduled at present;We have ongoing archival projects cataloguing the archives of NMI Directorate and Natural History Division;We have started an LGBTQI+ oral history archival project to coincide with Dublin Pride 2019 which will be launched from our Decorative Arts and History Museum in Collins Barracks. (Should any MLAG members have any tips, they would be gratefully received!).8. AOBMLAG logo: Some draft designs are being developed for a new logo.Jisc news: At a recent London Learned Societies presentation on the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK), it was stated that any institutions wishing to be involved would have to register with Jisc. Not all libraries currently listed on COPAC will move to NBK. Jisc and Eduserve are re-merging.The meeting was followed by a tour of the library/archive facilities and a display of items from the collection. ................
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