University of Glasgow Library: Archive Services Annual Report: August 2014-July 2015 1. Overview of highlights 2. Delivering excellent research support

2.1 Knowledge exchange 2.1.1 Events and partnerships 2.2 Enhancing research resources 2.2.1 Projects 2.2.2 Appraisal

2.2.3 Cataloguing 2.3 New acquisitions 2.4 Digital engagement

3. Delivering excellent student experience 3.1 Work related learning 3.1.1 Work placement students 3.1.2 Hunterian Associates Programme 3.2 Skills training and teaching sessions 3.3 Academic supervision

4. Delivering excellent services 4.1 Reading Room and enquiries 4.2 Reprographics 4.3 Conservation & Preservation

5. Enhancing the global reach and reputation of the University 5.1 Exhibitions and displays 5.1.1 Lusitania

5.1.2 Other external loans 5.1.3 University displays 5.2 Friends and other partnerships

6. Fit for purpose infrastructure 6.1 Thurso Street Building environment 6.2 Efficiency, effectiveness and innovation 6.3 Our staff

7. Appendix: Facts and Figures 2014-15

1. Overview of highlights

Total project income of £355,000 was acquired from diverse sources to supplement the core allocation and the standard recurrent income.

Successful application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for £92,000 to support the development of the textile archive collections for use by the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History

Successful applications to the Wellcome Trust for funding to support two projects to support work in the History, Geography and Medical Humanities areas (Allotments and Erskine £70,000)

Investment of £100,000 from the University Trust to establish a Heritage Engagement Service to support the strategic aims of the University

Successful completion of the corporately sponsored Ben Line Archive catalogue and the William Simons conservation project funded by the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust

Acquisition of the Erskine Hospital Archive and the formation of a new partnership with Erskine, the School of Humanities and the Wellcome Trust. This is the latest development in the highly successful community engagement project Glasgow University’s Great War.

Successful completion of the Learning & Teaching Development Fund project Developing critical thinking through personalized learning using the University of Glasgow’s Unique & Distinctive Collections

Introduction of a new enquiry management system to streamline our processes to record and report on our interactions with our users

Online engagement saw significant increases this year with a 70% increase in number of followers on Twitter to 3836 and University Story page views almost tripling to over 3 million.

2. Delivering excellent research support

2.1 Knowledge exchange

It has been a busy year for academic conference support and public engagement activities designed to help audiences engage with and interact with University collections to generate mutually beneficial sharing of knowledge, expertise and skills. We work in partnership with academics to create and curate exhibitions celebrating the extraordinary range of the University’s research and teaching, focussing on our internationally acclaimed collections. These are intended to share knowledge about Library collections, provide inspiration for new avenues of research and illustrations to draw press attention to conference activities. The 33

rd meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology 29 Oct – 1 Nov brought 106 delegates from 21

countries to the University’s Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History. A display of the textile collections was very well received and led to impromptu tours being arranged for delegates greatly enthused by what they had seen. In March, with staff from Special Collections and the Medical Humanities Research Centre we organised an event to showcase the collections eligible for the new Wellcome Trust Research Bursary Funding Scheme. The Trust’s grant advisors came up from London to make a presentation and answer questions. Two new pieces of research were directly initiated. These were the award of a Research Bursary Award to Adrian Chapman to use MS Laing and BBSRC PhD student Caitlin Jukes undertaking work on the Syphilis Collection for a 3 month placement under the CASE Collaborative Placements Scheme.

The 6

th International Workshop on the History of Human Genetics was held in Glasgow 5-6 June as

part of the European Society of Human Genetics Conference. A pre-workshop reception was held in Thurso St to showcase our Modern Genetics Collections to delegates. The first session of the conference was dedicated to papers about Glasgow’s influence on the History of Human Genetics. The papers will be published in advance of the next Workshop in Copenhagen in 2017. Gender, Youth, Community, Methodology and More: A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott took place at the University of Leicester on 9 July. The culmination of work by Leicester’s John Goodwin and Henrietta O’Connor, it brought together practitioners discussing Jephcott’s significance. The collection held in Glasgow was part of the original inspiration for Leicester’s work. Jephcott’s Homes in High Flats research data, preserved in the Archives, is now being extensively re-used by Professors Lynn Abrams (History) and Ade Kearns (Urban Studies) as part of their Housing, Every Day life and Wellbeing in the long term research group. The (Re)Imagining Youth project, led by Dr Susan Batchelor (Sociology) and Dr Alistair Fraser (Sociology, University of Hong Kong), is inspired by Jephcott’s Time of One’s Own study, and the images we have from the study are being used in their project exhibition at Platform in November 2015. Our major non-academic engagement activities this year were with the College of Arts. We supported their Industry Engagement initiatives including Industry Day on 5 June with a film about our work. Our collections are referenced in several of their case studies. These include Reconnecting and Recreating 19th Century Scottish Textile Manufacture and Communicating the First World War. For a list of events see Section 7.5.

2.2 Enhancing research resources

2.2.1 Projects We continue to apply for grants to diversify income streams beyond the core allocation. This work aims to maximize discoverability of the University’s collections, to provide high quality services to support current University research and to enhance the reputation of the University and its Library. The total project funding secured this year was £355,000. In October we received news that we had secured £92,000 of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Collecting Cultures programme to support building the textile collections of the Scottish Business Archive. Darning Scotland’s Textile Collections is one of only two projects funded in Scotland, and the only archive (as opposed to a museum) to secure funding. The work will be completed in 2018. In 2014-15 funding committed by the University Trust for the work of Archive Services totaled £193,000 (£85,000 to be disbursed in 2015-16). £100,000 was allocated to the project to develop our Heritage Engagement service to further support the University’s Strategic Plans (see section 5: Enhancing the Global Reach and Reputation of the University). Five organisations made individual additional donations to the Trust to support the work of the Scottish Business Archive.

Swire Educational Trust, Cataloguing and preservation of the James Finlay Company Archive (£43,000)

Mactaggart Scott, Cataloguing the Mactaggart Scott Company Archive (£35,000)

National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, Conserving the William Simons Plans, second instalment (£5,450)

DiMaggios Group, Digitising the Anchor Line Archive (£3,000)

Caledonian Railway Association, Digitising a selection from the University’s railway collections (£500)

We were successful in our applications for two Wellcome Trust Research Resources Scheme projects that will be delivered over the coming 2 years. The papers of Victor Webb (1915-c2004), relating to the Scottish Allotments and Gardens movement in the 20th century received £10,000. The catalogue will be completed in 2015-16. The application for £60,000 to catalogue and make accessible the archives of Erskine Hospital was also successful. This project will run to December 2016 to coincide with the centenary of the foundation of the organization as the Princess Louise Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers. A further two projects (Fyfe Anderson and Macewen) have been successful at preliminary application stage and will be prioritized for future rounds in consultation with Library colleagues. 2.2.2 Appraisals

Work to appraise the Estates & Buildings architectural and engineering drawing collections previously

housed in the Estates offices has begun.

DP&FOI Office staff member Grace Groome, completed work on student schedule appraisal to ensure legacy paper details include only information assessed of permanent value to document student academic achievements and essential biographical details.

37 sacks of archive material were confidentially destroyed on being appraised as not worthy of

permanent retention.

2.2.3 Cataloguing

In total 52 accessions were box listed and 2658 items were listed, with 984 descriptions. This totaled

to 9.6 linear metres.

Neil Ogg, Business Archive Project Cataloguer, successfully completed the Ben Line Archive project

and began cataloguing the James Finlay archive before being offered a post at the National Portrait

Gallery. Peter Morphew is now undertaking the cataloguing to be completed in 2015-16.

Volunteers and student placements are an important part of our Cataloguing and Preservation work,

very often bringing with them new skills and specialist knowledge and always bringing enthusiasm.

Former staff member George Gardner continues to help us one day a week. This year he is focusing

on identifying photographs of the West End of Glasgow in DC 181, papers of Henry Morton. Erietta

Papadopoulou joined us for a cataloguing placement from the Information Management and

Preservation Masters and worked on UGC219, papers of David Cunningham Smith and sections of

UGD350 Court Line. Kate Gordon worked on several University collections. We are grateful to all

supporters of our work to preserve and make accessible Scotland’s cultural heritage.

2.2.4 Preserving the collections The project to conserve and preserve the William Simons ship drawings was completed. This project was supported with a grant of £10,000 from the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust. This was paid in 2 installments across 2013-14 and 2014-15. With 680 drawings of 156 ships, this collection contains 85% of our pre-1870 drawings including extremely rare drawings of American Civil War blockade running vessels.

Twelve shelves of Clerk’s Press volumes have now been reboxed. Work to improve the storage of all photographs that do not fit in standard archive boxes has been completed and another 30 Blackhouse charters were reboxed for use by Steven Reid’s Honours History course in 2015-16. Student Brittany Johnston undertook a placement from the Masters programme in Technical Art History working with the 1860s ambrotypes of Glasgow businessman Joseph Currie Robertson. This is in addition to the routine work of supporting the usage of the archives in the reading room and preparing materials for copying or exhibition. The Preservation Unit prepared materials to support 58 events. Supports and transport materials were custom made for many of our regularly exhibited materials including materials related to Adam Smith and James Watt.

2.3 New acquisitions

Over the course of the year we received 45 archival accessions consisting of a total of 68.7 linear metres. This reflects a drop in the number of accessions received but an increase in the meterage. Last year was 49 and 52.57 linear metres. Significant accessions this year: University

ACCN 3894 Finance Office, endowment files

ACCN 3936 Subcity Radio

ACCN 3786 Glasgow University Student Television Business

ACCN 3877 Currie Line Ltd (addnl)

ACCN 3939 MacTaggart Scott

ACCN 3934 Erskine Hospital Ltd

ACCN 3941 James Finlay Ltd (addnl)

2.4 Digital engagement

Archives Services maintained a strong social media and outreach presence this year. Using the platforms of twitter, Flickr, Blog, Historypin and a newly established ISSUU profile, we have promoted our collections and their research potential. We maintained a high volume of blog-posts and Flickr sets while our twitter account grew in output and popularity this year. Social media outputs are a popular choice for students wanting to share the results of their internships with us.

- Knitter in residence for the University of Glasgow (6th-12

th Oct 2014)

-Dyes in History & Archaeology conference in the University of Glasgow (29th Oct-1

st Nov)

-‘Glasgow’s War’ son et lumiere, George Square (11 November 2014) -University of Glasgow Official 564

th Birthday (7

th January 2015)

-International Women’s Day (8th March 2015)

-Lusitania 100th sinking anniversary (7

th May 2015)

-Refugee Festival Scotland (3-21 June 2015) -Summer Graduation Period (end June/ beg July 2015) -Waterloo 200

th Anniversary (18

th-21

st June 2015)

This year we also developed our social media partnerships across the University to extend the reach of the collections beyond our own platforms and to enrich the content of other social media outlets. We ran a number of joint campaigns with the University main twitter account including celebrating the 564

th birthday of the University and International Women’s Day. We also co-ordinated with the

University twitter and Archaeology twitter accounts in commemorating the 200th anniversary of the

Battle of Waterloo and the forgotten role of the University community in that well remembered conflict and with The Hunterian for their Night at the Museum Lusitania event. The engagement celebrating the 80th launch anniversary of the RMS Queen Mary in September was very successful. The blog-post and twitter schedule were picked up by the BBC who covered the story in Reporting Scotland. We then received a lovely comment from the staff at Wordpress.com who showcased the story on their much sought after Freshly Pressed section https://wordpress.com/fresh/ - “… I've been following the Uni blog for some time and was delighted to stumble on today's post on the Queen Mary. Love the fact that you're "live tweeting" the ceremony! I'm thrilled to share this post with our wider audience and promote the live tweeting on our @WordPress.com Twitter handle.” The blog on DC431 St Kilda photographs in the papers of Thomas S Patterson was picked up by a number of news sites including the BBC and the Scotsman. Student Kier Harper was quoted on the BBC along with University and NTS staff members.

3. Delivering excellent student experience

3.1 Work related learning

3.1.1 Work placement students This year we were able to provide 11 credit bearing postgraduate placements for students from the College of Arts and 20 internships through the Careers Service Club 21 Programme. 19 of the 31 placement students made contributions to the University’s Great War Project. Developing critical thinking through personalised learning using the University of Glasgow’s Unique & Distinctive Collections was a Learning & Teaching Development Fund project undertaken in conjunction with The Hunterian. It scoped the creation of a scalable sustainable model for using the collections to enhance individualised work related learning. Two pilot projects will run in 2015-16 in the History Subject Area in the College of Arts and the Biology BSc programme in MVLS and the results presented at the Learning & Teaching Conference in 2016. 3.1.2 Hunterian Associates Programme We were delighted to work with three Hunterian Associates this year. Ruth Turner’s project Objects of reminiscence – remembering the Old College was a fascinating insight into the items that have made it to Gilmorehill from the High Street. Gemma Elliott researched the background to our unpublished memoir of suffragette Elizabeth Thomson and contrasted her text with depictions of suffragettes in Punch, in her project Suffragettes and Satire: Female Campaigners in the Media. Lin Cunningham used the ever popular Stoddard Design Archive for her project entitled The Known and the Unknown: Revealing the designers of the Stoddard-Templeton Collection.

3.2 Skills training and teaching sessions

Archive Services staff took part in 23 skills training and teaching sessions this year. Co-ordinating and collaborating with Special Collections is enhancing the range of materials available at individual sessions. A highlight was a collaborative dissertation inspiration workshop for Level 4 history students organised with Special Collections. Having identified a range of potential primary sources aligned with dissertation supervisors’ areas of interest, these sources were arranged by theme and presented in a series of drop-in sessions. Training was also offered in searching for and handling items. The overall impact of this initiative has not yet been assessed but anecdotally it has been a success and student feedback was positive so it will be repeated.

3.3 Academic supervision

The staff of Archive Services continue to seek ways to continue to inspire new postgraduate research and this year was no exception. It was particularly pleasing to see Paula Blair convert her Wellcome Trust funded taught Masters in the History of Medicine into an ESRC funded PhD on the Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Archive. She will be jointly supervised across three Colleges by Professors Callum Brown (History), Malcolm Nicolson (History of Medicine) and Kevin O’Dell (Genetics). This is the result of our continuing partnership with Professor O’Dell to encourage a more interdisciplinary approach to science communication.

4. Delivering excellent services

4.1 Reading Room and enquiries

Use of our reading room service increased to 1357 from 1190 visitors last year. While the overall proportions of University of Glasgow use remained at 42% of the total, there was an increase in the use by staff and postgraduates compared to undergraduate users. One factor in this was the end of the International Story placements project.

4.2 Reprographics

The number of copies ordered doubled from 1343 in 2013-14 to 2601 this year. This was primarily down to one order of almost 900 scans from the James Finlay archive.

4.3 Conservation & Preservation

In addition to the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust funded William Simon’s project, this year’s achievements included

repackaging all the outsize photographic prints

conservation of another 30 Blackhouse Charters

repackaging 12 shelves of the Clerk’s Press collection

supporting for 58 events

conserving the letters of Adam Smith and making custom packaging for safest possible handling and display

4.4 Records Centre

In 2014/15 we received 45 Records Centre accessions consisting of a total of 1431 boxes, the

equivalent of 629.6 linear metres. The number received this year is higher than last year’s 32 and we

have received significantly more boxes – 1431 compared to last year’s 462. This can be explained by

receiving large numbers of boxes as a result of the Tay House move.

The file retrieval statistics for 2014/15 are as follows

- 503 requests were made

- 1205 files were requested

- 1004 files were produced

- 201 files were ‘fail to finds’

This reflects an 83% successful find rate. The 17% of ‘fail to finds’ were as a result of information

supplied by the requester being out of date or inaccurate.

118 bags, which is the equivalent of 236 boxes and 104 linear metres, were confidentially destroyed.

The figure is roughly the same as last year’s total, however 90 bags were stockpiled and awaiting

destruction as they not be destroyed before the end of 2014/15 due to restricted access to the loading

bay because of demolition works taking place in the neighbouring building. Additionally, progress on

destructions stopped over the summer due to staff time.

5. Enhancing the global reach and reputation of the University The University Trust has invested £100,000 over two years to develop the Heritage Engagement Service. This is designed to support the University’s strategic activities and is particularly focused on the Campus Development and Internationalization programmes. The most significant long term outcome will be a revised University Story content management system incorporating toolkits for staff using the University’s heritage consistently for marketing, development and public affairs purposes. The Chancellor’s Fund supported the Gilmorehill Story project to provide an online resource to support Campus Development. Amanda Charland was recruited to undertake this work creating biographies for 138 buildings and 18 rooms within the project’s allocated timeframe. A simple version of the website will go online in 2015-16 and be redeveloped as part of the wider Heritage Engagement Service initiative funded by the University Trust.

5.1 Exhibitions and displays

5.1.1 Hunterian The Hunterian’s Lusitania: Torpedoed at Sea exhibition ran from 7 May to 23 August and our collections featured heavily. On 7 May 1915 the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line and carrying over 1000 passengers and crew, was sunk on her return voyage from New York to Liverpool by a German submarine. The exhibition curated by Donal Bateson centred around medals originating in both Britain and Germany with the John Brown Lusitania archives as supporting materials. This exhibition was part of the University’s WW1 commemoration programme which also featured related talks by Donal Bateson and Professor Nick Pearce and a Night at the Museum event on 15 May, part of the national Festival of Museums 2015. 5.1.2 Other external loans Forensics: the anatomy of crime at the Wellcome Collection in London ran from 26 February to 21

June 2015. It was the first exhibition after a £17.5 million refit and sought to reveal the truth behind

some of the myths perpetuated by crime dramas. Seventeen items from the archive of Professors John Glaister were loaned. This archive had been catalogued with the support of the Wellcome Trust

in 2003. The Evening Standard gave the exhibition 5 stars and called it a “gripping new exhibition”

and the Guardian called it a “terrific new show”.

5.1.3 University displays Two displays were created by students for the exhibition case in Thurso St. Natalia Masewicz and Victoria Scott created Sports History: how our campus has evolved to meet a growing interest in physical education in August to coincide with the Commonwealth Games and Rebecca Roper created a display entitled The University Chapel as a War Memorial. Two Museum Studies MSc students created displays based on the University Archive as part of their coursework. Michael O’Brien created an Officers Training Corps themed display and Bethany Lane one on the University’s contribution to the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. These displays took place in the University Chapel.

5.2 Friends and other partnerships

Having been planned in 2012-13, our partnership with the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology and the History subject area Glasgow University’s Great War: A Centenary Project. This has two main aims of enhancing the Roll of Honour website and build a community history project to enhance the understanding the impact of that conflict on Gilmorehill. The archive collections will feature heavily as we tell the stories of the 761 who died and the 4500 who served. It has been greatly beneficial having History’s Dr Jennifer Novotny based with us using the collections on a daily basis. Links with Glasgow City Council are continuing under the auspices of the HLF Funded Digging In Project led by Northlight Heritage. This is recreating WW1 Trenches in Pollok Park to undertake experimental archaeology and schools and public engagement activities over the next 3 years. Glasgow students will have the opportunity to participate in the project. They will for example be encouraged to undertake research and to share stories from the University collections with the Digging In visitors. The Great War Project has also been supported by the Friends of Glasgow University Library who have awarded a grant for digitisation and for students to create online exhibitions to showcase the wealth of resources the Library holds for the study of the First World War.

5. Fit for purpose infrastructure 6.1 Thurso Street Building environment The Thurso St building was subject to flooding this year as a result of roof defcts. This has resulted in a renewal of effort to find new accommodation alongside Special Collections to streamline the services provided and make all the collections available through one service point.. The Thurso St area has been undergoing development of student flats by Watkin Jones due to be complete August 2016. The Hunterian are due to vacate their spaces in the Thurso St building in 2016-17 for new accommodation in the Kelvin Hall.

6.2 Efficiency, effectiveness and innovation

We have continued to work closely with our colleagues in Special Collections in the long term process to merge our services, policies and procedures. Examples of effective joint initiatives include participation in promoting our services at various GRAB lunches and the highly successful inaugural dissertation inspiration workshop for Level 4 history students. Although we are aiming ultimately to offer a single service, the main challenge ahead remains in an undetermined timescale for physical integration of collections and the subsequent restructuring of staff roles and responsibilities. Under the direction of Mark Denham, Moira Rankin and Sarah Hepworth, we are pleased to report that progress is now being made in implementing EMu. This collections management system is already being used by The Hunterian and has the potential to transform how we manage and present unique and distinctive collections. Claire Daniel (Searchroom & Enquiry Services Archivist) worked with Mark Denham (Business Systems Development Manager) to create a new system to record and manage searchroom visits, productions and enquiries. It was successfully implemented in August and has provided a more stable web-based system than our previous Access database. This streamline our processes to record and report on our interactions with our users more efficiently in line with requirements for SCONUL and the National Records of Scotland as well as providing the necessary service management information in a more easily retrievable form. In May Rachael Egan began a fixed term 2 year post as Heritage Engagement Officer for Archives & Special Collections. Funded by the University Trust this post seeks to find sustainable ways of maximizing the use of University Collections to support the Inspiring People, Changing the World University Strategy for 2015-2020. This requires communication and partnership working across several University Services divisions.

In October, Mary Dunne joined the team as an Opening Up Scotland’s Archives Digital Preservation

trainee. A Heritage Lottery Fund project run by the Scottish Council on Archives, Opening Up

Scotland’s Archives looks to develop new routes into the archives profession, and to develop skills in

prioritised areas in the archives sector. Over 3 years, 18 trainees will be placed at archive services across Scotland. Mary produced two key reports on digital preservation activities across the higher education sector, and on the status of digital preservation at the University which feed directly into the

work of the University’s Digital Preservation Planning Group.

6.3 Our staff

Kiara King went on maternity leave this year with the birth of baby Crawford. Kiara had been covering Clare’s responsibilities for the Scottish Business Archive. Kiara’s duties at the Ballast Trust were then covered by Cheryl Brown. Sam Maddra has done an excellent job co-ordinating the staff training sessions at staff meetings. The programme has been varied and interesting and we have all benefitted greatly from the open exchange of collections and skills knowledge. Staff have also benefited from attending and presenting at a number of conferences and external meetings throughout the year. These are listed in section 7.4. Ela Wiklo continues to share her expertise with other conservators and preservation managers. This year she presented at the Archives & Records Association Conference in Newcastle in August. Her paper was entitled Process of documentation of archival materials during conservation and outlined the history of conservation documentation and professional literature and brought it right up to date with her assessment of the importance of sharing professional knowledge via social media. She then discussed the different types of documentation most commonly in use in the conservation profession today and asserted that documenting the conservation process is an essential part of the treatment in order for future generations to fully understand our approach to collection care.

7. Appendix: Facts and Figures 2014-15 Full data on usage is being captured but at time of writing, the queries for pulling all statistics were not yet available.

7.1 Reading Room visits

Visits by type (total 1,357) 2014/15 2013/14

University of Glasgow Staff 10% 9%

University of Glasgow Undergraduates 16% 22%

University of Glasgow Postgraduates 16% 11%

External 58% 58%

7.2 Enquiries

Further data is in the system but cannot yet be drawn out. A query for annual total productions will be created in 2015-16 as part of the next phase of enquiry database redevelopment). 7.3 Staff and staff activities

Deputy Director, University Library & University Archivist: Lesley Richmond

Senior Archivist & Head of Service: Moira Rankin

Kimberley Beasley Sam Maddra

William Bill Peter Morphew (from June)

Cheryl Brown Jennifer Novotny1

Louise Cameron Neil Ogg (to April)

Paul Choi (from June) Clare Paterson

Amanda Charland Arturo Pinto (from July)

Claire Daniel Kerry Roberts (to May)

Kirsten Donaldson Wheal Antoinette Seymour (to September2)

Mary Dunne (from October)3 Adam Swann (from June)

Rachael Egan Alma Topen

Sarah Graham Alistair Tough

John Higgins Colin Vernall

Kiara King Elzbieta Gorska-Wiklo

Neil Leitch Emma Yan

1 Research Assistant to Dr Tony Pollard, History/Battlefield Archaeology, based in the Archives on Great War Project.

2 Concluding a year long attachment in preparation for the creation of an archive service in the College of the Bahamas as it

transitions to becoming the University of the Bahamas. 3 HLF Skills for the Future Trainee in Digital Preservation

2014/15 2013-14

Visitors 1,357 1,190

Hours of research - 3,847

Consultations by readers 6,133 -

Total productions - 13,032

Archive enquiries 2,588 2,920

Committees/groups University

Estates Marketing Group (Moira Rankin) Library Collections Group (Moira Rankin) Library Web Group (Moira Rankin) WW1 Commemoration Group (Moira Rankin, Jennifer Novotny) Military Education Committee (Jennifer Novotny)

External

SUSCAG, Secretary (Rachael Egan) Archives Hub (Sam Maddra) Business Archives Council of Scotland (Cheryl Brown & Kiara King) National Strategy for Business Archives Scotland (Cheryl Brown & Kiara King) Scottish Council on Archives – Opening Up Scotland’s Archives Steering Group (Kiara King &

Clare Paterson) Heritage Lottery Fund – Collecting Cultures Cohort Working Group (Clare Paterson) Brewing Heritage Scotland (Clare Paterson) Scottish Transport and Industrial Heritage Network (Kiara King)

Staff training/conferences/meetings attended by staff 22/08/2014: SUSCAG, University of Glasgow (MR & RE) 10/11/2014: Business Archives Council Conference Let the Right One In? - Challenging Perceptions of Access to Business Archives, London (CB, KK) 20/11/2014: Business Archives Council of Scotland Joan Auld Annual Lecture Records at Risk, Glasgow (CB) 20/10/2014: Business Archives Council of Scotland, Meet the Archivists 2014, Glasgow (CB) 21/11/2014: The Glasgow Area Disaster Planning Network disaster recovery training (EG-W) 28/11/2014: Conserving Condoms: Modern Materials in Medical Archives, LHSA Edinburgh (SM) 12/12/2014: SUSCAG, University of Edinburgh (MR & RE) 28/01/2015: Web publishing using t4 (SM) 19/02/2015: SUSCAG, University of Stirling (RE , CD, & SH) 27/02/2015 IWM First World War Centenary Partnership meeting – Glasgow (JN, MR) 23-24/04/15 11

th European Emu User Conference, Birmingham (MR)

28/04/2015: Scottish Business and Industrial History Conference 2015, Stirling (CB) 12/05/2015: Digital Preservation Coalition, Making Progress in Digital Preservation, Glasgow (CB) 13/05/2015: Lusitania Conference – Clydebank (JN) 20/05/2015: Workshop: Exploring Models for Digital Access (EG-W & RE) 29/05/2015: Pecka Kutcha at ARA SfNP, University of Glasgow (RE) 30/05/2015: Copyright workshop, NRS, (RE) 01/6/2015 AHRC Voices of War and Peace meeting – Glasgow (JN) 05/06/2015: StoryStorm workshop, Digital Design Studio, GSoA (RE) 10/06/2015: Heritage Lottery Fund - Collecting Cultures Working Group, Manchester (CP) 11/06/2015: SUSCAG, University of Strathclyde (RE) 12/06/2015: Visit to conservation followed by talk in the aftermath of the GSA fire GMRC 15-16/06/2015: International Council on Archives Business Section Creating the Best Business Archive, Milan (CB & CP) 22/06/2015: AHRC Voices of War and Peace meeting – Birmingham (JN) 09/07/2015: Gender, Youth, Community, Methodology and More: A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott at the University of Leicester (CD) August 2015 Archives and Records Association Conference, Newcastle,2014 (EGW)

Archive Services staff training (Tue morning training sessions organised by SM) 12/08/14: Overview of International Story Project (KR) 02/09/14: Review of year (AS) 16/09/14: ARA Conference Feedback (EG-W) 30/09/14: Annual Review (MR & KK) 16/10/14: Review/feedback - New Enquiries system (CD & MD) 21/10/14: Simon’s plans preservation project (CV) 11/11/14: WWI project update (JN) 25/11/14: Library visits – customer services report back (CD) 09/12/14: Ben Line – lessons learned, etc (NO) 13/01/15: Scottish Brewing Archive (AT) 27/01/15: BACS (CB) 10/02/15: History Pin (GL) 26/02/15: Turkey Red Collection (Julie Wertz) 10/03/15: New Lanark Mill visitors book (AC) 24/03/15: Scottish Women’s Hospitals Research & Exhibition (Bethany Lane) 09/04/15: Teaching & Learning (KR) 21/04/15: Wellcome Digitisation update (LS) 05/05/15: Allotment project (Hannah Baxter) 19/05/15: Digital Preservation (MD)

7.4 Engagement and outreach

Overall number of events in the searchroom using UGAS material: 43 Teaching sessions given for University students & staff Sessions involving direct input from UGAS staff listed below: 09/09/14: Textile Conservation Centre PG students (LR, KK) 15/09/14: MLitt in History, induction day (CD) 30/09/14: Honours History student dissertations (JN) 16/10/14: MLitt in History, Research Resources & Skills for Historians (CD) 05/11/14: MLitt Archaeologists, Archive Skills 18/11/14: HATII MSc Information management & Preservation (CD, MR) 26/11/14: Honours History student dissertations (JN) 28/11/14: Honours History student dissertations (CD) 01/12/14: Non-honours class, Writing the Arts & Humanities (CD) 02/12/14: HATII MSc Information management & Preservation (CD) 03/12/14: Non-honours class, Writing the Arts & Humanities (CD) 10/12/14: Hunterian Associates Programme, inspiration session (CD, NO) 16/01/15: Honours History student dissertations (CD, RE) 19/01/15: Refreshers week, University history and business records (RE) 20/01/15: Refreshers week, University history and business records (RE) 28/01/15: Economic & Social History, session for researching Economic and Social History 1 (CD) 16/02/15: MLitt in Dress & Textile Histories (EY, MR) 25/02/15: HATII Heritage & Cultural Informatics (CD, SM) 12/03/15: HATII 2D Digitisation (SM, JN) 15/05/15: College of Arts, Second Cities of Empire (Glasgow-Calcutta) workshop (CD) 05/06/15: College of Arts Industry Day (RE) 01/07/15: College of Arts, History Summer School (CD) 16/07/15: Centre for Open Studies, day course on Scottish Family History

University student work placements hosted Sep-Nov 2014: MSc Information Management & Preservation placement: Claire Keane (Uni Story biographies) Nov 2014: MSc Information Management & Preservation placement: Erietta Papadopolu (cataloguing placement) Nov 2014-Mar 2015: MLitt Religion, Theology, Culture: Alicia Henneberry (Theology and training of chaplains at UofG during WWI) Jan-Apr 2015: MSc Museum Studies, Meghan Rathbun (presenting an aspect of early University history) Jan-May 2015: MSc Museum Studies, Bethany Lane (Scottish Women’s Hospitals Chapel exhibition) Jan-Apr 2015: MLitt Technical Art History, Brittany Johnston (conservation analysis and basic conservation treatment for photographic collections) May-Jul 2015: MSc Museum Studies, Jennifer Harris (Anchor Line) May-Jul 2015: Jan-Apr 2015: MSc Museum Studies, Meghan Rathbun (The Marian Gift and the Resurgence of the University) Apr-Jul 2015: MSc Museum Studies, Bethany Lane (Erskine placement) Apr-Jul 2015: MLitt War Studies, Lane Johnston (GU’s Great War - Canadian letters & images) May-Jul 2015: MSc Museum Studies, Annika Firn (Professors Square WWI) Hunterian Associates Jan-Jul 2015: Ruth Turner, Objects of reminiscence – remembering the Old College Apr-Jul 2015: Lin Cunningham, The Known and the Unknown: Revealing the designers of the Stoddard-Templeton Collection Careers Service Club 21 internships Aug 2014: Stephanie Fair, enquiry guide – sources for WWI in business collections Aug-Sep 2014: Fraser McGowan, student political societies Aug 2014: Michael Black, New Lanark Mills visitor book transcription Aug 2014: Lauren Moffatt, Online images – Gilmorehill buildings Aug-Oct 2014: Susan Yule, cataloguing and online images – congratulatory addresses Aug-Sep 2014: Michael O’Brien, Chapel exhibition on WWI Nov 2014: Francesca Mackay, GU’s Great War Project HistoryPin Oct-Dec 2014: Demi Boyd, Online images – WWI Flickr set Nov 2014-Mar 2015: Rebecca Roper, exhibition on University Chapel Jan-Mar 2015: Karen Oakley, piobaireachd WWI correspondence project Mar-May 2015: Anton Ward, sporting blues biographies Mar-Jul 2015: Johannes Arens, sporting blues biographies Mar-Jul 2015: Bronwyn McLean, RoH student editor Mar-Jul 2015: Esha Khimji, RoH student editor Mar 2015: Joseph Heffernan, RoH student editor Jun 2015: Eriko Ueno, RoH student editor Jun 2015: Eilidh Ramsay, RoH student editor Jun 2015: Ania Neisser, RoH student editor Jun 2015: Ada Kyosti, RoH student editor Jun 2015: Kate Clark, RoH student editor Non-UofG placements/volunteers Ongoing: George Gardner, cataloguing volunteer Aug 2014: Luke Doyle, preservation unit volunteer, working on William Simons & Co Ltd ship plans project Aug 2014-May 2015: Jim McLarnon, WWI research volunteer Aug-Nov 2014: Kelly Ehlers, artist in residence Aug-Dec 2014: Kate Gordon, cataloguing volunteer Sep 2014-Jul 2015: Adam Swann, University of Dundee archive student Sep 2014: Melinda Barrie, business archivist from Melbourne, Australia, researching other business archives Oct-Dec 2014: Jennifer Montague, preservation unit volunteer Feb-Apr 2015: Ewan McAndrew, preservation unit volunteer Feb-Jul 2015: Zachary Claudino, preservation unit volunteer Jun 2015: Rachel McKenzie, work experience pupil

Displays/tours of department for visitors 04/09/14: Bin Li visit to Archive Services (CD) 10/10/14: Display for Textile Conservation Centre Knitter in Residence (RE) 07/01/15: Display and tour for new Library Special Collections staff member (CD, MR, GL, AChilcott) 18/02/15: Visit from Allison Moore, Study Abroad student from Berry College, Georgia, USA, to compare archive service with home university’s (CD) 24/03/15: Visit from Careers Service as part of their Away Day (CD) 24/06/15: Display for visit from SRC tour guides (RE, ACharland) Global Regional Activity Briefing (GRAB) Lunches 14/10/14: North America (RE) 11/03/15: Africa (RE, Zach Claudino) 18/05/15: Latin America (RE) 04/06/15: Middle East (RE) Exhibitions hosted/facilitated by Archive Services 14/08/14: Sports History: how our campus has evolved to meet a growing interest in physical education, Archive Services display case (Natalia Masewicz & Victoria Scott, Club 21) 27/03/15: Officer’s Training Corps exhibition, University Chapel display (Michael O’Brien, MSc Museum Studies placement) 04/15: The University Chapel as a War Memorial, Archive Services display case (Rebecca Roper, Club 21) 04/15: Scottish Women’s Hospitals exhibition, University Chapel display (Bethany Lane, MSc Museum Studies placement)

Talks and events hosted by Archive Services 12/08/14: Talk on International Story Project (KR) 02/09/14: Review of Year in Archives (AS) 16/09/14: ARA Conference feedback (EW) 30/09/14: Annual report Review of 2013/14 (MR) 21/10/14: Simons plans preservation project (CV) 22/10/14: Talk for the Retired Staff Association, University Archive & the Great War (MR) 11/11/14: WWI project update (JN) 25/11/14: Report on customer services visits to other Libraries (CD) 09/12/14: Talk on the Ben Line cataloguing project (NO) 13/01/15: Talk on the Scottish Brewing Archive (AT) 27/01/15: Talk on the Business Archives Council of Scotland (BACS) (CB) 10/02/15: Talk on History Pin (GL) 26/02/15: Talk on Turkey Red dyeing (Julie Wertz) 10/03/15: Talk on the New Lanark Mill visitors book (AChilcott) 24/03/15: Talk on Scottish Women’s Hospitals research and exhibition (Bethany Lane) 09/04/15: Talk on Teaching & Learning (KR) 05/05/15: Talk on Allotments (Hannah Baxter) 19/05/15: Talk on Digital Preservation (MD) 30/07/15: Talk on the University in the 16

th Century (Megan Rathbun)

Presentations by UGAS staff to public/external groups 13/08/14: Display for staff from the Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh (CD) 27/08/14: Process of documentation of archival materials during conservation, Archives & Records Association Conference Paper, Newcastle (Ela Gorska-Wiklo) 29/08/14: Stall with display as part of SCA presence at Who Do You Think You Are? Live in the SECC (KK,CB) 30/08/14: Stall with display as part of SCA presence at Who Do You Think You Are? Live in the SECC (KK,CB) 22/10/15: Great War Project talk, Retired Staff Association (MR with Tony Pollard) 30/10/14: Display for 33

rd Meeting of Dyes in History & Archaeology Conference (RE, EW)

31/10/14: Display for 33rd

Meeting of Dyes in History & Archaeology Conference (KK, RE, EW)

13/11/14: Access to business archives: the opportunities and pitfalls of social media, Business Archives Council Conference, London (KK) 02/12/14: Animals in the Great War, Vet School Pet Thanksgiving Service, Chapel (MR) 09/01/15: Display for Japanese school visit, organised by Recruitment & International Office (CD) 18/02/15: Display for visit led by former reader Ryo Izawa for Kyoto University postgrads and academics (CD) 23/02/15: Display for Bearsden & Milngavie Genealogy Group (CD) 27/02/15: Visit of Scottish Genealogy Network (CD) 26/03/15: Display for JUK Media, filming for a Japanese documentary on Taketsuru, Watanabe and Henry Dyer (CD) 31/03/15: Hunterian Insight Talk on alumni with South Pacific connections (CD) 13/04/15: Visit from staff and students of course on university administration, Appalachian State University (CD) 28/04/15: Using heritage collections talk to University Personal Assistants Group (RE) 29/04/15: Class on Alcohol & Drug Studies, University of The West of Scotland (CD) 22/06/15: Display for visit from Lebanon Evangelical School (RE) 04/06/15: Display at workshop on the History of Human Genetics, at an academic conference hosted by the European Society for Human Genetics 16/06/15: Hunterian Insight talk on Forensic Medicine (SM) 02/06/15: Training visit for the Glasgow Allotments Forum, Shed Survey with Hannah Baxter PhD student jointly supervised Geography and History (SM)

7.5 Exhibition loans Loans to external exhibitions

26th February – 21

st June 2015: Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime Wellcome Trust, 215

Euston Road, London, NW1 2 BE

19th

February – 23rd

May 2015: Mackintosh Architecture Royal Institute of British Architects

Gallery, 66 Portland Place, London.

Loans to Hunterian

18th July 2014 – 4

th January 2015: Mackintosh Architecture Hunterian Art Gallery

7th May – 23

rd August 2015: Lusitania: Torpedoed at Sea

Hunterian museum Insight talk & pop up display

16th June 2015: Forensics Medicine. Hunterian museum Insight talk

University of Glasgow Events where archives prepared for display

4th September 2014: Textile Conservation Centre class

15th September 2014: MLitt in History induction day

30th September 2014: Honours History dissertation session

6th October 2014: MLitt in History Research Resources & Skills for Historians class

17th October 2015: GRAB Lunch North America Sir Alwyn Williams Building

31st October-1

st

November 2014:

‘Dyes in History and Archaeology 33’ conference supporting textile

display

5th November 2014: MLitt Archaeologists Archive Skills

26th November 2014: Honours History dissertation class

28th November 2014: Honours History dissertation workshop

28th January 2015: Economic & Social History (session for Researching Economic & Social

History 1 students before group work)

11th March 2015: GRAB Lunch- Africa The Sir Alwyn Williams Building

31st March 2015: Hunterian Insight Talk- Alumni with South Pacific connections:

Skottowe, Turner, Inglis (Robertson - Christmas Island)

13th April 2015: Appalachian State University Visit to the University- hosted by RIO

28th April 2015: Presentation to PA assistants on campus about heritage materials

18th May 2015: GRAB Lunch- Latin America-The Sir Alwyn Williams Building

2nd

June 2015: Glasgow Allotments Forum- Shed Survey event

4th June 2015: GRAB Lunch Middle East display The Sir Alwyn Williams Building

5th June 2015: Industry Day display College of Arts

16th June 2015: Hunterian Museum Insight Talk- Prof Glaister and Forensic Medicine

15 September 2015: Education Conference reception, 15th Sept 2015 in the Kelvin Hall

28th October 2015: GRAB Lunch- India GUU James Bridie Memorial Library

Items transported to Library to be shown as part of display in Special Collections

5 March 2015: Wellcome trust Research Bursary Scheme showcase. Showing

Library’s Wellcome collections and organising one to one interview with

Sue Crossley

22nd

June 2015: Lebanon Evangelical School visit (Archive items shown)

2nd

December 2014: Information Management and Preservation class

10th December 2014: Hunterian Associates inspiration session

16th January 2015: History undergraduate dissertation inspiration sessions

30 October 2015: Exhibition on Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765-1799)

Thurso St display

13th August 2014: Staff from Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh-led

by Fran Baseby, Service Delivery Curator

14th August 2015: Sports History: how our campus has evolved to meet a growing interest

in physical education(Natalia Masewicz and Victoria Scott students

volunteers)

10th October 2014: Knitter in Residence event

18th November 2014: Information Management and Preservation class

19th-20

th January 2015: Refreshers week tour of Archives and display

9th January 2015: Japanese school visit - organised by RIO

18th February 2015: Allison Moore, Study Abroad student from Berry College, Georgia, USA

- to compare archive service with home university

18th February 2015: Visit led by former reader Ryo Izawa as part of his Study Abroad

programme- Kyoto University

23rd

February 2015: Bearsden & Milngavie Genealogy Group visit

25th February 2015: Heritage & Cultural Informatics visit

27th February 2015: Scottish Genealogy Network

26th March 2015: JUK Media - filming for Japanese documentary

16th March 2015: Club 21: Exhibition: Finlays (India)

29th April 2015: University of the West of Scotland- Alcohol & Drug Studies class

15th May 2015: Glasgow-Calcutta Workshop exhibition

4th-6

th June 2015: Exhibition on the History of Human Genetics Workshop, European

Society of Human Genetics

16th June 2015: SRC student tour-guide display and training

1st July 2015: History Summer School - school-leavers pre UG entry 2015

16th July 2015: Day course on Scottish Family History (Ronnie Scott)

30th July 2015: Open presentation on the University in the 16th century- Meghan

Rathburn, Museum Studies Student

University Chapel

27th March 2015: The Officers Training Corps (MSc Museum Studies Placement)

21th April 2015: The University Chapel as a war memorial (Club 21 internship)

April 2015: Scottish Women’s Hospital Chapel exhibition (MSC Museum Studies

Placement)

7.6 Cataloguing and acquisitions

Lists uploaded to Archives Hub DC 018 Agnes Hannah Tennant DC 019/1 Scottish Temperance League DC 019/2 Scottish Permissive Bill & Temperance Association DC 019/3 Scottish Temperance & No License Union DC 019/4 Scottish Temperance Alliance DC 019/5 Glasgow & District Municipal Federation DC 019/6 Citizens Vigilance Association DC 019/7 National Citizens Council DC 019/8 International Order of Good Templars: Grand Lodge of Scotland DC 025 Independent Order of Rechabites DC 055 Sir Robert Muir DC 065 Hay and Woolfson DC 149 William Christopher Atkinson SBA AM Alexander Melvin & Co SBA BU Buchanan & Co (Glasgow & Paisley) Ltd UGC 072 Robert Lindsay Mackay UGD 121 Singer Manufacturing Co UGD 180 BBC Transcripts UGD 181 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Shop Stewards’ Committee Transcripts UGD 257 Creamola Food Products Ltd UGD 274 James McLardie & Sons Ltd UGD 279 Cleland Bros & Co Ltd DC 187 David Flint's UCS DC 372 Glasgow University Distributist Club SBA BD Bon Accord (Grangemouth) Ltd UGD 270 Walter Macfarlane & Co UGD 271 Casa D’Italia Ltd UGD 272 Wellington Pottery UGD 278 James MacNab List edited DC 009 Duncan Macfarlan DC 238 Margaret Cooke McKelvie DC 331 Glasgow Adam Smith Club DC 081 T Ferguson Rodger SBA JJ John Jeffrey UGC 011 Peter Stephenson Turnbull UGC 081 Malcolm Campbell Ltd UGC 193 African Lakes

UGD 131 Ellerman Lines Ltd UGD 175 Scottish Machine Tool Corp Ltd UGD 247 Murray Johnstone Ltd

UGD 270 Walter Macfarlane & Co UGD 295 Barr and Stroud

UGD 304 British Corporation UGD 118 Pott, Cassels & Williamson UGD 270-3 Great Northern Investment Trust Ltd New cataloguing statistics

Collection ref

Collection name Title extent no of items

no of descriptions

DAO7/2/1-6 Development and Alumni Torchlight procession

0.01 6 6

MOR6/2 Department of Moral Philosophy

Newsletter 0.01 1 1

HUNT 8/1/16

Hunterian Museum programme of events 2001-2002

0.01 1 1

CH4 & 6 University Chaplaincy Additions 0.02 6 6

UGC199 Ben Line Ben Line to 27 Aug 2014

5 2300 91

DC071 Prof A A Bowman Bowman POW letters

0.15 185 201

SEN Senate GU Calendar 2014-15

0.03 1 1

POL5/1-3 Department of Politics 3 publications 0.01 3 3

SH5/1 Department of Scottish History

Scottish History leaflet

0.01 1 1

PER 6/1 and 7/1

Department of Physical Education and Sports Science

Physical Education and Sports Science

0.01 1 1

DIV 6/6 Faculty of Divinity Dept of Religious Studies leaflet

0.01 1 1

HUM4/3/1/8 Department of Humanity Humanity syllabus card 1938-1939

0.01 1 1

HUM5/1/2 Department of Humanity Classics in the University booklet

0.01 1 1

T4-11 J & R Tennent Ltd Tennent's additions 0.2 76 20

UGC199 Ben Line Ben Line to 30 Sep 5 4425 89

TFTS Department of Theatre, Film and TV studies

whole collection done

0.2 10 10

UGC199 Ben Line Ben Line to 31 Oct 2.5 2610 124

MAT 5/1 & 5/2

Department of Mathematics

2 brochures 0.01 2 2

UGC219 Papers of David Cunningham Smith

whole collection done

0.6 132 121

TRP Dept of Town and Regional Planning

whole collection done

0.3 49 48

UGC 192 Papers of John McLinlay whole collection done

0.4 17 18

T J & R Tennent Ltd Tennent's Additions for November

0.25 47 50

UGC199 Ben Line Ben Line to 19 Nov 13 504 187

UGD350 Court Line/Leeward Islands Air Transport

0.1 10 12

UGD350 Court Line/Court Line Aviation

0.25 15 17

DC167 Papers of Archibald Shanks

revisions done 0.03 18 15

DC240/5/5 Queen Margaret Union 0.01 4 4

DAO11/1/12 Development and Alumni 0.01 1 1

DAO8/24 Development and Alumni 0.01 1 1

DAO 7 Development and Alumni 0.05 10 7

T J & R Tennent Ltd Tennents additions to end of Feb

3 233 57

T J & R Tennent Ltd Tennents photos to end April

1 355 212

UGD91 James Finlay & Co Ltd Finlay's cataloguing to end of April

0.9 129 117

DC181 Papers of Henry Morton Hillhead Album to 23 June

0.25 318 318

DC84 Records of Trinity College enhancements of catalogue to 29 June

1.05 191 178

MED 11 Faculty of Medicine 0.01 3 3

DC240 Queen Margaret Union Queen Margaret Union publications

0.05 7 7

DAO/9/1/22 Development and Alumni Medical Fund Newsletter

0.01 1 1

CH4/1/32 University Chaplaincy Chapel order of service 14 Dec 2014

0.01 1 1

ZOO 5/1/3 and 4

Department of Zoology Leaflets 0.01 2 2

IP5 Information and Publicity Services

Avenues, Horizon, Facts and Figures

0.05 15 15

MED4/9/1 and 4/10/1

Faculty of Medicine class roll books 0.05 2 2

DC181 Papers of Henry Morton Hillhead Album photos 23 June-31 July

0.04 250 250

DC84 Records of Trinity College Photographs and slides

1 150 94

UGD91 Records of James Finlay & Co Ltd

10.12 444 441

TOTALS 45.76 12540 2739

7.7 Website and Social Media

Website page views 2014-15 2013-14

Archive Services 122,736 115,306

University of Glasgow Story 3,004,378 1,212,921

World Changing 127,805 95,103

International Story 247,197 173,491

WW1 Roll of Honour biographies 231,6354 N/A

4 Statistics are only available from January 2014. In the 7 month period Jan-Jul 2014 the page view

figures were 73,170. This almost doubled in 2015 to 140,455.

Statistics have been pulled from Twitonomy, an online platform which provides analytics and statistics for your Twitter account.

Twitter Archives 2014/15 2013/14

Followers gained (grew by 65% -

2013/14)(grew by 70% 2014/15)

1,570

(Total

followers by

31/07/15:

3,836)

2,151

Tweets by Archive Services 2,439 1,876

Average number of tweets per day 6.7 5.1

Tweets that are retweeted 45% 44%

Tweets that are favourited 45% 35%

Tweets with replies (conversations) 9% 18%

Mentions 1,389 768

Blog 2014-15 2013-14

Library blog – Archive posts 89 89

Library blog – Archive comments 57 32

GUWW1 blog-posts 45 -

Flickr 2014-15 2013-14

New Archive albums 19 23

No. of images uploaded 576 833

Album views 4,166 6,008

Archive Services HistoryPin 2014-15 2013-14

Channel views 1,167 more

(Total 2,314)

1,147

Images uploaded 46 (15 pinned) 97

Tours created 1

(Anchor Line)

2

(W F Jackson

and Clyde

Shipyards)