Preserving Memories: The annual review of the National Library of Scotland

I've just been reading Preserving Memories, the annual review from the National Library of Scotland (www.nls.uk), which came through the door yesterday. Some highlights...

• Plans from the Moncrieffe and Trinity Gask estates from Perthshire from 1826 and 1867 (two volumes of twenty maps) have been acquired.
• The papers of John 'Jock' Murray (1909-1993) have been acquired, the sixth Murray to run his family's publsihing house, also called John Murray.
• An archive of papers belonging to Robert Ramsay 'Bob' Smillie (1916-1937) are now at the library. Smillie was in the Independent Labou Party's international military brigade in the Spanish Civil War. 
• Letters between author George Mackay Brown (1921-1966) and Renee Sim, both of Orkney, have been deposited.
• Conservation work has been carried out on the Mackinnon Collection of daguerrotypes.
• Over £100,000 has been raised for the library's Save Scotland's Newspapers appeal (see https://www.nls.uk/news/archive/newspaper-appeal/).
• Over 13,000 Great Britain OS maps have been added to the site's mapping platfom, as well as Lidar coverage of Glasgow and Edinburgh. 
• The Roy Maps transcription project also successfully saw all 33,522 names transcribed, as found in the maps, and the 3D map viewer has been revamped.
• 240 rare manuscripts have been digitised from the 9th to 16th centuries, available to view at https://digital.nls.uk/early-manuscripts/.
• The National Bibliography of Scotland has been updated, which now has 400,000 records.
• Touring exhibitions from the library have included 'Lifting the Lid' on our food and drink story, and 'Going to the Pictures', on Scottish cinema.

The reports usually make it online, although I can't see it on the NLS platform yet. I'll update this if I get a link.

(With thanks to the NLS)

Chris

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