Founded in 1580, Edinburgh University Library is one of the largest and most important academic libraries in the world. While it cannot compete in size of collections with the very largest - Harvard or Cambridge, for example - it has a host of treasures which bring scholars from all over the world to conduct research.
The JRULM is also extensively involved in other externally-funded projects, in particular a number of Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Electronic Library initiatives which have had significant effects on services to University users. Most notable is LAMDA (London And Manchester Document Access), a co-operative enterprise involving university libraries in Manchester and London. Digitized versions of individual articles are transmitted using the Ariel software from one library to another, an electronic substitute for the traditional inter-library loan or photocopy. As a result of membership of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), based in the United States, such services are now commencing on a trans-continental basis as is the loan of research monographs. The Consortium of Academic Libraries in Manchester (CALIM) will be using digitized services to construct a co-ordinated research collection, particularly in the area of periodicals, to supply users rapidly with material held in any member library without the need to visit that library personally. The Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ) Project involves the digitization of important, still much used, sets of out-of-copyright eighteenth- and nineteenth-century periodicals; the October 1796 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine will shortly be readable from any terminal connected to the Web! The year also saw the inauguration of a JRULM home page on the World Wide Web, about which more in the next section of this Report. These exciting developments should be seen in the context of a year where funding pressures grew ever tighter, accompanied by rising use of the Library in virtually every respect. For instance, personal information enquiries on the First Floor of the Library rose by another 28% this year at the same time that the number of electronic accesses to CD-ROMs (campus-wide) rose by 46%. Modern libraries are exciting places but demand on them at times appears to be insatiable, and the forms of information to be made available grow exponentially.
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