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Glasgow Caledonian University Archive Centre Service Catalogue 
 
Last updated:Tuesday, 23 April 2019 Page 1 
 
Our Reading Room 
We provide a bespoke space for consulting our records and training for using them. This space is our 
physical hub on campus.  
 
Enquiry Service 
Our enquiries range from general to the very specific and our service is open to everyone. Contact is 
via our website, email, telephone or in person. The majority of our enquiries result in researchers 
accessing material from our collections; physically or digitally. Examples of our more specialised 
enquiries include one to one subject based sessions and media work.  
 
Learning, Teaching and Research 
We provide content and resources for learning and teaching and are continuously working to embed 
our primary source records into course and module development. We provide tailored classes and 
seminars including engagement-led hands on learning. We are also happy to provide support for 
funding bids. The Archive Centre is a creative space that encourages team building and participatory 
sessions for all subject areas.  
  
Community, Public and Creative Engagement 
As part of our outreach activities we are pro-active in hosting and participating in events that 
encourage people from all walks of life, and all ages, to experience our archives and special 
collections. These events can be subject or practice based allowing our materials to be used in 
inspiring ways. We have an in-house exhibition programme and loan material to external 
organisations for exhibition purposes.  
 
Offering and Gifting material to GCU 
 All our collections are gifted to the University so we assess the suitability of material offered, do site 
visits if necessary to survey potential donations, and co-ordinate the gifting process taking 
ownership and building relationships with our donors.  
 
Preserving the Corporate Memory 
It is important that certain records created across the University are kept permanently. These 
records give evidence about the functions, policies and decisions of the University and ensure its 
historical continuity. We are responsible for taking ownership of such records via departmental 
record retention schedules and professionally caring for them to ensure their longevity. We are also 
responsible for making the records accessible.  
 


Archive Centre Service Catalogue 2019.

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© Glasgow Caledonian University 04/2019.  
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474. 
The Year Ahead
Life in the library continues apace. We are continuing to realise the 
benefits of the new Library Management Platform we implemented 
last year. This year we will be further improving our Discover service 
making it even easier to find resources and we will be introducing  
a new resource list management service which will be fully 
integrated with GCULearn. This will make it easy for staff to add any 
type of resource to their reading lists, such as videos, sound clips or 
journal articles as well as books. Students can then access resources 
with a single click within GCULearn. 
We will open our new Postgraduate Study space on Level 4 of the 
library for the beginning of the next academic session. We’ve created 
a bright and welcoming space with study carrels and soft seating. 
There is access to a sink and boiling water so you can enjoy a cup of 
tea as you study. Postgraduate students will be able to access the 
room using their student card. We have also purchased additional 
seating and are relocating furniture across the library over the 
summer to create more study spaces. 
We are proud of our customer service in the library and we want to 
make it even better. For that reason we are working with a number of 
other university services to submit for Customer Service Excellence 
Accreditation. Working towards achieving this government approved 
standard will help us focus on delivering the best service we can for 
our users.
We continue to develop our support for GCU’s Research Community. 
The library is now providing systems support for our Current 
Research Information System, PURE, and is leading on developing 
services to support Research Data Management.
The work of our Archives and Special Collections team continues to 
grow. We have launched new webpages for the service and these 
will be further developed in the year to come. We have recruited 
to a new Assistant Archivist post to help meet the demand on the 
team. One of the first tasks for the Assistant Archivist will be to 
work with library staff and others in the University to implement the 
new GCU Digital Preservation and Archiving Policy. This is essential 
work to preserve our records for the future. In addition, this year the 
Archives will announce the accession of an internationally significant 
photographic collection, something we are all very excited about.
 
 
The Year in Statistics
In comparison to 2015/16
NSS score
90% satisfaction with Library resources 
and services – Down 2%
Ejournal article downloads
1,611,026 – Up 10%
Ebook chapter downloads
3,903,500 – Up 43%
Ebooks available
130,989 – Up 26%
Archive productions
6,605 – Up 6%
Resources available in edShare
1,865 – Up 60% 
edShare downloads
59,211 – Up 1468%
Research Repository downloads
23,626 – Up 49% 
No. of full text theses in EThOS
430 – Up 28%
The Library
Annual Report 2016/17
Preserving the past to inform the future
Archives and Special Collections
•  Received a Wellcome Trust Research Resource Award of £54,857 
to catalogue records relating to ‘Poverty, Health, Diet and 
Education in Glasgow: from Domestic Science to the Allied Health 
Professions, 1875-1993’ (project starts November 2017)
•  Following on from a further deposit from Sandy Hobbs of comic and 
political cartoons, we held the exhibition Free to Draw: cartoonists 
and their politics, including the work of Leo Baxendale who sadly 
passed away in April 2017
•  We contributed to Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery exhibition 
Comic Invention and extended our loan of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders 
work-in material to Riverside Museum 
•  New accessions for this year include a further deposit of books  
and papers to the Scottish CND archive, Bill Hunter papers 
(Trotskyist and political activist), Cecilia Speir papers  
(Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science 
alumni and lecturer), Matt McGinn papers (singer/songwriter), 
Fred Edwards papers (social work director), and Ron Passingham 
papers (Labour councillor and Communist Party activist).
The Common Good
•  Started working with 6th year pupils from Mearns Castle High 
School looking at our Spanish Civil War Collection as part of their 
advanced history higher
•  In June we held our first community creative writing event using 
items from our archives as inspiration, working towards an 
e-publication in the coming year 
•  Throughout the year the Archive Centre welcomed international 
researchers from Australia, Canada, Japan, USA, Spain and Ireland
•  Refreshed our community membership offer and engaged with the 
local community
•  Created the Copyright Advisor online resource which will be made 
available to all as an Open Access Resource
•  Hosted library placements students and staff study visits from the 
UK and Europe
•  Delivered talks and sessions to community groups on the records 
contained in our Archives and Collections.
Achievements 2016/17
•  Widening access to library services by providing wifi and laptops  
to community users
•  Successfully integrating library eRescource authentication into 
the new single sign-on solution, PingFederate, to enhance student 
satisfaction
•  Contributing to a positive student and graduate outcome by 
supporting the strategy for learning with the University Open 
Access Repository, edShare
•  Enabling continued excellence in research by providing PURE 
accounts for all academic staff and tackling the research output 
validation backlog
•  Successful migration to a next generation Library Management 
Platform, with a new integrated user interface and reading  
list functionality.
Support and Teaching Who we helped
The Library and Information Support Team answered 31,568  
queries in 2015/16, with the introduction of self-service payment  
and increased online support this went down to 21,483 in  
2016/17 – about 60 enquiries a day.
The Academic Librarians (AL) see students and staff for 
appointments and answer enquiries at drop-ins, by email and by 
phone. In 2015/16 AL helped 1,792 students and staff including 
514 in-depth appointments. In 2016/17 the number of in-depth 
appointments increased to 526 but overall enquiries fell slightly  
to 1,436.
In 2015/16 the AL team taught 273 library classes and workshops on 
research skills, referencing and RefWorks. In 2016/17 we taught  
197 classes and workshops. We also created a suite of tailored online 
content to support research methods modules.
 On campus we created a new type of workshop for our College 
Connect students to help them discover the reading list for their 
course and feel confident using the library. We worked with the 
Scottish Ambulance Academy to deliver tailored literature searching 
sessions to support Paramedic students.  
We supported our students and staff wherever they are in the 
world –including our visiting internship students from Caledonian 
College of Engineering. We collaborated with colleagues in Academic 
Development to create a library research skills video to support 
the blended delivery of the Postgraduate certificate in Academic 
Practice to colleagues teaching at GCU Glasgow, GCU London and 
the African Leadership College. We helped our distance students by 
developing online appointments which allow us to share our screens.  
Library Collections Management Systems 
It has been a very busy year for the Collections and Discovery team 
who have overseen the implementation of a next generation Library 
Management Platform. The new system combines eight different 
systems into a single suite of products that provide streamlined,  
well-integrated, and cohesive services to library staff and all 
library users. This successful solution encompasses the scope 
of a traditional library management system, electronic resource 
management tool, complete discovery environment, and resource 
list management for all collections. By replacing all legacy library 
systems with one, modern, integrated Library Service Platform the 
library has created one integrated portal with single sign-on for all 
user interactions with library systems. 
It was a major project for the library which impacts on everything 
we do and offered an excellent opportunity to review our policies, 
procedures and workflows. Having successfully implemented this 
new Library Management System the Collections and Discovery 
team will continue to improve the capabilities and services offered 
by this new library system to ensure we deliver the best possible 
services for our users.


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