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Social Welfare at the British Library J.M. Grimshaw

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Social Welfare at the British

Library

J.M. Grimshaw

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The Vision …

• Is to provide a single point of access to research evidence

to people outside of academia who need it for their work

• Is to provide access to the British Library’s print and digital

collections on social welfare to people who are unlikely to

visit our reading rooms

• Is to provide alerting services to keep people up-to-date

with the latest developments

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The audience…

• Social work practitioners and students

• Social work managers and learning development leads

• Researchers working in think tanks or the voluntary sector

• Policy makers and those influencing policy

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What subjects?

Services for .. Reform of … Policies on …

Children and

families

Health services

(incl. mental

health)

Welfare state

Older people Education Community

development

Disabled people Benefits Employment

Minority groups Housing and

homelessness

Substance

misuse

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What’s on the portal?

• Full text research reports

• Parliamentary papers

• Government documents

• Statistical reports

• All rights-cleared and

available free, 24/7

• All hand-selected by curators

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Welfare Reform Digest

• Monthly current awareness bulletin

• Indexes journal and magazine

articles, quality press, books

• Hotlinks to full text of articles – if free

• Otherwise link goes to journal

volumes list – here you may hit a

paywall

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British Library Collections

• Search our catalogue for details of

books, journal articles, theses, etc in

our main collections

• Articles and theses can be delivered

electronically

• Books can be borrowed through the

University Library

• This service is fee-based

• Ask your librarian to arrange an inter-

library loan

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Become a registered user

• Register in just three minutes

• Get a personalised home page

• Sign up for our newsletter

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More about our newsletter

• Tailored to your subject interests

• Delivered monthly by email

• Two or three references chosen by us

+ editorial

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Follow us on Twitter

• @blsocialwelfare

• One-two tweets per day

• Alerts to events & new portal content

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The portal is evolving

• New look – complete redesign

• Same content, presented differently

• New search over portal content – Welfare Reform Digest

and reports collection

• Frozen during data migration June – November 2015??

• Relaunch December???

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Next steps …

• Please visit the portal at:

http://www.socialwelfare.bl.uk

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Thank you

Steven Campion – Collections Specialist

Philip Eagle – Collections Specialist

BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Business and Intellectual Property Collections

• Look at what resources we have, how you can

discover them and where you can look them

• Encourage you to explore and to make the connections

you need to make the most of what we have

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The Collection

• Collections built over a long period giving depth and

breadth for contemporary and historical research

• Focus on UK but usually some degree of international

coverage and some pockets of real depth

• A lot of the material can be discovered through our primary

catalogue Explore the British Library

• But some is squirrelled away in collections which can’t be

searched electronically (yet!)

• Potential for interesting (and perhaps unusual) insights

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The Collection

As you would expect - books, journals (paper and E) & e-

resources: deep collections in terms of subject coverage &

time span. Plus pockets of “special” material

• Market research reports

• Company annual reports

• Trade literature, house journals

• Woodcroft Collection: material on the history of

inventions/inventors

• Intellectual Property (patents, trade marks and designs)

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Exploring the Collection

• Explore the British Library – search from your desk

• Access to materials is easiest from the Business and IP

(BIPC) or SocSci reading rooms.

• Reference staff there will be more familiar with these

sources

• Access to some of hard copy and e-resources is restricted

just to these reading rooms

• No remote access to our e-resources (with a few

exceptions) – yet!

• Talk to us – we love talking about “our” collections18

Market research collection

Onsite e-access to Verdict Retail,

Mintel, Euromonitor, Frost, Key Note

Printed reports on national and

international markets since early 1980s.

Link to case studies on market research

& social science research at

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-

guidance/tools-and-resources/british-

library/market-research.aspx

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Management & Business Studies Portal

www.mbsportal.bl.uk

Designed to help you

find and use high quality

management research

publications quickly and

easily

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Management & Business Studies Portal

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Click here to register!Click here for help!

Management & Business Studies Portal

Demo time!

Unfortunately

with zero cat

involvement…

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Intellectual Property: patents , trade marks & designs

• For researchers IP offers a unique, very well organised

source of data for tracking technological, economic,

brand and market development over the past 150

years

• The “geography” of filings will indicate relative ( &

potential) commercial importance in particular regions

of particular kinds of technology

• BL holds the most complete collection of intellectual

property information sources in the world

• Collected internationally since the mid 19th century

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What do we mean by “intellectual property”?

Patents – How something works or the process of

making it

Trade marks – Words or logo to indicate the origin of the

products or services

Designs – The distinctive look of the product or object

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Product leaflets and catalogues (trade literature): reflecting contemporary attitudes

“.. What we have to say here is solely in

the interest of employers ….”

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Product leaflets and catalogues (trade literature) : reflecting contemporary attitudes

“… the latest and best time

recorder on the market … it

does every useful thing its

competitors do. Costs no more.

British brains and hands have

done it.”

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Changing attitudes to consumer credit

Barclays Bank Ltd Annual Report for 1966: from the Chairman’s Address

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Changing attitudes to consumer credit

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Trade marks and innovation

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Trade Marks and Innovation

Da Silva and Guimaraes copied data on annual TM

applications from Patent Office Annual Reports in our

collection and analysed them for extreme peaks in annual

applications per class.

Class 47: “Candles, common soap, detergents, heating oil,

matches, starch” – 1887

Class 22: “Carriages” – 1897

Class 45: “Tobacco” – late 1880s

da Silva Lopes, T. & Guimaraes, P. (2012, September). Trademarks and British Dominance in Consumer Goods

1876-1914. Paper presented at European Business History Association - Business History Society of Japan

Conference, Paris. [Online]. http://ebha-bhsj-paris.sciencesconf.org/4399/document [Accessed 30 January 2013]

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1885

Sunlight Soap – first packaged and branded soap.

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1880s-90s

Pneumatic tyres and diamond-framed “safety” bicycle

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1883

Bonsack cigarette machine

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To get in touch

Business & IP 020 7412 7454

http://www.bl.uk/bipc/aboutus/contactus/

Social Sciences 020 7412 7676

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/socsci/about/socialsciences.html

Or

Take our cards!

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News media at the

British Library

Luke McKernan

Lead Curator, News and Moving Image

[email protected]

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News at the British Library

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Newspapers

57,000 separate newspaper, journal, and periodical titles: approximately 100m issues (of which 60m are newspapers), from 17thC to today

Current acquisition: 1,500 newspaper and weekly/fortnightly periodical titles

Print copies acquired under legal deposit but will move increasingly towards digital acquisition

Physical access at St Pancras (print newspapers, microfilm) and Boston Spa (print newspapers), with digital access at both locations

Around one third of collection is on microfilm. If we have microfilm or digital copy, we don’t provide access to print copy

Online access to 10m newspaper pages via British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.com)

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Newspaper collection highlights

Thomason Tracts – 7,200 Civil War and other 17thC

newsbooks and newspapers

Burney Collection – 700 bound volumes of newspapers

1603-1818

British and Irish newspapers collected under legal

deposit since 1869

Overseas newspapers from 1631 onwards, with

extensive British Commonwealth titles (c.90 titles

currently received)

Periodicals and comics collection

Press cuttings inc Chatham House Press Library

Collection

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Newspapers – electronic resources

1.5M newspapers and news-related journals available

onsite via subscription services e.g. ProQuest, Gale

Cengage, Newsbank

Includes Times Digital Archive, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror,

Guardian/Observer, Times of India, World Newspaper

Archive, Early American Newspapers, Latin American

newspapers

International newspapers represented for Americas,

Africa, Asia, Europe and Russia, Australasia, Middle

East

Also many free newspaper sources: Gallica, Chronicling

America, Trove, Papers Past, NewspapersSG

Access onsite only

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National Newspaper BuildingBoston Spa, Yorkshire

33km of shelving

280,000 volumes

14-15% oxygen

20m-high stacks

Robotic retrieval

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Newspapershttp://www.bl.uk/subjects/news-media

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Newspaper databasehttp://explore.bl.uk

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Newspaper databasehttp://explore.bl.uk

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British Newspaper Archivehttp://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

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Television and radio news

Began recording television and radio news programmes

receivable in the UK in May 2010

Collection now over 45,000 programmes, of which

30,000 are TV, recorded off-air from 22 channels inc.

BBC, Al-Jazeera, Russia Today, CNN, CCTV (China),

NHK, Bloomberg, France 24, World Service, LBC

40 hours of TV and 22 hours of radio now captured per

day

Born digital archive, including Electronic Programme

Guide data and subtitles where available

Access onsite only, owing to copyright restrictions, via

Broadcast News service

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Broadcast Newshttp://videoserver.bl.uk (onsite only)

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Web news

Non-print legal deposit legislation introduced in April 2013

means British Library can now harvest and archive UK

websites

Annual crawl collecting 4.5M .uk websites and web pages

Harvesting over 1,000 UK news websites on daily/weekly

basis, with particular interest in hyperlocal news

Targeting of particular news events e.g. death of Nelson

Mandela, including social media

Access onsite only at British Library and other legal

deposit libraries

Small number of sites available to all via UK Web Archive

– http://www.webarchive.org.uk

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UK Web Archivehttp://www.webarchive.org.uk

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The Newsroom

Main reading room for news media

Opened at St Pancras March 2014 – on Floor 2

Reading room with networking annexe

Provides access to newspapers (digital, microfilm and

print), television, radio and Web news

Access to print newspapers only where a ‘surrogate’

copy (digital or microfilm) does not exist. Delivery of

print newspapers takes 48 hours

Workshops, seminars etc.

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The Newsroom

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Any questions?

Luke McKernan – Lead Curator, News & Moving Image

[email protected]

Stephen Lester – Newspaper Curator

[email protected]

Web - http://www.bl.uk/subjects/news-media

Blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/thenewsroom

Twitter - @BL_newsroom

General enquiries

[email protected]

[email protected]