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This is why, in our letter requisitioning a General Meeting, we call for a restoration of this service which was removed from Hamilton Place in August without prior notice or opportunity for debate. Our first resolution for the General Meeting is therefore “to restore the status quo ante of 2009” We have emphasised however, that this necessarily formal and short wording expresses the essence of our proposal, and should not be taken as implying inflexibility regarding fine detail. What we are saying is that we wish to see again at headquarters a library of basically similar scope to that which was removed, with a total stock of approximately similar scale. Obviously however, it would be opportune to review the detailed selection of the material to be held, and indeed we envisage that the Society’s Specialist Groups, and other interested parties, could play a helpful role in advising the librarian. The move to Farnborough marked a sudden discontinuity in RAeS library policy. Until then the Hamilton Place library had been regarded as the Society’s ‘front line’, working library containing material of current interest and frequent demand, with the Farnborough centre acting as a large back-up and archive store. This distinction had been consistently reflected in the selection of material for transfer to Farnborough, and in statements both publicly and to the membership, eg in Aerospace Professional, September 2007, the Chief Executive wrote “I think it is important to emphasise that the Library…here at Hamilton Place will remain fully operational, to allow members to borrow books and to carry out research. The facilities at Farnborough will focus on public access and provide us with a much needed expanded storage facility for our own collection and other collections that may be given to us in future”. The same policy can and should apply again in future. We regard it as continuing to be important that Hamilton Place should stock a substantial body of authoritative books and other literature covering the range of disciplines relevant to aerospace. This would again offer, in the building most readily accessible to the majority of members, new literature, reference information, scope for ‘continuing professional development’, a major source in aid of research and writing, etc. As earlier, it would also provide a source for student study and an inducement to membership. Running through all this would be a positive role in the application of modern digitisation and data transmission techniques, enabling the RAeS headquarters library to occupy a leading position in a developing network of aerospace information centres. A vital feature of this strong and forward-looking library concept is the restoration of the on-site availability of our Society Librarian, Mr Brian Riddle. Members who have needed to pursue complicated searches for information when preparing papers for committees, conferences, etc, are well aware of the importance of face-to-face contact with a knowledgeable specialist librarian. For such contact, Hamilton Place is a much more accessible site for the great majority of Society members than Farnborough. We regard it as entirely feasible that he could revert to his previous mode of working, overseeing the activities at Farnborough with the aid of occasional visits there. This arrangement was operating to good effect prior to the suddenly-imposed move. Return of Mr Riddle to headquarters would mean that the direct operating costs of the restored library should be essentially the same as those existing before the August move. Furthermore, his transfer back to Hamilton Place would provide an element of cost saving relative to the additional travel costs, between London and Farnborough, that have arisen from the recent transfer of his workplace. The Society would also benefit from restoration of his working hours which were reduced in recognition of his very long daily journey to Farnborough. We emphasise that our proposal does not involve the cost of employing an extra part-time or full-time librarian, thus differing crucially from Options 2 and 3 that have been circulated to Society Specialist Groups and others for comment by Dr Coleman’s committee recently tasked by Council to provide, for their 9 November meeting, “initial recommendations for the level of information service provision to be sustained at Hamilton Place inclusive of costed options”. Compared with our proposal, we therefore regard the options put forward by this committee as involving unnecessarily high costs. As the space previously occupied by the library at Hamilton Place has since been rented out commercially, there would be a ‘rental opportunity cost’ associated with return of the library (though this item of rental income did not exist prior to the move). This opportunity cost would depend on the location of the restored library within Hamilton Place. This might or might not be its previous third floor area, but it must not be smaller and should if possible be larger to provide some scope for future possible development (see below). Future developments at Hamilton Place Starting from the restoration outlined above, what future do we envisage? First, we anticipate a continuing need, for at least the next decade and very probably much longer, for hands-on access to currently relevant textbooks, journals, conference proceedings, etc , to allow exploratory browsing and selection of items for close study. The trend towards the creation by publishers of digitised versions of new material, and the gradual digitisation of earlier holdings, will be beneficial in containing the rate of expansion of physical space required by stock. For example, most RAeS conference proceedings are now issued in digital form. However, in common with other organisations, sheer economics will severely limit the rate at which the Society will be able to digitise its enormous existing stock of books and other literature. Overall, we therefore see a need for a continuing provision for access to and use of printed material, running in parallel with gradual growth in use of digital techniques both for reading and transfer of material. The physical facilities need to cater for both these types of activity are as follows: adequate reading desk and general movement space, with some improvement on the rather cramped conditions of the third-floor library as it existed before the recent move to Farnborough; provision for increasing use, by visitors and staff, of electronic and other equipment, including high-speed digital interchange and web access, document copying etc. The rate at which future development can proceed will depend considerably on the availability of funding. An evolutionary and realistic approach, within the basic concept, will be needed, Systematic planning will be important regarding equipment, and the provision of extra staff assistance – perhaps initially on a part-time basis – may well become desirable at some time in the future. With the object of improving the consistency and transparency of development of both the Hamilton Place and Farnborough libraries within the context of an evolving network of aerospace information centres, we propose that RAeS should establish a standing Library Committee of strong status, reporting to Council via the Learned Society Board. This committee should have oversight of all Society activity in this area, including the links both between Hamilton Place and Farnborough and externally with other relevant institutions, and the role of the Society as a focal player in an evolving network of aerospace libraries. 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