| Title |
Legal deposit records |
| Reference |
ULIB 7/2 |
| Creator |
Library staff; Copyright agent |
| Covering Dates |
1814–2008 |
| Extent and Medium |
21m |
|
| Content and context |
Cover works transferred under copyright legislation and, latterly, the administration of the Agency for the Copyright Libraries. |
| University/ULIB 7/2 contains: |
|
1
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Lists of books entered at Stationers' Hall.
Creator: Warehouse-Keeper, Stationers' Hall.
2 volumes (1-2) and 1 bundle (3). |
1814–1839 |
|
2
|
Claims. Records, for each work, author, title, price where noticed, date entered, date demanded, date received.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
1 volume. |
1828–1836 |
|
3
|
Books.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
16 volumes. |
1861–1924 |
|
4
|
Occasional.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
2 volumes. |
1905–1928 |
|
5
|
Carbon copies of claims issued by the University Library.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume. |
1951–1953 |
|
6
|
Occasional music. These are lists of music claimed. Records, for each work, title, composer and date.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
1 volume. |
1890–1897 |
|
6A
|
Music. This is a list of music claimed.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
1 volume. |
1910–1925 |
|
7
|
Periodicals.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
7 volumes. |
1863–1923 |
|
8
|
Books claimed but not received.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
2 volumes. |
1904–1922 |
|
9
|
Reports.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
5 boxes. |
1905–1968 |
|
10
|
Invoices [that is, lists] of books sent from Stationers' Hall to the University Library.
Creator: Warehouse Keeper of Stationers' Hall; Copyright Agent.
14 volumes. |
1816–1905 |
|
11
|
Invoices of books.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
18 volumes. |
1863–1922 |
|
12
|
Copyright invoices - books.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
1 volume. |
1963 |
|
13
|
Copyright accounts J-L. Record, for each work, author, title, dates advertised, claimed and received, number claimed. Annotated with remarks and queries.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
1 kalamazoo binder. |
1926–1979 |
|
13A
|
Monograph receipt records.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
3 envelopes of loose papers, formerly on lever arch files. |
1984–1995 |
|
14
|
Periodical invoices. Comprise lists of periodical issues, with prices from 1838.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
1 bundle of loose sheets in hard covers. |
1821–1842 |
|
15
|
Invoices [that is, lists] of periodical publications.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
55 volumes. |
1843–1965 |
|
16
|
Invoices [that is, lists] of periodical publications.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
46 volumes. |
1863–1928 |
|
17
|
Counterfoils and carbons for books received under copyright provisions.
Creator: Library staff.
2 volumes. |
1937–1952 |
|
18
|
Lists of periodicals in receipt.
Creator: Library staff.
22 volumes. |
1872–1906 |
|
19
|
Register of periodical issues received.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume; Broken binding; spine missing. |
1912–1922 |
|
20
|
Periodicals records E. Record, for each title, receipt of monthly issues. Annotated with comments and queries. Title recorded as given.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
1 bundle of loose sheets in box. |
1924–1979 |
|
21
|
Dead accounts A-D. Records, for each periodical, author, title, number of copies requested, dates advertised, claimed and received, with remarks and queries. Include annotations explaining why certain publishers are no longer approached. Title recorded as given.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
1 kalamazoo binder. |
1924–1959 |
|
21A
|
'Dead records'.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
5 envelopes of loose papers, formerly on lever arch files. |
1981–1994 |
|
22
|
Periodical rejection lists and related reports.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
2 boxes. |
1929–1964 |
|
23
|
Dead Heap. Comprise accession cards, compiled c.1900-30, for issues of periodicals received at Cambridge University Library from c.1845 onwards, which remained uncatalogued and were part of incomplete or limited series. They were mostly rejected in the course of a major review exercise in the early 1930s. 'Heap' was the generic term given to uncatalogued surplus pamphlets, minor literature and periodicals accumulating in various Library corridors and out-stores.
Creator: Library staff.
5 boxes of cards. |
1900–1930 |
|
24
|
Index cards for periodicals rejected in the course of review exercises in 1930 and over the period 1935-56.
Creator: Library staff.
6 boxes. |
1930–1956 |
|
25
|
Newspapers from Heap. Comprises: list of newspapers, space occupied, whether or not first number held, covering dates. 'Heap' was the generic term given to uncatalogued surplus pamphlets, minor literature and periodicals accumulating in various Library out-stores.
Creator: Library staff.
1 booklet in envelope. |
3 June 1936 |
|
26
|
Papers relating to the Copyright Libraries annual conferences, with associated correspondence.
14 envelopes. |
1948–1983 |
|
27
|
Assorted papers relating to the Copyright Act and Cambridge University Library's claims to published works under its terms. Include: correspondence with G.W. Eccles, Copyright Agent, 1868-98; copies of various Copyright Bills, 1879-81; related material for the Library of Congress, 1904-6; correspondence with the Librarians of the Bodleian Library and the Advocates Library in Edinburgh, 1913-14; draft letter to the University Registrary on the reinterpretation of part of the Copyright Act. 1911, 30 Jan. 1937.
Creator: Library staff.
1 box and 1 envelope. |
1868–1955 |
|
28
|
Statement in regard to the recommendations of the royal commissioners on copyright as to repealing the statutes requiring that a copy of every new book be deposited in Public Libraries.
Creator: Faculty of Advocates.
1 volume. |
17 Mar. 1879 |
|
29
|
Copyright Bills.
Creator: Crown.
2 volumes. |
1910–1911 |
|
30
|
Copyright Act. Includes, loose, copies of related University and University Library memoranda.
Creator: Crown.
1 volume. |
1911 |
|
31
|
Assorted correspondence, notes and memoranda, newscuttings and official parliamentary papers relating to the Copyright Act and Cambridge University Library's objections to certain parts.
Creator: Jenkinson, Francis.
1 bundle in envelope. |
1911 |
|
32
|
Assorted papers. Comprise: receipted bills, 1902-17; letters and contract for G.W. Eccles' tenancy of Rugby Chambers, 1903; 2 letters from J.T. Clark of the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, 26 and 28 July 1905; letter from E.W.B. Nicholson, Librarian of the Bodleian Library on the impact of the new Copyright Bill to be published on 4 Mar. 1898.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
1 bundle in envelope. |
1898–1917 |
|
33
|
Summaries of letters from the Copyright Agent, J.G. Bradford.
Creator: Jenkinson, Francis.
1 volume. |
1912–1913 |
|
34
|
Libraries.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
11 envelopes. |
1917–1963 |
|
35
|
Correspondence exchanged between the Copyright Agent, Cambridge University Library and Supervisor of the Copyright Agency (John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls, Oxford, 1953-64). Also includes carbons (and occasionally originals) of Supervisor's letters to recalcitrant publishers.
1 bundle divided between 2 envelopes. |
1919–1964 |
|
36
|
Copyright papers. Comprise: correspondence with Copyright Agent, copies of form letter requesting publications; extracts from Copyright Conferences papers; policy documents prepared for Copyright Agent for guidance and records of specific disputed claims. Also includes, copyright agency annual reports, 1970-7 and staff bulletin 'ULC', issues 1-8, 1920-3.
Creator: Ansell, E.
1 bundle in envelope. |
1920–1977 |
|
37
|
General.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
2 boxes, contents now divided between 3 envelopes. |
1947–1956 |
|
38
|
Correspondence and lists relating to Irish publications supplied to Cambridge University Library by Eason and Son, Dublin.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
2 boxes, contents now divided between 5 envelopes. |
1927–1960 |
|
39
|
'The management and development of the legal deposit collections'.
Creator: Librarians of the six legal deposit libraries.
1 booklet in envelope. |
May 1994 |
|
40
|
Successive copies of the Copyright Act, leaflets, guidance notes and memoranda on the workings of the Act.
2 boxes. |
1842–2006 |
|
41
|
Receipt books for works received direct from publishers or authors, rather than via the Copyright Agency. This is an incomplete series.
Creator: Library staff.
6 books. |
1983–2001 |
|
42
|
Menus and invitation for lunches given to mark the retirement of A.T. Smail as Agent for the Copyright Libraries.
3 items. |
July 2000 |
|
43
|
Minutes and papers of the Management Committee of the Copyright Agency.
Creator: Management Committee.
13 envelopes. |
1977–2008 |
|
44
|
Copyright Agency annual reports and statistics. Comprise statistics only 1955-64, 1966, 1974. This is an incomplete series. Include three photographs of certain Agency and University Library staff, on a visit to the Library, c.1983.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
10 folders and loose papers, now in 2 envelopes; paper, photograph. |
1955–2008 |
|
45
|
Papers relating to Copyright Agency staff and salaries.
Creator: Copyright Agent.
6 folders. |
1980–1990 |
|
46
|
Staff wages and deductions ledger.
Creator: Copyright Agency.
1 volume. |
1946–1973 |
|
47
|
Papers relating to reviews of the Copyright Agency, its operations, structure and staffing.
4 folders in envelopes. |
1976–1999 |
|
48
|
Unsigned copies of the memoranda of agreement for the Copyright Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme (CLSCP).
3 items in envelope. |
1993–2004 |
|
49
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Minutes and papers of the 4th-23rd meetings of the CLSCP Steering Committee.
Creator: Copyright Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme.
6 envelopes. |
1994–2004 |
|
50
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Shared cataloguing (National Bibliographic Service Occasional Publications, 1993). This is a report on the operation of the Copyright Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme, 1990-2.
1 booklet. |
1993 |
|
51
|
Minutes and papers of one-off meetings of the Copyright Agency and representatives of the copyright libraries on such matters as claims procedure review 2001-2; serials, 2003; electronic deposit, 2004.
1 folder in envelope. |
2000–2004 |
|
52
|
Minutes and papers of meetings 1-8 of the Legal Deposit System Review Group.
1 folder in envelope. |
1999–2002 |
|
53
|
Minutes and papers of the Standing Committee on Legal Deposit.
10 folders and loose papers, now housed in 6 envelopes. |
1995–2004 |
|
54
|
Papers of sub-groups of the Standing Committee on Legal Deposit.
2 folders. |
1996–2005 |
|
55
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Subject files of the Standing Committee on Legal Deposit. Cover: non-ISBN survey, 1996; procedure and protocols, 1998; access, 1999; leaflets and guides, 1999.
4 folders in envelope. |
1996–1999 |
|
56
|
Minutes and papers of the Joint Committee on Voluntary Legal Deposit.
Loose papers in 2 envelopes. |
1999–2002 |
|
57
|
Plans and related papers for alterations and improvements to Copyright Agency accommodation at 94/100 Euston Street, London NW1.
1 folder in envelope. |
1977–1985 |
|
58
|
Assorted papers on the history and operations of the copyright libraries and copyright legislation.
1 box. |
1981–2001 |
|
59
|
Minutes and papers of Copyright Agency business meetings.
Creator: Copyright Agency.
7 envelopes. |
1954–2004 |
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