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Legal deposit has existed in English law since 1662. It helps to ensure that the nation’s published output (and thereby its intellectual record and future published heritage) is collected systematically, to preserve the material for the use of future generations and to make it available for readers within the designated legal deposit libraries.
The Joint Committee on Legal Deposit (JCLD) is a body composed of representatives from the deposit libraries and publishing trade associations. Its main purpose is to facilitate cooperation between publishers and deposit libraries for the effective implementation of statutory and voluntary deposit arrangements. Its work includes discussing non-print collecting policies, reaching mutual agreement on questions of interpretation, jointly assessing new developments, and establishing technical pilots or voluntary schemes where appropriate.
JCLD brings together representatives of publishers and the deposit libraries to facilitate the effective implementation of legal deposit. Its functions are to:
JCLD members represent or contribute perspectives on behalf of a specific constituency. Current members are:
Member | Organisation |
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Joint Chairs | |
Angela Mills Wade | Publishers Content Forum |
Phil Spence | British Library |
Legal deposit library represenatives | |
Catriona Cannon | Bodleian Libraries |
Lucie Burgess | British Library |
Patricia Killiard | Cambridge University Library |
Martyn Wade/Darryl Mead | National Library of Scotland |
Avril Jones | National Library of Wales |
Margaret Flood | Library of Trinity College Dublin |
Publishing Representatives | |
Chris Fell | Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers |
T.B.A. | Association of Online Publishers |
Carol Tullo | Controller, HMSO and Queen's Publisher |
Anne Joseph | International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers |
Sarah Davis | Newspaper Publishers Society |
Catherine Courtney | Newspaper Society |
Andrew Yeates | Professional Publishers Association |
Trevor Fenwick | P.P.A. Business Media Group (Data & Digital Publishing) |
Hugh Jones | Publishers Association |