LINACRE COLLEGE

Report of the Governing Body

Year ended 31 July 2019

The pattern of use over the last three years is for a small but steady decline in book borrowing, purchasing and inter-library loans, probably as a result of the increased availability of e-books through the Bodleian Libraries. Linacre College Library contributes £200 annually to these purchases via the College Libraries E-book Fund. At the same time we are seeing a steady increase year-on-year in the use of the library for study space (library entries up from 40,140 in 2016-17 to 47,627 in 2018-19). In term time, the library is in heavy use through most of the working day, and there are rarely unoccupied spaces. Unusually last year it was well-used over the summer vacation too, with the sort of figures we normally get for term-time use in July and August.

Further improvement work has been undertaken to upgrade the network at Ursula Hicks House, The Beeches and 49 Walton Street. This has completed the project to improve WiFi coverage, and to remove active equipment from inside student bedrooms. Fibre optic links to the Bamborough and Griffiths buildings have been upgraded in line with the rest of the network.

All College PCs have now been upgraded to Windows 10, and processes for preparing, deploying and securing staff and Library computers have been improved and streamlined.

The IT Department were closely involved with the recent Reception refurbishment project. Enhancements have been made to door access control, CCTV and networking provision. The opportunity was also taken to install additional cabling in areas exposed during the works for potential future use.

7. The provision of prizes and scholarships to support and reward those students who are deemed to have the highest academic potential

The College provided 43 scholarships in October 2018:

• Anthropology Scholarship

• Brewer Street Scholarship

• Sir Bryan Cartledge Scholarships in Humanities

• Canadian National Scholarship

• Carolyn & Franco Gianturco Scholarships

• CSSS Oxford-Trapnell Scholarship

• CSSS Oxford-Normal & Ivy Lloyd Scholarship

• Dapo Olagunju Scholarship

• David Daube Law Scholarship

• EPA Cephalosporin Scholarships

• Eldred Scholarship

• Hicks Scholarship in Economics

• Hitachi Chemical Environmental Scholarship

• John Bamborough Scholarships in Humanities

• Mary Blaschko Scholarships

• Oxford-Agnese Nelms Haury Scholarship

• Oxford-Allan & Nesta Ferguson Scholarship

• Oxford-EPA Abraham Scholarship

• Oxford-Linacre African Graduate Scholarship

• Oxford-Saïd Rhodes Scholarship

• Professor Paul Slack Scholarship in Humanities

• Rausing Scholarships

• Ronald and Jane Olson Scholarship

• Ruth & Nevill Mott Scholarship

• Ryle Scholarship

• Women in Science Scholarship