1. Description

2. Kresen Kernow building

3. Legal deposit status in the British Isles

4. References

5. External links

The Cornish National Library, National Library of Cornwall, or Cornish National Archive,^[1] is an institution for the exhibition, research and storage of Cornwall's documentary and manuscript archives, currently held by Cornwall Record Office, the Cornish Studies Centre and various other collections, libraries and institutions both within Cornwall and outside. The National Library is to be housed in the new Kresen Kernow building in Redruth.

Description

It is proposed by Cornwall Council's Community Overview and Scrutiny Committee that a new building costing between £8-12 million is constructed. The new facility has been named as one of ten cultural projects adopted by Cornwall Council's cabinet, others include a National Theatre of Cornwall, and an expansion to the Tate St Ives art gallery.^[2]

A Cornish national archive and library facility also forms part of Cornwall council's Heritage Strategy for 2011-14.^[3]

The Cross Group Working Party Review of Cornwall Libraries in March 2011 stated its aim to repatriate many culturally important manuscripts to Cornwall, for instance, medieval Cornish language plays like Bewnans Ke currently held by the National Library of Wales, or the Ordinalia held by the Bodleian Library. The possibility of getting the Prophecy of Merlin from the Vatican Archives has also been mooted.^[4] It is agreed that the library of Joseph Hambley Rowe, currently held by Redruth Library, will go to a National Library of Cornwall when one is set up.^[5]

The concept of a National Archive and Heritage Centre was born in Redruth in the early 2000s. This resulted in the creation of the Cornish Studies Library in the town. The old brewery at Redruth is now one of the three locations short-listed by Cornwall Council where the archive could be sited, the others being St Austell and Hayle.^[6]

Interactive, web-based access to previously unpublished and manuscript material held at the National Library of Cornwall is being developed by Cornwall Council. This will form a platform for schools and youth groups to explore the Cornish landscape, built environment, religion, politics, language and literature, industry, culture and

social change. It fulfils part of the UK Government's requirements for supporting the Cornish national minority under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.^[7]

Kresen Kernow building

Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Centre) was the name of the building in Redruth in which the Cornish Studies Library was formerly held. The new building for the National library and archive being built in the shell of the former brewhouse of Redruth Brewery has also been named Kresen Kernow during building works.^[8] The national archives and library will have more than 14 miles of shelving in total which will house around 1.5 million items, including over 100,000 books, 40,000 maps and 220,000 photographs and postcards.^[9] The project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Cornwall Council.

Legal deposit status in the British Isles

Currently there are six Legal Deposit Libraries in the UK and Ireland. The British Library, Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales, and Library of Trinity College Dublin share responsibility for cataloguing the legal deposit intake of new publications. Allocations of books take account of the different imprints of books, and also the language that the book is written in. Irish imprints and Irish language items go to Trinity College Dublin, Scottish imprints and Gaelic language items go to the National Library of Scotland, and Welsh imprints and material in both the Welsh and Cornish languages go to the National Library of Wales.^[10]

References

External links

• Cornish Treasures; Celtic League
• Key Collections Lost; West Briton newspaper, 25 August 2011 (follow up article not on website).
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120330180417/http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=7a6b4aae-cfb4-485b-be3c-9dff0dca323c&version=-1 Bringing The Ordinalia Home, The Cornish National Library – The Stadium of the Mind]; Cross Group Working Party Review of Cornwall Libraries March 2011
• The New Archive and Record Office for Cornwall; Community Overview and Scrutiny Committee, 25 August 2011
• The New Archive and Record Office for Cornwall; Cabinet, 14 September 2011

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