The National Library of Wales is a body which has been incorporated by Royal Charter, and it is also a charity (registered number: 525775) and a Body under the funding sponsorship of the National Assembly for Wales.

Financing the Library

The Library receives an annual grant in aid from the National Assembly for Wales. The value for that grant in the 2006/07 financial year is £11.328m.  This is the Library’s main source of income.

Board of Trustees

Since the second half of 2006 (and as a result of receiving a new Supplemental Charter from the Queen) the Library has a Board of Trustees called hereafter ‘the Board’. The Board has 15 members. Eight of its members are appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government and seven by The National Library of Wales.  At the moment there is a period of transition until that balance is achieved. It is expected to be complete by the end of 2007.

The Library has its own Officers and the Charter gives the Board the right to delegate any one of its roles to them, except for the ability to make regulations and to appoint and dismiss the Librarian (the Librarian is an employee and he is the Chief Executive Officer and Accounting Officer). 

The Trustees, including three Board Officers, are appointed according to the Statutes following the 2006 Supplemental Charter. The three officers are the President, the Vice-President and the Treasurer. The Library’s business is also managed and regulated according to the Statutes and Regulations created by the Board.

Members of the Board of Trustees

As part of the transition period, the President, Dr Robert Brinley Jones CBE, and the Vice-President, William John Phillips, will remain in office until the last day of November 2007.

The Trustees, including the three Officers (i.e. the President, the Vice-President and the Treasurer) are appointed according to the Statutes.

The present members (as at 1 March 2007) are:

David Barker (appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government)

Conrad Bryant (Treasurer)

Professor Hazel Walford Davies

Joanna Davies (appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government)

Professor Roger Earis

Gwerfyl Pierce Jones

David Meredith

Elspeth Mitcheson (appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government)

Professor Derec Llwyd Morgan

Emeritus Professor Peter H Morgan

Dr W T Rees Pryce

Professor Hywel E Roberts

John Watkin

W Gwyn Williams OBE

The Board of Trustees’ Meetings

The Board will meet at the National Library on:

• 18 May 2007 (Agenda)
• 13 July 2007
• 2 November 2007
• 14 December 2007

There will be an outreach meeting on 21 September 2007 in the Rhondda: we will publish details of this event nearer the time.