Snow Queen Melts Away

We've been happy to have the Snow Queen costume exhibited in the library during December and January, but this is her final week watching over staff and students at the issue desk.  We've blogged and tweeted about her, in the context of costume design and creation. Click here if you missed the blogpost first time round:- https://whittakerlive.blogspot.com/2018/12/cool-new-library-colleague-meet-our.html
 

We had an Item of the Month displayed from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives, too - the
2016 programme of the production by Stuart Paterson and Dougie Irvine. 

Don't forget, there's a wealth of interesting performance related material in our archives up at Speirs Locks!  It's best to make an appointment with Stuart Harris-Logan, our Archives Officer.   (Ask us, if you need to know how to get there.)

Watch out for our February display theme!!

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives Move

After 960 boxes, over 2000 metres of bubble wrap and several weeks of careful packing our Archives & Collections department is on the move!  Watch this space for an update on our new home and an invitation to our opening soirée; meantime please bear with us as the collections are closed for public access.

• Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives and Collections page

Want to be an Archivist? (Or conserve your papers responsibly)

The National Archives' website has plenty of information about good archival practice.  Read about it here:-  Caring for Archives.

If you fancy a career as an archivist, why not contact one to tell you what the job entails?

Our own Archives Officer would be happy to tell you more about his work here in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  We don't just conserve papers - we have music, musical instruments, costumes, paintings and more!

• http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/
• Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives and Collections

Royal Conservatoire Archives in the News

The Royal Conservatoire Archives makes its BBC debut this week:

No One But Me, a CONNECTfilm documentary about Scottish jazz singer Annie Ross, is screening on BBC2 Scotland tomorrow, Tuesday 18^th December, at 9pm.  Much of the historical material used in the film was drawn from the Jimmy Logan OBE papers which were bequeathed to our archives in 2001. 

Also watch out for an Andy Stewart Hogmanay special, featuring images from our photographic archives.

Further information: Archives Officer Stuart Harris-Logan will be pleased to answer queries.  

Website: http://www.rcs.ac.uk/aboutus/libraryandit/archives.html

Email: S.Harris-Logan@rcs.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)141 270 8299 (direct)

Jubilee

The day of the Queen's Jubilee

Was wet, to a chilly degree 

But the Monarch just smiled, 

Her subjects went wild,

And we Scots saw it all on TV.

c. KEMcAulay 

3.6.2012

Image from The Telegraph newspaper's blog

We have a small exhibition of Coronation and Jubilee-related material in the Whittaker Library - do come and see.  (If you speak to our Archive Officer, there's more ...!)

And we've compiled some Jubilee-related search-findings from the library catalogue: take a look at this Diigo Jubilee list (social bookmarking) list.

• Video: Diamond Jubilee Pageant's Musical Finale - featuring our opposite numbers down in London -  the very wet Royal College of Music Chamber Choir!  (From BBC website).
• BBC Diamond Jubilee website is http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17500000

Scottish Archives

The appointment of a new Archives Officer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a matter for celebration - welcome to Stuart Harris-Logan!

You can visit our Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives page here.

So with Scottish archives firmly in our sights, here are some useful websites to get us thinking along suitably archival lines:-

• Scotttish Council on Archives
• SCAN - Scotland Online - Report pdf (September 2011)
• Unique and Distinctive Collections - a Research Libraries UK project
• Unique and Distinctive Collections (RLUK) project blog by Project Manager, Alison Cullingford