Is Your Leadership Inspired? We have Leadership Foundation Reports ...

It goes without saying that the Whittaker Library supports teaching, learning and research at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  However, we also support educationalists and managers by keeping a collection of reports and papers on best practice in higher education and management.

• We have 33 publications by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.  (Click here to see the list.) 
• And 26 more by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. (Click to see the list.)
• Or take an overview - here are our titles on Management

In short,we're not just a collection of music, drama, dance and production materials!  So if there's some aspect of your work that you'd like to compare with current best practice, do check the library catalogue and electronic resources.

1. Catalogue link
2. Library and IT pages

Free Arts Managment Training

A free online course on arts management offered by the Goethe institute and featuring the director of the Tate Modern.  Well worth checking out!

Mark Rylance as Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton

http://vimeo.com/116533810

http://Goethe.de/mooc

Whittaker's round-up

Lots of useful snippets have drifted into Whittaker's net of late.  So, here's Whittaker's round-up:-

• Teach faster, Write more (article by Susanne Morgan, for research support website Academic Ladder's February ezine)
• Pseuds' corner (identifying bad books - a THE article by Daniel Melia, 9 February 2012)
• Writing for peer-reviewed journals (strategies for getting published): forthcoming book by Pat Thomson and Barbara Kamler (Royal Conservatoire researchers - should we order this?)
• Re-skilling for research: a report from RLUK
• 201 years ago, 26 February 1811.  Yesterday (Sunday) was the anniversary of the death of James Johnson, instigator and publisher of the Scots Musical Museum. Genuinely a major contribution to Scottish song performers, collectors, scholars and aficionados.  He collaborated with Robert Burns for his seriously big-time, six-volume collection.  A worthy candidate for our "On this day" series of Scottish musical history facts.
• Postgraduate course in Arts management (Vienna)
• Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace Festival at the Scottish Storytelling Centre this week.