Advent Calendar from Norway

The Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound has released their annual advent calendar.  You can take a look HERE. 

Do You Plan to visit the Whittaker Library During Winter Break?

Winter Break for the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The Whittaker Library will close at 3pm on 23rd December and reopen at 8.45am on 5th January 2015 - the day the building reopens - when we will recommence normal opening hours, evenings included. 

Commencing today (12th December), the library Winter Break opening hours are 9-5 Monday to Friday.  

Exceptions

Additionally, we will only be open until 2.30 pm on Thursday 18^th  December and 3 pm on Tuesday 23^rd December.

Weekends

We’re not open on Saturdays until Saturday 10^th January, and our next special Sunday opening will be on 11^th January 2015.

Selected 2015 Sunday opening hours

11th January 2015

25th January 2015

19th April 2015

3rd May 2015

17th May 2015

12th July 2015

19th July 2015

Opening times do occasionally vary and if you are planning to make a journey to visit us it is advisable to call first.  If you're a student or member of staff at the Conservatoire, we have lots of web resources that you can use all year round.  Visit our library website HERE.

Whittaker Library, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Library Opening Hours

Whittaker Library

Christmas Opening Hours

Friday 13 December           9-5

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No Weekend Opening

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Monday 16 December       9-5

Tuesday 17 December    11-5

Wednesday 18 December 9-5

Thursday 19 December    9-5

Friday 20 December     9-1.45

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No Weekend Opening

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Monday 23 December      9-5

Tuesday 24 December Closed

Christmas Day to 2 Jan closed

Friday 3 January                9-5

Saturday 4 January          10-4

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Normal hours from Monday 6 January 2013

 

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* If you've forgotten to renew library books, remember you can login via the library catalogue to access your account. You need your user number and PIN.

* There are plenty of useful library guides via Mahara, and course reading lists on Moodle, should you feel inspired to do a little studying after Christmas! 

Season's Greetings from the Whittaker Library Staff and a happy Hogmanay when it comes!

Whittaker Christmas Greetings!

The Whittaker Library at the 

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Christmas Closure

We close at 2 pm today, Friday 21 December 2012. 

Whittaker Be

The Library reopens on Thursday 3 January 2013.  

• We shall be open 9-5 Thursday 3 and Friday 4 January.  
• We're open on Saturday 5 January between the usual 10-4.

Helpful leaflet for late returners:- How to renew your library loans online.  (You'll need to login to your staff/student Moodle and Mahara account to access this leaflet.)

Glasgow entertainment

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Hogmanay, at Jongleurs, Glasgow - Janey Godley.  Read the Evening Times feature, 26 December 2011, here.

If you can wait until late January/early February 2012, there's the Britannia Panopticon in Trongate.  Read the Evening Times feature, 26 December 2011, here.

• What else is on?  Try www.scotlistings.com or www.s1play.com
• Evening Times - regular features link: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/features
• Glasgow loves Christmas / Hogmanayday website 
• Visit Scotland - Christmas events

You see?  Whittaker doesn't leave you without entertainment between Christmas and Hogmanay!

Whittaker's Winter Holidays



Christmas 2011

 The Royal Conservatoire of Music is closed between Christmas and the New Year.  The Whittaker Library will reopen on Wednesday 4th January 2012.

Library Team Christmas Dinner 2011

Library Ladies Christmas Headgear

Because 'Whittaker' is on holiday, his blogposts may be rather sporadic.  But he can't leave you totally bereft of helpful updates! 

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Corff y Gainc: Welsh Folk Melodies

Here is a useful digital archive of folk melodies from old Welsh sources.  It comes from Chris Grooms, who also maintains www.docgrooms.com.

Watson's Wind-Up Christmas Cracker

A Play, a Pie and a Pint

Watson’s Wind-Up Xmas Cracker at Oran Mor - 20th/21st/22nd/23rd Dec, get your tickets now! http://bit.ly/sXvyZI

If you'd like to follow the Oran Mor 'A Play, a Pie and a Pint' series on Twitter, you'll find them at PlayPiePint. Easy.

Christmas Greetings across the years

From the National Archives:-

Short folkloristic Christmas film from Sweden

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Sent to 'Whittaker' by Pia Shekter, Secretary General of the International Association of Music Libraries.  Enjoy! 

Here comes a folkloristic Christmas Greeting from Sweden! This film is sent every Christmas Eve on Swedish television since many years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJ0Ec-jYg8

12 Days of Christmas, Advent 'Calendars' and Santa Claus

In the spirit of Christmas, I offer these links to all followers of Whittaker Live!

• Freebies from the RSNO
• Classic FM Advent Calendar
• Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound (a tune a day)
• Glasgow’s 12 days of Christmas calendar- theatre ticket offers . Today (7th December) it's a 2 for 1 deal!

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'You'll lower my chances of winning!', my colleagues protest.  But they don't mind really!

Showcasing SCRAN (Scotland's history at the click of a mouse)

Have you visited the Whittaker Library and Information Services website, at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland?


We offer much more than printed and audiovisual materials!  Staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire can access quality electronic resources through our website.  Our digital offerings include various useful databases.  Sometimes they're useful in more ways than you'd imagine.


Take SCRAN, for example.  Scottish materials of all sorts, including images, pages of old books and music, portraits ...

• BA in Scottish Music students might find useful source materials, or even images for back-projecting during a performance
• Costume and theatre designers will find masses of illustrations of fashions and every aspect of contemporary life in any historic period
• Surprise yourself - try an old cake recipe, or cook a Christmas pudding as your great-grandmother would have done!
• You can even pull out stuff on a particular theme, such as Christmas, or war.  A particularly poignant one is a photo of soldiers celebrating Christmas in the trenches, Western Front, during World War I. Here's part of the caption:-

This photograph shows a dozen men sitting in the mud in a trench celebrating Christmas. They have laid some white paper on a crate and set out some slices of cake, a tinned pudding, a packet of raisins and what looks like an orange. These may have been in a food parcel from home, shared by a group of friends.


The photograph's original caption reads, 'Tommy's Xmas on the West.' There is a poignancy about these men celebrating Christmas, the Christian festival for the birth of Christ and 'peace and goodwill to all men', while behind them there is a crude wooden cross over the grave of a dead soldier.

Direct access from within Royal Conservatoire premises.  Institutional access from outside.  (Identify us from a list then use your Royal Conservatoire staff or student ID and password.)

Images can be used educationally, but we're not permitted to put them on a publicly accessible website. So the Christmas pud is from Creative Commons, not Scran! 

Tales of Christmas Past

Are you in Edinburgh on 17th December?

3 pm at the Scottish Storytelling Centre

43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR

"How was Christmas celebrated in days gone by? Time to reflect on the joy and good tidings Christmas can bring with storytellers Heather Yule and Janis Mackay. Yuletide tales from Scotland conjure up the Christmas spirit, in story, music and song. There is a rich and varied story culture in Scotland associated with the birth of Christ and the winter’s solstice, so come and join us, away from the commercial face of Christmas, to celebrate."

International Student Christmas - A Cumberland Lodge residential event

International Student Christmas

(Friday 17th - Sunday 19th December 2010)

Cumberland Lodge has been running a Christmas event for international students for over 60 years. This event is mainly for people from overseas who have never been to the Lodge before. This pre-Christmas weekend is the longest established event at Cumberland Lodge. Students from other countries that are currently in Britain are welcome to have a taste of a typical British Christmas with a personal appearance by Father Christmas almost guaranteed. The registration fee is £65, which includes wine, food, shared accommodation and entrance to Windsor Castle. For all registration enquiries please contact:- Janis Reeves janis@cumberlandlodge.ac.uk Conference Co-ordinator, Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor Tel: 01784 497794 Cumberland Lodge is an educational charity - this event is heavily subsidised.

"The time at Cumberland Lodge was unforgettable and I am confident in saying that it was one of my best Christmases ever (even though I did not spend it with my family)..."