Library and Information Services, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Showing posts with label Jargon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jargon. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 June 2015

If you use Folk Music in your Teaching ...

The English Folk Dance and Song Society website has a great resource bank with materials which could help you.

Even if you're more into Scottish than English folk music, there's still useful information there.  We particularly liked the Jargon Buster.  There's much more there than just musical terms, as it covers folk traditions, costume details and other intriguing facts.  (For example, if you go busking, then technically you're "cadging" rather than begging, ie, you're getting money in exchange for providing entertainment, and not just because you begged for it ... a useful distinction!)

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

How can you tell we're librarians?!

CILIP, the librarians' professional body, sent us a link to 6 Terms that Instantly Reveal You as a Librarian.  We must be atypical - I don't think many of us have ever used these words in conversation with our readers.  Except ephemera, maybe.  Karen does like her ephemera.