If you're from beyond Scotland, would you like to know more about Burns Night?

Are you celebrating Burns Night?

25.1.2015

This Sunday is the birthday of Scotland's national bard, poet Robert Burns.  The Whittaker Library has plenty of his songs on the shelves, and CDs of them being sung.

One of our web resources is ideal for finding out more about him, though: Scran is jam-packed with images, digitised documents, recordings ... and they have a special feature about Robert Burns at the moment.

Click to visit here - Staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can login using their RCS password to get the fullest access to this great online resource.

• Scran homepage: www.scran.ac.uk
• Whittaker Library Catalogue

Pictures of Scotland, Scottish Music, Scottish People and Places ... SCRAN!

Scran!

http://www.scran.ac.uk/ 

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If you need Scottish images for educational purposes, Scran is the place to go.  The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Whittaker Library has a subscription for staff and students here.

• Pictures of Scotland as it is now, or in the past?  Got it!
• Excerpts of famous old music collections, like the Scots Musical Museum? Nae bother!
• Audio or Video clips of not just music but other activities too?  Yes, Scran has them.
• Ideas for costume designers?  Certainly!  (Take a look HERE.)

Here's the link:- http://www.scran.ac.uk/ .  If you're not in the Conservatoire building, pick the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland from the list of institutions, and use your student or staff login.

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!