Graduating Students Stride into Employment in Glasgow

In today's Evening Times (Saturday 6 July 2013), City Unis among UKs Best for Graduates Finding Jobs

Glasgow and Strathclyde, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Glasgow School of Art all have enviably high employment statistics.  Glasgow Caledonian (GCU) tops them all - and they all give Oxford and Cambridge a run for their money!

Great news!

Scottish Songbook by a Victorian Glasgow Music Professor

Readers may be interested to read the Summer issue of Musical Times, which contains an article on a Scottish Songbook by the first Euing Music Professor at what was to become the University of Strathclyde.

NB - The Whittaker Library has the paper copy of this journal - we don't have online access.  However, it'll be on JSTOR by 2017!

‘Appropriate melodies’ and ‘natural modes’: two Victorian Scottish songbooks, Musical Times, Summer 2013 pp.91-106 – we don’t have it online here at RCS, though we do have the paper version. 

Flying High: Catherine's Big News

CONGRATULATIONS, CATHERINE!

Our Assistant Librarian, Catherine Small, has won the IAML(UK & Irl) E. T. Bryant Prize for her recent postgraduate Librarianship dissertation on dating musical scores.  This is a fantastic achievement, and we're all enormously proud of her.  The University of Strathclyde will also be delighted that one of their recent graduates has done so well.

From Jordanhill to Cowcaddens with love

from TheGlasgowStory.com

First there was the Normal School in Cowcaddens, for trainee teachers.

Then it moved to Jordanhill campus.  "Whittaker's" late mother-in-law was amongst the first intake to the new college.  (She played the piano for Royal Scottish Country Dance Society matriarch, Miss Jean Milligan, who was on the Jordanhill staff.)

Image from Slainte.org.uk

Jordanhill College subsequently became the Jordanhill campus of the University of Strathclyde.  However, the campus now lies empty. 

Image from Strath.ac.uk ("We are moving!")

Earlier this week, "Whittaker" was offered some choral materials left behind in the library there.  We couldn't take them all, but we've offered a good home to some Scottish choral song arrangements.  Check our catalogue here.

So, although these scores haven't made the round trip, the wheel has in some senses turned full circle.  From Cowcaddens to Jordanhill and back.  And Miss Peggy Fyfe from Maryhill, who married in Newcastle to become Mrs Margaret McAulay, is succeeded by another Mrs (Dr) McAulay back in Glasgow, working in what was the Athenaeum (Peggy's Uncle John's favourite haunt), and cataloguing scores from what was Jordanhill College.  It's a small world.

• Read Jordanhill Library's Last Day, a Storify story by Librarian Anabel Marsh
• Anabel Marsh's Farewell Jordanhill pinboard - more images to look at.