UK Copyright - What Can I Copy?

Copyright - Keeping Things Legal

Here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, we have a CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency) Higher Education Licence.  It allows you certain concessions as a student or staff member in a UK Higher Education establishment.  This document tells you what you're allowed to do:-

CLA Notice for Display

If you've never really thought about copyright before, or if you're from another country, you might find things are different to what you expected, so here's the UKCS (UK Copyright Service) summary of UK Copyright Law, which you might find it helpful:- 

Fact sheet P-01: UK Copyright Law

Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education

Teachers! Lecturers! Tutors!   

Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education

Edited by Elizabeth Haddon, Pamela Burnard

© 2016 – Routledge

 Does this look interesting to you? It does to us!  Anything new on music pedagogy certainly attracts our attention here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

We know that Ruth Slater and former colleagues Christina Guillaumier and Peter Argondizza have contributed a chapter to the book, but the whole volume will be great for our music faculty and people on the PGCert course.

It's released in May - we'll be ordering it!

Publication details here.

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

What Counts as Effective Pedagogy in Creative Arts Higher Education?

Have you time for a little professional reading?

We put together a short list of some recent books suitable for teachers in the higher education sector.  Do take a look!  HERE.

(These are live links so staff at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can easily see if books are currently on the library shelves, or if they're already on loan.)

Just another helpful posting from your colleagues at the Whittaker Library!

How Can We Make It Better? Summer Reading for Academics

Whittaker Library teaching staff and postgraduate patrons just got lucky! Two nice new books arrived today, both in the Success in Research series. One’s about teaching in Higher Education, and the other's about transferable skills. They’ve been catalogued, so they’ll hit the shelves as soon as the labelling fairy does her magic!

There – don’t say we’re not good to you! Details here:- http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/rcs/items?query=success+in+research+denicolo

Network As Though Your Life Depended On It

We've mentioned the Guardian's Culture Professionals Network before - a great series which brings up to date information of interest to anyone working in the cultural sector.

Did we mention that there's also a Higher Education Network?  Again, this would be well-worth signing up to.  This week, for example, the Academics Anonymous blog (on the Higher Education Network homepage) is by someone who is studying for a PhD in their forties: 'Why are you doing a PhD at your age?'

Here are the links for you to follow up:-

• Guardian Culture Professionals Network - http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network
• Guardian Higher Education Network - http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network

Useful Website for Academics: Vitae, from the Chronicle of Higher Education

 Vitae: News and Advice for Higher Education

This is an American website from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Even allowing for some Transatlantic differences, it still offers many useful articles on all aspects of academic life, from diversity and equality to pay, research, and writing.  

Visit the website HERE.

A blogpost on Lecturing

What makes lectures good, and interesting?  

'Martin' is the blogger behind TheUniversityBlog. He writes about higher education from the student viewpoint. Today he blogs about,

Why Lectures Aren’t Dead & How to Deal With Difficult Lectures

Research into the Student Experience

The Student Experience

2 recent reports from the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education focus on research into the student experience in HE.

Both are in the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; full details here.

(There are more Leadership Foundation reports on other aspects of HE aspirations and administration, here.)

Policy documents for Higher Education (LFHE)

Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
  

• Research and development series:-
• Leading culturally diverse communities in higher education
• Stimulus papers:-
• Inequality and higher education: marketplace or social justice?
• Developing the whole student
• Collaborations and mergers in HE

These are new arrivals in the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  For more details about these or earlier reports in the series, click here.

• All our books with Equality or Diversity in the title are listed here.

Leadership Foundation for HE: resource series

LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION _____________________________________________ 8 resource guides for policy makers - RSAMD's Whittaker Library has all of these in stock. _____________________________________________ Getting to grips with ...

• Academic standards
• Audit
• Estates and infrastructure
• Finance
• Human Resource Management
• Internationalisation
• Research and Knowledge Transfer
• Risk

Click HERE to see further details in the Whittaker Library catalogue.

30 day trial to the BBC Motion Gallery

Looking for moving images in connection with your studies/ research? The Whittaker Library at RSAMD has set up a 30-day trial to the BBC Motion Gallery. (Click on the link to visit their home-page.) Highlights:-

• moving archive spanning 70 years from the BBC
• worldwide content and footage
• over 30,000 clips (250 added weekly).

As a higher education institution, RSAMD is eligible to subscribe.

We need to know if you would find it useful! RSAMD staff and students should contact Library staff (library@rsamd.ac.uk) for login details if you wish to access this trial.

Higher Education buzzwords

New in the Whittaker Library at RSAMD: Reports on recent research into leadership, assessment, the student experience and quality assurance in the Higher Education Sector - all available to staff and students at the RSAMD:-

• Library website
• Catalogue

Search the catalogue on any of the terms above, to find the relevant reports.