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Useful blogpost from the Journal of Victorian Culture Online -for any researcher just embarking on the conference circuit! Four Things to ...

The Scottish Kennedy family included Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, but it was her father who took the family on worldwide tours, singing Scottish...

Call and response singing is common in Hebridean work songs, like waulking (pounding tweed cloth) or boatsmen's songs. Can you see a c...

Rather quaint, this - a book of Scottish tunes with a hand-embroidered cloth cover.  Lovely, you'd think.  This folksy charm comes with ...

This post might interest someone in the Cambridge area:- "The Pendlebury Library of Music is looking for a new Library Assistant:...

This may be of interest to students about to enter the job market – or indeed, colleagues looking to move onward and upward! http://www.jo...

Colleagues in IAML (UK and Ireland) advise us that 'the Music Publishers’ Association has recently published a revised Code of Fair Pra...

Because it's an hour away by train, it's easy to forget that you can access the National Library of Scotland with all its fabulous r...

Had you planned on going out today?  Disappointed by the weather? Or have you programme notes to prepare, maybe? We're still here!...

Dear Reader, I'm your Music and Academic Services Librarian - and I'm a chartered librarian.  That means I'm a member of the C...

Whittaker gaped and stretched his eyes.  What?! Someone is blogging about the end of an era for librarian blogging?   This is serious stuf...

Yesterday, 'Whittaker' found an interesting article online for his own research.   He didn't recognise the name of the place whe...

Anyone in the business of writing and submitting articles will read Pat Thomson's latest blogpost with considerable interest:- Seven R...

Of course, you already know how helpful music librarians can be! Our professional association is celebrating 60 years of helpfulness, as ...

Promises, Promises ...  Watch this space!  'Whittaker' isn't in the Library today, but he wants to share with you some u...

Two useful groups for traditional Scottish music:- TMSA - Traditional Music and Song Association Patrons are weel-kennt names:- Aly Bain...

Running Your Group Whittaker found a useful website offering advice if you're setting up or running a society - music, or indeed any ...

Leo Blanco Music journalist Rob Adams is keen to share with us the fact that Leo Blanco will be playing in the forthcoming Glasgow Jaz...

Finishing your time with us at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland?  Unless you're going on to further study elsewhere, you'll be jo...

'Whittaker' was meant to be in Birmingham giving a presentation on Wednesday.  Unfortunately, a virus (real, not cyber) prevented ...