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The Morgan Library and Museum, in New York, has a website called Music Manuscripts Online - it could be just what you need!  Why not take a...

We found this the other day:- Scottish Country Dance Database http://my.strathspey.org/dd/index/     This database looks potentia...

Ben Fletcher-Watson, one of our Royal Conservatoire of Scotland researchers, has uploaded his article about nationhoods and nationalisms in ...

One of our own lecturers, Dr Peter Argondizza, has uploaded his paper about lute intabulations and fantasias, onto the academic social media...

The Fiddle in the Scottish Folk Revival Stuart Eydmann was Traditional Artist in Residence at the University of Edinburgh in 2013-2014. ...

A few years ago, the National Library of Scotland ran a pilot project to start indexing Scottish songs in early printed collections.  Sadly,...

Actors, have you see The Stage's new website yet?   The magazine has been core reading for theatrical people since 1880.  They've ...

Every Tuesday, Digital Theatre Plus shares something musical with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland community.  Today, it's Brahms...

If you're a 2nd year music student at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, then you just got lucky!  We’ve been looking at the Music H...

National Jazz Archive Archives are hip! Far from being dreary, dusty places, they now have digital content as well as valuable old archiv...

A few years ago, we posted a blog entry about William Tytler.  Never heard of him?  Well, he lived a long, long time ago.  Nonetheless, we ...

Are you curious to know what other music researchers are up to?  Sneak a peek over the fence at the neighbours ....  Music Research @ Glas...

This week there's a reminder from one of our e-journal providers, Sage Journals , that  there's loads of information just waiting f...

Mrs Garden of Troup's Strathspey was so very popular, we thought we'd ask:- who was Mrs Garden of Troup? Leave us a comment if yo...

For example, we were reminded by the big international academic publisher, Sage, that we have access to Sage Knowledge - and this is in addi...

The Whittaker Library staff thought James Clear has a better take on time management!  Read it here:- The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer...

In New York Public Library, there are Special Collections.  Very special, actually.  And one of the librarians there is committed to encoura...

Tom Chatfield writes a feature for the Guardian newspaper:- Why reading and writing on paper can be better for your brain  Meanwhile...

On the Academia.edu network, Karen Loomis has posted an article about two famous Scottish harps.  You can read the article HERE .   The L...

All music librarians are accustomed to receiving donations of music - the excitement is in the discovery of something rare, useful, or just ...