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All singing, all dancing, all poeting.

24th January 202228th January 2022 Trevor Thomson

Prologue Web archiving activities by General Collections in the last six months of 2021 is representative of at least six of the Hellenistic muses – music, dancing, and poetry (dance in this context being Scottish Country and Highland). Much of the activity builds on work carried out in previous years, particularly regarding music. While earlier […]

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Putting the Music Catalogue Online: Part 3 – What this project will do for you!

16th October 20208th January 2021 Kirsty Morgan

In our previous two blogs of the series we gave you a general overview of the Music Retroconversion Project that the National Library is currently working on, followed by a discussion of some of the different cards we’ve been converting and the challenges these have posed. This final blog describes the benefits the project will […]

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Putting the Music Catalogue Online: Part 2 – So many cards, so many challenges!

9th October 20209th October 2020 Kirsty Morgan

In our previous blog of this series, we gave you a general overview of the Music Retoconversion Project that the National Library is currently working on. Here we will discuss some of the different cards we’ve been converting and the challenges these have posed. The catalogues contain two types of cards: regular bibliographic cards with […]

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Putting the Music Catalogue Online: Part 1 – Project Background

2nd October 20209th October 2020 Kirsty Morgan

The National Library is working on a project to transfer its music card catalogues to the library’s online catalogue. Up until now, to search for music materials, users had the option of physically searching the Main Music Card Catalogue in the reading rooms, or they could phone the library and the librarians would check through […]

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Happy 60th Birthday Ian Rankin

28th April 20206th May 2020 Rosemary Hall Leave a comment

Today marks the 60th birthday of the UK’s number one best-selling crime writer, Ian Rankin. To celebrate Mr. Rankin’s latest milestone, we thought it appropriate to dedicate this post to his other love: music.

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Forty Years Gone: New Wave and Disco in 1978

31st July 201831st July 2018 James Mitchell

The year 1978 saw a changing of the guard in popular music. The decade-long dominance of heavy blues-based rock was coming to an end and in its place two new genres, new wave and disco, would rise to attain massive worldwide popularity while at the same time becoming templates for popular music up to the […]

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Portrait showing Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

The music behind our Staffa display (17-27 August 2017)

17th August 201715th August 2017 Almut Boehme

In the 19th century many composers, including Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847), were inspired by Scottish literature to write music based on Scottish themes. The main influences were Ossian, Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. Most major composers did not visit Scotland in person and so the inspiration remained cultural. However, Mendelssohn was one of the few […]

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SGT. PEPPER: IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY

29th May 201730th May 2017 James Mitchell

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in the UK on May 26, 1967. It remains the third best selling album in the UK: only Queen’s Greatest Hits (1981) and Abba’s Gold: Greatest Hits (1992)  have outsold it. To mark this anniversary, the National Library of Scotland has mounted a free display of […]

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Music display at the National Library of Scotland

3rd August 20169th August 2016 Almut Boehme

August has become a regular month for a small music display at the National Library of Scotland to coincide with the Edinburgh International Festival. A selection of items from the collections of the many musical works that will be performed over the coming month will be shown. A major theme this year is music related to the literary […]

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Britain in Europe – Making your mind up

26th February 201626th February 2016 Graeme Hawley

  The British public will shortly be asked to decide how they would like to participate in Europe. To help you make your decision, we would like to point you in the direction of just some of our resources on this important topic.

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