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Written by Karen Mcaulay

Karen McAulay divides her time between librarianship and musicology. 2012-15, was seconded part-time to an AHRC funded project into Scottish fiddle tune collections, contributing bibliographical and musicological data to the Historical Music of Scotland website http://hms.scot (blog http://www.music.arts.gla.ac.uk/bassculture/). She's currently researching the University of St Andrews' historic music copyright collection, & was recently awarded an AHRC networking grant to extend this research nationally. As well as speaking on her research specialism, she is also in demand to talk about research skills and her career as a part-time researcher.

You Only Have to Offer: How I came to author Two Encyclopedia Articles

October 7, 2014 by Karen Mcaulay

A blogpost written for my own Teaching Artist  blog a couple of days ago:- When my professional organisation forwarded a call for contributors to a new encyclopedia, I glanced very…

Do Blogs and Social Media Matter? What Makes a Good Blog?

August 12, 2014 by Karen Mcaulay

This past week or so, blogs seem to be surrounding and enveloping me – and the ones I author have taken on a new importance. I decided to rationalise some…

Suddenly, there’s a lot to do!

July 22, 2014 by Karen Mcaulay

I gave a presentation at the IAML (International Association of Music Libraries) conference in Antwerp last week. It was about the research project I’m currently seconded to on a part-time…

Reflective Journals and E-Portfolios

May 19, 2014 by Karen Mcaulay

We Librarians aren’t the only ones to keep Reflective Journals!  I’ve already mentioned the Teaching Artist short credit-rated course that I’ve been attending at evening classes since February.  Well, this…

Teaching Artist?

March 9, 2014 by Karen Mcaulay

You might wonder how a librarian can call themselves a teaching artist?  Well, I’ve signed up to a short credit-rated course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – evening classes…

The E. T. Bryant Memorial Prize (IAML UK and Ireland)

December 19, 2013 by Karen Mcaulay

Do you know any early career music librarians, or early career librarians who did a dissertation on music librarianship? The E. T. Bryant Memorial Prize is prestigious and valuable, but…

Reflective Writing about Libraries Fostering Creativity

October 28, 2013 by Karen Mcaulay

The following paragraphs are a write-up I have written in response to last Saturday’s Library Camp in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. To those not working in libraries, I should explain…

Pirates Wright and Walsh: Under the Book Detective’s Magnifying Glass

September 23, 2013 by Karen Mcaulay

I have a conundrum.  And I can’t leave it alone. A very eminent Victorian music antiquarian called Frank Kidson wrote a book on British music publishers, and immeasurable paragraphs on…

Going Beyond the Comfort Zone

September 11, 2013 by Karen Mcaulay

I have several comfort zones, actually. I expect everybody does. If I’m just peacefully cataloguing away, a couple of hours will see a good pile of music or books catalogued and…

The Devil in the Detail – What’s in a Name?

June 5, 2013 by Karen Mcaulay

Sometimes I can see why people think librarians are pedantic: a bit like lawyers’ letters or accountants’ statements, things in Libraryland need to be “just right” – the completely accurate…

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