An introduction to electronic resources in the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

1. Digital library: Electronic Stuff
for musicians
Dr Karen McAulay, Music & Academic Services Librarian

2. As well as books, music, recordings
• We have a lot of electronic resources too.
• Eg, e-books. The catalogue will tell you if it’s
in electronic format, like this. Let’s look …

3. Click to see item, then click link

4. You’ll always have to login for ebooks
• Logging in tells the ebook provider that you
are one of our students.
• Just your normal login.
• Choose length of time, from a list of options.
• Book ‘disappears’ at end of time. No fines!

5. Ebooks and Kindles
• You can read an ebook on a Kindle
• Depends on the provider, but you might need
to download a chapter at a time
• Hannah’s blogpost -
http://whittakerlive.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/
but-can-i-read-your-ebook-on-my-kindle.html

6. More electronic stuff
• We subscribe to journals,
• Databases,
• Streamed sound
• All can be found on the Library/IT website or
by going to the Moodle link to our catalogue

7. The Library/IT website
• www.rcs.ac.uk > About Us > Library/IT
• Two pages – one is complete electronic AZ,
the other is just for databases like Oxford
Music Online, and streamed sound.

8. If you’re in Moodle …
• Look for the Useful Links tab – which takes you
to the catalogue.
• The catalogue has a link to the Library/IT page
• Let’s try the Moodle route:-
http://inspire.rcs.ac.uk/my/

9. Electronic journals
• We have a lot of different music journals
• We also have a database full of back-issues.
It’s called JSTOR
• The Moving Wall (!)
• You’ll have to login if you’re off-site
• Shibboleth (identifying yourself as “one of us”)

10. Databases
• Oxford Music Online – a music encyclopedia
• RILM – an index of journal articles and books
about music (useful for researching a topic)
• SCRAN – Digitised Scottish resources - images
and audiovisual media
• There’s more – take a look for yourself!

11. And streamed sound
• Classical Music Library (Alexander Street
Press)
• Naxos
• If off-site, you need to ……….?
• Because you need to identify yourself as ……?
• The CML login uses Shibboleth.
• It’s DIFFERENT for Naxos external access.
(Shhh!)

12. The End
• Take a look at the Electronic Stuff leaflet
• Ask me!
• Or any other library staff