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The browse page of Scotland's Culture includes the following
links.
On the left hand side of the page there are links to digital
guides, covering the following topics:
Events:consists
of text and links to events held in Scotland. These links
will open in a new window.
Funding:
consists of text and links to organisations that can offer
information about or offer funding directly. The links contained
within the text will open in a new window.
Guides to culture:
the essays include a paragraph of introductory text (supplied
by the Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Executive, sportscotland,
Scottish Screen and the National Archives of Scotland) and
a set of links to selected organisations and resources.
These links will open in a new window.
On the right hand side of the page there are links to:
People:
provides links to electronic resources about people in Scotland
held within Scotland's Culture, collections about people
held in SCONE and results for printed items about people
using the CAIRNS service. The link will take you to the
browse by people function, enabling you to click up and
down the type of person, ie, actors, sculptors, artists,
writers etc, and click the relevant GO
button to take you to resources for the person or group
of people you are interested in.
Places: provides links
to resources about and services in your area, held within
Scotland's Culture. Hover your cursor over the map to display
authority names or select a link from the right hand side
of the screen. Results will be returned within the services
search pages.
Topics: provides links
to electronic resources for topics in Scotland, held within
Scotland's Culture, collections about topics held in SCONE
and results for printed items about topics using the CAIRNS
service. The link will take you to the browse by topics
function, enabling you to click up and down the topics to
find specific topics you're interested i.e. scotish poetry
or more general topics such as literature or arts and recreation,
and just click the relevant GO
button to take you to the resources for the topic you are
interested in.
Click on the 
symbol to find those results relevant to the topic or person
you are interested in, and choose the relevant service you
wish to look at from the drop down list.
At the bottom of each page a
key to the symbols used is provided. The symbols represent
where the search results have been obtained from:
- electronic resources from Scotland's
Culture
- blue go symbol.
- collection information from SCONE,
Scottish Collections Network
- pink go symbol.
- or results for printed resources
via CAIRNS, Co-operative Academic
Retrieval Network
- grey go symbol.
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About Scottish Collections Network (SCONE)
SCONE provides descriptions
of collections held in Scottish libraries, museums and archives,
and collections about Scottish topics held elsewhere.
SCONE contains information
about collections of all kinds.
It is particularly strong in coverage of bibliographic collections
of:books and journals, audiovisual materials, photographs,
maps, plans, drawings, video and sound recordings, local and
family history resources, manuscripts and archives, online
digital resources and websites. Information about locations
and organizations is updated annually by the Scottish Library
and Information Council (SLIC).
All subjects are represented:
- special collections covering
specific topics.
- people and places associated
with Scotland.
- special collections covering other
topics of interest to Scottish individuals and groups.
- general collections covering
a very wide range of topics.
Collections are owned
and administered by a wide range of institutions and organizations
located in Scotland:
- every educational library service
in all colleges, schools, and universities.
- every learned society library.
- every public library in all local
authorities.
- family and local history societies
and libraries.
- many special and rare books departments.
- significant commercial and industrial
library and information services.
- art galleries and museums.
Who develops and maintains
SCONE?
SCONE is developed and maintained by the Centre for Digital
Library Research at Strathclyde University in Glasgow and
the Scottish Library and Information Council.
About Co-operative Academic
Retrieval Network (CAIRNS)
CAIRNS allows the simultaneous
one-stop searching of the catalogues of multiple library collections
of print and electronic resources held by Scottish libraries
and information services for learning, teaching and research.
Searches can be made for the authors, titles, subjects, and
standard publisher numbers of items in each collection.
The information displayed in CAIRNS is taken directly from
the catalogues being searched, and is supplied by the institutions
and organizations which administer the collections.
Who develops and maintains
CAIRNS?
CAIRNS is developed and maintained by the Centre for Digital
Library Research at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.
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