The
subjects page of the service offers a browseable list of subjects,
at this pilot stage the subjects are not exhaustive but new
content is being added all the time.
For example, choose Sports
and you will be presented with a list of sports, if you select
Football
you will be presented with the following set of links.
Click on the 
symbol to find only those results relevant to the heading,
i.e.: football fansites.
- Football fansites
- Football history
- Football museums
- Football programmes
- Football stadia
- Football teams
At the bottom of each subject
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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contents of Scotland's Culture |
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Search only the
pages of Scottish Collections Network (SCONE) |
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Search only the
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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.
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.
Why is CAIRNS searching
sometimes slow?
As the CAIRNS search involves
searching multiple services at the same time there is sometimes
a time lag for results coming back. If this is the case you
could try clicking on the advanced search option. This will
allow you select which service you want to search. By selecting
fewer target services your search time is likely to improve.
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Scotland's
Culture help pages are displayed in a new browser window.
You may wish to keep the new window open for further reference,
or close it to reduce clutter. You can always display this
guide again from the Sitemap
page, along with all other help pages.
Some users may find that parts of Scotland’s Culture
are inaccessible from within an institution that has firewall
protection. This may be because parts of Scotland’s
Culture use an untypical port number (8000). To rectify this
you should contact your IT department who will be able address
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