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SCOTLAND'S CULTURE

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The browse page of Scotland's Culture includes the following links.

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.

Places: provides links to resources about and services in your area, held within Scotland's Culture, listed by authority. Results will be returned within the services search pages.

 Subjects: offers a browseable list of subjects, at this pilot stage the subjects include sports and music.

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 link to find only those results relevant to the heading, i.e.: football fansites.
  • Football fansites: electronic|
  • Football history: electronic|collections
  • Football museums: electronic
  • Football programmes: electronic
  • Football stadia: electronic
  • Football teams: electronic
At the bottom of each subject leaf page a key to where the search results have been obtained for each links used is provided.
  • electronic resources from Scotland's Culture
  • collection information from SCONE, Scottish Collections Network
  • or results for printed resources via CAIRNS, Co-operative Academic Retrieval Network


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.
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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.

 

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 the Scotland’s Culture use an untypical port number (8000). To rectify this you should contact your IT department who will be able address the problem.


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Last updated:28 Nov 2003

Date created:28 Nov 2003

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Scotland's Culture is supported by the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Library and Information Council.