If Research Days were like Saints’ Days, then my Tuesdays would be Research Day Eves! 
Normally, I’m busy being a librarian on a Tuesday, but since I have a day’s leave, I can look ahead to what’s in store tomorrow.
- Firstly, we’ve had several offers of blogposts, so to help with the planning, I’m contemplating setting up a Doodle-poll (or something similar) so that interested people can commit themselves a bit more definitely, and we get some sense of what’s next. Research Doodle-poll.
- I need to set up some more meetings, after last week’s very productive mission to Edinburgh. Quite a few meetings, in fact.
- I need to tidy up the rest of my bibliography – or what I’ve got so far – so that I can post it online and share it more widely. I’d love to be notified of any other useful reading that I’ve missed.
- Bibliographer to the last, I need to check out the various commissions to examine universities and their libraries, in the Georgian/early Victorian era. I need precise citations for reports for ALL the legal deposit libraries involved in those commissions. Not quite sure how I’ll get round to reading them all, but the first objective is to identify them all. They aren’t always all that easy to trace, and sometimes library copies don’t have title pages – a bit of a setback, you could say!
My apologies that no podcast has happened for a couple of weeks; inspiration hasn’t descended upon me, and at present I’m hoarse, if not speechless. A podcast will happen soon, rest assured. (At least 21st century scholars have more effective cold remedies than our early 19th century forbears!)
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 