If I haven’t been rapturously blogging from St Andrews this week, it’s because I’ve been confined to the West of Scotland and the staff side of a library. My ring-fenced research time found a gap in the fence, and no research has been done. But I’ve conducted a lot of library tours! Discussed historically underrepresented composers, and ordered some more music by women composers (all enjoyable tasks). Weeded some books (rather more mundane). But it has felt like a very long week – the first time I’ve been in the library Monday to Friday, since 2012. Why now?, you might ask. A fair question!
On the plus side, I’ll recoup the missing time in October, and (better still) this situation won’t arise again, because next Autumn I shall have retired from librarianship.
But NOT from research, certainly not. I truly can’t wait to settle into having just one professional role!
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Karen McAulay, Musicologist 