Annual Review, 2018

I am a Performing Arts Librarian 3.5 days a week, and a Postdoctoral Researcher 1.5 days a week.  In this self-imposed annual review, I’m not listing routine activities conducted in either capacity; it goes without saying that I’ve answered queries, catalogued, delivered library research training to a number of different class groups, attended meetings, and pursued research-related activities and fieldwork.

From September 2017 to September 2018, I was the AHRC-funded Principal Investigator for a new research network, the Claimed From Stationers’ Hall music research project.  Since then, I have continued to conduct research and network with the various scholars and libraries involved with this project, and in the new year shall be pursuing further grant-funding in order to extend the reach of the project.

As someone who continually asks themselves, “Am I doing enough?”, I feel that even I can be reasonably content with this year’s outputs!

• JANUARY
• Chaired sessions at Traditional Pedagogies, international conference at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
• FEBRUARY
• Blogpost: Copyright Literacy: Legal Deposit (Copyright Behind the Scenes) – and Scores of Musical Scores  https://copyrightliteracy.org/2018/02/21/legal-deposit-copyright-behind-the-scenes-and-scores-of-musical-scores/
• Initial iteration of Claimed From Stationers Hall Bibliography, (since updated regularly) https://claimedfromstationershall.wordpress.com/bibliography/
• Book chapter, ‘Wynds, Vennels and Dual Carriageways: the changing Nature of Scottish Music’, in Understanding Scotland musically: folk, tradition and policy. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, p. 230-239.
• MARCH
• Claimed From Stationers’ Hall Workshop, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, (26 Mar)
• Scottish Library & Information Council (SLIC) From PGCert to PG Certainty: Enabling the Distance Learner (invited talk, sectoral organisation) (March 2018)
• APRIL
• IAML(UK & Irl) Annual Study Weekend, invited talk, Pathways, outputs and impacts: the ‘Claimed from Stationers Hall’ music project takes wings
• IAML(UK & Irl) Annual Study Weekend From PGCert to PG Certainty: Enabling the Distance Learner (quick-fire session) (April 2018)
• MAY
• Blogpost based on the session I gave at the IAML(UK & Ireland) Annual Study Weekend 2018 for the IAML(UK & Ireland) blog, http://iaml-uk-irl.org/blog/libraries-reaching-out-distance-learners
• JUNE
• EAERN (Eighteenth-century Arts Education Research Network), ‘Claimed From Stationers’ Hall: But What Happened Next?’ (University of Glasgow, 6 June)
• Romantic Song Network steering group seminar at British Library
• JULY 
• IAML/AIBM Annual Congress, Leipzig, ‘A Network of Early British Legal Deposit Music: Explored through Modern Networking
• SEPT
• RMA Conference, Bristol, ‘Overlapping Patterns: the Extant Late Georgian Copyright Music Explored by Modern Research Networking’
• NOV
• Field-trip to King’s Inns and Trinity College Dublin Libraries, and British Library
• EFDSS Conference, London, ‘National Airs in Georgian British Libraries’
• ARLGS (Academic and Research Libraries Group Scotland) Teachmeet at Glasgow University Library – speaker
• Article, Trafalgar Chronicle, New Series 3 (2018), 202-212, jointly authored with Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, ‘My love to war is going’: Women and Song in the Napoleonic Era’.
• DEC
• Article, Information Professional, Nov-Dec 2018, ‘Coffee and Collaboration’ [teaching electronic resource strategies]

Additionally, I have authored 79 blogposts and 5 Newsletters in connection with the Claimed From Stationers’ Hall research project.

Institutional Repository: Pure.  My profile:- https://tinyurl.com/KarenMcAulayPureInstRepository

I’ve blogged elsewhere about my musical and sewing activities – both essential to me in terms of relaxation and balance!  You’ll find it here:-

https://karenmcaulay.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/2018-round-up-in-creative-mode/