Dr Karen McAulay explores the history of Scottish music collecting, publishing and national identity from the 18th to 20th centuries. Research Fellow at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, author of two Routledge monographs.
A few years ago, I was awarded a research grant to set up a network which I called ‘Claimed from Stationers’ Hall’, looking at historical legal deposit of music in British copyright libraries.
My research has moved on since then, but the bibliography that I built up may be useful to other people researching legal deposit. There are items of general interest, before the references to music copyright as such. It’s all on a page of this blog. People don’t always realise there are other pages, so I thought it was worth sharing the link again:-
Claimed from Stationers Hall Bibliography: Literature on Music Copyright:-
On Wednesday, I was more than happy to attend as an advisory board member for the first board meeting of the University of Sussex’s PromiscuousPrint research project. The website explains what it’s all about:-
A research project about what UK copyright libraries left out in the nineteenth century. Funded by the European Research Council. Hosted by the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab. Led by Dr Hannah Field.
Dr Field is the principal investigator of PromPrint; she is an associate professor in Victorian literature at the University of Sussex. She’s joined by doctoral researcher, Tiffany Murphy, also at the University of Sussex, and two Digital Humanities scholars, Dr Nicolas Seymour-Smith and Dr Milan Terlunen (also at Sussex).
It’s rather nice to have the opportunity to think about copyright libraries again. My own Claimed from Stationers Hall network feels quite a while ago now! (Remember?)
Just a quick explanation: I’m @Karenmca on Twitter, but since I had the AHRC networking grant for ‘Claimed from Stationers’ Hall’, I have also had a ‘Claimed from Stationers’ Hall’ Twitter account.
No more! I’ve decided to focus on the main @Karenmca Twitter account. There’s only one of me – I am who I am. So, if you have followed the ‘Claimed from Stationers’ Hall ‘ account, then I thank you for your support, and I ask, please could you now follow @Karenmca? Thank you.
Oh, and the image above? One of the magnificent carpets at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library. I spent the morning doing research there today.
(Let me out of my own library, and what do I do? Library history research in another one!)
