Tuesday 20th of June

10 - 11am

Dr Karen McAulay

@Karenmca

A Fellow of CILIP and the Higher Education Academy, Karen is a Performing Arts Librarian and postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her research combines musicology with cultural, library and book history. Karen worked on the AHRC-funded HMS.scot; was Principal Investigator for the ‘Claimed From Stationers’ Hall’ network; and has been on the steering groups of the Eighteenth-Century Arts Education Research Network and Romantic National Song Network.

Her Routledge book, Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era (2013), was followed by chapters in Understanding Scotland Musically (2018) and Music by Subscription (2022), and is currently writing her second monograph about late nineteenth and early twentieth century Scottish music publishers.

About this Session

Your university will probably recommend a preferred referencing system, eg Harvard. To make things easier with keeping control over your references, there are a variety of bibliographical software tools to choose from; they can make a real difference to the workload when you start writing up your thesis.

I'm a devotee of Zotero, but this talk does not set out to convince you to use Zotero or a particular referencing style; rather, I urge you to devise a practical system that suits your own purposes, and then to adhere to it. Speaking as a career librarian as well as a postdoctoral scholar, I also offer a few practical insights which will make life easier along your doctoral journey.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session, participants will have a greater understanding of the options available to them, in terms of building, maintaining and deploying a bibliography in scholarly writing. By the end of this session, participants will also understand the importance of starting to build one's bibliography at the earliest opportunity.

Who might be interested?

This session will be of particular interest to doctoral researchers early on in their research journey, but will also be relevant to anyone who has just started writing their thesis. Examples are likely to stem from arts, humanities and education disciplines, but the principles will apply to anyone who has to write a thesis or dissertation, or embarking upon writing scholarly papers.

Participant access requirements

This talk will be given online. It is recommended that the device used should be a tablet or laptop, so that examples won't be too small to read!

Event contact: K.McAulay@rcs.ac.uk 

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First published: 17 May 2023