University of Glasgow conserves and digitises Gaelic manuscripts

The University of Glasgow has an interesting article on the conservation and digitisation of 260 Gaelic song manuscripts from the 18th century, as held within its library.  

For more on the story visit https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2019/09/19/conserving-gaelic-manuscripts-for-digitisation/

Chris

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Scotsman Digital Archive relaunched

The public subscription version of the Scotsman Digital Archive (www.archive.scotsman.com) is now back up and running, but has been radically redesigned to work in a similar way to the British Newspaper Archive site. Thanks to Don001 in Dunedin, New Zealand for the news, posted as a comment on a previous post from November 18th at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/scotsman-digital-archive-public-site.html, which I thought was worth bringing to wider circulation:

It's up and running again but administered by the British Newspaper Archive as a stand-alone site. I had a problem with Google Chrome not showing the zoom, scrolling and grab tools and they can't find anything wrong but Google Product Forums indicates that Google Chrome does have a problem in this general area. The technical "fix" sounds complicated. Anyone else experience this? Internet Explorer works fine.

For those living in Scotland, please do read the original post to see how to get FREE access to this archive, via the National Library of Scotland's licensed digital collections.

(With thanks to Don001)

Chris

Pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, through Pen and Sword (30 April 2013), or purchase early at Who Do You Think You Are Live 2013 in London. For my other genealogy books, please visit  http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html; whilst for online Scottish based genealogy courses please visit the Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd site.