Good Afternoon
This is my first post to the list, and I wonder if someone would be able to answer some of the (more basic) questions which I have about the system. The background to this library is that it is a small specialist music library, which is part of an institution which provides teaching in the Highland bagpipes, both to undergraduates doing Scottish traditional music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, as well as individuals not studying the instrument as part of their education, but who play at all levels from beginner to elite. We are in the process of setting up, and I am interested in using Evergreen as our catalogue I would be interested in hearing about the experience of others in small institutions who use the system for OPAC, circulation and acquisition, any benefits or issues which might be relevant in smaller libraries. One of the issues that we would have is about putting the individual titles of pieces of music within a collection of tunes into a searchable field in the system, to create an index of tunes - the same would also be required in terms of our audio collection, as one of our key requirements is that users would want to listen to different performances of the same piece, and as we are starting from scratch it would be very useful to have that capacity. I think that's about it at the moment, and I will very grateful for any input that list members can provide. Thanks James Beaton The Library The National Piping Centre 30-34 McPhater Street Glasgow G4 0HW t. +44 (0) 141 353 0220 f. +44 (0) 141 353 1570 www.thepipingcentre.co.uk www.pipingfestival.co.uk The National Piping Centre Ltd. Registered in Scotland no. 139271, Charity no. 020391 The Piping Centre Trading Ltd. Registered in Scotland no. 162342 Glasgow International Piping Festival. Registered in Scotland no. 256248, Charity no. 34875
