User:Music Information Professional

Music Information Professional is a British dual-qualified Librarian and Musicologist. She graduated with BA (Hons) Music in 1979; MA by Research in Music in 1981; qualified as a librarian in 1984, and has been a subject-specialist academic librarian since 1988. She graduated with a doctorate from the University of Glasgow in 2009, with a thesis on the subject of ‘Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting c.1760-1888.’ She remains research-active, continuing to explore the interface between antiquarian fact-finding and artistic creativity; the parallels between literary and musical fakery in the early Romantic era; and the use of metaphor in the paratexts of song collections in the early 19th century. She is also pursuing her interests in nineteenth-century music making on the Isle of Mull.

She was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Spring 2010; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in January 2011, and has a particular interest in promoting information literacy as a key attainment for graduates by teaching information research skills to students at all levels.