Unlocking Scotland’s Sound Heritage

The National Library of Scotland was the hub for Scotland and the first to be up and running. It set up a digitisation studio at its site in Kelvin Hall alongside the Library’s Moving Image Archive. As part of the 3-year project we worked with 16 different collection partners, to bring in 5,000 sound recordings from their archives for digitisation and sharing.

This learning resource has been developed by the Library’s learning team and the team at Kelvin Hall.

For more details about the project visit: Unlocking our Sound Heritage | Scotland's Sounds

You can also listen to the Unlocked podcasts, a series of 4 episodes exploring the digitised collections and work of the project, covering the Arts, Environment, Activism and Voices & Language.

These podcasts are also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher.

Scotland’s Sounds Collections Directory

This is a new online directory that represents collections from organisations participating in the Scotland’s Sounds network. We hope this will help you explore what sound collections exist and how to access them, as well as show the diversity and value of these rich collections. scotlands-sounds.nls.uk/index.php/collections-directory/

And these are our partners whose sound collections we digitised:

• Museums and Galleries Edinburgh
• Gairloch Museum
• University of Glasgow
• University of Strathclyde
• Scottish Poetry Library
• Scottish Ornithologist's Club
• National Trust for Scotland
• Fife Cultural Trust
• National Museum of Scotland
• National Library of Scotland
• Aberdeen City Art Gallery & Museum
• Aberdeenshire Museums Services
• Springthyme Music
• University of St Andrews
• Western Isles Libraries

All of the catalogue entries can be accessed through the British Library's Sound and Moving Image catalogue http://sami.bl.uk/