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Audiocassettes.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cassettes of audiotape. According to international standards, the tape is usually 0.15 inches (3.8 millimetres) wide and can carry 4 to 8 tracks.

Found in 179 Collections and/or Records:

Photocopies of drafts of four radioscripts by Donald MacLeod of lessons on piobaireachd, with three cassettes of sound recordings by him.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10764/1-4
Scope and Contents

With three casettes of piobaireachd played MacLeod.

Dates: Circa 1960-1980.

Production files, scripts and administrative papers of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12911/1-317
Scope and Contents

This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1946, 1971-2006.

"Scotland's Record": audio recordings concerning Scotland`s social and industrial history in the 20th century.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.22196-22630
Scope and Contents

A collection of sound recordings of interviews with people from across the spectrum of Scottish life. The interviews reflect themes includng political administration, industry, crofting and fishing, health, science, transport and social history.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Scottish Ornithologists' Club Wildlife and Oral History Collection.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS009
Scope and Contents The collection includes: interviews with Scottish ornithologists; after dinner speeches, 1968-1981, made at the annual Scottish Ornithologists' Club conference; recordings relating to Fair Isle and the Scottish Bird Islands Study Cruise at the time of the International Ornithological Congress in 1966. The remainder of the collection comprises recordings of birds from various locations around Scotland, including St Kilda. Amongst the group represented here is a selection from a...
Dates: 1960-2005.

Scripts, programmes and other papers of Marillyn Gray, Scottish actor and theatre director, mostly relating to the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12942/1-124
Scope and Contents

Papers of Scottish actor and theatre director Marillyn Gray (1930-2006), chiefly relating to the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh, in which she was a regular performer. The Gateway papers came into her care at some point after the theatre closed possibly entrusted to her by, or after the death of, Sadie Aitken (1905-85) Gateway Theatre General Manager, some of whose papers are in the collection.

Dates: 1925-1997.

Sound recording of a radio programme, "Karluk", produced by BBC Radio Scotland concerning William Laird McKinlay and the Canadian National Arctic Expedition.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8680
Scope and Contents

The programme was presented by Magnus Magnusson, and the producer was Geoffrey Cameron.

Dates: 1913-1918.