LocScot > Introduction

Scottish Local History Week 19 - 26 April 2008

Welcome to LocScot

Local Studies Scotland (LocScot) is an organisation devoted to the care and dissemination of local and family history material in Scotland. Most of our members are librarians who work in the front line of local studies, but we also have academics, experts and interested folk and organisations from the history and heritage sector. We are the Scottish sub-group of the CILIP Local Studies Group

• Locscot runs events throughout the year

• Locscot represents Local Studies interests in a wide variety of Scottish cultural and historical forums

• Locscot sets guidelines for local studies provision in libraries

• Locscot produces a twice yearly journal

• Locscot ethos

Locscot provides advice to the Scottish Screen Archive on selections of film for conservation as part of their Heritage Lottery funded programme. Locscot is represented on the Newsplan Scotland Committee and the Scottish Local History Forum.

How to join Locscot

• CILIP members - to add as a new group, or switch groups, contact CILIP membership t: 020 7255 0602 e: membership@cilip.org.uk

• Affiliate membership - contact our treasurer Pat Malcom e: Pat.Malcolm@west-dunbarton.gov.uk