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Enquiry Service and Access to the Collections
RSGS Staff are pleased to respond to enquiries of a geographical nature or about its collections, where the latter cannot be answered from the information on its web pages or,
in the case of enquiries relating to people and places in Scotland, using the Gazetteer for Scotland (see below).
Please send your enquiries to: collections@rsgs.org and we will get back to you as soon as possible. There is usually a charge for this service (based on staff time and, where appropriate, reproduction and copyright fees). Members of the Society qualify for free use of this service (within reasonable limits, usually one search per year) and have free access to the Society's collections (subject to the temporary inaccessibility restrictions, see below). We will notify you of the likely charges when we receive your email.
Temporary Inaccessibility of Parts of the Collections
Following the move of its HQ to Perth in September 2008, we had to temporarily place the majority of our collections in store until
a new purpose-built collections area is complete. Plans for this, which will form part of a new geographical education centre, are
well advanced and the work is expected to be completed by early 2011.
Enquirers will understand the Society is currently unable to
allow access to these stored collections, or to respond fully to enquiries which require access to the collections to satisfy these,
nor to do research on behalf of enquirers.
Availability of Scanned Images Although the collections housed in Perth (dominantly maps and slides) are temporarily unavailable, our website includes a sample gallery of scanned images and a searchable database to indicate our holdings. Books and Journals
The bulk of the Society's book and journal collections are deposited with the Library of the University of
Strathclyde and all are recorded on-line in the University Library's catalogue. Those wishing to consult any
such books, and who are not Members of the University or of RSGS, should contact the
University Library to apply for a Reader's Ticket.
The Gazetteer for Scotland As a specific contribution to the dissemination of geographical information, the Society has been involved in a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, which has developed an online Gazetteer for Scotland, a comprehensive geographical database, accessible internationally via the World Wide Web. The project is designed to complement and enhance the Gateway to Scotland web site, "the definitive source of information about Scotland on the Internet". |
