Tobar an Dulachais is a prototype website which has been set up by the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University, to make its sound archive available for public use.

The site is at http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/ and the home page announcement says.

"This website contains thousands of oral recordings recorded in Scotland and further afield, from the 1930s onwards. The items you can listen to include stories, songs, music, poetry and factual information."

It also says that the full version of the site will go live in September, and invites people to report any problems they have with it.

This is the most important development I can remember in folklore archiving in a very long time, and it is to be hoped that anyone interested in Scottish folk tradition will make lavish use of it.