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Please come along and take advantage of this excellent opportunity.  

Careers and Employability Service is providing drop-in sessions for law students at Taylor Library to help them enhance their CV, review their documents, give them career advice, or answer their questions. The next session is on Tuesday the 15^th of October…

Aberdeen Medico Chirurigical Society

Room 402, Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

Dr Keith Grimes is a GP, Digital Health Consultant and alumnus of Aberdeen Medical School, having graduated in 1996. He is the Founder of Curistica, a boutique innovation counsultancy which provides traditional Chief Medical, Product and Clinical Safety Officer services…

OSCOLA Clinic is returning to Taylor Library this academic year to provide effective help to law students with OSCOLA Referencing Style. Mastering OSCOLA takes time and real dedication because the rules are very complex.

To help our students, we offer the following dates at Taylor Library between 12.00 - 1.00 pm:

Not many staff or students remember that the Taylor Library sign was stolen from the landing of Taylor Building Block C almost a decade ago. It was originally displayed next to the main entrance on Floor 1.

This morning, a parcel has arrived at the Reception of the School of…

Aberdeen Medico-Chirurigal Society, Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, Thursday 26th September at 7pm

Professor Maggie Cruickshank graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1985 and retired last year after 26 years as a clinical academic at the UNiversity of Aberdeen working in gynaecology and researching the prevention of lower…

Don’t forget to check the course booking system for new additions in the Digital Skills and Library Information Skills categories. Get Organised is on this week, with two exciting online sessions on using digital platforms, time and task management and best approaches for organising university notes and files.

Next week…

Encircling the Atrium of the Ground Floor of the Sir Duncan Rice Library, we now have an exciting display of umbrellas representing and highlighting neurodiversity at the University of Aberdeen.

The Umbrella Project is an initiative run by the ADHD Foundation to raise awareness of and celebrate all neurodivergent conditions. You…

Looking to learn how to get the most out of your Library? Want to improve your IT and Digital Skills? 

Join one of our daily guided tours during Welcome Week to get yourself ready for studying and learning here at the University of Aberdeen. These are for new and returning students.

The…

The Digital Poverty Alliance defines digital poverty as “the inability to interact with the online world fully, when, where, and how an individual needs to.” 

Ofcom’s 2022 Digital Exclusion Review sets out some of the key barriers. These include the affordability of devices and internet packages,…

Digital and Information Services is very mindful of the impact of its services on the environment, and the need to contribute to the Sustainability theme of Aberdeen 2040. Work is ongoing in relation to the environmental impact of our IT infrastructure, and in 2023 we were delighted to swap our…