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Special Collections

Special Collections

Visiting Scholar Awards

We are pleased to announce the visiting scholars for 2018. The Awards are made with the support of the Friends of the Aberdeen University Library and are administered by the Aberdeen Humanities Fund.

Wolfson Reading Room Opening Hours

For our normal opening hours and further information about visiting the Wolfson Reading Room

The 2018 Thomas Reid Book Collecting Prize

We are pleased to announce that this year’s Thomas Reid Book Collecting Prize has been awarded to Sally Jaspars

The Aberdeen Bestiary

Explore the new Aberdeen Bestiary website, now with new images of startling clarity, allowing the book to be examined in more detail than ever before

The Provenance Database

The Provenance Database is a searchable database of names associated with the books held in Special Collections

Roll of Graduates

Digitised and searchable copies of the published rolls of graduates of the University of Aberdeen from 1495 to 1970

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