We all know that DNA (four chemical letters: A, T, C, G) encodes the genetic information of our lives, including appearance, growth, and even genetic diseases. It performs like an instruction book that tells our cells how to function. However, do you know how we decrypt this personal book and apply it for diagnosis and […]

If you are interested in helping users and people, we have an interesting summer internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all our users.

Spring Dissertation and Thesis Festival 23-27 February 2026: We have an exciting week of events planned for the Library’s Dissertation & Thesis Festival this February to highlight how the Library can help students succeed with their dissertation or thesis. Our programme includes a Discovery Day on Monday 23 February, when the Main Library (at George Square) will feature stalls from digital resource publishers and our own library teams highlighting our huge range of […]

We have recently acquired a facsimile boxed set of Archigram magazine: the Archive. Architecture’s most influential, innovative and beloved underground magazine, reissued for the first time in a handsome clamshell box! Published by Designers & Books. Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British […]

In this post, Juan José Miranda and Annie Kelly bring together their learning technology and administrative perspectives behind the Challenge Course ‘Understanding Understanding Decolonisation in a Globalised World’. It describes how they adapted familiar tools and processes, from using ABC course design principles in new and collaborative ways for an interdisciplinary cohort, to rethinking possibilities […]

By Allie, from the USA, studying MSc Climate Change Management I’m Allie, a masters student from the United States, currently on the one-year, full-time MSc Climate Change Management programme. I decided to do a masters in order to change career and pursue a passion. I did my undergraduate studies in Neuroscience and French, so I had a bit of a science background, but changing to climate change management was […]