Month: March 2015

Library classes this week

For the rest of this week the following programme of library classes will be running. If you would like to attend a session follow the links to go to the booking form and sign up. Each class will last for one hour and take place in 337 in the Georgina Scott Sutherland Learning Centre. To see the full programme of classes over the next semester follow this link.

Please note that from 09.00-10.00 on Wednesday 1st April there will be no class or Ask the Library Drop-In Session running, instead it will be an open access lab only.

Saturday 28th March – Early Closing for Earth Hour

RGU will once again be supporting Earth Hour and to celebrate this all the lights at the Garthdee campus will be turned off for one hour from 8.30 – 9.30pm on Saturday 28th March.

To enable the building to be cleared and closed in time the University Library will close fifteen minutes earlier than usual at 7.45pm

Resource spotlight: Architectural Design

This is part of a series of spotlights on resources available from the RGU library service.

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The journal Architectural Design covers key architectural topics such as architectural technology, architectural history and theory, the environment, interior design, landscape architecture and urban design. It is published as thematic issues, each edited by an international expert, and aims to be both provactive and inspirational.

Some recent articles are:

  • Architecture by Latitude and Locality: The Scarcity and Creativity Studio
    Written by Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua. Published in 2015 in volume 85, issue 2, pp. 48-57.
  • The Evolution of Tall Building in the Gulf: From the Sensational to the Sensitive
    Written by Terri Meyer Boake. Published in 2015 in volume 85, issue 1, pp. 54–71.
  • Terrestrial Space Architecture
    Written by Neil Leach. Published in 2014 in volume 84, issue 6, pp. 54–63.

RGU library service provides access to this journal online from 2005 to the present day from Wiley, online from 2011 to the present day (with a year embargo) from Art Source and in print from 1947 to 2011.

To take a look at the online journal you can always get access to it from the library catalogue which includes log in information in the full record section.

Alternatively you can follow this link to the Wiley website and see what the Architectural Design journal has to offer*.

*To log in please enter your RGU username and password when prompted.

Library classes this week

For the rest of this week the following programme of library classes will be running. If you would like to attend a session follow the links to go to the booking form and sign up. Each class will last for one hour and take place in 337 in the Georgina Scott Sutherland Learning Centre. To see the full programme of classes over the next semester follow this link.

New genetic map of the UK

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You may have seen today’s press coverage of the map on the BBC and in newspapers. As the Independent reports, a new study in the magazine Nature “shows how the nation was forged by successive waves of immigration from continental Europe over 10,000 years since the end of the last Ice Age.”

Want to read the study? It can be accessed by RGU students and staff via the library’s subscription to Nature.  Just login with your usual RGU details.

Interested in human population genetics?  Why not check out our Henry Stewart Talks.