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Special Libraries and Archives
Library and Historic Collections
King’s College
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3SW

Reading Room contact details:
Email: speclib@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone: 01224 272597
Opening hours: 9.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday (from June to September, later opening on Wednesday mornings, 10.00am to 4.30pm).

Catalogues to both printed and archival collections are available:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Catalogue_online.shtml
Web pages : http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/

Facilities:
Reading Room on first floor, 2 microfiche/film readers, photocopy and reproduction service.

Collections:
Printed and archival materials, relating primarily to Aberdeen and the North East, including: institutional records, records of officers, graduates and alumni of King’s and Marischal Colleges, and from 1860 the University of Aberdeen. Also records of the former Northern College of Education.

Archival collections: Family and Estate papers, records of local societies, businesses and trade Unions, selected railway and Church records, records of individuals, farming diaries, etc.

Printed collections: The Local Collection, books, journals and pamphlets covering the geographical area of the north east, including local history, University history, and on microfiche, local newspapers. Spalding Club publications, journals of local societies.

Online collections: including searchable database of George Washington Wilson photographs, and In Memoriam, records of the staff, students and alumni of the University who laid down their lives during the Great War of 1914-1918

For further information please visit our web pages or contact the Reading Room directly.