The Library Team and Academic Skills Tutors will be taking a break for the Christmas period from the 24th December until the 3rd January and will return to the office on the 4th January.

You will still be able to access everything on the Library Portal and within our collections during this period - however the Library Team and Academic Skills Tutors will not be available to answer any questions you may have during this time. 

I am a chartered librarian by profession, a lapsed musician, and at Arden University a manager of all things related to Academic Skills – a somewhat eclectic combination! Some 28 years ago when I graduated with a BA (hons) in Music, I would never have dreamt that I would be doing what I do now. I entered Higher Education as a nervous, naïve undergraduate having only written essays during my A-Levels. Back then in the early 1990’s there was little support available – let alone technology to help – so it amounted to a steep learning curve.

Having graduated in the late 1980s, I can appreciate how graphic design and its associated industries have evolved over the past 30 years. The shift from analogue to digital was, at the time, unwelcome for many sectors of the industry as century-old craftsmen and their guilds were in fear of their future existence.