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This article aims to introduce the Kellogg College Centre for Research into Assistive Learning Technologies, which is a new research centre based at the University of Oxford.

The article briefly sets the context of the centre within the current literature, and outlines the centre's current plan of work. The centre has funding for two years to look into new developments in the application of digital technologies to support the learning and educational achievement of young people in school and higher education with a range of specific learning difficulties. This will begin with a substantial research review, as well as in‐depth studies of current initiatives in secondary schools and higher education.

The findings from the research review will aim to be published and disseminated to the research community within the first two years of the centre's life.

It is hoped that this centre will be able to contribute to the existing research on the uses of a range of assistive technologies in educational settings.

Marischal College Buildings, i.e. the second and more modern portion of the University are situated in Broad Street; Aberdeen. Their site is the same as that which they originally occupied, viz.: the conventual buildings and grounds of the Grey Friars or Franciscan Monastery, which accounts for the proximity of the Grey‐friar's Church within what is now the College Quadrangle. The Library of this Quadrangle, entering the central door of the Mitchell Tower, thus reaching the vestibule in which the famous stone (the only remnant of the original College Buildings in the new Town) with the inscription passing up the flight of stairs leading to the Picture Gallery and Mitchell —“they haif said : quhat say they: let them say,” is to be seen, thence Hall—the latter being a piece of architectural excellence well worth a visit. The library door is on the left of the landing at the head of the stairs already mentioned, and the books contained in it belong to the Departments of Agriculture, Law, Medicine, and Natural Science.

THE question of the advisability of exercising a censorship over literature has been much before the public of late, and probably many librarians have realised how closely the disputed question affects their own profession.