We whipped up a quick decision tree to help you busy folks pick a new Reference Manager. As always, don’t hestitate to reach out to your subject librarian for further advice. Find out more about the Reference Manager you were “matched” with: Mendeley Zotero EndNote

This post was written prior to the announcement of the latest public health restrictions. Hold requests on these books will not be fulfilled until the reopening of our curbside pick-up service. Visit our COVID-19 updates page for more info. … So they put on Andrew’s snowsuit. It had 15 zippers, 10 strings and 5 buckles. It took about an hour to get it on. When it was finally on Andrew walked out…

As we see another remote semester come to a close, it is sometimes surreal to think of how long we have been providing support for our U of A community from afar. We were curious to find out what kind of hacks, tips, or pearls of wisdom our colleagues had discovered after working from home, so we asked, What have you learned while working remotely? Doris Wagner, Librarian (Law, Sociology, MLCS, History,…

We are moving our existing search function (the field in the Search the Library box on our homepage) over to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). This will enable users to search our catalogue of physical items, eBooks and articles in one place. We hope that this change will eliminate much of the confusion caused by our current system where there are different search interfaces for articles and our library catalogue. This change is…