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October 2019

    Request for Funding – Knowledge Mobilization & Skills in Relevant Research

    by Meredith Bratland
    written by Meredith Bratland
    A presenter is standing in front of a table where five people are seated watching the presentation.
    Photo by Claire Nakkachi on Unsplash

    Through University of Alberta’s membership in Research Impact Canada, the Office of the VP Research & Innovation and the University of Alberta Library, in partnership with the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), are pleased to announce a one-time opportunity to request funding for knowledge mobilization of University of Alberta research. The funding will enable researchers to mobilize the results of recent research of relevance to skills, skills development, skills infrastructure, training and/or future skills, and/or to provide students with opportunities to learn skills related to knowledge mobilization.

    Request for funding deadline: November 18, 2019.
    Value: up to $3,000, minimum of $500.

    We are very excited to be able to provide this opportunity. We know that University of Alberta researchers are conducting excellent research related to the building of skills in our community. To be able to contribute to the mobilization of this research is important.

    Full details of this request for funding, guidelines and criteria, and terms and conditions are available here.

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  • 4th Annual Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover: Asian Authors

    by Amy Southgate
    by Amy Southgate

    UAlberta Libraries Annual Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover event starts October 28! Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover is an annual event hosted by the University of Alberta Libraries that aims to shed light on underrepresented groups. As a twist on regular book displays, books are wrapped in brown paper and teaser keywords are written on the front. This wrapping symbolizes the marginalization of the group, and puts the…

  • Let us introduce you to… Han!

    by Eva Romanick
    by Eva Romanick

    Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Libraries, this is ours… Meet Han! Han was one of our many talented summer students who traveled from library to library organizing our holds, finding interlibrary loans, missing books and cracking jokes😁 She is working hard in her 3rd year studying Elementary Education. Check out the article Han wrote for September’s Gateway https://issuu.com/the_gateway/docs/sep2019_thegatewaymag4/12 What made you decide to work…

  • Collection Connection with Shannon Stunden Bower

    by Eva Romanick
    by Eva Romanick

    Students and staff use the library on the daily, in person and online. This is how… Shannon Stunden Bower is a historian and geographer employed at the University of Alberta. What is your “go to” resource for research in the UAlberta collection? and what do you like about it?I like accessing the NEOS catalogue for how it limits the search to items held in Alberta libraries. I study the state’s role in environmental change, so…