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May 2020

    Our Green (and Gold) Thumbs: Part III

    by Junelle Mah May 29, 2020
    written by Junelle Mah
    The author’s 11 year-old niece took great care to ensure her Grandma Mah’s flowers were planted in time for Mother’s Day. This green thumb phenom has been visiting greenhouses (complete with resident kitties) and expertly planting anything with roots since she was a wee little sprout.

    Thanks for joining us for the third and final instalment of Our Green (and Gold) Thumbs.  We are truly blown away by the willingness of our staff to share their passion for gardening, growing, and maintaining. A big thanks to everyone for their contributions to make this trilogy grow to a bumper crop. Our Part I and Part II are still in bloom on our blog for those who may wish to visit.

    Natasha Nunn, our web developer with our Information Technology Services team, has put in a lot of prep work to get her tomato and cucumber seedlings ready to plant outside. She said that she planted them mid-March and hopes to get them into the garden by next weekend. We hope the fickle Alberta weather behaves itself.

    We can’t get enough of the adventures of Circulation Specialist, Natalya Brettle, and Bobbi the Yorkie (aka Skinchy Maroo). Besides a plethora of herbs and veggies these two plant, we love this creative nostalgic piece that they submitted. Natalya explains, “That was my childhood wagon, and my husband helped me drill holes in the bottom so I could turn it into my annual ‘petri dish’ for wild flowers and such.”

    Public Services Librarian, Katie Cuyler, is carefully tending to the orchids rescued from her office in Rutherford South. She says, “Despite losing all their flowers in the move they’re just about to bloom again! Very symbolic of how we’re all adapting to working from home.”

    We love the planters and the cute little herbs sprouting up through the soil, courtesy of Sessional Librarian, Sarah Adams. Sarah writes, “Growing my kitchen garden of basil, thyme, parsley, rosemary, and sage from seed and anticipating all the cooking to come!”

    Sonya Leung is a familiar face on our blog. The Information Services Specialist is one of our social media whizzes and authors many great stories with notable gifs and earworms (see her fantastic Mother’s Day 2020 post). “I’m not normally a green thumb at all.” Sonya notes, “This is my apple tree that I planted as a joke when quarantine started back in March. She has been growing and I plan to put her in our yard when she’s bigger. I’m thinking about making a plaque and naming her Pandemica but we’ll see if she survives that long.”

    We were in absolute awe over the gallery that Public Services Librarian, Peggy Sue Ewanyshyn, provided us…so much in fact that we can’t decide which amazing photo to highlight; her amazing statues, her preference for potted pansies, her canine companion, or her adorable little gardening assistant.

    Thanks for the view! We invite you to subscribe to our newsletter (scroll down to the bottom right side of this page). Why follow our escapades, you ask? Because we are more than just books; we are a uniquely curated and multifaceted collection of folks from all walks of life, experiences, and expertise who love to share our knowledge, support, and specialities to those we serve. Our regular inclusion of staff in our stories is just one way we hope to connect you to who we are and what we have to offer! Check out our latest staff working from home profile, which just happens to feature Peggy Sue (her gif sums up what many of us experience while working from home)!

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  • HathiTrust, service d’accès temporaire d’urgence

    by Hanne Pearce May 28, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce May 28, 2020

    En temps normal, HathiTrust est l’une des nombreuses archives fiables que le personnel de la bibliothèque utilise parmi leur arsenal secret lorsqu’il recherche des sources obscures pour nos utilisateurs. Je l’ai moi-même utilisé à plusieurs reprises, par exemple lorsque j’essaie de localiser une version numérisée d’une ancienne publication, ou lorsque je cherche la source d’une citation qui doit être citée directement plutôt que de façon secondaire. HathiTrust est une collaboration à but…

  • HathiTrust, Emergency Temporary Access Service

    by Hanne Pearce May 27, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce May 27, 2020

    On an ordinary day, HathiTrust is one of a number of trusted archives that front-line library staff use as a part of their secret arsenal when finding obscure sources for our users. I myself have used it numerous times, for example when trying to locate a digitized version of an older publication, or when trying to find the source of a quote that needs to be cited directly rather than second hand.…

  • Les bibliothécaires qui travaillent à domicile : Rencontrez Peggy Sue!

    by Eva Romanick May 26, 2020
    by Eva Romanick May 26, 2020

    Puisque la majorité des étudiants et du personnel ont été conseillés de travailler et d’étudier depuis leur domicile, c’est ainsi que nos bibliothécaires soutient l’apprentissage en ligne… Peggy Sue a récemment reçu une question sur les méthodologies de la recherche-création. La collaboration en matière de la recherche-création est l’un des domaines de recherche les plus importants de la Faculté des Arts de l’Université de l’Alberta. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur SPAR²C…

  • Librarians Working From Home: Meet Peggy Sue!

    by Eva Romanick May 26, 2020
    by Eva Romanick May 26, 2020

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our librarians are supporting online learning… Peggy Sue recently had a question about the methodologies behind research-creation. Collaboration involving research-creation is one of the U of A’s Faculty of Arts signature areas of research. You can find out more about SPAR²C in this 8-minute intro video on some of the many projects currently connected…

  • Our Green (and Gold) Thumbs: Part II

    by Junelle Mah May 22, 2020
    by Junelle Mah May 22, 2020

    Welcome back! Grab a socially-distanced lawn chair and join us for our second instalment of Green (and Gold) Thumbs, the three-part series that showcases the botanic beauty nurtured by our talented University of Alberta Library staff. If you missed Part I, feel free to wander down the garden path to the story on our blog to get caught up! Our Digital Content Specialist, Anna Bombak, shares this array of plants waiting for staff…

  • Virtual High Fives to Mark and Hutch, the Library Dog!

    by Guest Author May 19, 2020
    by Guest Author May 19, 2020

    Hey Augustana folks! Hope you’re doing well in these upside down times! Do you miss Augustana’s friendly community? Hanging out in the busy Forum? The library? Its beautiful corners? Sunshine through the big windows? Do you miss the chit chat with the library staff while petting Hutch, the library dog? I know you do! All this and the fact that Hutch and his human Mark, two big-hearted staff members at our library,…

  • Our Green (and Gold) Thumbs: Part I

    by Junelle Mah May 15, 2020
    by Junelle Mah May 15, 2020

    For our University of Alberta Library staff, April showers (and snow), bring May flowers (and vegetable seedlings)! An email call-out to our folks to share their ‘green (and gold) thumbs’ yielded such an abundant crop of photos that we need to dig through this series as a trilogy! Stay tuned to our blog over the next three Fridays so we can give you all the dirt (presented in no particular order)! A…

  • Data Physicalization

    by Guest Author May 13, 2020
    by Guest Author May 13, 2020

    Written By Abbie Schenk When we think of data visualizations, we often think of charts, maps and other forms of expressing data in digital ways. But humans have visualized data for thousands of years, long before computer screens were invented. Some of the earliest data visualizations go back to 5500 BC when Mesopotamians used clay tokens to visualize data. Today, representing data in a physical manner is called data physicalization. The Digital…

  • LET US INTRODUCE YOU TO… ERIN O’NEIL, OUR WIKIPEDIAN IN RESIDENCE!

    by Kate Cawthorn May 11, 2020
    by Kate Cawthorn May 11, 2020

    Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Library, this is ours… In early March I had the opportunity to interview Erin O’Neil about her role as the University of Alberta Library’s first Wikipedian in Residence from February until August of 2020. This interview was recorded prior to University of Alberta Library closing our physical locations temporarily due to COVID-19. Because of the temporary closures, Erin…

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