Fall Library Challenge 2025 starts September 8! Your library journey starts here! Whether you’re on campus or online, join the challenge to uncover unique library spaces, services, and resources – and earn chances to win prizes!
Prizes:
- 1 Grand Prize – Library VIP Prize: $150 in ONEcard cash and priority access to study room booking for the Fall 2025 term
- 5 Additional Prizes: $25 in ONEcard cash each
- Everyone wins: Show your selfie that you took at a challenge station to library staff at a service desk and get a mini-prize
How to Participate:
- Find a challenge station (either online or in the library)
- Scan the QR code and answer the challenge question.
- If you answer correctly, you will be entered into the draw for one of six prizes!
Draw for winners is at 1:30 p.m. on September 22, 2025. Winners are selected by a randomized draw and will need to correctly answer a skill-testing question to claim their prize.
On-Campus Challenges
Find a challenge station at our locations at Rutherford, Cameron, Sperber, Augustana, and Campus Saint-Jean (BSJ). Each station has a QR code – scan it to fill out a form and submit your entry.
The more challenges you complete the more entries you will receive in the draw for prizes but you don’t have to complete them all!
Find challenge stations at:
- Puppet Collection (Rutherford Library, 2nd Floor)
- Map Collection (Cameron Library, 4th floor)
- Audio Booth (Digital Scholarship Centre, Cameron Library)
- VR Lab (Sperber Library, Lower Level)
- Augustana Library
- Bibliothèque Saint-Jean
Online Challenge
Can’t make it to campus? You can still participate – take the online challenge!
Visit the Library website and locate these key services:
- Chat Service
- Citation Guides
- 24-Hour Study Space
Then, submit your answers to enter the grand prize draw.
Bonus Entries – Instagram
- Post a selfie at a library challenge station — follow and tag @uofalibrary for a prize entry
- Tag a friend, and you’ll receive another prize entry for each tag
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do I need to complete every challenge?
Nope! You only need to complete one challenge to be entered to win, but the more challenges you complete, the more entries you get, the higher your chances of winning!
Q: Can I participate from home?
Yes! Use our digital challenge to explore the website and enter online.
Q: Can I participate in the online challenge as well as the on-campus challenge?
Yes! Feel free to complete as many challenges as you like!
Q: Who can join?
Only current U of A students.
Q: What is priority access to library study room booking?
Normally, study room booking opens one week in advance. The Library VIP winner gets to book even earlier.
Q: What can you purchase with $150 on ONEcard?
Your ONEcard can be used on and near campus at the following locations:
Contest runs from September 8 – September 19, 2025. Draw will take place on Monday, September 22. Only current University of Alberta Students are eligible to win.Winners are selected by a randomized draw and will need to answer a skill testing question correctly to claim their prize. See the full contest rules.
