Avec les changements, il est important de regarder en arrière et d’examiner le chemin parcouru. Pour ce faire, nous avons créé une infographie sur comment la bibliothèque de l’université de l’Alberta a répondu aux directives de quarantaine face à la COVID-19 afin de de continuer à fournir nos services et soutenir la communauté du campus.
La bibliothèque est présentement là pour vous en ligne (comme elle l’a toujours été!)
By Kaia MacLeod My name is Kaia and I’m a member of the James Smith Cree Nation. When I tell people that I work as an Indigenous Intern at University of Alberta Library, not a lot of people know exactly what that means. Here is a little crash course of what my job is: I get to work on the desk in the library and work on several Indigenous themed projects. During…
We are pleased to be celebrating National Indigenous History Month throughout June with a series of blog posts featuring some great resources from our collection that can be accessed online! This post was written by Kaia MacLeod, one of University of Alberta Library’s Indigenous Interns. If you’ve ever wanted to learn something about Canada’s Indigenous Languages this is the guide for you! As the description indicates, the teaching First Nations, Métis and Inuit Languages…
We are pleased to be celebrating National Indigenous History Month throughout June with a series of blog posts featuring some great resources from our collection that can be accessed online! Imagine being able to learn traditional walrus hunting or being dazzled by the joyous spectacle of a Pow Wow. As Anne Carr-Wiggin, our Indigenous Initiatives Librarian, noted in her staff working from home profile, audiovisual resources are an incredibly important resource for…
By Abbie Schenk Imagine a programming workshop: students sitting behind monitors and laptops, quietly typing line after line of code to make their computers spit out words, solve math problems, and manipulate pixels on those same screens. Their education is almost entirely contained to the virtual realm. But a different form of computer science education has emerged in the last few years: physical computing. “A recent growth area in computer science education…
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,…
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…
Êtes-vous le genre de personne qui a constamment de la musique de fond qui joue ? Est-ce que vous jouez un instrument ou vous vous intéressez à la théorie ou à l’histoire de la musique ? Aimez-vous plonger dans les recoins inconnus de l’espace numérique à la recherche d’un bijou musical caché ? Si la réponse est oui à l’une de ces questions, ce que vous trouverez ci-dessous sera votre billet pour…
Are you the type of person who constantly has music on in the background? Do you play an instrument or have an interest in music theory or history? Do you like diving through the unknown corners of the digital space in search of a hidden musical jewel? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, what you find below will be the ticket to your next great musical journey! The…
Since the majority of us are stuck inside and online, we all have to find ways to work, learn, stay connected, shop, exercise or entertain ourselves… well… online. Even though the internet has been part of our world for a while now, and most of us take advantage of it already, ‘social distancing’ has resulted in significantly more time spent in front of our screens and a higher demand for quality streaming…