Author

Guest Author

    3D Printing Services at the new Geoffrey and Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library!

    by Guest Author
    written by Guest Author

    University of Alberta Library is celebrating the new Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, which is anticipated to open in Fall 2023. This post is part of a series of posts that will showcase the Sperber Library over the next several months.

    This blog post was written by: Liz Dennett, Jessica Thorlakson and Lydia Zvyagintseva

    The University of Alberta Library is excited to extend our successful 3D printing program when the new Geoffrey and Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library opens in Fall 2023. Our mediated 3D printing services have been running at Cameron Library since 2016 and we are now expanding this service to our new health sciences location. 

    There are many powerful applications of 3D printing within the health sciences.  For example, 3D printed anatomical models can allow students to gain a deeper understanding of complex structures or surgical techniques, enhancing their learning experience. Researchers can further create accurate prototypes and customized tools for their experiments. 

    How the service works:

    Our mediated 3D printing service is designed to be low-barrier and accessible. University of Alberta students, faculty and staff can submit a 3D model OR 3D design for educational or research purposes and we will print them for free. This service is currently available at Cameron Library, through our 3D printing website .  Members of the University of Alberta community will be able to access this service in the new Sperber Library as well.

    Once a 3D file is submitted, library staff evaluate each submission. If the print job is feasible and fits within our parameters, we will print the item on their behalf and alert the requestor to pick it up at the location of their choice

    We will have 5 Prusa MK4 printers housed in the new Sperber Library with several colours of PLA filament available. Prusa MK4’s have an excellent reputation for fast, reliable, and high quality 3D printing.  

    If you are interested in gaining hands-on experience with 3D printing, check out the University of Alberta Library’s Digital Scholarship Centre makerspace to learn how to become certified and print objects yourself.

    Come experience the immense potential of additive manufacturing at the Sperber Library!

    For questions about this Library service, please contact us.

    This content is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons license.

    0 comment
    0 FacebookLinkedinRedditWhatsappEmail

  • Indigenous Healing Collection

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    University of Alberta Library is celebrating the new Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, which is anticipated to open in Fall 2023. This post is part of a series of posts that will showcase the Sperber Library over the next several months. This post was written by Trish Chatterly – Head, Collection Strategies We are excited to announce that an Indigenous Healing collection will be situated near the Indigenous Learning space…

  • Digitization Spotlight: Our Voice

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    Written by Logan Thienes, Digitization Assistant and first-year Digital Humanities student The newly-digitized Our Voice collection is a complement to the digital Alberta Street News collection, which was scanned by the U of A Library in 2022 (you can read about that project here!). Both are Edmonton street newspapers, created to serve and be sold by unhoused, disabled, and unemployed people living in Edmonton. Our Voice, originally titled Spare Change from 1994-1996,…

  • Moving the Scott Library’s Collection: Where have all the books gone?

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    University of Alberta Library is celebrating the new Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, which is anticipated to open in Fall 2023. This post is part of a series that will showcase the Sperber Library over the next several months. This post was written by Connie Winther, Head, Faculty Engagement (Health Sciences) Most people have moved houses or apartments. This requires a lot of boxes, a truck or two, a moving…

  • Connecting. Engaging. Creating. Representing Vision through Design

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    University of Alberta Library is celebrating the new Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, which is anticipated to open in Fall 2023. This post is part of a series that will showcase the Sperber Library over the next several months. This post was written by Janet Koshuta, from Start Architecture As architects, engineers, and designers, we are in a unique position to be able to articulate the quality of space in…

  • Folding, Unfolding, Refolding Maps in the Community

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    This post was written by GIS Librarian, Larry Laliberte Map staff conduct tours that bring the community into the library to interact with the collection. We also bring spatial materials from the collection out to interact with the community. The following sketches are three recent examples of maps as troubadours. Driven off campus, onto hastily arranged tables at Harry Ainlay school. Walked across campus, to be overlaid on the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of…

  • Touring Through an Open House: Navigating the William C. Wonders Map Collection’s Colonial Legacies

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    This post was written by GIS Librarian, Larry Laliberte In March 2020, the University of Alberta William C. Wonders map collection sheltered in place as a global pandemic unfolded. It would be a year before staff could return in full, creating a disconnect from the physical space. During this absence, map staff began planning in-person map collection tours that would recalibrate the collection as evidence of extractive dispossession, rhumb the maps as…

  • Who are Geoffrey and Robyn Sperber?

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    University of Alberta Library is celebrating the new Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, which is anticipated to open in Fall 2023. This post is part of a series that will showcase the Sperber Library over the next several months. This post was written by Chief Librarian, Dale Askey Although it has yet to open, in the Library we already call the new health sciences library, currently under construction, the “Sperber…

  • Discover Archives: Getting to Know Archival Descriptions

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    This post was written by Digital Archivist, Maryna Chernyavska In previous posts, we introduced you to the University of Alberta Archives and some of the ways you can search our holdings, and shared some tips on how to search the Discover Archives database. Today, we would like you to get to know archival descriptions and how they help you discover archival materials. You might have noticed that Discover Archives database looks and…

  • Celebrating the Scott Library

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    For almost 39 years the John W. Scott Library has been home to the University of Alberta Library’s health sciences collections. It has been a beloved study space for students from all disciplines and a research support resource for many in the health sciences. But, our time in the Walter C. Mackenzie Centre is coming to a close later this year; as we embark on a new era in the Geoffrey &…

Newer Posts
Older Posts