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Meghan Staal

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Meghan (she/her) holds a BA in History and a Library & Information Technology Diploma. Currently, she is finishing up her MLIS at SLIS at the U of A. When not working you can find Meghan spending time with family, crocheting, camping, and taking her dog to the dog park.

    University of Alberta Library Wrap Up

    by Meghan Staal April 24, 2025
    written by Meghan Staal

    As we’re nearing the end of final exams, it’s the perfect time to pause, reflect, and celebrate all that we’ve accomplished together this academic year at the University of Alberta Library. From busy study spaces to innovative research support, our library locations have been alive with activity—and it’s all thanks to you, our community of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and researchers.

    The numbers speak for themselves, painting a picture of how deeply engaged our community has been with nearly 1.1 million visits to our library locations; 53,925 checkouts of library materials; 5,165 answered chat questions; and 1,502 3D-printed items.

    Our subject librarians delivered 283 course-based instruction sessions that reached over 13,000 students. Such sessions covered everything from searching strategies, systematic reviews, citations, information literacy, publishing, research data management, digital scholarship, technology demonstrations and much more.

    Our team also provided over 90 workshops, which empowered learners with knowledge on topics such as: evaluating information and misinformation, generative AI in research, measuring research impact for early career researchers, archival research, and digital photography for research communications. In addition to this, our subject librarians also conducted over 1,200 research consultations, offering effective and much-needed one-on-one support to U of A graduate students, faculty, undergrads, alumni, postdocs, and staff. 

    Our digitization and repository teams have worked tirelessly to make knowledge accessible, digitizing 4,635 items and adding 1,405 items to our ERA repository—including 675 theses and 730 other scholarly contributions. In our Aviary repository, 353 audiovisual items were uploaded, totalling 327 hours of valuable content produced by U of A students, faculty and researchers.

    Our publishing team has overseen 45 new journal issues with over 1,700 articles published between September and April. Our publishing team is especially proud of our student-led journals, such as Spectrum and Eureka, which presented nationally at the Student Journal Forum and participated in Open Access Week’s Student Journal Showcase. In addition to these open journals, two new Open Educational Resources were published this year, including: The NiMe Diet: Scientific Principles and Recipes and Planet Earth: Notes on Earth Systems. Both of these resources, along with our open journals, are freely available online

    We would like to thank our students, faculty, alumni and researchers who’ve spent long hours in our study spaces, partnered with us, stayed connected, and relied on our support over this past academic year. It’s been a year of learning, collaboration, and community. We’re grateful to be part of it—and we’re looking forward to what’s coming up next.

    Thank you for the read! Love us on the blog? Chances are, you’ll love us on social media! Follow us on Instagram; @uofalibrary.

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

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  • Celebrating our 1 Year Anniversary of Sperber Library: Sperberversary!

    by Meghan Staal October 2, 2024
    by Meghan Staal October 2, 2024

    Happy 1st birthday to our Geoffrey + Robyn Sperber, Health Sciences Library! And what a year it has been! We opened our doors for the first time on September 29, 2024, and during the past year, we have welcomed many visitors into Sperber’s beautiful new learning spaces to study and work collaboratively, or to make use of Sperber’s innovative digital scholarship services and community-focused indigenous learning space.  We invite you to learn…

  • 2023/2024 Academic Year – Library Wrap Up – Part 2

    by Meghan Staal June 24, 2024
    by Meghan Staal June 24, 2024

    We are thrilled to keep shining a spotlight on the accomplishments of our exceptional colleagues at the University of Alberta Library! This second part of our library wrap-up further demonstrates our team’s commitment to delivering outstanding services and collections that meet the complex information needs of the U of A community. Our instructors, including subject librarians, librarians and library staff, teach undergraduate and graduate students across all the U of A Colleges…

  • 2023/2024 Academic Year – Library Wrap Up

    by Meghan Staal April 12, 2024
    by Meghan Staal April 12, 2024

    As we wrap up classes for the winter term at the University of Alberta, it’s a great time to reflect on this past academic year. All of our locations buzzed with activity, with many students, faculty, and visitors coming in to read, study, borrow materials and make use of our many different services. One of our biggest achievements is the opening of our new Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, with…

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