Erin Sanderman

With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our librarians are supporting online learning… “What has your team been up to while working from home?” Like many other university libraries in Canada and around the world, we host and publish journals and open textbooks! University of Alberta Library hosts more than 60 independent scholarly journals, and offer an open textbook publishing program…

En juin dernier, j’ai présenté à mes lecteurs un bref aperçu de certaines ressources audiovisuelles dont le contenu médiatique est axé sur les Premières Nations d’Amérique du Nord et d’ailleurs. J’aimerais maintenant vous faire découvrir plus en profondeur l’une des ressources présentées dans ce premier article : Campus ONF. Certains d’entre nous connaissent les classiques de l’Office national du film du Canada (ONF) comme La valse du maître draveur ou Le chat…

Last June, I took readers on a brief overview of some of the streaming audiovisual resources that feature media content concentrated on Indigenous peoples of North America and beyond. Now I would like to take everyone on a deeper dive into one of the resources featured in that original post: NFB Campus. Those of us who spent our formative years in Canada are probably familiar with National Film Board of Canada (NFB)…

When I first came onboard at University of Alberta Library, several years ago, I was given a tour of our North Campus facilities, including the dwellings of our collections and bibliographic services team where books are prepared for their final on-shelf destiny. To get to the staff workspaces we had to traverse a room filled with shelves and boxes of books that had been donated by former students and ardent supporters of…

Though it seems like it in this part of the world, Hollywood is not the centre of the cinematic universe. Most nations across the world are home to creators who use film to tell stories unique to their cultural heritage. As we turn our attention toward Asia and the incredible array of nations and people who hail from it this month, let us take some time to appreciate the diverse filmic offerings…

Nous transférons notre fonction de recherche existante (le champ dans la zone Rechercher dans la bibliothèque sur notre page d’accueil) vers EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Cela permettra aux utilisateurs de rechercher dans notre catalogue d’articles physiques, de livres électroniques et d’articles en un seul endroit. Nous espérons que ce changement éliminera une grande partie de la confusion causée par notre système actuel où il existe différentes interfaces de recherche pour les articles…

We are moving our existing search function (the field in the Search the Library box on our homepage) over to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). This will enable users to search our catalogue of physical items, eBooks and articles in one place. We hope that this change will eliminate much of the confusion caused by our current system where there are different search interfaces for articles and our library catalogue. This change is…

Happy World Health Day! Were these normal times, everyone would be hunkering down in library spaces for that final push before end of term and our friends at the Healthy Campus Unit would have several fun and healthful diversions set up in their Wisdom Corners. Sadly, the majority of us are still working from home and we can’t take advantage of on-site Unwind Your Mind activities. In spite of this challenge, the…

La bibliothèque de l’Université de l’Alberta a pris la décision de mettre fin à son abonnement au service de gestion des références RefWorks à partir du 1er octobre 2021. Cette décision s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une réorientation des fonds vers les ressources et services essentiels en cette période de restrictions budgétaires.Cette annulation signifie que les membres actuels et passés de la communauté de l’Université de l’Alberta n’auront plus accès à la fois…