Erin Sanderman

The University of Alberta Library offers access to numerous resources that are core for certain disciplines, but also really deserving of wider attention. Here is one of those gems… Attention education researchers, students and those fascinated in the evolution of school curricula! Access to primary resources related to the first one hundred years of Alberta’s education history is easier than ever through the Wiedrick Collection, available through Internet Archive.  The Wiedrick Collection…

In early December 2022 the University of Alberta Archives and Alumni Relations Events team partnered with Metro Cinema to host a screening of three recently restored and digitized silent films from the Archives’ holdings: Le charme des fleurs, Le Remplaçant and The Honor of the Law. These films have also been uploaded to and made freely available to the public through our digital audiovisual repository Aviary.  The tale of these three films…

We have a library for that!  With 8 locations spread across four campuses and collections encompassing all fields of study, University of Alberta Library endeavours to provide our community with everything they need for success. Discover more about how each library can serve you.    Search our collections online Did you know that University of Alberta Library is the second largest research library in Canada? You can search our entire physical and…

It’s crunch time! Projects are almost due, final exams are on the horizon and there just doesn’t seem to be enough time to get everything done. In times like this, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and forget to take care of ourselves. Here at the library we feel for you. A few of our student employees were willing to share little bits of wisdom on how they make the most of their…

La bibliothèque de l’Université de l’Alberta possède une collection assez vaste. Qu’il s’agisse de livres et de périodiques, d’articles de journaux, de vidéos et d’audio en continu, de kits divers, de jeux ou autres, les ressources à explorer ne manquent pas.  Néanmoins, nous devons parfois chercher plus loin et emprunter des documents à des bibliothèques extérieures au consortium NEOS. Nous appelons cela des prêts entre bibliothèques (PEB). Un PEB est la meilleure…

The University of Alberta Library subscribes to numerous resources that are core for certain disciplines, but also really deserving of wider attention. Here is one of those gems… For almost a century, The New Yorker has been a landmark source of modern literature. Short stories by noteworthy authors like Shirley Jackson, Philip Roth, Stephen King and Haruki Murakami, to name a few, have been featured in its pages. Writers working for the…

We have a pretty extensive collection here at the University of Alberta Library. Between print books & periodicals, electronic books, journal articles, streaming video and audio, and miscellaneous kits, games and more, there’s no lack of resources to explore. As Junelle explained in her recent post, there are limits to what we have access to. Sometimes we have to cast our nets wider and borrow items from libraries outside of the NEOS…

Vous donnez un cours cet automne ? Pour planifier un cours efficace, il faut tenir compte du matériel de lecture que vos étudiants devront consulter pour réussir le cours. Seront-ils en mesure d’accéder à leur matériel de cours en cas d’imprévu ? Si la pandémie nous a appris quelque chose, c’est que les situations peuvent changer rapidement. Les étudiants peuvent perdre l’accès à des documents physiques qui se trouvent sur les étagères…

Are you teaching a course this fall? A huge consideration that goes into planning an effective course is the required reading materials that your students will need to consume to be successful in your course. Are they going to be able to access their course materials should the unforeseen occur? If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that situations can change suddenly. Students could lose access to physical items that are located…