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    Hidden Gems: Edmonton Queer History Collection

    by Emily Zheng March 14, 2023
    written by Emily Zheng

    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…

    The Edmonton Queer History Collection features 2SLGBTQ+ community magazines, newsletters, and items of historical significance in and around the Edmonton area. 

    Fine Print (1983) is one of the earliest periodical issues we digitized for this collection. Lent to us by the City of Edmonton Archives.   

    The collection is an ongoing collaboration between the University of Alberta Library’s digitization services, MacEwan University Library, and the Edmonton Queer History Project, a university-community collaborative initiative. 

    The digital items are hosted on Internet Archive, where it is fully open and free to view for anyone with an internet connection. 

    What is in this collection?

    So far, we’ve digitized several periodicals from the early-1980s to the 2000’s. These titles are now available to browse & search:

    • Fine Print (1983)
    • Fresh Magazine (2003-04)
    • Times .10 (1993-2005)
    • Womonspace (1982-2008)

    And we’re in the process of adding more issues and titles.  Check back for updates! 

    Womonspace (1999) is one of the longest-running periodicals in this collection. Lent to us by the Pride Centre archives.

    Where did we get these materials? 

    All of the materials have been identified by the Edmonton Queer History Project, who also coordinated our access to the print materials, as well as securing permission to put them online.

    Some material came from organizations like the Pride Centre and the City of Edmonton Archives. Others were donated directly by the local community.

    Why are these materials important to digitize? 

    As Dr. Kristopher Wells told us:

    We are thrilled to be working in collaboration with the UofA and MacEwan university libraries to help highlight, preserve, and share important parts of Edmonton’s 2SLGBTQ+ rich and diverse history. This history has often been excluded from official archives, public records, and is still largely invisible in school curricula and text books. Edmonton’s queer community has a storied history of vibrant community groups, clubs, bars, social networks, and service organizations. Before the advent of the Internet, club newsletters and community newspapers were the primary means by which information about 2SLGBTQ+ news, events, and happenings were shared. In a very real sense, it was an underground network that was vital to building and sustaining our community. Virtually, every community group, large or small, had a newsletter of some kind ranging from Fine Print (1983), Times .10 (1993-2005), Fresh Magazine (2003-04), and Womonspace (1982-2008), among many others. Our small and growing collection represents an important archive of not only how our community has grown and evolved, but also how we have overcome adversity and flourished.

    By digitizing these records, we are trying to make a previously-hidden part of our city’s history a bit more visible. These publications can show us how marginalized individuals organized, resisted, and formed communities. And they can provide us with a historical context for some of the issues that concern us today.

    Times. 10 (1999) was printed in colour, which allowed for a vast array of vibrant photos (and photo collages!)

    Why is the University of Alberta Library Involved? 

    The University of Alberta Library’s (UAL) Digitization Strategy focuses on building unique, distinctive, and diverse digital collections to enable access to materials that are otherwise hidden. In addition to digitizing items held in our own collection, we’re open to collaboration from external groups, if they fit within our scope. This project fits perfectly with these criteria. 

    We had the digitization infrastructure, expertise, and staffing capacity at that time, so we said yes!

    What’s next for this project?
    We’ll soon be adding more issues of Times. 10. And we’re excited to start working on the Coronation Ball programs from the Imperial Sovereign Court of the Wild Rose, dating back to the 1970s. If you haven’t heard about our city’s rich history of drag, check out this series on Edmonton City as Museum Project!

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  • Hidden Gems: The Wiedrick Collection

    by Guest Author January 31, 2023
    by Guest Author January 31, 2023

    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…

  • Digitizing vintage media – A tale of three films

    by Guest Author January 24, 2023
    by Guest Author January 24, 2023

    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…

  • Canadian Copyright Update: Public Domain Frozen for Two Decades

    by Emily Zheng January 4, 2023
    by Emily Zheng January 4, 2023

    Co-written with Joana Mazumder, Digital Initiatives Assistant; and Amanda Wakaruk, Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian.  As you may have already read in The Quad, the term length of copyright-protected works in Canada is changing due to the Canada-United States Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), effective December 30, 2022. The federal government’s Budget Implementation Act of 2022 extended the general term of protection from 50 years after the year of death of a work’s creator…

  • From The Archives – Wintery Fun

    by Elisabet Ingibergsson December 21, 2022
    by Elisabet Ingibergsson December 21, 2022

    Our annual holiday break is just around the corner and many of us are making plans for the time off from studies and/or work!  In today’s blog post we take a look through our archives for a glimpse of the past times and life of long ago winters. Lets start with these students at our Law Library in the 1960’s. It certainly looks like they need a break!  I wonder what our…

  • De nos archives – Les plaisirs de l’hiver

    by Elisabet Ingibergsson December 21, 2022
    by Elisabet Ingibergsson December 21, 2022

    Les vacances d’hiver approchent à grands pas et vous êtes peut-être en train de faire des plans pour cette période de repos !  Aujourd’hui, nous jetons un coup d’œil à nos archives pour avoir un aperçu des passe-temps et de la vie des hivers d’autrefois. Commençons par ces étudiants à notre bibliothèque de droit dans les années 1960. On dirait bien qu’ils ont besoin d’une pause !  Je me demande ce que…

  • Digitizing SEE & VUE (part 3 of 3): Why is this project important?

    by Emily Zheng December 13, 2022
    by Emily Zheng December 13, 2022

    This is a 3-part series on the Digitization of SEE Magazine and VUE Weekly. In the first part, we gave you an overview of the project, and answer the “how.”  In the second part, we outlined a short history of the publications (the “what”).  Now, we’re closing out with the “why”, with a description of research possibilities and personal memories! Research Potential In print format, these magazines can be flimsy, brittle, and…

  • Indigenous Peoples and National Parks Behind the scenes: A confluence of requests, resources and collaboration

    by Guest Author December 8, 2022
    by Guest Author December 8, 2022

    This post is written by Map Collection Staff, Larry Laliberte & Bonnie Gallinger. The Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s National Parks guide is a multidisciplinary literature review that introduces the historical and current relationship of Indigenous people and Canada’s National Parks. The creation of this guide is part of ongoing work in re-positioning the William C. Wonders (WCW) map collection. As one might expect, within such a large academic library the WCW map collection is…

  • Indigenous Peoples and National Parks Part 2: Countering the Celebration of Mapping

    by Guest Author December 1, 2022
    by Guest Author December 1, 2022

    This post is written by Map Collection Staff, Larry Laliberte & Bonnie Gallinger. The Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s National Parks guide is a multidisciplinary literature review that introduces the historical and current relationship of Indigenous people and Canada’s National Parks. The creation of this guide is part of ongoing work to re-positioning the William C. Wonders (WCW) map collection.  This guide is an example of the growing awareness that Indigenous peoples’ experience in the…

  • Indigenous Peoples and National Parks – Part 1

    by Guest Author November 24, 2022
    by Guest Author November 24, 2022

    This post is written by Map Collection Staff, Larry Laliberte & Bonnie Gallinger. The William C. Wonders (WCW) map collection is actively consulted throughout the year and includes a wide range of reference questions drawing upon various thematic sections of the collection. Reference questions are the primary drivers in the accumulation of tacit staff knowledge of numerous research areas thus deepening the reference experience for our researchers. The identification of relevant map…

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