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Have you tried Browzine yet? If not, you’re missing out on a fantastic way to stay up-to-date on all your favourite journals wherever you have a network connection. Best of all, Browzine offers free apps for a plethora of desktop and mobile devices, meaning all current University of Alberta students, faculty and staff can take advantage of all Browzine has to offer. Here’s five more reasons you should be using Browzine: Planning…

Written by Carolyn Carpan Research shows that listening to calming music while studying helps people relax and perform better during exams. To help you get through a stressful exam period, you can listen to music online from the University of Alberta Libraries’ collections. Naxos Music Library is the world´s largest source for online classical music. It also offers streaming access to more than 136,000 CDs with more than 2 million tracks from…

Written by Carolyn Carpan Do you need primary research materials for your history classes about World War I, World War II, or the Vietnam War? Make history come alive with new online collections from University of Alberta Libraries. History Vault provides a treasure trove of digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries so you will get a sense of what it was like for people working and living through military…

UAlberta Libraries’ 2nd Annual Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover starts Feb 5!  Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover is an annual event that aims to shed light on underrepresented groups. As a twist on regular book displays, books are wrapped in brown paper and teaser keywords are written on the front. This wrapping both symbolizes the marginalization of the featured group and adds a mystery element when selecting a book to…

Written by Carolyn Carpan With U.S. President Trump’s recent comments that labeled certain nations as “sh**hole countries” and the recent news regarding a U.S. crackdown on immigration, the Libraries’ want to share a database called Border and Migration Studies Online that helps researchers delve into the complexity of human migration. You can learn the historical background on more than thirty worldwide border areas, including:   The United States Mexico The European Union…

Written by Tanya Ball As a part of our commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)’s Calls to Action, UAL has formed the Decolonizing Description Working Group (DDWG) who have been working tirelessly on our library catalogue and metadata. Metadata… that’s a scary word, isn’t it? It doesn’t have to be! Metadata is just the fancy word for describing all of this: It’s information about a material within the library. This…