February is Black History Month and we are celebrating the work and lives of Black artists. Throughout history, the creative contributions of Black artists and countless ethnic groups have been obscured and often overlooked by the art world. The art and artefacts of a society tell a story; it can also encourage inspiration, mobilisation and healing. Black art gives voice to those previously silenced celebrating the beauty and triumph of Black culture.…
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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…
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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…
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Our student colleague Lothian Taylor shares her “great escapes” book suggestions. Lothian is a student in the University of Alberta Masters of Library and Information Studies program, and also works at our library service desk and behind the scenes answering online chat questions! As 2022 was ending, and I was brainstorming this month’s book display, Edmonton was met with a cold snap. While students worked on their final exams and projects, the…
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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…
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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…
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Bonne année et bienvenue à la rentrée ! À l’aube de la nouvelle année nous jetons un coup d’œil à nos suggestions de livres et de ressources tirées des archives de notre blog. Notre biblioblogue propose des articles sur toutes sortes de sujets : bien-être, ressources numériques, présentation du personnel et, bien sûr, suggestions de livres ! Commençons l’année sans stress et plongeons dans l’un de ces livres et ressources géniaux. Comme…
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Happy New Year and welcome back! Looking for a book to read as you ease into the new year? Check out our roundup of good reads blog posts from 2022. Far more often than I care to admit, I hear about a book that intrigues me and think – now that’s a book I would enjoy. I then promptly forget the title and/or author and wrack my brain trying to remember weeks…
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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…
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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…