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    Ask Us! Online Chat Stats since COVID-19

    by Meredith Bratland
    written by Meredith Bratland

    Our work has changed a lot since the pandemic began in March 2020. The library has invested in a robust online service over the past ten years, but since we began studying and working from home, those numbers have vastly increased.

    September is always an exciting time at the library and this year was no exception, despite being online. Students and staff alike were reaching out in record numbers. From March to September, 2019, there were 8310 chats. During the same months in 2020, there were 12,419 chats. This represents a 49% increase.

    The library website is now like our “front door” and most of our interactions on Chat originate from our homepage Chat window.

    Our Information Specialists are ready behind the screens to help you with all your library questions and the Ask Us chat service is a great place to start when you are beginning a project.

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  • Winter Break hours at the library

    by Elisabet Ingibergsson
    by Elisabet Ingibergsson

    * Updated since provincial COVID restrictions announced on Dec 8, 2020 * We are taking a winter break and looking forward to the end of 2020 (who isn’t?) and a brighter New Year! With most University of Alberta classes starting January 11th, and with new Provincial restrictions in place, we too have adjusted our opening hours. These are the details! Curbside Pickup Service Rutherford Curbside Pickup & Book Return: NEW (Dec 10,…

  • Now Open: Alberta’s Provincial OER Publishing Program!

    by Meredith Bratland
    by Meredith Bratland

    The University of Alberta Library and the Alberta OER Technology and Infrastructure Working Group are pleased to announce the new Open Education Alberta program. This no-fee provincial program seeks to eliminate barriers to adopting, adapting and creating open textbooks by providing Alberta post-secondary institutions with easy-to-use online publishing software. The University of Alberta Library will host and maintain the Pressbooks publishing software, and partner institutions will establish workflows and service models that…

  • Film Streaming at Rutherford Library for Indigenous History Month and LGTBQ Pride Month

    by Meredith Bratland
    by Meredith Bratland

    June is the month to celebrate National Indigenous History Month as well as LGBTQ Pride Month. As a way to honour and acknowledge these communities, as well as their struggles and achievements, Rutherford Library is streaming films that highlight diverse aspects of their respective histories each weekday in June. All of the films listed below, and many more, are accessible through the streaming resources available through UAlberta Libraries. Please note that some of these films have…

  • Now Open! Library Publishing for Open Textbooks

    by Meredith Bratland
    by Meredith Bratland

    Alongside the University of Alberta’s mission of “For the Public Good” The University of Alberta Libraries is introducing an Open Educational Resources (OER) publishing program to increase access to and use of free and accessible textbooks and other learning resources. OER are teaching and learning materials that are accessible without cost and allow for free use, reuse and redistribution. OER often have a Creative Commons license that states specifically how the material may be…

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