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This post was written by MACT student Joana Mazumder The Gourmand Awards, often compared to the ‘Oscars’ for the culinary industry, honours the world’s best food and wine books, print and digital, and food television. This year, a Canadian book titled, The High Protein Cookbook for Muscle Health During Cancer Treatment by Hillary Wilson, Anissa Armet, and Professor Carla Prado has won the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2022 for the University Press…

Après une interruption de deux ans, l’exposition “La couverture ne fait pas le livre” de la bibliothèque de l’Université de l’Alberta revient du 14 au 27 novembre 2022 ! “La couverture ne fait pas le livre” est un événement annuel organisé par la bibliothèque qui vise à mettre en avant les groupes sous-représentés. Afin de réveiller votre curiosité et de changer les présentoirs de livres réguliers, les livres sont emballés dans du…

After a 2 year hiatus, UAlberta Library’s Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover returns Nov 14-27, 2022! Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover is an annual event hosted by the University of Alberta Library 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 symbolizes the marginalization of the…

This post was originally published in November 2020. On November 11 we will pause to honour the soldiers that have fought for Canada and to support the Canadian Troops. In addition to pausing for a day to honour the soldiers, I thought another way to appreciate the Canadian soldiers would be to showcase photos of the University of Alberta’s connection to World War I (WWI). With the help of our colleagues at…

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…

So you’re doing research and wondering if the University of Alberta Archives might have relevant materials.  Maybe you’re doing some family genealogy research and your Uncle Bob went to the University of Alberta, or perhaps your professor gave you a local history assignment that requires you to consult primary sources. How do you search the archives, anyways? The University of Alberta Archives (UAA) is the official repository for the permanently valuable records…

Cet article a été rédigé par Adrian Sheppard, directeur du Bureau du droit d’auteur, et Amanda Wakaruk, bibliothécaire spécialiste du droit d’auteur et des communications savantes. La traduction française a été réalisée par Linda Gisenya. Qu’est-ce que le droit d’auteur ? Le droit d’auteur est un ensemble de droits juridiques établis par le gouvernement fédéral et les tribunaux, par le biais de la législation et de la jurisprudence. Les sanctions en cas…

This post was originally published on Oct 27, 2020. Cold fall air. Howling wind. Crackling leaves on the ground… Halloween spirit is in the air! Although these images weren’t created to scare, sepia has been generously applied by the passage of time… and they emerge as the perfect backdrop for spooky stories… Let’s start at the iconic Alberta Legislature Building, which looks like it’s holding a flashlight up to its face. A…