Supported by a federal Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, U of A Digital Initiatives Librarian, Sean Luyk, and Michael O’Driscoll of the Department of English and Film Studies plan to digitize, document, analyze and make available an archive of analogue literary radio recordings broadcast by CKUA between 1970 and 1994.
Read the full story originally published in Folio on May 19, 2026
Breaking news from the past: The Dagligtale, Augustana’s student newspaper, is now available online! “Dagligtale” is a Norwegian word that means everyday language. The collection—part of the University of Alberta Library’s digitization program—includes issues from 1978 to 2020, capturing student perspectives, photos, and coverage of events on Augustana Campus (formerly Augustana University College, Camrose Lutheran University College, and Camrose Lutheran College). From Idea to Online Archive As a librarian at Augustana, I got…
Have you ever wondered how local political ads have evolved? Or explored historical newspapers to find old relatives’ bowling groups, or marriage announcements? Have you enquired about the cost of a gallon of milk in your town in 1965? Questions like these arise when considering the significance of newspaper digitization. The Drayton Valley Newspaper project The Drayton Valley Newspaper project began in 2023 when Sandra Blades of the Drayton Valley Museum contacted…
La bibliothèque de l’Université de l’Alberta héberge et préserve en ce moment dix balados(ou podcasts) réalisés par des étudiants, des membres du personnel, des enseignants et des anciens étudiants sur notre plateforme de conservation numérique audiovisuelle Aviary. Quelques exemples sont, Happiness Reflected : Creative Expressions, SSH : the Podcast, Better Than the Cure, Accessing Home, et Ski Like a Girl, ainsi que plusieurs séries à venir au cours de l’année. Aviary nous…
The University of Alberta Library currently hosts and preserves 10 podcasts by students, staff, faculty, and alumni on our audiovisual digital curation platform Aviary. Some examples include series like Happiness Reflected: Creative Expressions, SSH: the Podcast, Better Than the Cure, Accessing Home, and Ski Like a Girl as well as several upcoming series set to be released later this year. We are able to not only archive audiovisual content with Aviary, but…
Did you know there is a state-of-the-art Media Lab in the Sperber Health Sciences Library? It is a bookable space for students, staff, and researchers for all audio and video recording projects. We’d like to highlight an exciting student use-case where the crew of three students (Jashan, Yuvraj, and Arpit) created Behind the Labs, a podcast that focuses on breakthrough research studies and their real-world implications to make it easy for people…
The University of Alberta Library is proud to showcase a collection of innovative 3D printed adaptive technologies. These devices, created to assist individuals with disabilities in their daily lives, highlight the potential of 3D printing to produce affordable, customizable solutions. Showcasing Adaptive Solutions Our display features three groundbreaking 3D printed adaptive technologies: Key Turner Bottle Opener Pen Holder Accessing 3D Printing at UAlberta The University of Alberta Library is excited to offer…
La Semaine internationale du libre accès se déroule du 21 au 27 octobre et a pour thème cette année « La communauté plutôt que la commercialisation ». Cette semaine souligne l’importance de rendre les connaissances librement accessibles afin de servir au mieux les intérêts du public et de la communauté universitaire. Le programme de publication en libre accès de la bibliothèque de l’Université de l’Alberta est guidé par ce même sens de…
Stories of immigration and settlement, homesteading and going to school in the countryside, church life and traditional remedies, folk songs and recipes of old fashioned doughnuts – these are some of the topics covered in the interviews in the University of Alberta Archives’ (UAA) Héritage Franco-Albertain fonds. The fonds consists of 15.4 m of textual records as well as numerous audio recordings generated by the “Projet Héritage Franco-Albertain.” This fonds was acquired…
Metadata is the information that describes the resources the University of Alberta Library makes accessible to our campus community and the world beyond. If you have searched our library catalogue or found an item in our institutional repository, you have already seen metadata in action: Metadata is a core tool in the information search and retrieval process. In aggregate form, it holds inherent value as a resource in itself. Metadata creation and…