digital collections

Happy World Digital Preservation Day! Today, November 5, is the day those of us in the library and archives community celebrate the wonderful work done to ensure that items from the past and present will be permanently preserved on open access, digital platforms to be accessed for future use.  University of Alberta Library has a number of initiatives that involve digital preservation, including our ongoing work to preserve born digital resources (ie.…

Sometimes, due to fast paced lives, we make poor information choices. A few hours of our free time, when the only thing we are able to do is hang out in front of the screen, is the time when we often choose to consume average entertainment products at our own financial expense. As a member of the University of Alberta, you have many choices to turn that time into a great art,…

Alas… Like so many of Edmonton’s beloved festivals, the 39th Fringe International Theatre Festival has been put on ice for the year. The Fringe team is making valiant efforts to keep the fringe spirit alive online, through FringeTV and some unique fundraising events, and avid fringers know it will be back, bigger and better than ever. For those members of the University community with dramatic inclinations, why not use this hiatus to…

Like many other festivals this year, Cariwest Festival has been moved to an online platform from August 7th to 9th. The year 2020 would have marked the 36th Cariwest Festival in Edmonton, a festival that aims to bring the culture of the Caribbean carnival to the City of Edmonton. We will surely miss this amazing event that brings us colours, music, cuisine, fashion and joie de vivre from the Caribbean. For those…

Even though our favourite festivals have been canceled this year, Edmontonians are keeping the Festival City spirit alive with socially distant celebrations. This weekend would have been the summer mainstay, Edmonton Folk Music Festival (EFMF). The festival has gone online this year with The Hill at Home, but we also found some ways to get folky with library resources! The University of Alberta Library has many digitized collections, including the Edmonton Folk…

By: Janice Kung As we adjust to the sudden changes the COVID-19 pandemic throws at us, we’d like to remind you about the breadth of online resources and services available as you continue to pursue your research. The following sections list resources and tools to help you as you navigate through the different stages of your research journey.  Research Methods Are you looking for the right type of research methodology, or need…

By Sarah Polkinghorne I’m a librarian in the Library’s Collection Strategies Unit (CSU), and a lecturer in the School of Library and Information Studies. I’d like to offer some things to consider around ebooks. As instructors work to adapt courses for a mainly-online Fall term, Library staff support this work, in part by fielding questions about all sorts of publications. This post shares key information about ebooks in particular, ie., books existing…

We are pleased to be celebrating National Indigenous History Month throughout June with a series of blog posts featuring some great resources from our collection that can be accessed online! This post was written by Kaia MacLeod, one of University of Alberta Library’s Indigenous Interns. If you’ve ever wanted to learn something about Canada’s Indigenous Languages this is the guide for you! As the description indicates, the teaching First Nations, Métis and Inuit Languages…

With restrictions on mass gatherings still in place, many of us are looking for other ways we can celebrate Pride season with LGBTQ2S+ communities. Reading and learning about sexual minority issues in academic and non-academic literature is one way we can participate in Pride this year.  I recently broadened my own understandings in this area, when I was asked to conduct a literature review into queer theory for our team learning purposes.…