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    DIGITAL SERVICES @ Sperber library

    by Guest Author March 13, 2024
    written by Guest Author

    The Geoffrey and Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library (opened Sept 2023) in ECHA now has three exciting digital services available for University of Alberta staff and students. 

    Virtual Reality Lab

    The Virtual Reality (VR) lab is a dedicated space for UofA staff and students to experience virtual reality, such as viewing the inside of a human body in three dimensions, visualizing and building chemical compound proteins and nucleic acids, or experiencing what it is like to live with an intellectual disability! The VR lab is equipped with a Valve Index and a Meta Quest Pro headset as well as a state-of-the-art gaming computer. You (and up to 4 of your friends or colleagues) can book the VR Lab for 2 hours at a time. Your first visit will include a short orientation to the space and equipment. We welcome classroom collaborations and requests for tours of the VR Lab. (FYI: After each session, headsets are cleaned with an ultraviolet cleaning device to ensure a hygienic experience for users!)

    Media Lab

    The Media Lab is a noise-free space that allows you to record an interview, podcast, lecture or video footage on high-end equipment. You can book the Media Lab through the Sperber library website or this page and access the room after a short orientation session on your first visit. With media equipment generously donated by the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, the lab includes 2 microphones, 1 Mac Mini with two monitors, 1 webcam, and 1 RØDECaster™ Pro podcast production studio. Editing can be done on your own computer or on a high-performance computer provided remotely by the Digital Scholarship Centre. The Media Lab may accommodate up to 4 persons at one time, ideally only 2 persons audio/video recording at the same time.

    3D Printing 

    You can submit any educational or research-related 3D model to the University of Alberta’s 3D printing service for free printing! The service is designed to provide low-barrier access to 3D printing – just fill out the form using the “Submit your file” link on the 3D printing website. The form allows you to select your pick-up location at either Sperber Library or Cameron Library.  Please be aware that the jobs must take less than 6 hours to print and must fit on the beds of our PRUSA printers. Typical turnaround is 2-3 days, but we cannot guarantee this, so submit your job well in advance of assignment due dates! 

    Thank you Liz Dennett, Janice Kung and Lisa Tjosvold for authoring this post.

    This content is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons licence.

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  • Spaces and Workshops in the Digital Scholarship Centre

    by Guest Author February 22, 2023
    by Guest Author February 22, 2023

    By Sean LisSean is a student assistant at the Digital Scholarship Centre and a graduate student in the Digital Humanities. If you’ve ever been on Cameron Library’s second floor, you’ll have doubtlessly encountered the glowing sign and glass walls of the Digital Scholarship Centre (DSC). If the doors are open, come take a look and maybe chat with staff; take it from me, the DSC is the place to be! Whether you…

  • Stitching the Curve: An Update

    by Hanne Pearce July 28, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce July 28, 2020

    It has now been well over five months since a group of us University of Alberta Library staff began a data physicalization project to stitch Covid-19 data in Canada. It’s a project that we called “Stitching the Curve”. This is a little update on this data physicalization project’s progress.  To quickly recap the project, members of our team have all selected provinces to either knit or crochet. Our colleague and fellow knitter,…

  • Physical Computing

    by Guest Author June 8, 2020
    by Guest Author June 8, 2020

    By Abbie Schenk Imagine a programming workshop: students sitting behind monitors and laptops, quietly  typing line after line of code to make their computers spit out words, solve math problems, and manipulate pixels on those same screens. Their education is almost entirely contained to the virtual realm.  But a different form of computer science education has emerged in the last few years: physical computing. “A recent growth area in computer science education…

  • Data Physicalization

    by Guest Author May 13, 2020
    by Guest Author May 13, 2020

    Written By Abbie Schenk When we think of data visualizations, we often think of charts, maps and other forms of expressing data in digital ways. But humans have visualized data for thousands of years, long before computer screens were invented. Some of the earliest data visualizations go back to 5500 BC when Mesopotamians used clay tokens to visualize data. Today, representing data in a physical manner is called data physicalization. The Digital…

  • LET US INTRODUCE YOU TO… ERIN O’NEIL, OUR WIKIPEDIAN IN RESIDENCE!

    by Kate Cawthorn May 11, 2020
    by Kate Cawthorn May 11, 2020

    Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Library, this is ours… In early March I had the opportunity to interview Erin O’Neil about her role as the University of Alberta Library’s first Wikipedian in Residence from February until August of 2020. This interview was recorded prior to University of Alberta Library closing our physical locations temporarily due to COVID-19. Because of the temporary closures, Erin…

  • Stitching the Curve: A UAlberta Library Data-driven Making Project

    by Hanne Pearce April 23, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce April 23, 2020

    University of Alberta Library staff share a great passion for information and we are always looking for new ways we can engage with it and make it more approachable for ourselves and our community. In March, when the COVID-19 crisis brought a sudden change to all our lives, some library staff with yarncraft inclinations had an idea to start a unique making project. The “Stitching the Curve” project seeks to capture the…

  • Gender and Sexuality in Primary Sources

    by Emily Zheng April 9, 2020
    by Emily Zheng April 9, 2020

    Last month, in honour of Pride Week 2020, we got together at the Digital Scholarship Centre to talk about Gender & Sexuality Primary Resource collections. Now that most of us are hunkering down to do research at home, we wanted to share those collections online! In the last few decades, research into LGBTQ2S+ studies have grown exponentially. As a result, there are growing numbers of projects which aim to collect materials that…

  • New in the Internet Archive: UAlberta’s Growing Digital Collection

    by Emily Zheng January 27, 2020
    by Emily Zheng January 27, 2020

    Written by Sarah Severson Did you know that the University of Alberta Library has a huge collection of digitized items, many of them dating back a century or more? 2019 has been a busy year for the University of Alberta Library’s digitization program and has seen us add almost 22,000 new items to our Internet Archive collection. For several years, we have partnered with Internet Archive as our digitization partner, and this…

  • Let us introduce you to… Sean!

    by Eva Romanick November 7, 2019
    by Eva Romanick November 7, 2019

    Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Library, this is ours… Meet Sean Luyk!Sean Luyk is our Digital Projects Librarian, working on the 2nd floor of Cameron Library. You have an interesting title of Digital Projects Librarian. What kind of projects does a Digital Projects Librarian do? In my role, I’m responsible for our media archiving service (ERA A+V). This involves working with our users to archive…

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