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    Librarians working from home: Meet Jessica!

    by Eva Romanick March 31, 2020
    written by Eva Romanick

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our librarians are supporting online learning…

    Say “hello” to Jessica!

    How do you train an animal on a farm? What does its habitat look like, and how does it play? These are just some questions that an ALES class needs to answer for an assignment in this new, all-virtual, learning environment. They need to pick an animal species related to food or resource production and describe its many behaviours. But where to begin? Our Librarian, Jessica, offers these helpful tips and tricks:

    To start, see the ALES Library Guides for resources related to your topics (eg. Animal Science).

    These are some of the key databases where you can look for articles:

    • Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
    • Zoological Record
    • CAB Abstracts

    If you are looking for information on cows, including their natural traits and how to train them, your search could look something like any of these combinations [these will work in the databases noted above]:

    • (“natural behav*” or instinct*) AND (cattle or beef or cow or cows or bovine or calf or calves)
    • (behav* or habit* or character) AND (cattle or beef or cow or cows or bovine or calf or calves) AND (farm*)
    • (train* or teach or learn* or instruct* or coach* or condition*) NEAR/3 (cattle or beef or cow or cows or bovine or calf or calves)
    • (behav* or character or temperament) AND (calf or calves)
      • Using terms that speak specifically to baby cows, this search focuses on their juvenile behaviour.

    You can try this search with other animals – just substitute the cow terms for ones related to a different animal. You may want to adapt, try different combinations, remove terms or try other things.

    Jessica’s view as she’s helping you with your research questions

    Need feedback and support with your class assignments? Chat with us or book a virtual appointment with a librarian!

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  • Demystifying “Peer Review”

    by Emily Zheng March 10, 2020
    by Emily Zheng March 10, 2020

    U of A Library supports platforms for students to join the scholarly publishing process and designed a workshop to teach students how! Many profs talk about “peer reviewed” as something to look for when consuming scholarly information. It might even be a requirement for citations in your next paper. But what does “peer reviewed” actually mean? What does the process entail? Who are “peers” and what is a “review”? Librarians have to…

  • New display asks, “where would you go when you don’t have a place to sleep?”

    by Erin Sanderman February 4, 2020
    by Erin Sanderman February 4, 2020

    Where would you go if you didn’t have a place to sleep? Sadly, this is a problem that over 70,000 post-secondary students across Canada face (Weissman et. al, 2019). When we think of homelessness, many of us picture someone living on the street or relying on public shelters for a safe haven, but many people without permanent residence make up the hidden homeless population. Those who find themselves among the hidden homeless…

  • Living Colours: A Story of Structural Colour in Nature and Science

    by Bojan Kumovic January 22, 2020
    by Bojan Kumovic January 22, 2020

    In this unique exhibition, you will learn about the phenomena of structural colour and use microscopes to experience how it works in nature. This exhibit highlights how structural colour connects the latest research in science, art and design. It runs from January 30 to March 27 at the Augustana Library. Structural colouration is a phenomena in nature in which colour is obtained through microscopically structured surfaces of living organisms and their connection…

  • Book Tree Instagram Contest

    by Eva Romanick December 10, 2019
    by Eva Romanick December 10, 2019

    UPDATECongratulation to our $10 Starbucks gift card winner @megan.roshko!and thank you to everyone who participated in our first instagram contest. We wish you all a safe and merry holiday season! Happy New Year! CLOSED ***Contest*** Enter to win a $10 Starbucks gift card by guessing how many books we used in our Cameron Library book tree. Entering is SO easy!⁣ 🧡 follow us @uofalibrary⁣🧡 like this post⁣🧡 tag a friend with your guess Winner…

  • Let us introduce you to… Allison!

    by Eva Romanick December 2, 2019
    by Eva Romanick December 2, 2019

    Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Libraries, this is ours… Meet Allison Easton! Allison is a second year graduate student working as a Student Public Service Assistants at Cameron Library. What motivated you to go back to school to get your MLIS (Master of Library & Information Studies)?  I had always planned on continuing on with my education after I completed my Bachelor’s Degree.…

  • 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…

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

    by Meredith Bratland May 31, 2019
    by Meredith Bratland May 31, 2019

    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…

  • Celebrate TD Canadian Children’s Book Week with Shelly Becker

    by Erin Sanderman April 23, 2019
    by Erin Sanderman April 23, 2019

    Attention aspiring superheroes! University of Alberta Libraries is excited to announce that the person who wrote the book on superheroes – make that two books on superheroes – is paying a very special visit to help celebrate TD Canadian Children’s Book Week. Shelly Becker, author of the books Even Superheroes Have Bad Days and Even Superheroes Make Mistakes, will be presenting some stories and discussing her experiences writing children’s books on Wednesday, May 8 at…

  • Treadmill Desk Challenge for World Health Day

    by Erin Sanderman March 28, 2019
    by Erin Sanderman March 28, 2019

    World Health Day is Friday, April 5, 2019. Join University of Alberta Libraries in our treadmill desk challenge! What is the goal of the treadmill desk challenge? It’s to see how many minutes (or hours!) we can accumulate by walking our way to health on our seven treadmill desks. On April 5 we will post a sheet on each treadmill where you can log the amount of time you spent on the…

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