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    Aviary: Hosting, Preserving, and Promoting Your Podcasts

    by Guest Author
    written by Guest Author

    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 can host podcasts using an RSS feed along with their supporting media!

    Aviary has tools to increase listener accessibility with helpful features such as transcripts or reference lists and external links. Using the RSS feed, podcasts can still be released to major distribution platforms such as Spotify or Apple Podcasts to maximize listenership. You also gain the added benefit of stable, long-term preservation of your podcast series and the use of permalinks to embed your work elsewhere or even link to in your CV.

    Have a look at our Audio and Video Curation page on our library website.

    Podcast Production

    The Library has spaces to help you create your podcasts, such as the media studios in the Digital Scholarship Centre (DSC) or the Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library – Media Lab, which was featured in a recent library news blog post. You can book a spot in the media labs and use the state-of-the-art audio and video recording equipment. Depending on the location, some of the available equipment includes headphones, microphones, and webcams for recording. 

    Library Workshops

    In addition to recording spaces in the Library, there are also media production and podcasting workshops held in the DSC. Our annual Podcasting Bootcamp usually takes place in the Winter semester and is organized by the DSC, the Sound Studies Institute, and the CSSH Research office. It’s a 3-day workshop that focuses on pre-production, production, and distribution of podcasts. If you are interested in the Podcasting Bootcamp or any other Library workshop, keep an eye on the workshop calendar!

    For any questions or to express interest in archiving or hosting your podcast with us in Aviary, please contact aviary@ualberta.ca

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

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  • University of Alberta Library Wrap Up

    by Meghan Staal
    by Meghan Staal

    As we’re nearing the end of final exams, it’s the perfect time to pause, reflect, and celebrate all that we’ve accomplished together this academic year at the University of Alberta Library. From busy study spaces to innovative research support, our library locations have been alive with activity—and it’s all thanks to you, our community of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and researchers. The numbers speak for themselves, painting a picture of how deeply…

  • Media Lab Spotlight: Introducing “Behind the Labs” podcast

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    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…

  • U of A Library Survey – Your Feedback is Important!

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    Your feedback is important! Library staff are conducting a short survey to collect information on student, faculty, and staff use of the North Campus Libraries – Cameron, Rutherford, Sperber and Weir – during the evenings and weekends. The information gathered will be used for the purposes of service review and improvement. We would like hear from you about your weekend and evening library experience. Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete this…

  • Empowering Independence: 3D Printed Adaptive Technologies at the University of Alberta Library

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    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…

  • Celebrating Open Publishing at the U of A Library 

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    International Open Access Week runs from October 21 – 27; this year’s theme is focused on “Community over Commercialization.” Open Access Week celebrates the importance of making scholarship openly available to serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. The open publishing program at the University of Alberta Library has been driven by the same sense of service for many years.  Libraries around the world, including the U of…

  • Celebrating our 1 Year Anniversary of Sperber Library: Sperberversary!

    by Meghan Staal
    by Meghan Staal

    Happy 1st birthday to our Geoffrey + Robyn Sperber, Health Sciences Library! And what a year it has been! We opened our doors for the first time on September 29, 2024, and during the past year, we have welcomed many visitors into Sperber’s beautiful new learning spaces to study and work collaboratively, or to make use of Sperber’s innovative digital scholarship services and community-focused indigenous learning space.  We invite you to learn…

  • NEW Fall 2024 Pilot: Mediated Course Materials Service

    by Guest Author
    by Guest Author

    Do you want to make your course materials available for your students through the University of Alberta Library, but have not had time to learn and use our Talis Aspire system? We know you have a lot on your plate and we want to help. Please try out our Mediated Course Materials Service!  We will pilot this service for instructors to have reading lists created in Talis Aspire by the Course Materials…

  • 2023/2024 Academic Year – Library Wrap Up – Part 2

    by Meghan Staal
    by Meghan Staal

    We are thrilled to keep shining a spotlight on the accomplishments of our exceptional colleagues at the University of Alberta Library! This second part of our library wrap-up further demonstrates our team’s commitment to delivering outstanding services and collections that meet the complex information needs of the U of A community. Our instructors, including subject librarians, librarians and library staff, teach undergraduate and graduate students across all the U of A Colleges…

  • 2023/2024 Academic Year – Library Wrap Up

    by Meghan Staal
    by Meghan Staal

    As we wrap up classes for the winter term at the University of Alberta, it’s a great time to reflect on this past academic year. All of our locations buzzed with activity, with many students, faculty, and visitors coming in to read, study, borrow materials and make use of our many different services. One of our biggest achievements is the opening of our new Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, with…

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