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    Congratulations to Our Fall Library Challenge Winners!

    by Meghan Staal October 3, 2025
    written by Meghan Staal

    Thank you to everyone who took the Fall Library Challenge and explored the library’s many unique resources, services, and study spaces, whether you joined us on campus or participated online! 

    This year’s challenge, which ran from September 8–19, had over 900 entries from U of A students across all of our campuses and online. We are thrilled to announce the following prize winners, who were selected in the randomized draw on September 22.

    • Grand Prize Winner – $150 in ONEcard cash + priority access to study room booking for Fall 2025: Danica!
    • Additional Prize Winners – $25 ONEcard cash each: Casey, Daniel, Mehak, Michelle, and Tristyn!
     

    Thank you for participating! We hope the Fall Library Challenge inspired you to explore new corners of the library!

    Keep following @uofalibrary on Instagram and stay tuned for more events, challenges, and chances to win in the future. Your library journey is just getting started!

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  • International Archives Week: A Look Inside the U of A Archives

    by Guest Author June 9, 2025
    by Guest Author June 9, 2025

    The University of Alberta Archives is proud to join a global movement for accessibility by being represented linked on the International Council on Archives’ #ArchivesAreAccessible Map. This demonstrates our dedication to ensuring archives are open, inclusive, and available to all. In honour of International Archives Week June 9-13, 2025, we invited Amy Kamel to share her reflections of her work at the University of Alberta Archives as a Student Assistant.  A daydreamer…

  • Aviary: Hosting, Preserving, and Promoting Your Podcasts

    by Guest Author April 28, 2025
    by Guest Author April 28, 2025

    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…

  • University of Alberta Library Wrap Up

    by Meghan Staal April 24, 2025
    by Meghan Staal April 24, 2025

    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 March 24, 2025
    by Guest Author March 24, 2025

    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 February 6, 2025
    by Guest Author February 6, 2025

    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 November 12, 2024
    by Guest Author November 12, 2024

    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 October 21, 2024
    by Guest Author October 21, 2024

    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 October 2, 2024
    by Meghan Staal October 2, 2024

    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, 2023, 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 June 26, 2024
    by Guest Author June 26, 2024

    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…

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