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    University of Alberta Library Wrap Up

    by Meghan Staal April 24, 2025
    written 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 engaged our community has been with nearly 1.1 million visits to our library locations; 53,925 checkouts of library materials; 5,165 answered chat questions; and 1,502 3D-printed items.

    Our subject librarians delivered 283 course-based instruction sessions that reached over 13,000 students. Such sessions covered everything from searching strategies, systematic reviews, citations, information literacy, publishing, research data management, digital scholarship, technology demonstrations and much more.

    Our team also provided over 90 workshops, which empowered learners with knowledge on topics such as: evaluating information and misinformation, generative AI in research, measuring research impact for early career researchers, archival research, and digital photography for research communications. In addition to this, our subject librarians also conducted over 1,200 research consultations, offering effective and much-needed one-on-one support to U of A graduate students, faculty, undergrads, alumni, postdocs, and staff. 

    Our digitization and repository teams have worked tirelessly to make knowledge accessible, digitizing 4,635 items and adding 1,405 items to our ERA repository—including 675 theses and 730 other scholarly contributions. In our Aviary repository, 353 audiovisual items were uploaded, totalling 327 hours of valuable content produced by U of A students, faculty and researchers.

    Our publishing team has overseen 45 new journal issues with over 1,700 articles published between September and April. Our publishing team is especially proud of our student-led journals, such as Spectrum and Eureka, which presented nationally at the Student Journal Forum and participated in Open Access Week’s Student Journal Showcase. In addition to these open journals, two new Open Educational Resources were published this year, including: The NiMe Diet: Scientific Principles and Recipes and Planet Earth: Notes on Earth Systems. Both of these resources, along with our open journals, are freely available online

    We would like to thank our students, faculty, alumni and researchers who’ve spent long hours in our study spaces, partnered with us, stayed connected, and relied on our support over this past academic year. It’s been a year of learning, collaboration, and community. We’re grateful to be part of it—and we’re looking forward to what’s coming up next.

    Thank you for the read! Love us on the blog? Chances are, you’ll love us on social media! Follow us on Instagram; @uofalibrary.

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

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  • Preserving Born-Digital Records at the University of Alberta Archives

    by Guest Author November 7, 2024
    by Guest Author November 7, 2024

    Happy World Digital Preservation Day! On the first Thursday of November, the international community of digital archivists, librarians, curators, creators, users, and everyone interested in or responsible for the preservation of digital records celebrates World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD). The 2024 theme is Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities. The WDPD is the initiative of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). It allows us to connect with colleagues and like-minded people and “celebrate…

  • Plamondon interviews of Projet Héritage Franco-Albertain now available through Aviary

    by Guest Author September 17, 2024
    by Guest Author September 17, 2024

    Stories of immigration and settlement, homesteading and going to school in the countryside, church life and traditional remedies, folk songs and recipes of old fashioned doughnuts – these are some of the topics covered in the interviews in the University of Alberta Archives’ (UAA) Héritage Franco-Albertain fonds. The fonds consists of 15.4 m of textual records as well as numerous audio recordings generated by the “Projet Héritage Franco-Albertain.” This fonds was acquired…

  • Library Website Brand Alignment Project

    by Guest Author September 12, 2024
    by Guest Author September 12, 2024

    The University of Alberta Library website got a major refresh with a new look and feel that aligns with the university’s web style and brand standards. Overview Until very recently, the Library website looked very different from the rest of the University of Alberta sites. Library staff have maintained the site independently for many years, which has evolved organically to serve the library’s complex and unique needs. The challenge However, it was…

  • La loi canadienne sur le droit d’auteur à 100 ans

    by Guest Author August 13, 2024
    by Guest Author August 13, 2024

    À l’occasion du centenaire de la loi canadienne sur le droit d’auteur, nous avons demandé à Adrian Sheppard, directeur du Bureau du droit d’auteur de l’Université de l’Alberta, de nous faire part de ses réflexions et de ses pensées.  Pour rappel, vous pouvez trouver plus d’informations sur l’ensemble des services et des ressources en matière de droit d’auteur destinés aux professeurs, au personnel et aux étudiants de l’Université de l’Alberta sur le…

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

    by Meghan Staal June 24, 2024
    by Meghan Staal June 24, 2024

    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…

  • Staff Showcase: Jessie Loyer

    by Eva Romanick June 4, 2024
    by Eva Romanick June 4, 2024

    Welcome to the Library’s celebration of Indigenous History Month! An important strategic goal for the Library is to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing into services and spaces, guided by Indigenous students, faculty, and communities. This June, our blog series will spotlight Indigenous Peoples, delving into their rich histories and honoring their enduring legacies. Meet our new Indigenous Engagement Librarian, Jessie Loyer! Jessie joined our Library as Indigenous Engagement Librarian in March 2024.…

  • Library staff are committed to sharing knowledge, including their own!

    by Guest Author April 17, 2024
    by Guest Author April 17, 2024

    Librarians at the University of Alberta have long recognized the importance of having unrestricted public access to research and educational materials. Research shows that sharing academic works openly and without cost to the reader both improves visibility and impact for academics and fosters the creation of new knowledge, at home and around the world. 1 That’s why we passed a Position Statement on Open Access in April 2023, joining 11 of our U15*…

  • Revamped and Ready: Get Reacquainted with Library Services and the Expert Team

    by Guest Author September 27, 2023
    by Guest Author September 27, 2023

    University of Alberta Library is celebrating the new Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library. This post is part of a series of posts that showcase the Sperber Library. This blog post was written by: Janice Kung Greetings to all health sciences enthusiasts and knowledge seekers! After weeks of eager anticipation, we are thrilled to promote the long-awaited reopening of our health sciences library. We understand the challenges and inconveniences caused by the temporary closure of…

  • Ask Us! | Reach Out to Our Library Chat Service

    by Junelle Mah September 12, 2023
    by Junelle Mah September 12, 2023

    In Winter 2020, the University of Alberta plunged into the unknown world that was study/work from home. The University of Alberta Library was able to seamlessly transfer one aspect of our services out-of-office without missing a beat: our Ask Us! Library online chat service. We continue to help our community through this valuable online medium. Read on to find out what makes this chat service so awesome, besides the people who staff…

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