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…

Royden Mills has done it again and set up an astonishing exhibit in the Rutherford Galleria and in Rutherford Library South. Undergraduate students, graduate students and local artists have thought about an issue that matters to them and how it is represented in material that we use. The hope is to elicit a response in you, big or small, and figure how we feel about these issues of importance.  Life is short…

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Images of Research! We are so pleased to present the outstanding entries of the Images of Research competition for 2019. Out of 67 eligible entries, a panel of judges chose the winners and semifinalists; all will be on display in HT Coutts Education Library from April 4 to 30, 2019. Images of Research exhibition Location: HT Coutts Education Library, main floor Date: April 4 –…

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…