Written by Carolyn Carpan With U.S. President Trump’s recent comments that labeled certain nations as “sh**hole countries” and the recent news regarding a U.S. crackdown on immigration, the Libraries’ want to share a database called Border and Migration Studies Online that helps researchers delve into the complexity of human migration. You can learn the historical background on more than thirty worldwide border areas, including:   The United States Mexico The European Union…

Written by Tanya Ball As a part of our commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)’s Calls to Action, UAL has formed the Decolonizing Description Working Group (DDWG) who have been working tirelessly on our library catalogue and metadata. Metadata… that’s a scary word, isn’t it? It doesn’t have to be! Metadata is just the fancy word for describing all of this: It’s information about a material within the library. This…