Over the past few years, we have written blog posts that shine a spotlight on the resources, books and music found in our collections that recognize and celebrate the rich history, heritage, resilience and diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. This year, we are taking a look at comedy and Indigenous humour. Linked to years of trauma through colonisation, Indigenous people have used humour for survival. The expression “laughter as medicine”…

Written by Logan Thienes, Digitization Assistant and first-year Digital Humanities student The newly-digitized Our Voice collection is a complement to the digital Alberta Street News collection, which was scanned by the U of A Library in 2022 (you can read about that project here!). Both are Edmonton street newspapers, created to serve and be sold by unhoused, disabled, and unemployed people living in Edmonton. Our Voice, originally titled Spare Change from 1994-1996,…

University of Alberta Library is celebrating the new Geoffrey & Robyn Sperber Health Sciences Library, which is anticipated to open in Fall 2023. This post is part of a series that will showcase the Sperber Library over the next several months. This post was written by Connie Winther, Head, Faculty Engagement (Health Sciences) Most people have moved houses or apartments. This requires a lot of boxes, a truck or two, a moving…

The University of Alberta Library, in partnership with the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Graduate and Research Studies (FGSR), is pleased to open the People’s Choice Voting for our 2023 Images of Research Competition and Exhibition (IOR). Our committee was thrilled to receive 89 spectacular entries into this year’s competition. Our five judges had the challenge of whittling this substantial pool down to 24 semi-finalists. To Vote:To view our selected semi-finalists’ work…