After a 2 year hiatus, UAlberta Library’s Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover returns Nov 14-27, 2022! Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover is an annual event hosted by the University of Alberta Library that aims to shed light on underrepresented groups. As a twist on regular book displays, books are wrapped in brown paper and teaser keywords are written on the front. This wrapping symbolizes the marginalization of the…

This post was originally published in November 2020. On November 11 we will pause to honour the soldiers that have fought for Canada and to support the Canadian Troops. In addition to pausing for a day to honour the soldiers, I thought another way to appreciate the Canadian soldiers would be to showcase photos of the University of Alberta’s connection to World War I (WWI). With the help of our colleagues at…

This post was written by CJ de Jong, Access Services Coordinator, Librarian and Librarian Lucinda Johnston The last couple of years we have been using Talis Aspire for instructors to create reading lists and reserve course materials in the Library. Instructors use this platform to let us know which materials are being used in a course and we will make sure that, where possible, there is electronic access, and print material is…

The University of Alberta Library subscribes to numerous resources that are core for certain disciplines, but also really deserving of wider attention. Here is one of those gems… For almost a century, The New Yorker has been a landmark source of modern literature. Short stories by noteworthy authors like Shirley Jackson, Philip Roth, Stephen King and Haruki Murakami, to name a few, have been featured in its pages. Writers working for the…