Congratulations to ISTL: Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, for publishing their 100th issue this month!  With its first issue published way back in 1991, ISTL was an early adopter of the electronic publishing medium. Back then, they were distributed using simple text files, and used ASCII art to represent the logo of STS (Science and Technology Section of the American Library Association)! Over the years, ISTL’s format evolved into HTML and…

You might be surprised to know that the University of Alberta Library has eight locations, spread across four campuses.  We have locations with specialised collections and services – we even have a library where you can expect to be greeted en français! Choosing a place to study, and access resources will depend to a large extent on your program of study but also where you are located.  Join us on a virtual…

This post was written by Katie Cuyler, Librarian (Arts & Law) & Government Information Librarian Today, governments share almost all of their public information on their websites. But, what happens when these websites change? When policies, mandates, or governments change? How can researchers access government information from previous governments? The answer is often through the Wayback Machine and Archive-it. Archive-it and the Wayback Machine are invaluable tools when it comes to accessing…

Once upon a time in early 2020, a few library staff in the Digital Initiatives department had an energetic lunchtime conversation in which we extolled our amazement of recent projects that used data and yarncraft to create physical artifacts. The practice is called data physicalization and you can read more about it in an earlier news blog post. At the time we were most familiar with knitting projects, like the German Train…