We are pleased to be celebrating National Indigenous History Month throughout June with a series of blog posts featuring some great resources from our collection that can be accessed online! Imagine being able to learn traditional walrus hunting or being dazzled by the joyous spectacle of a Pow Wow.  As Anne Carr-Wiggin, our Indigenous Initiatives Librarian, noted in her staff working from home profile, audiovisual resources are an incredibly important resource for…

With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our librarians are supporting online learning… When classes moved online, Anne was in Halifax. The day she returned to Alberta, everyone started working from home. Anne Carr-Wiggin quarantined herself for over two weeks and had everything delivered to her doorstep. A couple of kind colleagues even brought delicious soup! Anne grew up close to…

Exciting news, UAlberta! The Library is launching a Curbside Pickup service for physical items in the U of A collection. This service is for UAlberta students, faculty, and staff. We are busy in the background planning, arranging, and organizing but in the meantime, we wanted to share that we expect to launch by the end of June. Here’s how it will work: You place a hold on the physical item(s) that you…

By Abbie Schenk Imagine a programming workshop: students sitting behind monitors and laptops, quietly  typing line after line of code to make their computers spit out words, solve math problems, and manipulate pixels on those same screens. Their education is almost entirely contained to the virtual realm.  But a different form of computer science education has emerged in the last few years: physical computing. “A recent growth area in computer science education…