Thursday, August 22, 2019
Five Things to Know about University of Alberta Libraries
We have a library for that!
With 10 locations spread across four campuses and collections encompassing all fields of study, University of Alberta Libraries endeavours to provide our community with everything they need for success.
Discover more about how each library can serve you.
Your ONECard is your library card
Use it to borrow items from any UAlberta or NEOS library. Visit our borrowing guide to learn how long you can keep items and view our late fee schedule.
Speaking of late fees, here are a couple tips to help you avoid them:
- Renew items online using the My Account feature on our website. You can also request renewals in-person at our libraries, or by contacting us via phone, text, email or our online chat reference service.
- Due dates can change (we call this a recall) and we send email notifications when they do. Be sure to read all library notifications, just in case.
- Always return items by the due date; especially recalled items.
You can also use your ONECard to borrow items from Edmonton Public Library by registering for the L-Pass.
Did you know that University of Alberta Libraries is the second largest research library in Canada? You can search our entire physical and electronic collection (as well as the collections at all our NEOS partner libraries) through the University of Alberta Libraries’ website. Current students, staff and faculty can access our electronic resources anywhere with an internet connection using their CCID and password.
Search for textbooks and other resources required for your classes on our Course Materials page.
And, we’re not just books and eResources. You’ll find laptops, camera, puppets, robots, board games and a number of other cool items available to borrow in our online catalogue.
If we don’t have a book or article you need, you can request it through our Interlibrary Loan Service.
We offer inclusive spaces for all. Our libraries have work areas designated by sound level (silent, quiet and collaborative discussion). If you need a private room to study or work on a group project, we offer over 60 bookable spaces to suit a variety of needs. We also offer late night study space at our Cameron, Rutherford and Augustana locations.
Within each library you will find computer workstations (PC, Mac or both depending on the location) with an array of software and ONEcard printers.
For those who like to change-up their work style, or have special accessibility needs, we offer height-adjustable desks in all our libraries.
Is your smart phone’s battery running low? Each library is equipped with cell phone charging lockers, where you can securely plug your device in.
Sacrificing steps to study? We have treadmill desks at the John W. Scott, Cameron, H.T. Coutts and Augustana libraries where you can walk while you work.
New this year! The University community can take their research or creative projects to the next level with access to a variety of cutting edge tools and technology at the Digital Scholarship Centre.
Ask Us!
Our staff are here to help. You can phone, email, text or chat with us online or visit us in person.
If you are looking for more in-depth research assistance our team of expert librarians, each representing a particular field of study, can help. Request an appointment using our online form.
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Within each library you will find computer workstations (PC, Mac or both depending on the location) with an array of software and ONEcard printers.
For those who like to change-up their work style, or have special accessibility needs, we offer height-adjustable desks in all our libraries.
Is your smart phone’s battery running low? Each library is equipped with cell phone charging lockers, where you can securely plug your device in.
Sacrificing steps to study? We have treadmill desks at the John W. Scott, Cameron, H.T. Coutts and Augustana libraries where you can walk while you work.
New this year! The University community can take their research or creative projects to the next level with access to a variety of cutting edge tools and technology at the Digital Scholarship Centre.
Our staff are here to help. You can phone, email, text or chat with us online or visit us in person.
If you are looking for more in-depth research assistance our team of expert librarians, each representing a particular field of study, can help. Request an appointment using our online form.
Lire la version française ici
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Let us introduce you to... Bernard!
Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Libraries, this is ours...
Meet Bernard!
Bernard Offengeden is a Public Services Assistant at Rutherford Library.
Enjoying the breeze of the Mediterranean
As a Public Service Assistant, what have you been working on this summer at Rutherford Library?
I was working on Hebrew and Slavic titles, I am supposed to check if we have specific titles in our collection. I was also working on re-imaging of Laptops for the Equipment Lending Program at the Rutherford and Law libraries.
Your office is located in Rutherford Library South but you are often at the Service Desk at Rutherford North, how often do you stare up at that beautiful galleria ceiling as you cross it?
It's funny, but pretty much every day when I am coming from Rutherford North to Rutherford South I look at the galleria ceiling, I don't know why.
We have a wellness corner with a massage chair and coffee pot that my colleagues kindly arranged. I am still waiting for cookies that they promised.
What was your least favourite food as a child? Do you still hate it or do you love it now?
The beautiful Dead Sea of Canada in Saskatchewan (Manitou lake). Very different from the real thing.
Porridge and I still despise it.
Scroll through our staff directory to learn more About Us.
The French version of this article is available here: https://uabsj.blogspot.
Scroll through our staff directory to learn more About Us.
The French version of this article is available here: https://uabsj.blogspot.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
New name, same service: Course Materials
Each of the Libraries will have an area for Course Materials, some behind a Service Desk, others in a self-serve Course Materials room.
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| Cameron Library has a room for Course Materials and Holds. Here you can see a mock-up of the upcoming signage. |
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| Augustana Library has Course Material behind the desk. Here's a mock-up of how the new signage will be visible at the desk. |
Of course, many readings and other media are available in a digital format and can be directly obtained from the Course Materials section on the Libraries’ website.
Instructors are encouraged to use the Reading List service, so items can be added to our Course Materials collections.
For physical items, they will be placed in a Course Materials area in one of the libraries, and given a short-term loan period (usually two hours). For further information, please email us at coursemat@ualberta.ca.
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Real Life Special Collections - The William C. Wonders Map Collection
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♫♪ “I’m the Map, I’m the Map, I’m the Map!” ♫♪ |
My 10 minute map activity using the
#MomSelfieSkills
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“Mommy, what is the Map do?”
It was a rainy Sunday afternoon in Edmonton and at my three year old’s request we were watching Dora The Explorer.
“Uh, a map tells you where to go.” I blurt out as I let the dog in from the back yard and try to catch her with a towel before she traced mud all over the house. Our day continued in the normal way of snacks, playing, supper, more snacks, more playing until finally the tiny humans were asleep for the night.
As I normally do in the quiet of the evenings, I replayed the day’s activities in my mind. When I came to my answer about what a map does I thought a bit more about my answer and begin to question myself. Is that the right answer? Did I just lie to my son? Will he be forever scarred because I told him the wrong thing about a map?!
Before I engulfed myself in mom guilt I realized that I knew just the person to ask about maps, my colleague at Cameron Library and Maps Assistant, Bonnie Gallinger. I thought about the William C. Wonders Map Collection at Cameron Library and how there must be more things that maps can do. I mean students and members of the public come to Cameron to use the map collection all the time.
At work on Monday I contacted Bonnie and the Maps librarian Larry Laliberte about my blurting out a random thing about maps to my son and asked what else a map can do.
Larry’s response was quick and full of resources for me to teach my son about maps as well as some history on the collection that lives in on the 4th floor of my work home. Larry’s top recommendations for books that teach children about maps are The map that came to life, Here we are, Junior Atlas of Alberta and Looking at maps, where the latter was written by none other than THE William C. Wonders that our map collection is named after and his partner and award winning cartographer Lillian J. Wonders. I placed a hold on all of these recommendations right away and dove right into the old Folio article about the collection that he sent me. WOW! It’s the largest academic map collection in Canada with over 460 000 maps, 5 000 atlases, about 1 million aerial photos, 600 gazetteers and globes! A map of The Marvelous Land of OZ, Narnia and the Surrounding Countries and a hockey map of Canada Oh my!
It was a rainy Sunday afternoon in Edmonton and at my three year old’s request we were watching Dora The Explorer.
“Uh, a map tells you where to go.” I blurt out as I let the dog in from the back yard and try to catch her with a towel before she traced mud all over the house. Our day continued in the normal way of snacks, playing, supper, more snacks, more playing until finally the tiny humans were asleep for the night.
As I normally do in the quiet of the evenings, I replayed the day’s activities in my mind. When I came to my answer about what a map does I thought a bit more about my answer and begin to question myself. Is that the right answer? Did I just lie to my son? Will he be forever scarred because I told him the wrong thing about a map?!
Before I engulfed myself in mom guilt I realized that I knew just the person to ask about maps, my colleague at Cameron Library and Maps Assistant, Bonnie Gallinger. I thought about the William C. Wonders Map Collection at Cameron Library and how there must be more things that maps can do. I mean students and members of the public come to Cameron to use the map collection all the time.
At work on Monday I contacted Bonnie and the Maps librarian Larry Laliberte about my blurting out a random thing about maps to my son and asked what else a map can do.
Larry’s response was quick and full of resources for me to teach my son about maps as well as some history on the collection that lives in on the 4th floor of my work home. Larry’s top recommendations for books that teach children about maps are The map that came to life, Here we are, Junior Atlas of Alberta and Looking at maps, where the latter was written by none other than THE William C. Wonders that our map collection is named after and his partner and award winning cartographer Lillian J. Wonders. I placed a hold on all of these recommendations right away and dove right into the old Folio article about the collection that he sent me. WOW! It’s the largest academic map collection in Canada with over 460 000 maps, 5 000 atlases, about 1 million aerial photos, 600 gazetteers and globes! A map of The Marvelous Land of OZ, Narnia and the Surrounding Countries and a hockey map of Canada Oh my!
Bonnie gave me many great atlas recommendations to teach my son about maps. Bonnie’s recommendations were Children Map of the World (volumes 1 & 2) , Journeys of the Imagination, The Natures of Maps and Great Maps. Bonnie has a succinct message about maps for children. She says. “Maps can show you where you are and where you have been. Maps show you where things are, how far away and which direction they are in.”
Bonnie suggested an exercise to do with my son: Show him a map and ask simple questions like why do you think the field is green and the lake is blue? Or even just point out where things are on the map like the playground, your house or his daycare. “This activity could take up at least an hour after supper!” I thought. Excited at the thought of spending an hour of non-screen time that night I got a map of Edmonton from the William C Wonders Map Collection. That night my son and I played with the map I brought home for about 10 minutes which felt like an hour. I’m still going to count it as a win.
Discover the world of 'wonders' that awaits you at the William C. Wonders Collection on the 4th floor of Cameron Library. Also, for the month of August a carefully curated selection of atlases are on display on Cameron Library’s main floor as well.
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Discover the world of 'wonders' that awaits you at the William C. Wonders Collection on the 4th floor of Cameron Library. Also, for the month of August a carefully curated selection of atlases are on display on Cameron Library’s main floor as well.
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A selection of atlases & globes from The William C. Wonders Map Collection are on display at Cameron Library
for the month of August.
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