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Thursday, October 10, 2019
Let us introduce you to... Han!
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Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Libraries, this is ours...Meet Han!
Han was one of our many talented summer students who traveled from library to library organizing our holds, finding interlibrary loans, missing books and cracking jokes😁 She is working hard in her 3rd year studying Elementary Education. Check out the article Han wrote for September's Gateway https://issuu.com/the_gateway/docs/sep2019_thegatewaymag4/12
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What is your favourite breakfast food?
I can't turn down a good hashbrown. No matter the form, give it to me McDonald's style or in the fancy whole potato cut up form. I love them all! It fuels you for your day and goes amazing with hot sauce.
What is your absolute dream job?
What is your absolute dream job?
I would be a photojournalist. I think it's the coolest thing in the world to be able to tell a story through pictures and if you can travel the world while doing it, all the better. Also the range of stories you could cover would be so exciting you could be in the middle of the Amazon one week and the next you would be in New York shooting fashion week. With a camera in hand you could tell the stories of those who wouldn't be able to in the first place. Perhaps I have a skewed view of what a photojournalism is but this description is for the idealist in me.
What does your favourite shirt look like?
What does your favourite shirt look like?
My favourite shirt is this charcoal grey Foster the People band tee I got in grade 9. It has the bands name in block letters along the top and some artwork covering the middle, there's a small hole in the back from me wearing it so much but such is life. When you've paid 30 dollars for a t-shirt you're going to wear it until it has to become a quilt.
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The French version of this article is available here: http://uabsj.
Friday, July 26, 2019
Library Closures on August 13 2019
We’re going to be closed August 13 for Staff Learning on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Thank you for your understanding as we learn to serve our community even better.
Study Space Available
- Rutherford North Library Main Floor
- Cameron Library Main Floor and Basement
Please note there will be no access to library collections at these locations.
Closed Libraries
- Augustana
- Bibliotheque Saint-Jean
- HT Coutts
- JW Scott
- Winspear
- Bruce Peel Special Collections
- RCRF
- Archives
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Let us introduce you to... Kaitlyn, Sarah, Kathy, Carol!
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Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Libraries, this is ours...Meet Kaitlyn, Sarah, Kathy & Carol!
Kaitlyn Hill, Sarah Chomyc, Kathy Urban and Carol Rodgers make up our Monograph Acquisitions Team.
Congratulations! The Monograph Acquisition Team just got awarded the University of Alberta Library's Team Service Excellence Award Winners! How do you feel?
What does a monograph acquisition team do day to day?
A large part of our day is taken up by ordering, but it is more complicated than it might look at first glance, as we order many obscure items. The ordering process is more like detective work as we try to find a vendor that sells the requested item, and we end up ordering from all over the world. We can spend a day ordering from vendors in Alberta, Norway, and India all in one day! Other things we do are more behind the scenes tasks that bring materials to the area libraries, such as checking in periodicals, and helping staff and patrons troubleshoot problems with electronic resources. We also open the mail, which involves testing out the puppets and robots that we order! Working on the monograph acquisition team is really a challenging and exciting position, and often a new surprise pops up every day!
You must have some neat things coming through acquisitions. Any summer reading recommendations you can share with us?
Yikes! We’ve been too busy ordering and haven’t had time to read anything to recommend. We have been testing out robots and puppets instead. However, we have been ordering some books for the Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover project, so we definitely suggest checking some of those titles out once the event begins.
Check out our previous 2017 and 2018 Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover events.
What are your plans for the trophy?
We will most likely purchase a grand trophy case made of marble from Italy, 24k gold handles, with proper air ventilation. Just kidding. It's currently sitting on top of Carol's desk hutch which provides a great vantage point for us all to admire it and remind ourselves to keep working hard to better our patrons’ experiences with the University Libraries!
Feel free to recommend a purchase for anything you find missing from our catalogue, and our Monograph Acquisition Team will try to get it for you, whether from Canada, internationally, or across seas😃👍
The French version of this article is available here! La version française de cet article est disponible ici: uabsj.blogspot.com/2019/07/laissez-nous-vous-presenter-kaitlyn.html
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Let us introduce you to... Elisabet!
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Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Libraries, this is ours...
Meet Elisabet!
June 30th is Social Media Day and we’re celebrating early by interviewing one of our Communications and Outreach members, Elisabet Ingibergsson, who handles the University of Alberta Libraries Facebook social media.
I am a public services assistant at Bibliothèque Saint-Jean.
What is the coolest thing about working at Bibliothèque Saint-Jean?
I just love that although I live in an English speaking province, the moment that I set foot onto Campus Saint Jean (and its lovely green spaces) I enter a bubble of francophonie. There are french speaking Albertans throughout the province, but here the French language rules!
How does it feel to have recently won a Service Excellence Award?
I was completely surprised and delighted to have been nominated, and actually winning the award was the icing on the cake. Last year I served at Cameron Science and Technology library filling in for a temporary placement. It was a big learning curve for me as I became accustomed to the databases, subject guides and people at the North Campus. I even learned how to operate the 3D printers! I strongly believe that excellence in public service can only be achieved when we have teamwork. This award is also a reflection on my colleagues in similar service desk positions and all those people who are helping us in the background - from the shelvers, the facilities staff, cataloguers, IT magicians, to the librarians and management! We can't shine without all the pieces of the puzzle doing their part for the whole.
What is your favourite emoji?
😁 full faced grin is great when an " ! " is just not enough.
What was the highlight of your Ireland trip this last spring? Recommendations?
Well, for sentimental reasons I visited the old library at Trinity College in Dublin where my parents met and fell in love💘 . Who can resist a library visit? Belfast is often overlooked by North American visitors, but is a lovely vibrant city, and from there a trip up the Antrim coast on the Causeway Coastal road is an unforgettable experience! End to end only a few hours, but days and days of adventures and side trips to little villages and castles!
What was the highlight of your Ireland trip this last spring? Recommendations?
Well, for sentimental reasons I visited the old library at Trinity College in Dublin where my parents met and fell in love💘 . Who can resist a library visit? Belfast is often overlooked by North American visitors, but is a lovely vibrant city, and from there a trip up the Antrim coast on the Causeway Coastal road is an unforgettable experience! End to end only a few hours, but days and days of adventures and side trips to little villages and castles!
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Picturesque views caught by Elisabet while visiting Ireland
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If you ever find yourself at the Bibliothèque Saint-Jean, come in and say Bonjour!
The French version of this article is available here: http://uabsj.blogspot.com/2019/06/laissez-nous-vous-presenter-elisabet.html
The French version of this article is available here: http://uabsj.blogspot.com/2019/06/laissez-nous-vous-presenter-elisabet.html
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Let us introduce you to... Céline!
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Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Libraries, this is ours...
Meet Céline!
What languages do you speak?
Meet Céline!
What is your role at UAL?
I am a sessional Public Services Librarian for the Herbert T. Coutts Library, located in the Education South Building. In my role I get to be the liaison librarian for Educational Policy Studies, a Faculty of Education department filled with passionate professors and students who are doing incredible teaching and research. I also get to work with the fun crew at Coutts, coordinating events and helping library users, as well as working on some system wide library projects with other brilliant library colleagues!
What languages do you speak?
My first language is French, so I speak that fluently. I also (obviously) speak English and hablo un poco de español (I speak a little Spanish).
What was the last book you read?
I usually have at least two books on the go (usually one fiction and one non-fiction), so my recent faves that I finished are: Places for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
What are you currently watching on Netflix?
What are you currently watching on Netflix?
Oh so many things! But recent faves include The Baroness von Sketch Show and Chef Table
What is the coolest thing you are working on at the library right now?
Within the last year, the Coutts Library (along with the Bibliothèque Saint-Jean), has received robots that our students, faculty members, and staff can check out. We partnered with faculty members, graduate students, and Technologies in Education to provide robot workshops for an education class (EDU 210) and are planning to do so again in future semesters. It has been a lot of fun promoting these robots and helping train our staff on them!
If you are needing assistance in Education related research, please contact Céline here for help... https://www.library.ualberta.ca/staff/celine-gareau-brennan
The French version of this article is available here: https://uabsj.blogspot.com/2019/05/laissez-nous-vous-presenter-celine.html
Within the last year, the Coutts Library (along with the Bibliothèque Saint-Jean), has received robots that our students, faculty members, and staff can check out. We partnered with faculty members, graduate students, and Technologies in Education to provide robot workshops for an education class (EDU 210) and are planning to do so again in future semesters. It has been a lot of fun promoting these robots and helping train our staff on them!
If you are needing assistance in Education related research, please contact Céline here for help... https://www.library.ualberta.ca/staff/celine-gareau-brennan
The French version of this article is available here: https://uabsj.blogspot.com/2019/05/laissez-nous-vous-presenter-celine.html
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
2019 Images of Research Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Images of Research! We are so pleased to present the outstanding entries of the Images of Research competition for 2019.
Out of 67 eligible entries, a panel of judges chose the winners and semifinalists; all will be on display in HT Coutts Education Library from April 4 to 30, 2019.
Out of 67 eligible entries, a panel of judges chose the winners and semifinalists; all will be on display in HT Coutts Education Library from April 4 to 30, 2019.
Images of Research exhibition
Location: HT Coutts Education Library, main floor
Date: April 4 - 30, 2019
PhD - Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Science
"Brazil is a fusion of powdery sands, mystic jungle, thundering waterfalls, and an exuberant carnival culture, much like the colors and shapes in the image presented here. Our focus is the Atlantic forest, the Mata Atlântica, which home to many species, some of which live nowhere else on this planet. Around 85% of the Mata Atlântica have been deforested and unsustainable land-use techniques, such as the slash-and-burn land management, had a detrimental effect on the fertility of the leftover soil. While providing a short-termed boost with nutrients, this approach leaves the soil depleted shortly after. Following nearly forgotten Amazonian indigenous soil management practices, we joined a project on using biochar, charcoal made of biomass, for cost-effective and sustainable soil amelioration. It was applied in different ways to optimize its beneficial effects on soil stabilization and the growth of perennial crops, such as cassava. The image is made up of leaves of cassava plants on a backdrop of nearly virgin Mata Atlântica. Small-scale plantations in the midst of the Mata Atlântica – an agroforestry approach aiming at protecting the remains of this unique habitat in harmony with sustainable food production on the already deforested land."
Re-Packing My Library: A Collection in Understanding
PhD - Drama, Arts
“Re-Packing my Library” depicts the collection process that goes into writing a dissertation. It shows a collection of books, papers, pamphlets, programs, and notes amassed over three years of research packed (once again) hastily into my father’s old bag the night before yet another departure.
Taken in my small Munich apartment, this picture shows material collected over the past three years about the Swiss-German director Milo Rau and his production company, the International Institute of Political Murder, for my dissertation. The documents in and around the suitcase are the result of the numerous research trips to performances, political actions, conferences, lectures, and interviews that have taken me – and my battered suitcase – across Europe. These research trips have helped me understand Rau’s theatre – his political aesthetic, complex themes, and directorial choices – and has given me a greater respect for Rau’s research trips (to Moscow, Bukavu, Kigali, Bucharest) in his near-obsessive search to understand war, genocide, and justice. The collection of papers and books spilling out of the suitcase are a reminder of late nights, cheap hotels, long waits at airports, and even longer train rides, but also the physical, material proof of my own obsessive, international search for understanding."
"Here, we have experimentally measured the wavefunction of a single buried arsenic atom peeking through a silicon surface. Its complex form perfectly captures one of the most fundamental properties of quantum mechanics: the location of an electron is based on probability and is never fixed. While we tend to think of electrons as being perfect little spheres existing in a single position, they really can be found everywhere around the atom. Bright spots in the wavefunction show areas with a higher probability of finding one. Arsenic atoms in silicon are used as the building blocks of quantum computers, so understanding its elusive electrons helps with more advanced designs."
"After a long day of drifting at sea, fishers go home with either a boatload of fish or nothing at all. Sunset marks the end of a day’s work of a fisher who sails on a daily basis to make ends meet. This photo was taken during my ethnographic fieldwork in Davao Oriental, Philippines. Fishing as a livelihood closely embedded in the environment is very vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The acute changes in weather patterns compounded by the influx of commercial fishing companies forced small-scale fishers to go further offshore which increases the costs of every venture. In a landscape marked by environmental degradation and marine resource depletion caused by natural and human-induced calamities, fishers are prompted to engage in a myriad of economic activities. In this research, I take a closer look at how these fishers navigate through the waves of uncertainty. Farming and wage labor becomes the community’s adaptive strategy in the midst of economic instability. As they safely moor their boats, fishers see the sunset as a symbol for the arbitrariness of their lives. The cyclic nature of the sun setting over the ocean brings the hope of a new dawn with new opportunities."
Date: April 4 - 30, 2019
First Place $800
Abundant Recursive Mathematics Curricula Possibilities
Lixin Luo
PhD Secondary Education, Education
"A mathematics curriculum often seems be designed or delivered as linear: a sequence of predetermined, sometimes unrelated, topics with little chances for learners to revisit them from different perspectives. This suggests learning as accumulation with predictable outcomes. However, learning, observed through a complexfied worldview, is neither linear nor predictable. Learning is a self-organizing process through which a learner and her environment co-evolve, and a recursive elaboration through which a learner transforms her previous understanding. This view demands a recursive curriculum that changes along its formation. What might such curriculum be like in theory and practice is my research focus. This fractal-like image is a working visualization of recursive curricula. The nodes represent equivalent contents. Each branch represents certain mathematical/curricular event(s) that allow a content to change into or connect to another. The infinite spiral is made of loops that represent different development stages of an entry content (highlighted in green) and are ordered by the level of abstraction. The nodes on the same loop are different forms of the same content. Any node can be an entry point for many recursive curricula in the same or different dimension. This image represents abundant curriculum possibilities rather than a fixed one."
Second Place $600
Steps Towards Meaningful Physical Education
Jodi Harding-Kuriger
PhD - Elementary Education, Education
"These snowshoes were made by my Dad and Grandpa Fern. First steps: build a snowshoe form, steam lengths of straight pliable wood, bend it over the form to shape the shoes, rivet ends together, remove shoes from the form and allow to dry. Second steps: cut moose rawhide strips, once frame has dried, weave the rawhide through all the predrilled holes in the frame to create the webbing of the snowshoes. Third steps: attach the leather harnesses to the snowshoes.
Research is ceremony because it is life changing and it requires preparatory steps long before the final event (Wilson, 2008). First steps: using the Meaningful Physical Education (MPE) approach (Beni, Fletcher, & Ní Chróinín, 2017; Ní Chróinín, Fletcher, & Griffin, 2018), piece together flexible lesson plans using experiences that are enjoyable, challenging, communal, personal, and improve abilities. Second steps: weave student choices, culture, context, and community into the plans. Third steps: Reflect on teachers’ and students’ physical education experiences in all environments: air, water, land, snow & ice. Harness physical education to life long love and joy for physical activity."
Research is ceremony because it is life changing and it requires preparatory steps long before the final event (Wilson, 2008). First steps: using the Meaningful Physical Education (MPE) approach (Beni, Fletcher, & Ní Chróinín, 2017; Ní Chróinín, Fletcher, & Griffin, 2018), piece together flexible lesson plans using experiences that are enjoyable, challenging, communal, personal, and improve abilities. Second steps: weave student choices, culture, context, and community into the plans. Third steps: Reflect on teachers’ and students’ physical education experiences in all environments: air, water, land, snow & ice. Harness physical education to life long love and joy for physical activity."
Third Place $500
Biochar Bloom
Konstantin von Gunten
"Brazil is a fusion of powdery sands, mystic jungle, thundering waterfalls, and an exuberant carnival culture, much like the colors and shapes in the image presented here. Our focus is the Atlantic forest, the Mata Atlântica, which home to many species, some of which live nowhere else on this planet. Around 85% of the Mata Atlântica have been deforested and unsustainable land-use techniques, such as the slash-and-burn land management, had a detrimental effect on the fertility of the leftover soil. While providing a short-termed boost with nutrients, this approach leaves the soil depleted shortly after. Following nearly forgotten Amazonian indigenous soil management practices, we joined a project on using biochar, charcoal made of biomass, for cost-effective and sustainable soil amelioration. It was applied in different ways to optimize its beneficial effects on soil stabilization and the growth of perennial crops, such as cassava. The image is made up of leaves of cassava plants on a backdrop of nearly virgin Mata Atlântica. Small-scale plantations in the midst of the Mata Atlântica – an agroforestry approach aiming at protecting the remains of this unique habitat in harmony with sustainable food production on the already deforested land."
Honorable Mention $250
Re-Packing My Library: A Collection in Understanding
Lily Climenhaga
PhD - Drama, Arts“Re-Packing my Library” depicts the collection process that goes into writing a dissertation. It shows a collection of books, papers, pamphlets, programs, and notes amassed over three years of research packed (once again) hastily into my father’s old bag the night before yet another departure.
Taken in my small Munich apartment, this picture shows material collected over the past three years about the Swiss-German director Milo Rau and his production company, the International Institute of Political Murder, for my dissertation. The documents in and around the suitcase are the result of the numerous research trips to performances, political actions, conferences, lectures, and interviews that have taken me – and my battered suitcase – across Europe. These research trips have helped me understand Rau’s theatre – his political aesthetic, complex themes, and directorial choices – and has given me a greater respect for Rau’s research trips (to Moscow, Bukavu, Kigali, Bucharest) in his near-obsessive search to understand war, genocide, and justice. The collection of papers and books spilling out of the suitcase are a reminder of late nights, cheap hotels, long waits at airports, and even longer train rides, but also the physical, material proof of my own obsessive, international search for understanding."
Honorable Mention $250
Probability
Taleana Huff
PhD - Physics, Science
"Here, we have experimentally measured the wavefunction of a single buried arsenic atom peeking through a silicon surface. Its complex form perfectly captures one of the most fundamental properties of quantum mechanics: the location of an electron is based on probability and is never fixed. While we tend to think of electrons as being perfect little spheres existing in a single position, they really can be found everywhere around the atom. Bright spots in the wavefunction show areas with a higher probability of finding one. Arsenic atoms in silicon are used as the building blocks of quantum computers, so understanding its elusive electrons helps with more advanced designs."
People’s Choice $250
Sunset: Uncertainties and opportunities
Deanna Joyce Neri
Masters - Anthropology, Arts"After a long day of drifting at sea, fishers go home with either a boatload of fish or nothing at all. Sunset marks the end of a day’s work of a fisher who sails on a daily basis to make ends meet. This photo was taken during my ethnographic fieldwork in Davao Oriental, Philippines. Fishing as a livelihood closely embedded in the environment is very vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The acute changes in weather patterns compounded by the influx of commercial fishing companies forced small-scale fishers to go further offshore which increases the costs of every venture. In a landscape marked by environmental degradation and marine resource depletion caused by natural and human-induced calamities, fishers are prompted to engage in a myriad of economic activities. In this research, I take a closer look at how these fishers navigate through the waves of uncertainty. Farming and wage labor becomes the community’s adaptive strategy in the midst of economic instability. As they safely moor their boats, fishers see the sunset as a symbol for the arbitrariness of their lives. The cyclic nature of the sun setting over the ocean brings the hope of a new dawn with new opportunities."
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