- New Use Restrictions for Engineering Workbench Platform
The Accuris Engineering Workbench platform provides access to ISO standards. Due to U.S. Regulations, the use of this platform is now subject to several restrictions. For example, it may not be used in countries targeted by embargos, blocking measures, or other prohibitions. It also may not be used for military-related purposes or weapons design.
We acknowledge that these terms are not ideal. However, in order to avoid disrupting work that is already taking place on campus, we have renewed our Engineering Workbench subscription for one year. We are actively working to put in place a different solution for providing access to these standards for the University community.
- Year-End Purchases
As a follow up to the announcement sent to UALIB-L on July 31, 2026, here is the list of CSU’s fiscal year-end, one-time purchases.
- Database Cancellation: Eureka
The Library has cancelled its subscription to the the Eureka aggregator database, where we were able to find many Quebecois newspapers, and international serials. Many of these titles remain available in other databases such as PressReader and CBCA, but some loss of access may be felt as a result of this cancellation.
If there is any loss of access to high-priority resources resulting from this cancellation, please inform the CSU team via the Subscription or Large Purchase Suggestion Form.
- New Digitized Items in the Alberta Government Publications Collection
Over the past six months, we’ve added 353 items to the Government of Alberta Publications Collection, and new material is being added every day. New uploads touch on topics such as post-secondary education, northern economic development, consumer price indexes, automobile emissions, and housing incentive programs — providing researchers with valuable primary-source documentation of Alberta’s social, economic, environmental, and governmental priorities, mostly from the 1970s and 80s.
Background: This collection is a partnership with the Alberta Legislature Library. Everything in our collection is then also added to the larger Canadian Government Publications Portal, a collaborative, cross-institutional effort to make Canadian government documents freely searchable online.
Collection scope and content: The collection’s strength lies in administrative and regulatory documentation, the kind of primary-source grey literature that’s often hard to track down elsewhere. Some examples of major themes include:
- Energy and natural resources: proceedings, orders, and reports from the Energy Resources Conservation Board and its successors, plus extensive material on natural gas, petroleum, and coal regulation — including long multi-volume inquiry records (e.g., the 1944–46 Natural Gas Utilities Act enquiry into Turner Valley, spanning 93 volumes)
- Education testing records: provincial examinations, diploma exams, and matriculation board materials from Alberta Education and its Student Evaluation Branch. This includes a run of standardized testing artifacts, concentrated mainly in the 1980s–2000s.
- Statistics and public finance: Bureau of Statistics and Treasury Department periodicals and annual series.
Who might benefit from this collection? Researchers in Alberta/Canadian provincial political history, energy and natural resource policy history (especially natural gas/petroleum regulation), education policy and the history of standardized testing, public administration, and social policy history relying on primary government documents and grey literature — particularly those with a research window in the 1970s–2000s.
Not sure if there would be relevant information? Encourage researchers to search the collection’s full text (“text contents” option shown below) by keyword and explore what is available, using the filters on the left.
- New in our Digitized Collections: Discover some Library history
Three scrapbooks filled with photos, programs, correspondence and newspaper clippings from the University Archives, Library fonds.
Report of the University Librarian
42 volumes dating from 1925 to the late 1980s. These volumes cover administrative, statistical, and historical data on the library’s operations, such as visitor numbers, collection expenditures, and staffing changes.
News from the Rare Book Room
An occasional publication of the Special Collections Unit (now Bruce Peel Special Collections), it highlights new acquisitions and notes on ‘unique or unusual materials’. Published irregularly, we have 18 volumes published between 1964 and 1980.
