Sheldon Armstrong from the University of British Columbia and Alison Henry from the University of Alberta will discuss their recent experience cancelling a big deal at each of their institutions, how the process was handled, and how it’s been going since the cancellations. May 21, 2026, at 1:30 pm Mountain time. […]
Last month, we posted about a problem with the CSA OnDemand Complete Collection database interface. It had been reconfigured to make it extremely easy to trigger a security message saying “you have been blocked” — even in response to perfectly normal interface interactions. The CSA has now fixed this problem. […]
This is for awareness, particularly for everybody who fields questions about databases from students and faculty. The CSU team doesn’t always send out alerts when database interfaces change, but in this case, there’s a real possibility that changes may spark confusion and frustration. Please share this info, add to FAQs, […]
As you may recall, last year, the CSU team decided to discontinue the UAL subscription that provided unlimited access to NYTimes.com via browser or app. In effect, this change returns New York Times access options to their pre-pandemic state (as we only added the app-focused NYTimes.com subscription in 2019). The […]
In case you missed it, there’s a recording available of the recent COPPUL webinar featuring Jessica Genereaux, Coordinator of the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples (LSSAP) Saskatchewan Indigenous Storytelling Project, and Lindsay Baker, Community Services Librarian at Wapiti Regional Library and Chair of LSSAP. In this session they shared a history of the creation and […]