We distributed CSU’s last cancellations newsletter of 2021 to the UALIB-L list, on December 13. In case you missed it, please feel free to read it here. Have a restful break ahead, and thanks to everybody who contributed to CSU’s work this year.
Phase One of the Global Press Archive Alliance, a collaboration between the Centre for Research Libraries and East View, is nearly complete. Along with many other research libraries, the U of A Library supported this collaborative effort to digitize a broad swath of newspapers from around the world. There’s now […]
As you know, we prefer to purchase ebooks in perpetuity, and do so whenever possible. For some ebook resources, however, such as O’Reilly Books (formerly known as Safari), subscribing is the only option. As such, publishers can remove their books from this resource. This is a rare event, but it […]
We now have trial access to MLA Handbook Plus, the online version of the MLA Handbook. We know there’s interest in this resource, but it’s brand new — so we first need to check that it lives up to our hopes, and is usable and useful. (And please note, we also […]
At the very end of last fiscal year, we were able to acquire Adam Matthew’s latest digitized archival collections. One of them is newly available this week: Colonial Caribbean Module I: Settlement, Slavery, and Empire, 1624-1832. This collection consists of documents from the British Colonial Office archives. It touches on […]