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4 New Newspapers in the Peel’s Prairie Provinces

April 30, 2026 digitizationuncategorized

The Pembina News Advertiser (1956-1965) was a local newspaper based in Drayton Valley, Alberta, and founded by Art Playford in 1956. It served the region until approximately 1965, when it was succeeded by the Western Review. We’ve digitized a partial run of the paper covering the years 1965-1972, 1980-1989, and […]

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COPPUL Collections Community event, May 21: “Was cancelling a Big Deal a big deal?”

April 24, 2026 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

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. […]

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Update: Improvements to the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) user interface

March 26, 2026March 26, 2026 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

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. […]

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Important change to Canadian Standards Association (CSA) user interface

February 12, 2026February 12, 2026 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

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, […]

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Edmonton Heritage Council Digital Resources Web Archive

February 3, 2026 webarchuncategorized

Archived since September 2025 The Web Archiving Team invites you to explore the new Edmonton Heritage Council Digital Resources Web Archive! We’ve partnered with the Edmonton Heritage Council (EHC) to create an archive of the online EHC exhibits. This new collection will continue to grow as new EHC online exhibits […]

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