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 […]
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. […]
EBSCO is replacing Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) with a new digital rights management (DRM) software, Readium Licensed Content Protection (LCP). Patrons will still need an ebook reader on their devices to download full ebooks, but they will not need to have a separate account to do so (like with ADE). […]
Hello everyone, For two of our large subscription ebook packages, books are added throughout the year (and their accompanying records are added to the catalogue), but removals have historically happened only twice each year. As of 2026, ProQuest will only remove ebooks from our subscription package once a year – […]
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. […]