Many thanks to Abigail and the Serials Team for this: We will soon be making updates to the SFX GetIt! menu to improve user experience. New display logic is being put in place to limit the number of access points included in the menu. These updates will suppress duplicate access points leading to […]

Hi everyone, for your info/interest, please find attached to this post a list of the 1295 new books added to JSTOR in March/April 2020. For an ebook refresher, please join me (Sarah Polkinghorne) for a Spring Training session! I’m offering it twice: May 14 and May 19. As you know, JSTOR provides us newly-published ebooks from […]

ProQuest will be hosting the following Webinars: ProQuest Ebook Central: Tips & Tricks for Faculty – April 28th at 2pm EDT During this new and often unfamiliar teaching and learning environment, students and their instructors need to rely on as much electronic content they can access.  While the physical library may be […]

Here is a link to a recent training Webinar “Adam Matthew Digital Archives at Alberta” by Ben Lacey, Head of Outreach for Adam Mathew.  We are fortunate to have access to many of their primary source collections focused on British history, American history, Canadian history, Chinese history, and World Wars I […]

We now have access to ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Calgary Herald, 1883-2010. The Alberta Library (TAL) was able to purchase the archive through contributions from TAL members for all Albertans to access. In announcing the purchase, TAL’s Licensing Librarian Christa Foley stated, “This was a remarkable accomplishment and a real collaborative effort to purchase […]