There were 261 new films added to the University of Alberta’s Films on Demand subscription in March.

Due to budgetary concerns, ITS, in consultation with Public Services, has made the decision to cancel our subscription to Browzine, effective April 30th.

Hi all, we now own Routledge ebooks from 2017, nearly 5,000 titles, on the Taylor & Francis platform. Since we’re in a time of budget reductions, I’ll clarify where these books came from. The publisher gave them to us — gratis. They are compensation, negotiated by the CSU team, incorporating evidence […]

Earlier in March, the International Coalition of Library Consortia, known as ICOLC, created a spreadsheet where libraries and consortia are collaboratively tracking COVID-19-inspired offers from vendors. You might be interested to take a look — it’s massive: https://bit.ly/ICOLCeas Because we are receiving so many offers, CSU has developed a position to […]

We recently reviewed the sources we license for Book Reviews. There was a lot of duplication of content and a high cost per use, so we decided to cancel the following databases when they come up for renewal: Book Index with Reviews (includes BIR Entertainment) Choice Reviews Online Fiction Core […]