{"id":3482,"date":"2026-06-25T15:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:59:03","slug":"new-digitized-items-in-the-alberta-government-publications-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2026\/06\/25\/new-digitized-items-in-the-alberta-government-publications-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"New Digitized Items in the Alberta Government Publications Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the past six months, we&#8217;ve added 353 items to the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/albertagovernmentpublications?sort=-addeddate\">Government of Alberta Publications Collection<\/a>, and new material is being added every day. New uploads touch on topics such as post-secondary education, northern economic development, consumer price indexes, automobile emissions, and housing incentive programs \u2014 providing researchers with valuable primary-source documentation of Alberta&#8217;s social, economic, environmental, and governmental priorities, mostly from the 1970s and 80s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-1024x653.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-1024x653.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-768x490.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-1536x979.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-2048x1306.png 2048w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-700x446.png 700w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-520x332.png 520w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-360x230.png 360w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-250x159.png 250w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-9.34.06-AM-100x64.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong>: This collection is a partnership with the\u00a0Alberta Legislature Library. Everything in our collection is then also added to the larger <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/governmentpublications\">Canadian Government Publications Portal<\/a>, a collaborative, cross-institutional effort to make Canadian government documents freely searchable online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Collection scope and content:<\/strong>&nbsp;The collection&#8217;s strength lies in administrative and regulatory documentation, the kind of primary-source grey literature that&#8217;s often hard to track down elsewhere. Some examples of major themes include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Energy and natural resources<\/strong>: proceedings, orders, and reports from the Energy Resources Conservation Board and its successors, plus extensive material on natural gas, petroleum, and coal regulation \u2014 including long multi-volume inquiry records (e.g., the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/albertagovernmentpublications?tab=collection&amp;query=%22The+Natural+Gas+Utilities+Act%22&amp;sort=date\">1944\u201346 Natural Gas Utilities Act<\/a> enquiry into Turner Valley, spanning 93 volumes)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Education testing records: <\/strong> provincial examinations, diploma exams, and matriculation board materials from Alberta Education and its Student Evaluation Branch. This includes a run of standardized testing artifacts, concentrated mainly in the 1980s\u20132000s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Statistics and public finance<\/strong>: Bureau of Statistics and Treasury Department periodicals and annual series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who might benefit from this collection?<\/strong> Researchers in Alberta\/Canadian provincial political history, energy and natural resource policy history (especially natural gas\/petroleum regulation), education policy and the history of standardized testing, public administration, and social policy history relying on primary government documents and grey literature \u2014 particularly those with a research window in the 1970s\u20132000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not sure if there would be relevant information? <\/strong>Encourage researchers to search the collection&#8217;s full text (&#8220;text contents&#8221; option shown below) by keyword and explore what is available, using the filters on the left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/albertagovernmentpublications?tab=collection&amp;query=%22Grand+Prairie%22&amp;sin=TXT&amp;sort=-date\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-1024x710.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-1024x710.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-768x533.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-1536x1066.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-2048x1421.png 2048w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-700x486.png 700w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-520x361.png 520w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-360x250.png 360w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-250x173.png 250w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-10.09.30-AM-100x69.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past six months, we&#8217;ve added 353 items to the Government of Alberta Publications Collection, and new material is being added every day. 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