COPPUL digitization initiatives and practices : summary of survey results

Report prepared in collaboration with the Digital Curation Group - Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL)The purpose of the survey was to: Identify COPPUL libraries involved in digitization-related initiatives; Create an inventory of digitization projects @ COPPUL libraries (including archives); Establish an up-to-date listing of digitization-related contacts at COPPUL libraries; Collect general information about the digitization-related management and operational processes at COPPUL librariesN

Statistics Canada

Sherpa Romeo green journal. This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Public Services Quarterly on 28/05/2019.Reviews the Statistics Canada websiteYe

Winning Web sites: Researching gambling on the Internet

eGambling: The Electronic Journal of Gambling Issues is available online from .On-line reports and papers are an increasingly popular way to distribute research findings. This trend seems to be especially true for the field of gambling and gaming research. New reports can be disseminated from Web sites to the rest of the Internet-connected world almost instantaneously. Oftentimes, these on-line reports contain more complete and detailed information than subsequent journal articles that report the same findings. As a librarian for the Alberta Gaming Research Institute, I’ve had the opportunity to identify hundreds of Web sites that include such reports. This review summarizes a number of these sites that provide access to original research reports and studies in electronic formats — generally HTML or PDF files (which are viewable in most current Web browsers).N

Gibson Catlett (1866-1935)

This article provides information about the life of real estate landscape artist Gibson Catlett

Bird's-eye views of Alberta's land boom of the 1910s

Open access articleYe

DSpace @ the University of Calgary: A digital library of gambling-related publications

The Journal of Gambling Issues is available online from .Over the past several years, the Alberta Gaming Research Institute Library and the University of Calgary Image Centre have collaborated on a project to digitally archive a selection of historical and contemporary gambling-related publications.N

Who painted the 1912 bird's-eye view of Lethbridge?

Permission to include article from Bobbie Fox, editor/secretary for the Lethbridge Historical Society. Permission to include image from Jon Oxley, Administrative Manager for the University of Lethbridge Art GalleryThis newsletter article provides background information about the painting “City of Lethbridge” which is owned by the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery (Object no. 1971.2). The painting shows a detailed bird's-eye view of Lethbridge, Alberta as it would have appeared in 1912. Gibson Catlett (b. Aug. 22, 1866, d. May 25, 1935) is the artist thought to have produced the work. The painting was intended for use in a brochure advertising the Dominion Square subdivision being promoted by Mr. William Mitford of Mitford & Co. real estate developers.Ye