Collections
print and electronic collection exceeding 5.2 million titles and over 8.7 million volumes including:
- more than 110,000 scholarly ejournals
across disciplines from a wide range of publishers
- over 1.36 million ebooks
accessible via a variety of formats
- over 1,100 online databases
- over 40,000 items in ERA: Education & Research Archive, UAlberta’s institutional repository
- over 30 hosted open access journals
- over 2,600 research data files available in Dataverse
- more than 120,000 digitized books, 67,000 newspaper issues, and 20,000 images and maps related to the Canadian prairies and beyond
Spaces
- Over 5,700 seats
in 10 locations
- over 700 Windows and over 100 Mac workstations
, equipped with a wide range of browsers and office productivity software
- over 50 bookable study and practice presentation rooms varied in size and setup
- designated common, quiet and silent areas, which have everything from individual carrels and comfortable soft seating to silent, technology free zones and large quiet reading rooms
- a 24/7 study space, on the lower and first levels of Cameron Library
- 100 PC laptops, 25 MacBook and 2 digital cameras available for loan
- 5 3D printers available for student use, in partnership with the Faculty of Science
Annually
- over 230,000 circulations
- over 16,000 items borrowed via ILL for UAL users and almost35,000 items lent via ILL to external users
- open 168 hours per week fall/spring term
- 3.2 million visitors to our physical libraries
- over 2.7 million views of UAL home page
- over 118,000 research questions
answered via our physical and virtual service points
- over 580 classes taught
to more than 18,500 students, faculty, staff, and community members
