Arctic Library Portal Workshop: Overview UAL Circumpolar

Collection Peggy Sue Ewanyshyn

Digitization Librarian University of Alberta Libraries

peggysue.ewanyshyn@ualberta.ca

peel.library.ualberta.ca

The Prairie Provinces:

Newspapers: article segmentation

Postcards:

Maps:

steele.library.ualberta.ca

canadiana.library.ualberta.ca

Digital Asset Management System

Circumpolar Collection

• Polar pamphlets (ephemera) • 3000+ items – contemporary

• Newspapers (around 154; mostly 1970s+) • Predominantly Canadian titles (127) • A few are US-based and international

• Monographs (55,000+ titles) • Microfiche

Other Arctic-related content

• Maps • 80,000+ may have content that is Arctic in nature

• Special Collections

• 325 items pre-1923; 75 items post-1923