There is no substitute for that feeling you get when you pick up a good book and find yourself transported to another world and immersed in the lives of other people.

Read In Week is an annual event devoted to raising awareness about the importance of reading. Although literacy and learning events occur on campus and around the city throughout the year, Read In Week is a special time for Edmontonians to celebrate reading and plan their own reading-centred events—in classrooms, libraries, community centres, workplaces, and more.

Thanks to a generous donation from the late Mary Wiedrick to HT Coutts Education and Physical Education Library, the Library has been able to make our space more accessible to students by increasing the number of electrical outlets within our second floor study space.

By Katherine Joy Orobio

Three years ago, when Ernie Ingles was the new director of the Faculty of Education’s School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Alberta (U of A), he saw a window of opportunity for the school to grow and to reach out to more communities. Now, forty-nine students from different parts of the country and around the world are enrolled in the first and the only fully online Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) program in Canada.