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The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Campus Calgary Digital Library building was held this morning. Judging from the attendance, lots of people are interested in the project, or the free cake. It’s going to be much more effective, having all library-related, and supporting services in one building. The Teaching & Learning Centre (nee Learning Commons) will be moving there when the building opens in 2008, along with various Library services, Information Technology, the Nickel Art Museum, and several other units.

There were no scale models on hand, so I’ve got no idea what the final building will look like, but it sounds like it’s going to be cool, with various teaching rooms available - intersperced with items from the Nickel Art Museum collections.

The Alberta Minister of Advanced Education was on hand, and mentioned 700 million bucks worth of capital projects in the works for the U of C campus. With the CCDL building taking just over $100M, that leaves almost $600M for other goodies, including an “experiential learning centre” - it’s going to be a fun/noisy next couple of years on campus…

I just went to sign into my safari.oreilly.com account, and it was doing something odd… It somehow identified me as “University of Calgary”, and was offering the entire catalog for me to read! Wow. What an awesome thing! I assume our library bought a campus-wide license (and the safari website must be detecting my IP domain), or, perhaps this is available for all campuses now?

Regardless, very cool! 1165 technology books available at my desktop. Freaking amazing! Thanks to whoever did this!

UPDATE: Looks like it’s part of the University’s subscription to ProQuest - the same subscription that gets us the online journals and newspapers.

UPDATE: IP detection is preventing access from home… Must remember to load up with content while in the office… /sw/bin/wget -r anyone? note - any automated site-sucking technique is almost definitely a violation of the Terms of Service, and would likely result in sanctions of some sort. Please don’t be foolish enough to actually try this…