📚 Ready, Set, Study.
Whether you're new to post-secondary, or returning after a break, it never hurts to refresh your study skills. We have books full of helpful advice on topics from notetaking, writing and critical thinking, to group projects, presentations and exams.
The Study Skills Handbook
This engaging and accessible guide shows you how to tailor your learning to your individual needs in order to boost grades, build confidence and increase employability. There's help with writing skills, managing stress and wellness, reflective learning, how to balance work and study, ane more.
Planning Your Essay
This handy guide takes you through the complete process from what to do before you begin, to using feedback constructively for your next essay. Clearly and well-presented, it includes lively illustrations and a chapter on being critical in your essays.
Generative AI for Students
This practical guide puts a study buddy at your fingertips, showing you how to ethically leverage Generative Artificial Intelligence as a powerful study aid. It explores a a wide spectrum of topics, from demystifying jargon and fostering critical thinking to addressing diversity, inclusion and academic integrity.
How to Take Smart Notes
The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organization of ideas and notes. This will help you get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. This book teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you and your projects forward.
Presentation Skills for Students
The essential guide to the most transferable of all student skills: delivering a presentation clearly, coherently and confidently. Presentation Skills for Students takes the fear out of public speaking and helps you acquire the skills you need to deliver effective presentations at university and in your future careers.
Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies
The ability to think clearly and critically is a lifelong benefit that you can apply in any situation that calls for reflection, analysis, and planning. Being able to think systematically and solve problems is also a great career asset.
Success in Groupwork
Tackle group assignments with confidence! Bite-sized chapters take you from forming a group and establishing roles through to dealing with conflict and delivering a group assessment. This book contains practical advice on making decisions, active listening, and opportunities to reflect on progress and identify opportunities for improvement.
Becoming a Master Student
Find out how to make the most of your post-secondary studies as you prepare for the workforce. This book provides you with the tools to discover what type of learner you are, and how this can translate into success in your academic career and for your own personal goals.
Updates
🧑🦰 New Librarian: Danny de Castro
We’re thrilled to welcome Danny de Castro to our library team as Emerging Technologies and AI Librarian and liaison to the School for Advanced Digital Technology. You may recognize Danny, as he's been with SAIT for more than a decade as an instructor with the Library Information Technology (LIT) program. Danny will focus on advancing the library’s capacity to respond to technological change while continuing to support SAIT student learning.
🖼️ Travelling Art Exhibit
The Travelling Exhibition Program (TREX) helps bring art exhibitions to schools, libraries and small venues across Alberta at low cost, making them more accessible to communities throughout the province.
From around September 4-29, you're invited to view Athletic Aesthetics on display at the front of the library.
"The term aesthetics is typically reserved for the nature and appreciation of beauty in regard to art. In this context, viewers are encouraged to move fluidly between the realms of arts and athletics, appreciating the elegance of the athlete as equal to the beauty of a brushstroke." - Sierra Zukowski, Curator.
Image: Holst, Diana. (2018). Slither (Painting, oil on board). Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
📢 New Students: Now to Make the Most of Your Library
Welcome to SAIT! It's great to have you here. Here's a few helpful things to know about your library before you begin.
Be eCard Ready - Your official SAIT ID, the eCard, is what you need to borrow items like textbooks, laptops, phone chargers and more, so it’s good to get it set up in advance. It’s easy to tap and borrow! If you need to print or photocopy, add funds to your eCard.
Get help at our Information Desk - If you need help finding textbooks, accessing online resources, printing, citations, research help or campus directions, just ask at the Information Desk. We’re here to help! You can also chat with us online.
Find the right study space - For distraction-free study, choose our Quiet Individual Study area in the basement, or if you need to collaborate, choose small group tables on our main floor. Book a group study room for up to 8 people or book our individual study booth for privacy.
Know who your Librarian is - Each School at SAIT has a dedicated librarian who's an expert on resources in your area of study. You can schedule an appointment to meet your librarian if you need in-depth research and citation support.
📚 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, when we remember the legacy and impacts of the residential school system in Canada and reflect on how we can further our personal and collective journeys towards reconciliation.
- Intimate integration: a history of the Sixties Scoop and the colonization of Indigenous kinship
- 52 Ways to reconcile: How to walk with Indigenous Peoples on the path to healing
- North of Nowhere: song of a Truth and Reconciliation commissioner
- My decade at Old Sun, my lifetime of hell
- Indigenous Rights in one minute: what you need to know to talk reconciliation
- In their own words: testimony from the students of Canada's Indigenous residential school programs.
- Reconciling History: a story of Canada
- Truth and Reconciliation through education: stories of decolonizing practices
- A knock on the door: the essential history of residential schools
- Call me Indian: from the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL's first treaty Indigenous player
Oki, Âba wathtech, Danit'ada, Tawnshi, Hello.
SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.