👩🎓 From Student to Professional
It's never too early to think about your future. Whether you're about to graduate or planning ahead, we have resources to help you land that job and launch your career with confidence! Explore our books on resumes, interviews and networking. Brush up on soft skills like communication, professionalism and teamwork to make your transition from student to professional a little easier.
Get That Job: Interviews
Whether it's in person, on the telephone or via a video conference, this book will prepare you for even the toughest interview - including tips on preparation and pre-interview research, strategies for different types of interview, advice on staying calm under pressure, and ways to cope with the questions from hell.
Stand Out: 5 Key Skills to Advance Your Career
Build on what makes you human. Skills such as listening, socializing and storytelling have been lost in the world of digital and are needed more than ever. These soft skills give you the advantage in a changing world, allowing you freedom, flexibility and the ability to collaborate with others.
Winning together: The Secrets of Better Working Relationships
The key to career success and job satisfaction are effective working relationships. This book will help you understand why relationships matter so much, what's happening when they go wrong and the different skills you need in different working environments.
If Your Resume Could Talk
In years past, one might pivot once, perhaps even twice over the course of their career. Today, a person may need to pivot multiple times. This book captures insights the author has learned through reviewing resumes, interviewing, and coaching those early in their careers, starting new careers, or in the midst of career transitions. She shares her personal experience with career exploration and navigating change.
The Soft Skills Book
In this practical and savvy guide, Dan White describes the soft skills that anyone in today's world of work needs to learn, absorb and demonstrate if they are to progress in their work and career. Uniquely illustrated and presented, the author explains each soft skill clearly, why it is relevant and important, and how to apply that skill to your working life.
Don't Swear at Work
Don't Swear at Work covers everything you need to succeed on the job. Learn how to present without dreading it, build genuine connections, get that huge to-do list done without the stress, and lead with genuine self-belief. Packed with actionable techniques, real-world stories and just enough swearing and chaos to keep it interesting.
From Classroom to Career
An authentic, engaging, and practical guide to help college grads thrive personally and professionally. The reality of every human being is that we’re so much more than careerists. It’s impossible to thrive career-wise if you are not happy outside of work. People are happier when they have a balance, enabling them to achieve personally and professionally. This guide will get you to think about your own career and who you want to be.
Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability
Competition for jobs is fierce, and having a degree is no longer enough. This indispensable guide will help you create your own personal development program and develop the skills and capabilities required by today's employers. Step by step, it takes you from the initial stages of setting goals and defining success through to the application process for your dream job.
What Lights You Up?
In today’s fast-changing world of work, talent alone isn’t enough. You need a clear story, modern tools, and the confidence to take bold next steps. Whether you’re an experienced professional ready for a pivot, a stay-at-home parent reentering the workforce, or a student navigating your first career move, What Lights You Up? meets you exactly where you are―and shows you how to move forward with actionable insights and tools.
Napoleon Hill's Career Success Plan
Napoleon Hill's Career Success Plan offers you the tools to chart your own path to success. Updated for today's world while preserving Hill's timeless wisdom, this book helps you leverage your innate potential to achieve your goals. Hill's philosophy emphasizes the power of a burning desire, faith, planning, and decisive action as the cornerstones of success.
Five Generations at Work
This book is written for every generation – for students, first career movers, founders, managers, leaders and board members. Above all, this book is a call to action to us all. When humanity is being challenged by the forces upon us, from climate, to geopolitics, to technology, we need to draw on the strengths of every generation for sustainable and systemic change for good.
Updates
🪪 Keep borrowing with a TAL card
Your student ID may expire, but your love of learning doesn’t. SAIT alumni can keep borrowing from our collections with a TAL (The Alberta Library) card. Getting started only takes two simple steps:
- If you’re a member of Calgary Public Library (or another TAL member library), ask your library for a TAL card.
- Bring your TAL card and photo-ID with address to our information desk and we’ll set you up to borrow.
If you have questions, drop by the desk or reach out - we're happy to help.
We hope to see you again soon!
🕒 Library hours for spring and summer
We’ll be returning to our regular opening hours on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
Check out our calendar for full library hours.
📢 Canadian newsstream
Looking for Canadian news coverage for an assignment, or just trying to keep up with what’s happening?
The library’s subscription to Canadian Newsstream gives you full-text access to over four hundred Canadian daily and weekly newspapers (including urban, rural, and community titles). Most publications are updated daily, and coverage for some sources goes back to the 1970s.
👋 Welcome May starters!
We’re excited to welcome everyone starting at SAIT this May. Don't forget to drop in to the library to:
- Find your study spot - choose from study carrels, small-group tables, or bookable study rooms.
- Ask a question at the information desk, or chat with us online. No question is too small.
- Get help with research, finding textbooks and articles, citing sources, printing, getting around campus, and more.
- Set up your SAIT Student ID (eCard) so you can borrow textbooks, fiction and graphic novels, plus laptops, phone chargers, and calculators.
- Check out a book on study skills from the display cases at the front of the library.
- Meet Your Librarian for in-depth support with assignments and research.
We’re glad you’re here—see you in the library!
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.