Bruce Peel Special Collections Workshops
Bruce Peel Special Collections offers a series of online and in-person workshops each term to provide a wide range of learning opportunities to those University of Alberta students and employees who are motivated to sign up. These workshops explore a selection of topics that we have been teaching for years. The schedule/topics are posted well before the beginning of each term to accommodate requests from those professors who sometimes use Peel Workshops in their teaching/assignments. Registration opens on the first day of classes.
For those participating in in-person workshops
Bruce Peel Special Collections is home to important collections of rare and sometimes fragile materials. Like researchers and other visitors, Peel Workshop participants are asked to help preserve these materials for future generations. Here is what you need to know before you come to a workshop:
- No open food or drink should come to the Peel library; to clarify, a wrapped sandwich in a backpack is fine, but a cup of coffee is not!
- Please be on time. Workshop participants who are late may miss important information about proper handling procedures for various types of rare materials, and therefore may not be admitted.
- Please note that you will be required to leave all bags, backpacks, totes, outerwear, etc. in Peel’s secure reception area before entering the classroom.
- Rare materials should be handled only with freshly-washed hands.
- Rare materials may be photographed on the condition that no flash is used, but instructors may not be photographed or recorded without prior permission.
Advance registration is required and numbers are strictly limited. Workshops are open to University of Alberta students (both graduate and undergraduate), staff, faculty, and alumni. Each individual may sign up for a maximum of two Peel Workshops per term. Those who register and then find that they cannot attend should cancel their registration as soon as possible to allow someone on the waiting list to take their place.