International Women's Day: #AccelerateAction
This month we’re excited to collaborate with SAIT’s International Women’s Day Event Committee to bring you a handpicked selection of recommended books. Whether you’re a student, just starting out in your career, or in an influential leadership position, we’ve picked books with advice to help you gain new insights and skills to navigate barriers, bias and beliefs that are holding you back.
Landed: Transformative Stories of Canadian Immigrant Women
Landed is a collection of personal stories about the transformative experience of immigration. Written by 37 women from 30 countries of origin, each story is a unique expression of the gritty choices and hard-won lessons to belong and become. Together, the stories highlight the exquisite fabric of multicultural Canada. In this anthology, you’ll find intimate reflections of the trials and tribulations of living in two worlds, a reminder to call upon your strengths during life-changing moments and an opportunity to walk in the shoes of diverse women.
Lead Like You: How Authenticity Transforms the Way Women Love, Live and Succeed
Is the life you’re leading true to you? Do you feel like you’re endlessly striving in a world that never stops asking for more? Too often, we exhaust ourselves in pursuit of supposed ideals. We give everything in search of ‘success,’ while struggling with stress, guilt, self-doubt, and burnout. It’s time to dismantle the illusion of external validation. It’s time to embrace your inherent worth as a woman and a leader. Lead Like You is a roadmap for rediscovering the authentic you and realising a new way to live and lead. The key to true transformation, radical resilience, and deep fulfilment lies within: learning to know yourself, care for yourself and truly be yourself, at work and in life.
Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership
What if there was a way you could flourish in a senior leadership role as your best self, inspire excellence in your team channeling your own wellbeing and, at the same time, lead a highly fulfilled life? There is―and Arrive and Thrive shows you how. This timely and practice-driven guide reveals 7 practices you can use to thrive as you rise to positions of greater responsibility, risk, and reward―and empower others along the way. Powered by the latest research, boots-on-the-ground experience, and advice from 24 of the world's most successful leaders, the book captures seven practices that help you understand and leverage your unique personal powers so you can thrive in leadership.
Empowering Women in STEM: Working Together to Inspire the Future
One common trend throughout the world is that women who are working in STEM related fields typically leave after about five years. Contrarily, it has also been uncovered that more women stay in these fields when we all work together. Empowering Women in STEM: Working Together to Inspire the Future provides a platform to share the stories of those who have been in STEM careers but have pivoted to other areas by utilizing the STEM skills they learned. It bridges the gap between those who are thinking about entering or leaving STEM careers, along with those who want to encourage others into STEM careers.
Thriving in a Male-Dominated Workplace
Sexism. Self-doubt. Invisibility. When you're one of the only women in your workplace, it can be difficult to gain your footing. Organizations need to change, but in the meantime, women can find success in these settings—and even flourish in them. Thriving in a Male-Dominated Workplace provides the advice you need to ensure your professional growth in roles and industries that have traditionally been filled by and controlled by men. From connecting with the right people to growing your confidence to fighting back against bias, you'll be able to establish your credibility and be seen by your colleagues as the expert you are.
I've Got Your Back: The Indespensible Guide to Stopping Harassment When You See It
Bystander intervention is simply overcoming that “freeze” instinct when you witness harassment and getting back to the very human desire to take care of one another. It’s not about being the hero, and it certainly isn’t about sacrificing your own safety. I’ve Got Your Back teaches readers the ins and outs of bystander intervention using Right to Be’s methodology: the 5Ds of bystander intervention—distract, delegate, document, delay, and direct. We all have a role to play when it comes to ending hate and harassment in our communities. If you’re new to these efforts, I’ve Got Your Back will give you the skills to get started.
Push Back: How Smart Women Ask and Stand Up for What They Want
Top leadership consultant Selena Rezvani reveals how women can secure promotion opportunities, plum assignments, and higher pay by standing their ground and pushing back for what's rightfully theirs. This revised and expanded version features interviews from dozens of executive leaders, including Darla Price, President of Ogilvy New York, Jen Fisher, Chief Well-being Officer at Deloitte, and Jayshree Seth, Chief Science Advocate and Corporate Scientist at 3M. Rezvani also shares exclusive data highlights from hundreds of professional women across industries, sourced from over five years of online surveys, to reveal startling findings on confidence, self-advocacy, and negotiation.
Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
Abby Wambach became a champion due to her incredible talent as a soccer player. She became an icon due to her remarkable wisdom as a leader. As the co-captain of the Women’s World Cup Champion Team, she created a culture not just of excellence, but of honor, commitment, resilience, and sisterhood. She helped transform a group of individual women into one of the most successful, powerful and united Wolfpacks of all time. Now Abby delivers her empowering rally cry for all women everywhere to unleash their individual power, unite with their pack, and emerge victorious together.
ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain
ADHD is one of the most common neurological disorders, yet a staggering 75 percent of girls and women remain undiagnosed. Due to the gender gap in medical research, which does not account for symptoms manifesting differently in women, many ADHD women are left to navigate a society that fails to understand their struggles and gifts. But what if every woman had the resources and support to uncover the hidden wonders of her neurodivergent brain?
Data Feminism
Data science is a form of power, used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it's also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good or for harm, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? For Whom? With whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. Data Feminism is not just about gender, but about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.
Imposter No More: Overcome Self-Doubt and Imposterism to Cultivate a Successful Career
Dr. Jill Stoddard is a recovered imposter. She isn't alone in this: deep down, the majority of successful people question their professional legitimacy a good amount of the time. Why do we do this, and how can we stop? Throughout Imposter No More, Dr. Stoddard lays the groundwork for understanding the imposter phenomenon, outlines the traps professionals often fall into regarding their imposter feelings, and provides actionable steps for cultivating psychological flexibility to be able to choose bold career moves despite self-doubt and imposterism.
One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women can Take to Fulfill their Leadership and Career Potential.
An essential roadmap to help you feel more confident, clear, and intentional in your goals. Early in her career, Shanna Hocking tried to do everything “right”: She spoke up in meetings, supported colleagues' strategies, and raised her hand for new projects. Though her enthusiasm helped her get ahead in some ways, pushback from others nearly derailed her: Who did she think she was? Shanna began to internalize the comments, second-guessing herself and holding herself back to make others comfortable. In One Bold Move a Day, Shanna reveals the transformative mindsets that helped her regain her power, and offers a practical, hands-on roadmap to achieving your own goals with intention and joy.
Updates
📣 New Study Room Equipment
We’re thrilled to be getting updated technology in all our student study rooms!
This will bring our technology in line with the rest of the SAIT campus, and upgrades will be performed in the week of March 1. Once complete, connecting to the giant monitor for presentations should be easier than ever. Just hook up your laptop to the monitor via the HDMI cable.
Laptops and adapters (HDMI to USB-C) are available for loan from the information desk, and our staff are happy to help out if you have a technical issue.
🧠 Celerate Neurodiversity
March 17 – 23 is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, a time to raise awareness for individuals with diverse thinking and learning abilities. Neurodivergent individuals have many challenges, but also have great and unique talents, skills and strengths. Take a look at some of our new neurodiversity resources to learn more:
- The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy: Navigating the World of “Normal People”
- Self-care for people with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, Destress, and Prioritize You!
- The adult side of dyslexia
- The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Differences for Any Organization
- The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work
🎈 Open Education Week
March 3-7 is Open Education Week (OA Week). The display on our big purple wall at the front of the library celebrates the achievements of faculty at SAIT in using and creating exceptional Open Educational Resources (OER). Enter our OER crossword puzzle for a chance to win one of 3 x $10 Tim Horton’s gift cards.
Feature
Cite with confidence
🔎 Why citing your sources matters - and where to go to get help!
Citing your resources is a key part of academic integrity! Whether you're writing a research paper, lab report, or presentation, proper citation:
✅ Helps your readers find the sources you used
✅ Strengthens your argument by showing you’ve done your research
✅ Gives credit to original authors and acknowledges their ideas
✅ Prevents plagiarism, which can have serious academic consequences
Not sure where to start? Our helpful librarians have created online citation guides to teach you the basics, explain how to cite a whole range of sources, and show examples of how to do formatting. We have citation guides for the three styles used at SAIT – check with your instructor if you’re not sure which one to use.
Need more help? Book an appointment with your librarian! Our librarians are happy to guide you through tricky citations, formatting, and reference lists so you can cite with confidence and make citation stress a thing of the past!
Meet Your LibrarianReg Erhardt Library
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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.