🌤️ Ready To Get Outside?
Our summer outdoor lifestyle picks are full of ideas for getting outside, from local hikes and road trips to gardening, growing vegetables, and cooking on the grill.
How to Grill Everything
A go-to grilling guide for anyone who wants to get more creative with flame-cooked food. With 1,000 recipes and variations covering everything from steaks, seafood, burgers, and vegetables to pizza, bread, and desserts, this book offers clear techniques and plenty of inspiration for weeknight dinners, weekend cookouts, and beyond.
Waterwise Gardening
Waterwise Gardening breaks down how much to water, when to water, and which methods work best, with tips on smart irrigation, plant needs, and spotting overwatering. Ideal for eco-minded gardeners and budget-conscious homeowners alike, this book promises a greener garden with less guesswork.
Encyclopedia of Landscape Design
A comprehensive design guide for anyone ready to rethink their outdoor space. With advice on planning, building, planting, garden styles, materials, and plant choices, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design helps beginners and experienced gardeners turn ideas into a beautiful, practical garden plan.
Kananaskis Country
A scenic, updated guide for hikers looking to explore one of Alberta’s favourite mountain destinations. With routes from easy short walks to ridge walks and light scrambles, Popular Day Hikes: Kananaskis Country includes trailhead directions, colour maps, photos, seasonal details, distances, commentary, and difficulty ratings to help readers plan their next Kananaskis adventure.
How to Grow and Eat Your Own Superfoods
With an A-Z crop directory, nutritional information, growing advice, and recipes, How to Grow & Eat Your Own Superfoods helps readers plant, harvest, and enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables from seed to plate.
Voluntary Detours
An engaging look at Alberta’s small-town and rural museums for anyone who enjoys thoughtful detours off the main road. Through sites like the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum, Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park, and the Museum of Fear and Wonder, Voluntary Detours explores how local, rural, and Indigenous knowledge can reshape how we understand museums, place, and history.
The Castle and Crowsnest
A scenic, practical guide for hikers looking to explore southern Alberta’s Castle and Crowsnest regions. With 37 routes ranging from easy short walks to more strenuous full-day hikes, Popular Day Hikes: The Castle and Crowsnest includes trailhead directions, maps, photos, seasonal details, distances, commentary, and difficulty ratings to help readers plan their next outdoor adventure.
Two Chefs in the Garden
An inviting cookbook for anyone who wants vegetables to take centre stage. With over 150 garden-inspired vegetarian recipes, seasonal produce ideas, and beautiful photography, Two Chefs in the Garden offers approachable ways to cook with vegetables and make plant-based meals satisfying for everyone.
Barbecue Rules
An approachable barbecue guide for anyone who wants better results without fancy gear or complicated rules. With more than 30 recipes, practical live-fire cooking tips, and advice on meat, heat, technique, and simple sides, The Artisanal Kitchen: Barbecue Rules helps home cooks make smoky, satisfying barbecue for any outdoor occasion.
Still raining? Don't want to go outside? Borrow some of our recent fiction titles.
Updates
♻️ Recycle a Library Book so we can Refresh our Collection
Looking for your next read? Pick up a FREE deselected library book from the shelves near the west library doors in the basement. These books are marked with an X on the spine and stamped for removal. Take as many as you like, just show staff at the Information Desk on your way out. Each summer, we review the collection to keep it current, useful, and relevant for SAIT students, faculty, and staff. Removing outdated or unused materials helps refresh the shelves and make room for new additions.
🎬 Interesting Documentaries and Video
Broaden your knowledge through the summer with Alexander Street. Gain a deeper understanding of humanities and social sciences, listen to music, watch plays, operas, dance performances or literary adaptations, and discover interviews and masterclasses. You can create a playlist of your favourites, and you can even make clips to highlight the most important parts of your content.
🖼️ Travelling Art Exhibits
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.
ReconciliACTIONS: A Travelling Exhibit Calling for Care and Repair - Catch the ReconciliACTIONS art exhibit before it moves on around July 20. The exhibit invites viewers to consider how they can show up with care both individually and collectively in actively carrying reconciliation forward, and there are some amazing artworks from Indigenous artists across western Canada.
Reimagining Fire, The Future of Energy - From July 30 - August 26 we'll be hosting a book publication and exhibition featuring a fine art print portfolio (Energy Futures) by a collective of twenty Albertan artists and twenty Albertan writers. The exhibit explores a vision of sustainable energy in Alberta, solutions to climate change, and global energy transitions.
🆕 New Magazines
Now available to borrow!
POV magazine: Canada's destination for documentary culture, covering the art and craft of non-fiction storytelling in film, photography, and new media.
Advanced Materials & Processes: An academic journal published by ASM International, covering leading-edge developments and trends in engineering materials.
ADDitude: A magazine about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD and ADD) with strategies and support for individuals and families living with ADHD and related conditions.
📢 Behind the shelves with Liv and Blyth
Meet Liv and Blyth, our amazing student shelvers whose work helps keep the library running smoothly every day. Along with shelving, shelf-reading, patron counts and closing procedures, they’ve taken on bigger summer projects including inventory, weeding, and improvements to the children’s fiction collection.
Both are working towards their Library Information Technology (LIT) Diploma here at SAIT, and they’re seeing their coursework come to life on the job. As Blyth explains, “One thing that I really enjoy in our work is seeing the real-world application of concepts we learned about in our classes. I remember learning about weeding and writing an assignment about why it is important and why it needs to be done for library processes to run smoothly. Now that we are working on weeding, it amazes me to see the intricacies of certain books and their circulation rates within a trades school library.”
Blyth brings a customer service background and an interest in reference work, while Liv’s path to LIT was shaped by her first job at Airdrie Public Library, where she loved the work and the people drawn to it. Both enjoy helping patrons in the stacks and tackling the problem-solving side of reference questions.
Blyth speaks for them both when she says, “We LOVE the Reg, and we both agree we get so excited to come to work in the morning. The team here is so friendly and supportive, and we were both amazed to see what a close-knit community the library staff have. This is an extraordinary workplace, and we are LOVING our summer so far!”
A huge thank-you to Liv and Blyth for bringing such energy, care, and hard work to the library this summer!
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.