Ambassador praised for innovation, creativity, and community spirit April 14, 2026
As he wraps his first year as a Student Library Ambassador (SLA), Albert Carlos is being celebrated as April’s Peer Mentor of the Month. “Albert…
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Castanet | TNRL bringing in TRU nursing students as community, health navigators at Kamloops libraries February 6, 2024
The Thompson-Nicola Regional Library is bringing in three third-year nursing students from TRU to connect its patrons with community resources and referrals to social agencies. The…
Engaging TRU researchers in data management January 19, 2022
Management of research data is an area of increasing interest and importance. When properly handled and responsibly shared, research data from post-secondary institutions enables researchers…
Student supports step up during pandemic November 17, 2020
TRU is ensuring thousands of students are continuing their university education, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Naturally, there have been bumps in the road. But…
TRU librarian awarded for advocacy of open education February 11, 2020
TRU Librarian Brenda Smith was recently recognized for her support and advocacy of open education. In January 2020, Smith became the 19th recipient of the…
TRU opens doors to Community Scholars October 30, 2019
As an open access research university, TRU prides itself on reducing barriers. Which is why we are thrilled to announce that TRU has joined the…
TRU empowers faculty to lower costs for students October 2, 2019
Deadline to apply: Oct. 15, 2019 at 9 a.m. Ever-increasing tuition and textbook costs are creating educational blockades. As a result, only those…
The Conversation Canada | Summer reads: When you can’t travel, let a book transport you July 19, 2019
Who better to offer some insights into good summer reads than a TRU librarian? Amy McLay Paterson is the assessment and user experience librarian known…
Library opens new chapter of indigenization February 22, 2019
Artist John McEwen’s Coyote sculpture stands atop TRU Library headquarters in the Brown Family House of Learning, facing the rising sun as a symbol of…
The next chapter: a library for the future January 4, 2019
The space is small, but what it contains is vast. And Kathy Gaynor wants to expand it even more. Spread between two buildings, the TRU…
Putting higher education in its place October 3, 2017
[caption id="attachment_2482708" align="alignright" width="418"] Lyn Baldwin, Kim Naqvi, Nancy Flood, Elizabeth Templeman and Ginny Ratsoy, authors of the 15th Green Guide, Place-Based Education: An Inter…
Library goes fine-free February 1, 2017
TRU Library is closing the book on fines for late returns. The dreaded late fee has long been in existence, but that is all changing thanks…
Supports teaming up to stall writing procrastination November 4, 2015
Taking a writing-intensive course? Major final research essays due in November? Don’t pull a stressed-out all-nighter on your own the last week of classes. Join…
DVD collection: BC survivors of the Holocaust share their stories January 26, 2015
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240"] Some of the video testimonies of Holocaust survivors from B.C. that make up a collection in the TRU Library.[/caption] With Jan.…
