Downloading E-Books to Android Devices

August 8, 2019 Update

EBSCO ebooks appear to be downloading now to Android devices if using Adobe Digital Editions in place of Bluefire Reader.

July 30, 2019 Original Post

Most of our subscription e-books allow you to download the content onto your own device for 7 days. There have recently been problems downloading onto mobile Android devices.  Bluefire Reader has been pulled from the Google Play store.

Proquest has developed some interim procedures that can be used until a more permanent fix is in place.
This works well with books from Ebook Central.

EBSCO is still working to resolve the problems and have no solution to date. This affects books in their ebook Collection.

Please note: Downloading to computers and IOS devices have not been affected.

Posted by Patti Wilson

August Library Hours

As we move into August, the Abbotsford Library hours will be changing!

Monday and Thursday                    -- 8:30-7:30
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday    -- 8:30-4:30
Saturday and Sunday                      -- Closed

Chilliwack hours remain the same:
Monday - Friday                             -- 8:30-4:30
Saturday and Sunday                      -- Closed

For complete hours, click here!

Posted by Brenda

Library Catalog Down for Maintenance from 6 am to 10 am on Sunday, July 14

Library users can use EBSCO Discovery Services for library catalog search. The search box is in the library homepage at https://library.ufv.ca/

Tea for Two: a celebration of baking!

Do you love eclairs, petits fours and chocolate cake?  The Abbotsford campus library has a treat for you: a display of all things baking.  The cookbooks on display are from the Newman Western Canadian Cookbook Collection.  Throughout the summer this display will highlight community cookbooks and company cookbooks devoted to the topic of baking.  Titles on display have been published between 1913 and 2015. 

Titles on display include recent publications such as Butter Baked Goods : nostalgic recipes from a little neighborhood bakery and Butter celebrates! : a year of sweet recipes to share with family and friends.  These books are a feast for the eyes with delectable recipes and photographs.  Old time cookbooks such as Real home-keeper : a perpetual honeymoon for the Vancouver bride, published in 1914, and Fair and square : 100 recipes for dessert squares from the 1940s give readers a snapshot in time of preparing and baking for the family.  Community cookbooks such as Feast days of the Orthodox Church published by the Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada and Family favourites from the Gals with God of the Greendale Mennonite Brethren Church, both published in 1983, were used as fundraisers and community builders.  Finally, examples of company cookbooks such as Selected recipes by noted cooks for everyday use in the home by the Codville Company of Winnipeg and New Royal cook book, published in 1912 and 1922 respectively, promote new products of convenience to help the home baker.

The UFV library has begun digitizing selected titles from the Newman Western Canadian Cookbook Collection.  The titles are available in the UFV institutional repository, HarvestIR.  All titles are searchable using optical character recognition software (OCR).  Our latest addition to the digitized content is the Royal Yeast Bake Book published in 1925 promoting Royal yeast cakes.

Posted July 4, 2019
Mary-Anne MacDougall