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Orange Shirt Day, September 30th, "is an opportunity to create meaningful discussion about the effects of Residential Schools and the legacy they have left behind." 

Congratulations to the Class of 2023! We wish you all the best in the future!

The Reverend Doctor Joseph Charles Cheverie — fondly known to generations of Islanders as “Father Charlie” — passed away in late August 2019. In reflecting on his legacy — at this University and beyond — the Library’s University Archives & Special Collections unit realized that one measure of his impact can be seen through several of our digital collections.

If you need to return items that you have borrowed from the library then click here.

Changes to services due to COVID-19.

Links to authoritative sources of information about COVID-19, local, international, and scholarly.

https://library.upei.ca/covid-19-coronavirus-information-resources

Image credit: CDC / Alissa Eckert, Dan Higgins; public domain

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) scholarly resources

Join us in the Library on Tuesday, Mar. 10 at noon for a performance by guitar duo, UPEI music students Matt Kays & Matt McNally. All are welcome to this free event.

Check out our Freedom to Read Week book display. Take a pic with your favourite challenged or banned book.

Rescheduled to Monday, March 2nd, Robertson Library, Room 235 @ 6pm. Doors open @ 5:30pm. Co-sponsored by the Library, UPEI Student Diversity Office, BIPOC USHR, & the Hive.

All are welcome to our screening of the documentary “Athropocene: The Human Epoch,” followed by a discussion led by the UPEI students.

Our new lobby display takes a look at the big news on-campus 45 years ago --  a brand-new Library!

Celebrate I Read Canadian Day! Visit our display of Canadian literature. Check out a book (or a few) from our gift-wrapped selection as your blind date or choose your own.

 Mid-semester Break Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 8am-10pm; Friday, 8am-8pm; Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 10am-11pm.

Tuesday, Feb. 11th, 11 am - 1 pm. Postcards are FREE - and we will mail your postcard for FREE! Robertson Library, Main Level. All are welcome!

Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of International Development Week. Check out our display in the foyer of the Library.

Wednesday, February 5th, Robertson Library, Room 312. Doors open at 5:30 pm, documentary starts at 6:00 pm. Free admission. Co-sponsored by WUSC UPEI and the Library.
 

Sign up for a free Escape Room experience! Open to all UPEI students, faculty, and staff.

Take a library tour in January to learn about your library's services and resources. Tours leave from the Service Desk and last 30-40 minutes. Additional tour scheduled for Friday, Jan. 31 at 2 pm.

RefWorks has now released its support of APA 7th Edition, which was published in October.

Update December 17, 2019: DOIs should have ONLY the DOI itself in the data field - the style will add the https://doi.org/ for you. It won't strip out anything so you need to remove it if you've added it.

Also it will not adjust title case for you so you need to do this yourself in your citation records.

Take a time-out, relax, and have fun in the Stress Free Zone! Play a game, colour, get crafty, smile for a selfie fashion shoot, get creative with Lego, or just unwind in our beloved bean bag chairs.

Support the UPEI Campus Food Bank and reduce your library fines! Donate non-perishable food items and we'll deduct $2. per item from your library fines.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine has been working on a new version of PubMed since March 2019.

Nov. 30 - Dec. 13: Monday-Friday, 8 am-11 pm; Saturday, 8 am-8 pm; Sunday, 10 am-11 pm. Saturday, Dec 14, 8 am-5 pm.
Good luck with your exams!

Robertson Library celebrates International Education Week (IEW), November 18th - 22nd!

The Library, WUSC UPEI, & the Rotaract Club of UPEI invite you to attend a free screening of the documentary The Staging Post. Wed., Nov. 20. Room 312 of the Library. 6 pm. All are welcome!

 Visit our Veterans' Week and Remembrance display in the lobby of the Library. Material will be on display until Saturday, November 16th.

Tuesday, Oct. 29th at 7 pm. Room 312, Robertson Library.  Dr. Richard Raiswell presentation on early modern witch hunting and movie, The VVetch: A New England Folktale. Free event!

Robertson Library: October 30, 2019 at 5:30pm.

All Welcome!

Robertson Library will be open noon - 10 pm on Thanksgiving Day, Monday, October 14th.  Happy Thanksgiving!

A Mi’kmaq Petroglyph Exhibit by Mi’kmaq Artisan, Todd Labrador. Official opening Monday, Oct. 7 at noon. Story by PEI Poet Laureate and Mi’kmaq Author, Julie Pellisier-Lush. The exhibit will be open until Oct. 25th.

Over 2,000 ebooks in the Earth Sciences including Environmental Science. Trial through November 30.

UPEI wears orange to honour residential school survivors on Orange Shirt Day, Monday, Sept. 30th. Visit the information table in the Library on Monday, 11 am-1 pm. 

Try Access Science for high quality summaries of scientific topics and biographies

Wednesday, Sept. 18, 11 am - 2 pm in the Library Breezeway. Postcards are FREE - and we'll mail your postcard for you!! Co-sponsored with the UPEI International Student Office. Free popcorn!

Find out by subject and platform what new books have been added to the Library in the last month:

https://library.upei.ca/newbooks

You can filter the list by subject area, or by platform (ebooks) or location (print books), and by month added (by default will show the last few months).

Click on the book title to get to the full catalogue record. Clicking on the call number will give you a "shelf browse" but be aware that will only show print books, not ebooks.

The Library is working to provide students with free access to some course-required textbooks.

To find the ones available now, look in Reserves for the particular Faculty for your course, then look in the Reserves course listing for the general Faculty of ...  Library Textbooks. You will see a list organized by course number.

This is an ongoing project and the lists of available textbooks is constantly being updated.

Robertson Library will be open 1 pm – 8 pm on Labour Day, Monday, September 2^nd.

Have a happy and safe Labour Day weekend!

The Library will close at 5 pm on Thursday, Aug. 29^th for building maintenance. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Free movie - Captain Marvel. Join us on Friday, Sept. 6th at 7 pm in Duffy Science Centre, Room 135. Free popcorn! All are welcome! PG-13 rating.

Spend a fun-filled evening in the Library on Tuesday, Sep. 3@4:30pm! Solve puzzles, complete challenges, & unlock secret boxes to escape! Limited to 50 NSO UPEI students. First-come, first-served. Line up early!

Escape the Deadly Virus on PEI: Crow Disease! Find clues, solve puzzles, find keys, & open locks to escape. Can you escape in time? Free admission! Open to all UPEI students, faculty, and staff. Sign up now!

Robertson Library will close at 4 pm on Tuesday, September 3rd for a UPEI NSO event. Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause. If you need a study space, check out the list of buildings that are open after 4 pm that day. 

Book a Library Orientation Tour!  Learn about your Library's services and resources. Tours start Thursday, September 5 and are available throughout the month.

Robertson Library is closed on Friday August 16, 2019, for Gold Cup Day. We will reopen on Sunday August 18, 2019 at 1pm.

Welcome UPEI, SDU, and PWC alumni to Reunion Weekend 2019! The Library will be open from 10 am - 5 pm on Saturday, July 27th. Drop by the Library and say Hello!

New edition of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery will be launched on Thursday, July 25, 2:30-3:30 pm in the Library.

Happy Canada Day!

On Tuesday, June 25 at 6:30 pm on the second floor of UPEI’s Robertson Library. PEI writer Marion Bruce will present “The Lion of Prince of Wales: Alexander Anderson—An Unsung Hero of Prince Edward Island’s Education System.”