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Robertson Library is identifying and setting aside books in its collection that are also required textbooks for classes, when available.

The librarians are maintaining lists of desirable print books for generous donors to purchase for us through the Amazon Wishlist system. You get to choose which book you want to donate.

What’s with “Land Acknowledgment”? Living Treaties in Mi'kma’ki   
Monday, October 1, Noon - 1 pm, Robertson Library Room 312. All are welcome.

Wednesday, Sep. 19, 1 - 1:30 pm. Join us in the Library LINC, Room 265, for a demonstration of some incredible chemistry! Everyone is welcome!

Sunday, Sep. 23 @ 8:30pm. Science Literacy Week event. Learn how to use the Library's telescope. Presentation by Megan Glover, UPEI Dept. of Physics. Held outside the Library if a clear night; inside the Library if cloudy or rainy.

Friday, Sep. 7th at 7 pm in Duffy Science Centre, Room 135. Deadpool 2  was the movie students voted for on NSO Welcome Day! Please note that Deadpool 2 has an R: Restricted rating and is not suitable for audiences under 18 years.

The Library will be open 9am-5pm on Sat., Sep. 1 for NSO and 1pm-8pm on Mon., Sep. 3, Labour Day.Welcome all new and returning students! Happy Labour Day!

Robertson Library is closed on Friday August 17, 2018, for Gold Cup Day. We will reopen on Sunday August 19, 2018 at 1pm.

You are welcome to attend the opening of Sailing to the Shores of Generosity, an exhibit of small works of mixed media/collage by artist Louise Mould.

The Library is hosting an opening of the exhibit on August 26 from 2-4pm and the exhibit continues to September 21, 2018. For more information about the exhibit and Louise Mould, click here.

Library Talks & the UPEI Environmental Studies Program Book Club discussion series. Justin Farrell’s book Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict (2015).
Library—Reading Room, Upper Level.   Wed., Sep. 26; Oct. 17; Nov. 7 & 28
Noon-1pm  Everyone is welcome!
 

UPEI students, are you up for a challenge?  Attend an escape room in the Library - we have 2 different themes. You'll have 30 minutes to escape. Can you escape in time?
Escape Rooms are limited to 6 UPEI students per room. Free admission!!! Book early at library.upei.ca
 

Book a Library Orientation Tour! New and returning students, come take a tour of your Library! Learn how to use the library website, how to contact your subject librarian for research help, where to go for writing and IT help, and learn about the services and resources offered at the Library. We'd love to show you around!

Celebrate Reunion Weekend with UPEI, SDU, and PWC alumni! Come and visit Robertson Library! 

Book discussion Thursdays@3pm, July 19^th–Aug. 23^rd, Early Women Plaza (between Kelley & the Chaplaincy Centre). Rain location in the Library. A  fictionalized account of the crimes leading up to the last hanging to take place on PEI, in 1941.

Code Club is for 8-12 year olds to learn the basics of computer coding, using Scratch! July 9 - Aug 13

Check out the activities planned for Canada Day, compiled by the Government of Canada (filter by PEI, or by your region). Happy Canada Day!

Robertson Library is happy to announce new Chromebook computers available for loan...

The Robertson Library hosts and supports an open-source publishing platform called Pressbooks. Pressbooks is a book content management system that uses the Wordpress interface to publish books...

Robertson Library will be closed on Victoria Day, Monday, May 21st. 

Happy Victoria Day!

Free trial to package of over 50 databases on many topics.

Robertson Library will be open Saturday, UPEI Convocation Day, from 9 am - 6 pm.

Congratulations to all UPEI graduates!

Library is open until midnight Sunday, April 22 - Thursday, April 26.
Good luck with your exams!

Daily surprises in the Library during the exam break! Check out our social media or drop by the Library for further details.

Play a game, colour, get crafty, smile for a selfie fashion shoot, get creative with Lego, or just unwind in our Stress Free Zone. 

Have library fines? Help the Campus Food Bank. Bring non-perishable food or grocery items to the Service Desk & we'll deduct $2. per item from your fines.

Good Friday Noon-5pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, Easter Sunday Noon-10pm, Easter Monday Noon-10pm

Happy Easter!

Open Café is cancelled. Stay tuned for our next event - Stress-free Zone!

Check out current, popular reading materials from the POP-UP PUB,  thanks to a collaboration with the Confederation Centre Public Library. 

Mon., Mar. 12, 7-8:15 pm, Library Room 312.
Join us for this entertaining but enlightening film on the symptoms, emotions, and side effects of depression.

Monday, March 5 at 4:30, Library LINC, Room 265

This video provides great insight into the need for all-gender washrooms. Discussion will follow.

Learn your rights under the Fair Dealing part of Canadian copyright law.

Check out books that have been challenged or banned in our Freedom to Read Week display. 
Enter to win a Freedom to Read Week gift card to Indigo. And, don’t forget to share your favourite banned or challenged book.

Library open 12 noon - 10 pm on Islander Day, Monday, Feb. 19th.

Happy Islander Day!

Students, we LOVE you! Come celebrate Valentine’s Day in your Library! Free pizza & movie, My Funny Valentine, 6 – 8:30 pm, Room 312, Library Upper Level. Photo booth & valentine making available all day!

Sign up for a workshop to learn how to use Robertson Library's 3D printer and see a demonstration! No experience necessary!

UnSlut: A Documentary Film, “features conversations with those who have experienced sexual shaming, including the family and friends of Rehtaeh Parsons.” Monday, Jan. 29th, Library LINC, Room 265, 7-9 pm.

UPEI now has access to the ACM Digital Library, including full-text access to the journals, conference proceedings, magazines and newsletters of the Association of Computing Machinery. 

Finding Dawn,  a “compelling documentary that puts a human face” to the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. 
Monday, January 22^nd, Robertson Library LINC, Room 265, 7-9 pm. Everyone is welcome!

Abegweit,  Monday, Jan. 15^th,  Library LINC,  Room 265, 7-9 pm. Discussion following the documentary. ”Examines the construction of the Confederation Bridge and the voices of the people affected by it." 

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Discover your Library's resources and services. Book a tour now. We would love to show you around!

LRC Plus provides analysis of poems, short stories, novels, etc. as well as biographical info about authors.

For the final day of 12 Days of PEI Postcards, we wanted to feature a detailed look into a sender of some postcards.

Discover CAB Abstracts: agriculture, tourism, and human nutrition, not just vet!

We were experiencing some technical difficulties and couldn't post a postcard for Day 10. But we're back on track today. 

Today's postcard features an old restaurant that no longer exists. It used to be located in downtown Charlottetown on Kent Street. Any idea what popular restaurant is located in that building today? 

Today for the 8th day of 12 Days of PEI postcards we feature an Island pipedream that never was

>Welcome to the 7th day of 12 Days of Postcards!

Here is today's postcard: might need a bigger boat for this catch!

Today's postcard for 12 Days of Postcards is featured on a popular TV show in the 1970s.

Today's postcard(s) is of the St. Dunstan's Basilica fire in 1913.