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The Library is looking for a few students to participate in a 20-minute online study of the design of the library's website, to take place sometime in mid-late February.
We'll be providing a $100 gift code for Amazon.ca as a stipend.
If you are interested, please email Melissa Belvadi, mbelvadi@upei.ca
with the following information:

Next time you're "chilling" (forgive the seasonal pun) in the Library lobby's new "comfort zones", why not take a moment to check out the latest display from the University Archives and Special Collections, celebrating the history of Winter Carnival at UPEI and our higher education forebears, St. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales College? Parades, concerts, parties, coronations for student "royalty", snow sculpting, and more ... they knew how to beat the winter "blahs", back in the day!

Robertson Library is pleased to announce the winners of the January 2107 Library Orientation Tour draw!

Library Orientation Tours were held throughout January and featured the services and resources available at the Library.

The winners of a $15.00 gift card to the UPEI bookstore are Amanda Isenor, Emma Goodwin, Noah Murphy, and Sheldon Cudmore.

Congratulations to our winners!

Thanks to everyone who took a tour; we hope that you had an enjoyable experience getting to know your Library.

The Library's biggest streaming video service, Films on Demand, in celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary this year, has provided a title list about Canadian history, including:

Two of our biggest ebook platforms merged on Jan 11, 2017 into a single new one - EBL and Ebrary are now both Proquest Ebook Central.

Patrons with EBL personalized accounts should have found them migrated already to the new platform.  Ebrary personal account holders will be offered the option to migrate their account.

Links to specific ebooks in either platform will be automatically redirected to the new platform for a couple of years, so there is no big rush to change your links, but it needs to be done eventually.

Have a paper to write but find the OneSearch system overwhelming?

We have made a mini-version of OneSearch, called OneSearch Lite, for students who don't need to find *everything in the world* on their topic, but just a few good resources that the library owns.

This month’s edition of “Open Pages”, co-hosted by UPEI’s Robertson Library and Island Studies Press, happens Wednesday evening, January 18, at 7 pm and highlights the book Bird Calls, featuring poems by Jane Ledwell in response to a travel essay by Isabella Lucy Bird - "The Englishwoman on an Island" - published in 1856. 

Come take a tour in January to learn about your Library's services and resources AND be entered to win a prize!

Tours start Thursday, January 5 and are available daily throughout the month. Tours leave from the Service Desk and last 30-40 minutes.

We'd love to show you around!

Book a tour now!

Due to the rescheduling of exams, Robertson Library will remain open until 7 pm on Saturday, December 17th.

Good luck on your exams!

Feel overwhelmed? Studying getting you down? Do you need to just take a breath? The Robertson Library is creating a Stress Free Zone just for you this term! Relax, play a game, colour, get crafty, read some poetry, get festive. It all starts on December 1st and continues until December 17th.

The Open Pages series at UPEI’s Robertson Library welcomes John Cousins to discuss his book New London: The Lost Dream. The event is Wednesday, November 16 at 7 pm, in the lobby on the main level of the Library.

Robertson Library will be open 12:00 noon - 8:00 pm on Remembrance Day, Friday, November 11.

Information on Veterans' Week, #RememberThem is available on the Veterans Affairs Canada website.

Recording now available of Robin DeRosa's October 24, 2016 session.

View the recording.

Description of the session.

PEI is holding a non-binding "plebiscite" on whether to change the provincial vote counting system for future provincial elections.

Citizens 16 years or older can vote on this and the vote is taking place by phone or online.

According to the Elections PEI website:

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2016
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Robertson Library 312

Date:Thursday, October 27th at 10:00 am 

Place: Robertson Library Room 312

Dr. Robert Gilmour, VP Academic and Research, will introduce and Re-launch the new IslandScholar and data.upei.ca.  Dawn Hooper and Donald Moses from the Robertson Library will demonstrate the services and answer questions.

Join us Monday October 24, 2016 1:30 pm (AST) in Robertson Library Room 312 OR connect virtually.
Speaker: Robin DeRosa, Plymouth State University, New Hampshire

We’re talking “open” in higher ed as a preview for the UPEI library’s Open Access Week celebrations, and welcome you to join us.

We’ll have light refreshments, a series of 5 minute Lightning Talks on various aspects of “open” currently in practice at UPEI, and time for questions and discussion. It will be a great way to get a sense of what open can do on campus, and to build potential collaborations.

Contact: Bonnie Stewart bstewart@upei.ca

Congratulations to Erica Raynor who won a  $30 gift card to the UPEI Bookstore for participating in a guided Orientation Tour of the Robertson Library.

Two additional $20 gift cards to the UPEI Bookstore were also drawn. Chelsea McPhee and Michele Fabienne Bub were the lucky winners.

Wed, Oct 12, 2016 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Robertson Library - 308
Free

UPEI’s Robertson Library is hosting a new book event series this fall called “Open Pages,” which will feature local authors speaking about their books: what inspired them, what they learned, what they shared. The public is warmly invited to this free series, which takes place in the second-floor lounge of UPEI library on one Wednesday evening of each month, over this fall. Light refreshments will be served, and books will be available for sale and signing.

Robertson Library will be open 12:00 noon - 10:00 pm on Thanksgiving Day, Monday, October 10th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Additional Library hours are available at http://library.upei.ca/hours

The fall, or autumnal, equinox is at 11:21am Charlottetown time, on Sept 22 this year.

See this good explanation of what this actually means astronomically and in terms of our sense of "seasons".

The New Service Desk is now open for business.

The old circulation desk area and reference area are now student spaces.

Robertson Library welcomes all new students and their families to campus! Welcome back returning students!

The Library will be open this weekend the following hours:

Saturday -- 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm
Sunday -- 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Monday (Labour Day) -- 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Drop by and explore your Library - we would love to show you around!

Happy Labour Day and have a great New Student Orientation weekend!

This is the last week to take advantage of a guided Library Orientation Tour this semester.

Discover how to find your way around the Library, and what resources and services are offered. Along with a great learning experience, you could win a prize!

The circulation desk at Robertson Library . . . 

is being removed . . . 

The renovations are continuing . . . today the sprinkler system is being modified to make room for the fire door.

Nature Art found by the Library . . . Thank you for taking the time to share your creativity.

Our latest arrivals are waiting for installation. 

Rebuilding has begun.

Robertson Library will be closed on Friday, August 19, Gold Cup & Saucer Day.

Library hours are available at http://library.upei.ca/hours

Drop by the Robertson Library and check our our new paint colours.

‘Painting is by nature a luminous language’ – Robert Delaunay

Announcement from ITSS, made August 11, 2016:

Changes to Classroom Computer Access 

The renovations are continuing during the “dog days of summer”.

Happy Weekend!

“The “dog days,” I always thought, were those summer days so devastatingly hot that even dogs would lie around on the asphalt, panting. . . - but originally, the phrase actually had nothing to do with dogs, or even with the lazy days of summer. Instead, it turns out, the dog days refer to the dog star, Sirius, and its position in the heavens.” (National geographic)

Work is progressing on the wiring today.

It will be all squared away by the new term.

“A drawing, sketch, or diagram of any object made by projection on a horizontal plane; esp. one showing the layout of a building or one floor of a building.”

"plan, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2016. Web. 27 July 2016.

The contractors are working as quietly as possible and with the least possible interference to library patrons; however,  a certain amount of disruption is inevitable.

There are a number of quiet places to work or study on the upper level.

We are open during the renovations! 

Please excuse the mess...

Roberston Library is under construction as we consolidate and relocate both the Circulation and Information/Reference Desks into a single service point with an expected completion by the end of August 2016.

Your patience and understanding while renovations are taking place is appreciated.

Samuel’s Cafe is now open in the PIT (room 201) located in the Robertson Library Annex.

Drop by to check out their new location - say “Hi,” grab a coffee, buy lunch, or enjoy a treat.

Their menu and hours can be found on their website.

The entrance to Robertson Library will be getting a new look over the next few weeks.

Renovations are underway for the new single location ‘Service Desk’ at Robertson Library.

Samuel`s Cafe has moved across the breezeway to the “PIT”. (Re-opening soon)

July 18, 2016

Robertson Library will be closed on Canada Day, Friday, July 1st.

Happy Canada Day to all!

Please join us on Thursday June 23rd for the launch of an exciting online discovery tool for the LMMI Research Collections housed at the Robertson Library. 
 
When: Thursday June 23, 4:45-5:30 pm
Where: 242 Don and Marion McDougall Hall, UPEI

The third Saturday in May - May 21st this year - is National Fiddling Day.  Take a moment to explore Bowing Down Home, a digital collection devoted to PEI fiddling traditions.  The site is based primarily on recordings collected by musician and folk-music researcher Ken Perlman and was a collaborative project of the Robertson Library and the Canadian Museum of History.

http://bowingdownhome.ca

Robertson Library will be closed on Victoria Day, Monday, May 23rd.

Library hours are available at http://library.upei.ca/hours

Happy Victoria Day!

Do you have library fines? Would you like to help a fellow student or family on Campus?

Bring 1 to 5 non-perishable food or grocery items (e.g. canned goods, pasta, light bulbs, toilet paper, etc.- please no damaged, expired, or opened goods) for the Campus Food Bank to the Circulation Desk at the Library from Friday, April 8 to Saturday, April 30 and we’ll deduct $2.00 per item (up to $10.00) from your library fines.

If you have any questions, please contact the Circulation Desk, 902.566.0583. 

Robertson Library will be open on Easter weekend, March 25-28, the following hours:

Good Friday --  12 noon - 5 pm
Saturday -- 10 am - 5 pm
Easter Sunday --  12 noon - 10 pm
Easter Monday -- 12 noon - 10 pm

Happy Easter!

This February brings two events of special significance for lovers of PEI culture and heritage: the annual observance of Heritage Week falls in mid-February, while Islander Day 2016 (February 15th) sees the launch of a new and much-anticipated television adaptation of that most iconic Island literary work, LM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.