The Robertson Library and the International Student Office invite the UPEI community to celebrate Black History Month with a lunchtime film screening of Sounds and Pressure on Monday, February 24 at 12:30p in the Robertson Library, Room 235. Doors open at noon. Bring your lunch; we'll provide snacks! Total runtime: approx 1 hour and 20 minutes. 

"At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of Jamaica’s brightest stars left their homeland behind to shine their light in an unlikely hub of Caribbean creativity: Toronto. Through rare archives and infectious beats, this captivating five-part anthology series takes you from Kingston to Kensington Market to see and hear how reggae made roots in Canada against all odds." -NFB

The Robertson Library invites you to celebrate Black History Month with us. Also known as African Heritage Month in Nova Scotia, Black History Month is an opportunity to celebrate the rich history of Black Canadians and look forward to the future. In fact, Canadian Heritage/Patrimoine canadien has designated this year's theme as "Black Excellence: A Heritage to Celebrate; a Future to Build." Visit our lobby display and check out a book on Black Canadians in history, education, or literature, or find e-books and other online resources in OneSearch. 

Sources: 

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month.html

https://bccns.com/

The Library is running a free trial of the American Psyschological Association's subscription tool, Academic Writer,  from January 29 through March 28, 2024.

To provide feedback about this trial, please email librarian mbelvadi@upei.ca, Melissa Belvadi.

It includes the Publication Manual of the APA 7th edition (known as the APA style manual), and many tools to help students, including (description from APA's website):

In the Writing Center section:

• Users can now create an annotated bibliography in the format specified in the Publication Manual (7th ed.) .
• Paper templates help with paper formatting and more — Academic Writer guides students through the proper formatting of title pages, fonts, margins, and more with structured templates for the most common research paper types.
• Collaboration between students and educators — Students can collaborate on group papers, and educators can monitor and comment on students’ progress.
• Convenient tools for references and displaying results — A unique resource pane is pinned to the bottom of the writing space, providing easy access for citing sources and adding references, tables and figures, appendices, and footnotes.
• Helpful Research Tools — Specially created tools assist students in developing, planning, and tracking their research.
  
  And in the References section:
   
• Reference tagging allows users to create their own tags to organize their references. They can search by these tags, allowing them to find references more easily when writing a paper.
• Academic Writer has been updated to include 47 new forms for reference types added to the Publication Manual (7th ed.) such as Instagram photos, infographics, recorded webinars, anthologies, and legal materials
• Manage references — Enter and store references using an unrivaled set of customized forms for more than 120 reference types, all of which were created by APA experts for strict adherence to the seventh edition guidelines of APA Style.
• An extensive library for reference verification  — Quickly search over 4 million preformatted references adapted from APA's PsycINFO ®  database. These references can be added directly to a paper’s reference list.