February is Black History Month. During Black History Month, Canadians celebrate and honour the legacy of Black Canadians, past and present.

In recognition of Black History Month, Robertson Library, the UPEI Student Diversity Office (SDO), BIPOC USHR, and the Hive are presenting a screening and discussion of The Ninth Floor, an NFB documentary written and directed by Mina Shum.

This feature documentary “…revisits the infamous 1969 Sir George Williams Riot―an event that began quietly when a group of Caribbean students started to suspect their professor of racism, but ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known.”

Monday, March 2nd

Room 235

Robertson Library

Doors open at 5:30 pm

The documentary begins at 6 pm

The Environmental Studies Program and Robertson Library Talks Invite the UPEI students, faculty, and staff to attend the screening of the documentary “Athropocene: The Human Epoch.” The screening will be followed by the discussion led by the UPEI students.

Created by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky, this documentary is “a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet.”

Date and time: March 5, 2020 at 5:30pm

Place: RL 235

Invited discussants: Sarah Davison, Island Studies; Noble Newman, Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture; Isabelle Fitzpatrick, Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture; Emily Smith, Environmental Studies; Choyce Chappell, Environmental Studies.

All are welcome!

If have any questions/suggestions, please feel free to contact Dr. Nino Antadze at nantadze@upei.ca

UPEI Robertson Library continues the celebration of UPEI’s 50th Anniversary Year with a display honouring the 45th Anniversary of the Library itself. Once UPEI opened for the 1969-1970 academic year, the building of a new library became the top priority. UPEI’s first President, Dr. Ron Baker, realized that a strong library was essential for the new university’s success, and later declared, “I’ve always been nuts about libraries.”

Built in 1973-1974, at a cost of $3.2 million (~ $15.8 million, adjusted for inflation), the new Library opened to students in January, 1975. The Library was officially named in honour of Dr. Samuel Napier Robertson, former Principal of Prince of Wales College, at a ceremony in March (as it happens, UPEI’s current Chancellor, the Hon. Catherine Callbeck, is a grand-niece of Dr. Robertson: then a provincial Cabinet  minister, she was a guest of honour at the 1975 naming ceremony). A special Fall convocation in September completed the opening formalities.

In a recent interview (right), Dr. Baker noted that those who built the Library were determined that it be, "capable of change". The Robertson Library continually strives to honour that founding vision in our ongoing efforts to carry the best of our past traditions into the innovative and ever-expanding academic library universe of the 2020s.

Launched for Heritage Week 2020 (February 17 - 23), the display will be on view in our main  lobby until mid-March.

February 19^th is the inaugural I Read Canadian Day - a national day of celebration of Canadian literature.  

Celebrate I Read Canadian – go on a “blind date” with a Canadian book!

Visit our display in the Library highlighting the excellence of Canadian literature. The majority of books in our display are fiction, with a selection of children’s books.

We’ve gift-wrapped a number of books to hide the title and author – a “mystery” book to take home and discover your Canadian literature date.

Check one (or a few) out as your blind date or choose your own from our display. You may discover your next favourite author!

The I Read Canadian book display will be available until February 22^nd.   Happy reading!

Robertson Library will be open noon - 10 pm on Islander Day, Monday, February 17^th.

Happy Islander Day!

Mid-semester Break Hours (February 18 - 23):

Tuesday - Thursday -- 8 am - 10 pm

Friday -- 8 am - 8 pm

Saturday -- 10 am - 5 pm

Sunday -- 10 am - 11 pm

Regular Library hours are available at https://library.upei.ca/hours

• an open textbook grant to support the development of a new open textbook on a topic that is currently not covered by an existing open textbook (up to $3500)
• an open textbook adaptation grant to support the adaptation of one or more open textbooks to create a new version or edition of an open textbook (up to $1000)
• a supplementary resources grant to support the creation of ancillary materials for existing open textbooks, including, but not limited to test banks, slide decks, or interactive media, etc. for an open textbook or other open education resource (up to $1000) 
• an honoraria for open textbook peer reviews to support individuals completing a formal peer review of an existing open textbook ($250)

Robertson Library and the International Student Office (ISO) present...

Send a Postcard Home!

Write a postcard to your family and/or friends back home to let them know you're thinking of them while you're here at UPEI! Postcards are FREE (while supplies last) - and we'll mail your postcard for FREE!!

Date: Tuesday, February 11^th -- 11 am – 1 pm

Location: Library, Main Level

Everyone is welcome!

Canada celebrates the 30th Anniversary of International Development Week in 2020.

International Development Week is an annual initiative held during the first week of February since 1991 to engage Canadians on global issues. Canadians can reflect on our contributions to poverty reduction and international humanitarian assistance.

The theme for 2020 is "Go for the Goals" referring to the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The theme illustrates the idea of moving forward in a collaborative and positive way toward a better world.

The Sustainable Development Goals supersede the Millennium Development Goals in 2016. "The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world's leaders and the people" UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted unanimously by 193 Heads of State and other top leaders at a summit at the UN Headquarters in New York.

The 17 goals and 169 targets look at wiping out poverty, fighting inequality, and tackling climate change over the next 15 years. 

Visit our display in the Library featuring books that highlight international development and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Books in the display may be borrowed from the Library.

PEI Events International Development Week, Feb. 2–8, 2020

Come and join the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation and its members and friends, in five one-day and three week-long events being held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of International Development Week (February 2-8). All events are free and open to the community; coffee and snacks will be served. Please RSVP (selvi@acic-caci.org) to make necessary arrangements. Use @AtlanticCouncilforInternationalCooperation, #IDWAtlantic and #IDW2020 to support and promote your contributions to the success of International Development Week 2020.

Begin the week with Poetry recital, music, and songs by PEI’s Poet Laureate Julie Pellisier-Lush on Sunday, 2 February at 2:00 pm in the Confederation Centre Public Library.

Join hands with experts at a Panel Discussion on Together Towards Gender Equality: Working Locally and Globally on Tuesday, 4 February at 4:00 pm, in the Atlantic Veterinary College Atrium (AVC 285), University of Prince Edward Island.
Speakers include Jane Ledwell, Executive Director, Advisory Council on the Status of Women; Elder Dr. Judy Clark, Elder-in-Residence in University of PEI, Dr. Jennifer Taylor, Professor, Department of Applied Human Sciences, UPEI; Dr. Jean Mitchell, Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, UPEI; Dr. Janis MacLellan-Peters, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, UPEI; and Karla Bernard, MLA for Charlottetown-Victoria Park with (Co-Chairs) Dr. Susan Hartley, Global Peace Advocate and Ann Wheatley from the Cooper Institute.

Find out more on how and why equity is related to climate change at a Workshop on Promoting Gender Justice and Climate Change facilitated by Jillian Kilfoil, Executive Director, Women’s Network PEI, on Wednesday, 5 February at 5:00 pm in the Home Science Building 104 (HSB 104), University of Prince Edward Island.

Come to a screening of Hands-On: Women, Climate, Justice followed by a discussion with members of Cinema Politica and Environmental Studies Society of UPEI on Thursday, 6 February, at 7:00 pm in the KC Irving Chemistry Centre, Lecture Theatre 104 (ICC 104), University of Prince Edward Island.

Celebrate PEI’s work locally and globally to promote gender equality and sustainable development goals and listen to presentations by ACIC members and friends on Friday, 7 February at 6:00 pm in Timothy’s World Café. Presenters include representatives from the Cooper Institute, The International Sustainable Community Assistance (ISCA) Association, Latin American Mission Program (LAMP), Mikinduri Children of Hope (MCOH), World University Service of Canada (WUSC), Engineers Without Borders UPEI Chapter, Rotary Peace Fellowship, and University of Prince Edward Island.

Also, check out the following week-long events:

Poster display focused on the work of ACIC partners promoting Gender Equality and Sustainable Development Goals in the Timothy’s World Café, Charlottetown.

Partners include the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation, Timothy’s World Café, Campbell Webster Foundation (CWF), The Cooper Institute, Rotary Peace Fellowship, Farmers Helping Farmers (FHF), International Sustainable Community Assistance (ISCA), Latin American Mission Program (LAMP), Mikinduri Children of Hope (MCOH), and World University Service of Canada (WUSC).

Book displays focused on Promoting Gender Equality and Sustainable Development Goals in the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island, and the Confederation Centre Public Library.

Robertson Library and WUSC UPEI invite you to attend a screening of the documentary Lost Boys of Sudan.

Lost Boys of Sudan is a documentary film by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk about two Dinka boys from Sudan who travel from a refugee camp in Kenya to the United States to escape the civil war in their country.

Admission is free, but there will be donations accepted at the door to raise money for the Shine A Light program, an initiative that provides women and girls within refugee camps the opportunity to better their education.

Wednesday, February 5th
Robertson Library, Room 312
Doors open at 5:30 pm
Show starts at 6:00 pm

Please contact Richelle Greathouse, rgreathouse@upei.ca,  for further information.

Escape Room @ Robertson Library

UPEI students, staff, and faculty are you up for a challenge? Test your mental abilities alongside your fellow UPEI colleagues in a problem-solving fun experience – and, you won't be marked on it!

Robertson Library is presenting an escape room in the Library, Room 312, this semester – Snowed In: Escape the House.

SYNOPSIS:

It is the winter of 2020 and, I think, day 10 of being snowed in. We lost power, not sure when - the days are all starting to look the same. We are slowly freezing and our food now consists solely of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Everyone is starting to go mad! Game time has turned into a bloodbath! We have read every book in the house and all talking has become arguments. We NEED to get OUT! Somewhere under all the snow are our shovels, if only we can find them.

You and your fellow UPEI colleagues are locked in a room! Find clues, solve puzzles, find keys, and open locks to find the shovels. Can you find the shovels and escape in time?

The Escape Room is limited to UPEI students, staff, and faculty and up to six participants per time.  Free admission!

Come and see if you have what it takes to escape!  Don’t miss out!

Sign up now!

• Wednesday, January 8^th  @ 4:30 & 5:30 pm  
• Tuesday, January 14^th  @ 4:30 & 5:30 pm     
• Thursday, January 23^rd @ 3:30 & 4:30 pm  
• Wednesday, January 29^th @ 4:30 & 5:30 pm      
• Tuesday, February 4^th @ 3:30 & 4:30 pm