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

Robertson Library & UPEI NSO are hosting a movie night as part of New Student Orientation 2019 (NSO). 

Join us Friday, September 6^th at 7 pm in Duffy Science Centre, Room 135 to watch Captain Marvel. We’ll supply the popcorn. Bring your non-alcoholic lidded drink.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome! Please note that Captain Marvel has a PG-13 rating.

We'd love for you to join us!

UPEI NSO students, are you up for a challenge?

As part of NSO and Welcome to the Library, we are opening our doors for a special evening of fun, competition, and teamwork.

Play games, solve puzzles, eat snacks, and learn about the Library.

Team up with other NSO students in an exciting race around the Library. Complete twenty challenges that will test your problem-solving abilities while getting to know your fellow students and the Library staff!

This event will be open to fifty participants, first-come first-served. Be sure to be on time as our event starts at 4:30 and once it begins, we won’t be able to admit anyone else.

Date: Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Location: Robertson Library

Time: Event starts at 4:30 sharp and ends at 6:30

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 – Escape the Deadly Virus on PEI: Crow Disease.

SYNOPSIS:

Get off Prince Edward Island before you become infected. Confederation Bridge has been closed by the Canadian Government and controlled by the military, ferry services have been suspended, all boats destroyed, and planes have been grounded. There is no fuel left on the island.

You have heard that a group of survivors have secretly built a boat and will be attempting to row across to the mainland from the Charlottetown Harbour. You have learned that there is a map showing the last safe route to the Harbour and it’s hidden somewhere in this room. You have 30 minutes to find it and escape to the boat.

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

• Monday, September 9^th  @ 4:30 & 5:30 pm  
• Tuesday, September 24^th  @ 4:30 & 5:30 pm     
• Wednesday, October 9^th @ 4:30 & 5:30 pm  
• Thursday, October 24^th @ 4:30 & 5:30 pm       
• Wednesday, November 6^th @ 4:30 & 5:30 pm  

Robertson Library will close at 4 pm on Tuesday, September 3rd for a UPEI NSO event.

If you need a study space, the following is a list of buildings that are open on Tuesday, September 3^rd after 4 pm:

• Cass Science Hall (CSH) - Open until 10 pm
• Don and Marion McDougall Hall (MCDH) - Open until 11 pm
• Duffy Science Centre (DSC) - Open until 11 pm
• Health Sciences Building (HSB) - Open until 11 pm
• SDU Main Building (SDMB) - Open until 11 pm
• W.A. Murphy Student Centre (MSC) - Open until 11 pm

A map of the UPEI campus is available at http://files.upei.ca/map.pdf

Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Book a Library Orientation Tour!

Welcome, all 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, and where to go for writing and IT help.

Discover the best places to study in the Library, learn how to book group study rooms, find out about library computers, printers, scanners, laptops, 3D printing, Wi-Fi, and much more!

Not only will you learn about your Library's services and resources by attending a Library Orientation Tour, but your name will also be entered in a draw to win either a $40 gift card to Cineplex Cinemas Charlottetown or a $15 gift card to Indigo!

Tours start Thursday, September 5 and are available throughout the month.

Tours leave from the Service Desk, last 30-40 minutes, and are limited to 6 people per tour so be sure to book early!

Let us help you with your academic journey! We have resources and information for all students! And, we'd love to show you around!

Book your tour now.

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!

Check out the Reunion Weekend 2019 website for a schedule of events.

Nimbus Publishing’s new edition of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery will be launched on Thursday, July 25, from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm in the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island. The book is compiled and edited by Dr. Elizabeth “Betsy” Epperly, past-president of UPEI and founder of the L.M. Montgomery Institute (LMMI), who will speak about the book and sign copies. Montgomery treasures, from the LMMI and Robertson Library, will be on display. All are welcome.

The world may know L.M. Montgomery as an author, but many do not know her as an ardent scrapbooker. She collected items from everyday life—including pressed flowers, souvenirs, cats’ fur, advertisements—and created colourful mixed media collages. Looking at the pages, readers may learn something about her times, when line drawings and hand-coloured plates entertained audiences, and also about her thoughtful choices and creative processes. What did the imaginative young writer preserve? What adventures did she commemorate and dramatize? Dr. Epperly serves as a guide through the scrapbooks, suggesting stories hidden and revealed among the vibrant images.

Montgomery mined her scrapbooks for material and even altered them over the years. In 1905, outlining and writing Anne of Green Gables, she turned to her own colourful arrangements and found puffed sleeves, school girl antics, passion for nature, hints of romance, and traces of genuine heartache. She continued to create personal scrapbooks until just a few years before her death, but these early Island scrapbooks are the liveliest and most personally revealing, roughly covering the mid 1890s to mid 1910, showing a young creative artist at thoughtful play and a mature artist, internationally successful, considering her past and future.

Imagining Anne is made possible through the partnering of the Heirs of L.M. Montgomery, Inc., the Lucy Maud Montgomery Birthplace Trust, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, the L.M. Montgomery Institute, and Dr. Elizabeth Epperly.

Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery is published by Nimbus Publishing.

http://www.upei.ca/communications/news/2019/07/dr-elizabeth-epperly-launch-compilation-lm-montgomerys-scrapbooks

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

Have a look at the activities planned for Canada Day, compiled by the Government of Canada.

Happy Canada Day!

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