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

Bring 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 UPEI Campus Food Bank to the Service Desk at the Library from Saturday, April 6^th to Saturday, April 27^th, 2019 and we’ll deduct $2.00 per item from your library fines.

And, if you don't have any Library fines? We will gladly accept your items (as mentioned above) to support the Campus Food Bank.

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

As part of UPEI’s 50th anniversary, the Robertson Library is presenting a lecture series to celebrate the historical roots of higher education on Prince Edward Island and its future. The series is named after educator Frank Pigot, honoured as a UPEI Founder for his work building the Library’s PEI Collection and University Archives.

Dr. Edward MacDonald’s will deliver the first lecture of the series on Tuesday, March 26 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm in the Faculty Lounge of UPEI’s SDU Main Building. Dr. MacDonald’s presentation is titled “The School of Experience: A Patchwork Quilt of Informal Island Education, 1825-1965.”

While the Island’s formal education system evolved slowly and painfully across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, other, more informal modes of teaching and learning developed to answer Islanders’ educational needs. From the agricultural societies and mechanics’ institutes of the first half of the 20th century, through the farmer’s institutes that followed, to the adult education underpinning of the Antigonish Movement and the DIY ethos of community schools in the 1960s, these informal systems of education shared one characteristic: they emphasized various kinds of practical, applied learning for Islanders who found themselves outside the province’s structured educational system.

Refreshments will be provided. Everyone is welcome.

This winter we will be reading and discussing Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island (2016). Our discussions will probe into past and present environmental changes on PEI, and how and why the Islanders are particularly sensitive to environmental issues and enmeshed in their landscape in a way that is unique among Canadians.

During our third discussion we will talk about the history of agriculture on PEI and will focus on the chapters “The Fertile Crescent: Agricultural Land Use on Prince Edward Island, 1861-1971” by Dr. Joshua MacFadyen and “Agriculture and the Environment on Prince Edward Island, 1969-2014: An Uneasy Relationship” by Mr. Jean-Paul Arsenault.  

We are thrilled that the authors, Dr. Joshua MacFadyen and Mr. Jean-Paul Arsenault, will join our discussion.

Date and time: March 14, 2019 at 4pm

Place: The Fox & Crow, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, UPEI campus.

All are welcome!

March 8^th is International Women's Day - a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, WUSC UPEI Local Committee, the Rotaract Club of UPEI, and Robertson Library will be showing the documentary To Educate A Girl: Empowering Women and Girls in the Developing World,  by filmmakers Frederick Rendina and Oren Rudavsky.

“What does it take to educate a girl? Framed by the United Nations global initiative to provide equal access to education for girls by 2015, TO EDUCATE A GIRL takes a ground-up and visually stunning view of that effort through the eyes of girls out of school, starting school or fighting against the odds to stay in school.” Kanopy

The purpose of the film will be to raise money for the Shine A Light Program, an initiative that provides women and girls within refugee camps the opportunity to better their educational prospects.

Admission is free, but there will be donations accepted at the door.

Any amount can make a difference in someone's life.

Friday, March 8th
Robertson Library, Room 312
Doors open at 5:30 pm
Show starts at 5:45 pm

All are welcome!

Fair Dealing Week provides an annual opportunity to consider and discuss the importance of copyright

in general, and of the doctrine of fair dealing in particular. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has this to say about fair dealing:

You probably make use of fair dealing every day without even realizing it, whether emailing a news article to a friend, using a clip from a song, using a copyrighted image on social media, or quoting passages from a book when writing an essay.  Activities such as these are not considered to be copyright infringement – in fact, the ability for users to make copies for specific purposes is an integral part of the Canadian Copyright Act. ... 

Fair dealing recognizes that certain uses of copyright protected works are beneficial for society. By placing limits on instances where copyright owners can require payment, fair dealing leads innovation, to the creation of new works and new scholarship. The Supreme Court of Canada increasingly refers to copyright as providing a balance between the rights of users and of copyright owners.

Fair dealing has a large, positive impact, including for:

• Educators and students at all levels,
• Creative professionals (journalists, authors, filmmakers, musicians, etc.),
• Individuals who want to use, copy or share portions of copyright protected works in their daily lives.

Throughout the week, we'll be using the Library's Twitter and Facebook accounts to share more information about fair dealing and copyright; at the end of the week, we'll launch the latest instalment of the Library's Copyright Watch web newsletter, a handy quick guide to all the latest (and forthcoming) developments in Canadian copyright.

Freedom to Read Week 

February 24 – March 2, 2019 

“Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms”--that includes having access to all reading materials!

We encourage you to come to the Library and check out books that have been challenged or banned in our Freedom to Read Week display. We also have a selection of books “under wraps” which were banned/challenged in Canada, with an excerpt of why they were challenged. Test your knowledge to see if you can guess their titles!

Fill out a Freedom to Read puzzle or word search to win a $15. gift card to Indigo.

And, don’t forget to share your favourite banned or challenged book on social media!

Check out the Freedom to Read Week website at http://www.freedomtoread.ca/

Books in the display may be borrowed from the Library.

Robertson Library will be open from 12:00 noon - 10:00 pm on Islander Day, Monday, February 18^th.

Happy Islander Day everyone! 

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

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with us!

Robertson Library Movie Talks and UPEI Student Diversity Office (SDO) are presenting the Sundance Film Festival award-winning movie The Miseducation of Cameron Post on Thursday, February 14^th.

“Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the titular character (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night.” Kanopy.

FREE movie! FREE pizza (while supplies last).

Thursday, February 14^th
5 pm, Doors open at 4:30 pm
Duffy Amphitheatre 135

Bring a date, a friend, or come on your own!  Everyone is welcome!

Check out our displays in the Library Lobby.

February 3-9 is International Development Week. Books in this display offer a cross-section of materials related to the theme of this year's International Development Week, Together for Gender Equality, and various issues that connect with that theme including economics, development aid, environment, sustainability, finance, and related topics.

February is Black History Month. During Black History Month, Canadians celebrate and honour the legacy of Black Canadians, past and present. For 2019, the theme of the Government of Canada's Black History Month campaign is Black Canadian Youth: Boundless, Rooted and Proud. Resources in this display include the history of the Black community in Canada.

Books in these displays may be borrowed from the Library. 

Movie Talks @ Robertson Library – I Am Not Your Negro

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 and the UPEI Student Diversity Office (SDO) are presenting I Am Not Your Negro, an Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. This documentary “…explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism.”

Wednesday, February 6^th
Room 312, Upper Level
Robertson Library
5 pm

Everyone is Welcome!  Free admission!