Robertson Library will be open extended hours through April 27th, 2017.

April 3rd - April 27th hours:

     Monday - Friday -- 8 am - 11 pm
     Saturday & Sunday -- 9 am - 11 pm

Easter Weekend Hours - April 14th - April 17th:

     Good Friday -- 10 am - 11 pm
     Saturday -- 9 am - 11 pm
     Easter Sunday -- 10 am - 11 pm
     Easter Monday -- 10 am - 11 pm     

April 28th hours:  Friday -- 8 am - 5 pm

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

Good luck with your exams!

Feel overwhelmed? Studying getting you down? Do you need to just take a break?

The Robertson Library has set up a Stress Free Zone in the Main Level Lobby of the Library for you! 

Relax, play a game, colour, get crafty, take a selfie at the dress-up/photo booth, knit, etc. in the Stress Free Zone. 

As a special treat, Chartwells and the Robertson Library are co-sponsoring two afternoons of cupcakes & cookies, coffee & hot chocolate on Saturday, April 8^th @ 1pm and 4pm, and Saturday, April 15^th @ 1 pm and 4 pm.  Enjoy a free drink and snack!

Come and unwind, have some fun in your Library! 

The Stress Free Zone will continue until April 26th, 2017.

We are here for you…

RefWorks is a service provided by Robertson Library that will help you format your paper citations according to the style rules you need to use, including APA and MLA (and many more).

What:  30-minute intro to using the New RefWorks

When:
Tuesday March 28 at 12:30 pm
and repeating on
Wednesday March 29 at noon

Where: in the LINC classroom in the Library.

This will be useful for students and faculty, whether you used the old RefWorks or are learning RefWorks for the first time. If you bring your laptop, we can help you set up the Word or Google Docs plugin after the main presentation.

If you are unable to make these times but would like to learn about RefWorks, please contact Melissa Belvadi, mbelvadi@upei.ca.

Faculty are encouraged to share this announcement with their classes.

What: 20 Minute Workshop - Tips and Tricks for Using Google Scholar

When: March 14 4pm  OR March 22 12:30pm

Where: LINC classroom in the Library

We promise you will learn at least one very useful tip to save you time!

Note that this workshop is about Google Scholar, not regular Google.

For more information, or to request other short workshops, contact Melissa Belvadi, mbelvadi@upei.ca.

The E-Learning Office has moved to Robertson Library 302/303.  Faculty and staff are invited to come visit our new location on Thursday, March 2nd, 2017 from 9:00 am - 11:00 am. Come enjoy some refreshments, meet our staff, and find out how we can help support you!

The next “OpenPages” at UPEI’s Robertson Library happens March 1, at 7 pm and highlights the new book by UPEI professor Ann Braithwaite, Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies.

Open Pages features local authors speaking about their books: what inspired them, what they learned, what they want to share. Event takes place in the new lounge on the first floor of UPEI's Robertson Library. Light refreshments will be served.

Dr. Ann Braithwaite is professor and coordinator of Diversity and Social Justice Studies at UPEI. She co-authored this new book with Dr. Catherine M. Orr, professor and chair of Critical Identity Studies at Beloit College.

Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies is a guide to engaging students in the challenges—and pleasures—of thinking critically about gender, race, and sex today. By focusing on “the everyday,” it speaks to the importance of students’ understanding the taken-for granted circumstances of their daily lives. It explores the idea that “people are different, and the world isn’t fair,” and engages students in the follow-up question, “Now that we know, how shall we live?”

“This publication is of great significance for students from any faculty, even though it is most likely going to have the greatest impact in the Faculty of Arts,” said Dr. Nebojsa Kujundzic, dean of arts at UPEI. 

Robertson Library will be open on Islander Day, Monday, February 20th, 2017, 12 noon - 10 pm.

Happy Islander Day!

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

“the important doctrines of fair use in the United States and fair dealing in Canada and other jurisdictions. Fair use and fair dealing are essential limitations and exceptions to copyright, allowing the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. Fair use and fair dealing are flexible doctrines, allowing copyright to adapt to new technologies. These doctrines facilitate balance in copyright law, promoting further progress and accommodating freedom of speech and expression.While fair use and fair dealing is employed on a daily basis by students, faculty, librarians, journalists, and all users of copyrighted material, Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is a time to promote and discuss the opportunities presented, celebrate successful stories and explain the doctrine.”

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:

• Name
• Phone
• Preferred Email
• Major or planned/possible major/degree program
• Whether you have had any formal instruction from a librarian at UPEI yet in any class and the semester of your latest such experience

We'll be selecting among volunteers to get a balanced mix of students.

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!

And a reminder, you can visit our digial collections online any time to see more great material on campus life at Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's University.