Month: May 2025

Alice’s Library Adventure

Visit the “Alice’s Library Adventure” display at the Archer Library entrance, scan the QR code and tell us your favorite summer book! Browse our Victorian Books table for inspiration! Pick up a free bookmark and/or a Victorian-style thaumatrope with an Archer Library mood pencil, while supplies last!

(Note: a “thaumatrope” is an optical toy that was popular in the 19th century. A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to blend into one.)

No time to stop by? Explore our online “Alice’s Library Adventure” to find the contest form and join the fun from anywhere! Also delve into the online library resources about Alice in Wonderland and Victorian culture.

There will be TEN randomly drawn prizes: three library goodie bags each with one of the following prizes: 1. Chick ‘N’ Tendees 50% off meal coupon, 2. Starbucks $5.00 Gift Card or 3. Starbucks reusable hot cup. Additionally there will be seven other library goodie bags as prizes.

Visit Alice’s Library Adventure for full contest details.

Judaic Studies Collection at Dr. John Archer Library

May has been designated Canadian Jewish Heritage Month since 2018.  For about 30 years, the Dr. John Archer Library & Archives, through the Max and Pearl Herman Endowment Fund, has been acquiring books to support Judaic Studies.  There are approximately 1800 titles representing six themes. 

Titles in this collection are browsable online at https://casls-regina.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01CASLS_REGINA:01CASLS_REGINA&collectionId=81320629280003476&lang=en. 

(Pictured: Jewish Life in Canada, about artist William Kurelek, by Sarah Milroy. William Kurelek (1927–1977) is a beloved figure in Canadian art, a revered Ukrainian-Canadian painter whose works express his deeply felt immigrant experience and his compassionate vision of humanity. In 1975, he created a suite of 16 jewel-toned paintings titled Jewish Life in Canada in homage to his Jewish art dealer and friend Avrom Isaacs and as a gesture across the cultural divide. Relying on archival documents and photographs from communities across the country, Kurelek foregrounded the role of tradition, community, and family at the core of the Jewish experience in mid-twentieth century Canada.)