Author: Library Technology

In preparation for the arrival of new furniture in spring 2025 on the Library’s 5th floor, installation of electrical equipment and acoustic panels will occur over the winter Reading Week (Tuesday, February 18 – Friday, February 21).

The west and central silent study areas will be inaccessible during installation of electrical raceway equipment and acoustic panels (see floorplan.) A brief power shutdown can be anticipated (impacting the 4th and 5th floors). What’s to come? Comfortable semi-enclosed study pods and accessible study pods will be available for students in the 5th floor silent zone. Sound absorbing acoustic panels will reduce distractions and create an more conducive environment for focused work.

Director and storyteller Tasha Hubbard was interviewed on CBC Radio’s “Saskatchewan Weekend” (hosted by Shauna Powers) about her new film Singing Back the Buffalo. Listen here:

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-205-saskatchewan-weekend/clip/16126972-singing-back-buffalo-filmmaker-tasha-hubbard.

Hubbard will be screening the film at the University of Regina February 13th at an event co-presented by the Archer Library and Archives. The event is now at capacity (there is a waitlist) however for those who can’t attend, the film is also available to be viewed online through the Library:

https://casls-regina.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CASLS_REGINA/1g3evkr/alma9923741488803476

Feb. 13th Event listing here:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/singing-back-the-buffalo-film-screening-conversation-with-tasha-hubbard-tickets-1107634497599

As human rights are being eroded elsewhere in the world, the Archer Library and Archives remains committed to showcasing and amplifying the voices of those who have historically been oppressed, discriminated against, or under-represented. For Black History Month, we have a page dedicated to highlighting some of our resources either by or about Black Canadians or from the global Black diaspora, and you can find it here:

https://library.uregina.ca/libraryleisure/blackhistorymonth

Be sure to check out the Events section for more info of things happening this month: the “Blind Date With a Book” contest and the Presentation “A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits the Regina Campus in 1969.”

The Dr. John Archer Library & Archives is co-hosting a free film screening of a new documentary titled Singing Back the Buffalo.  Afterwards, join director Tasha Hubbard as she discusses her journey to being a director and Indigenous storyteller. This event is part of Indigenous Storytelling Month across libraries in Saskatchewan in February.  The public film screening and storytelling is also in recognition of the 150th Anniversary signing of Treaty No. 4.  Details and registration are at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/singing-back-the-buffalo-film-screening-conversation-with-tasha-hubbard-tickets-1107634497599.

Register here: https://uregina.libcal.com/event/3859227

The Dr. John Archer Library & Archives invites you to a special Black History Month hybrid presentation, “A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits the Regina Campus in 1969” with Dr. Dawn Flood.

Dawn Rae Flood is an Associate Professor of History at Campion College at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth and the Courts (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012, 2018) and “A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits Saskatchewan, 1969,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 8 no. 2 (Fall 2014): 21-49. Her research focuses on race and gender relations in a modern, urban setting and radical activist movements in support of social justice. Her research on Fred Hampton’s visit to the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan is currently being developed as a dramatic play and limited-run television series.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 1:30 – 3:00 pm. LY 107.32 & 107.33 (Regina & Wascana Rooms), Archer Library main floor, University of Regina.

This is an in-person and online event. Registration is required. Click here for more details: https://uregina.libcal.com/event/3862243

The Dr. John Archer Library Award is available until February 1 for undergraduate students to apply.  Students must apply using Student Awards and Financial Aid’s online system called SAMS. 

Information about the award is at https://library.uregina.ca/library_award

If you go to our website (https://library.uregina.ca/homepage) and scroll down just a wee bit, you’ll find the “Featured At Archer” section where we regularly curate a small selection of resources from our vast online collection. Currently featured are winter-themed content like “Winter Classics” from the Naxos Music Library, a collection of works by Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninov (among others), and Timothy Steele’s celebrated poetry collection “Towards the Winter Solstice.” Both are accessible to university faculty, staff and students with an active username and password.

Need inspiration for holiday break activities? ??? Browse the PDF links and gallery slide shows on our Winter Fest Guide for a selection of book and movie recommendations from U of R students!

https://library.uregina.ca/librarycontest/winterfest

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Library Winter Fest Contest! ❄️? We received 95 entries from 69 undergraduate students and 18 graduate students. ?✨? Congrats to our Winter Fest Contest winners! ?✨