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Today is the first day of the fall 2023 semester, so welcome to all of our new and returning students!

The Archer Book Club is please to announce the book selection for September: Fairy Tale by Stephen King (with Zoom session hosted by the Archer Library’s Jennifer Hall.)

“King’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy – and his dog – must lead the battle.” (from the author’s website.)

More info here: https://library.uregina.ca/c.php?g=716288&p=5296619

Join us for a lively discussion of this New York Times bestseller. As always, Zoom information will be provided closer to the planned meeting: 12:00pm – 1:00pm, September 27th, 2023.

We have added a new button to our homepage: Enhanced Search. Provided by Dilex, Enhanced Search gives you a search experience well suited to long-term research projects by providing a history of search tasks. This allows you to revisit past searches, resume your search strategies, continue searching from a different device, and save relevant results. It also provides timelines of your various search tasks and the number of documents you saved in each session to help you visualize search productivity.

Learn more about how to use this powerful new tool with our Enhanced Search LibGuide.

What better way to celebrate the restoration of a frog sculpture than with a giant replica frog sculpture cake! Yesterday morning at the University’s College Avenue Campus, the newly refurbished and much-beloved Joe Fafard cement and ceramic tile frog sculpture was officially unveiled (though the rain prevented the ceremony from happening outside as originally intended.) Remarks were presented from David Dick, Dean of Media, Art & Performance, Ali King, Curator of the President’s Advisory Committee on Art (pictured here), University President Dr. Jeff Keshen, and Joe Fafard’s widow Alyce Hamon.

Be sure to check out the repaired frog sculpture on the front lawn of the College Ave. Campus when you’re next in the area!

Over the weekend of 12-13 August 2023, OCLC will migrate their Relais data center from Ottawa to Toronto. This will impact all North American Relais ILL hosted customers, and your production environment will be unavailable.

Thanks to all who participated in our summer comedy movie contest! Pictured here is a selection of the comedies that students, faculty and staff submitted as favorites (all of which are available for viewing through the Archer Library).

We received 46 entries from 36 members of the University of Regina community on the “favorite comedy movie” form.
Thank you to the 19 undergraduate students, 7 graduate students, 7 staff members and 3 faculty members for their participation!

On August 1, 2023 the random draw for the library gift bag resulted in the following ten winners:

Dorrett Poyser-Krause, Staff, Facilities Management – The Gods must be crazy
Angele Poirier, Graduate Student, Economics – Mrs. Doubtfire
Ishan Soni, Undergraduate Student, Computer Science – Dhamaal
Manpreet Kaur, Graduate Student, Education – Someone Great
Bin Wang, Staff, Environmental Systems Engineering – The Super Mario Bros.
Ridhima, Undergraduate Student, Computer Science – Airplane
Victoria Reeve, Undergraduate Student, Psychology – Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Sydney Lorenz, Undergraduate Student, Sociology – Heathers
Sharmin Jahan Mim, Graduate Student, Environmental Systems Engineering – Step Brothers
Siyang Zhang, Staff, Department of Geology – La Grande Vadrouille

(https://library.uregina.ca/c.php?g=731552&p=5295251)

More great news! We have a new self-checkout machine (well, an iPad really) on the main floor – a much simpler and more streamlined interface than the old one. Give it a try next time you’re signing out books from us – it’s opposite the Help Desk, at the column with the curved seating.

We’re back for another installment of the Association of Canadian Archivists’ Hashtag party. Today’s theme is #ArchivesBeaches. Many people in southern Saskatchewan head to the beautiful Qu’Appelle Valley to cool off during the lazy days of summer and have been doing so for many decades. This photo was taken during a Fort Qu’Appelle Summer School activity at Echo Lake in the Summer of ’69.

Travel back in time this summer! Check out some recently digitized photographs from our Archives that depict scenes from Europe, North America and Central America in the 1930s. These photos are part of our Theodore A. Heinrich Collection.

Discover the collection here:

https://casls-regina.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01CASLS_REGINA:01CASLS_REGINA&collectionId=81287158650003476

Two more award-winning titles from the University of Regina Press to celebrate their 10th anniversary:

“The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir” by Joseph Auguste Merasty (a national bestseller, as well as the first book selected for One Book One Province in 2017.)

https://casls-regina.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CASLS_REGINA/1igebl9/alma9923425055903476

“Where once they stood : Newfoundland’s rocky road towards Confederation” by raymond Blake and Melvin Baker (winner of the 2020 Pierre Savard Award and the 2019 Peter Cashin Prize.)

https://casls-regina.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CASLS_REGINA/1igebl9/alma9923217819303476

Available in both e-book and print versions through the Archer Library using the links above, or from https://uofrpress.ca/