On behalf of the LDC I would like to everyone who participated in the Step Count Challenge. It was a great success! Together we walked 4,626,874 steps! That’s pretty great. Here are some photos of a couple of our prize winners:
Truda won the FitBit! Congratulations!
Liv won the Library Tote Bag! Congratulations!
We’ve had a busy week over here at UASC. Our Diefenbaker flag collection has received a lot of media attention recently, due to Canada 150. Stevie and Amy, the go-to-girls for flag knowledge, got to do some fun stuff!
On Friday morning, Amy had a chat with Sheila Coles on the CBC’s Morning Edition, discussing some of the wacky flags, and how the U of S came to be in possession of them.
Then later that day, Radio Canada came to visit the archives and Stevie and Amy showed them some of the flags, and explained the history and context. You can view the news clip here, and read the article here.
But the fun didn’t stop there, oh no. Once you’re in the flag life, you are in it for good. This past weekend, Stevie, Amy, and their friend Kyle Markewich did two repeat performances of the short play, “The Great Flag Debate,” which was originally written and performed for Archives Week in February. The play uses quotes from real letters written by Canadians to Diefenbaker expressing their strong feelings either for or against the proposed flags. Hosted by the Western Development Museum as a part of their “Fun With Flags” programming, it was a great time, and an awesome way to celebrate Canada 150. Featured here is Stevie as Mr. Diefenbaker, Kyle as our chorus/director, and Amy as Pearson.
Since our last edition of “What’s up, UASC” we have also welcomed Danielle Bitz to our unit. We are so happy to have her here with us, she makes a great addition to the team.
We are also welcoming Craig back into the fold, as he steps into Tim’s position as Head while Tim is away on sabbatical.
UASC is excited to announce the addition of wallpapers and screensavers to our Courtney Milne website, created from his extensive collection of images. We have collected over 100 images across 11 different themes which have been made available in three different resolutions. You can download a zipped file containing a selection of different wallpapers based on the theme and either pick one image or you van set them up as a desktop slideshow. If you would like a refresher on how to do that, scroll to the bottom of this post.
Please click here to visit the page!
We are really excited to be able to share Courtney’s beautiful images with the public in this new and exciting way. We hope you find a new image that you haven’t seen before. Please take a look at the collection of wallpapers if you have the time and inclination. We would love to hear your feedback before we announce the wallpapers to the university-at-large, so please leave us your comments!
Here is a small selection of some of Amy’s favourite desktop images to give you a sneak peak as to what you will find in the wallpaper collection.
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Here is a quick refresher on how to make your wallpaper a slideshow of images.
1. Download the set of images you want and hit “save file”. 
2. Unzip the files into a location where you will find them again.
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3. Right click on your desktop and go to Personalize.
4. Click the Wallpapers button near the bottom.
5. Click “browse” and go find the folder you saved you images to.
6. Check the boxes of all the images you would like and hit “save changes”. Voila!
You can even add images from different thematic collections if you like, as long as you save them all to the same folder.
Greetings from UASC! In (early) celebration of Saskatchewan Library Week (Oct 18th – 24th), we put together a couple of entries for the SLA’s annual Book Spine Poetry contest. We perused the Neil Richards Collection of Sexual and Gender Diversity to tie it in with our current display, Year of Queer 2, which is set up on Murray ground floor.
The topical entry:
The second one, not so much on topic:
