Adele came by the Education & Music Library today on her day off to bring us individual vases for ours desks! THANKS, Adele!

Please come and join us on Tuesday March 3, 2015  2:30 – 3:30 pm

for the Veterinary Medicine Library Open House.

There will be a brief program at 3 pm,

and plenty of snacks and bottled water.

We look forward to seeing you!

Is Feb. 9th too late to do a January in review post? Not sure, but here goes!

This month saw the end of the Courtney Milne exhibit in the link, and the rise of the Sask Music Collection exhibit under the curatorship of Carolyn Doi. A beautiful show, highlighting the unique role of music in Saskatchewan’s heritage. It will be up until the 27th of March, with a reception being held on March 11th at 3:00 pm, for all who are interested.

(ok, so that wasn’t really UASC news, but exciting nonetheless!)

The second exhibit to go up was another of our “mini-displays” on the third and ground floors. In anticipation of Aboriginal Achievement Week, we decided to concentrate on that theme, with the two cases downstairs featuring the University’s first male and female Aboriginal grads (to learn more on them, visit : http://library.usask.ca/archives/exhibitions-digital/exhibitions/aboriginal-achievement.php)

On third, we have some materials on Allen Sapp, as well as selections from our special collections featuring Aboriginal writers. Although Aboriginal Achievement week is now over, we hope to leave the display up until the end of the month.

Last week was not only Aboriginal Achievement week, it was also Saskatchewan Archives Week–always an exciting time for us here at UASC. I was lucky enough to once again sit a table at the archives pavilion at the Heritage Festival of Saskatoon on December 30th at the Western Development Museum, alongside Laurie Wing and Tim Hutchinson. It was one of the busiest years anyone could remember, with the parking lot full to bursting, Boom Town was booming, and we had a steady stream of interested, and interesting people come by our table to say hello, ask questions, and peruse the many Greystone yearbooks we had out.

What struck me in particular was a pair of young people, high-school age, who came by and spent quite a bit of time with the Greystones. They were less interested in the contents of the books, and more interested in the heft of them–the thick, textured covers, and where color prints were used, and where not. The physicality of the book in action.

On Wednesday Feb. 4, we had our yearly celebrity readings night at the Bassment, always good entertainment (and good food and drink too! ). Among those reading this year were John Gormley, former city Councillor Donna Birkmaier and “Dr. Booze” James Romanow. Gormley reading an excerpt from a CCF radio address was particularly memorable.

And that’s about it for the month in review–which was really more of the past two weeks in review–which might say something alarming about my memory.

The traditional Charlie Brown Paperclip Tree hopes everyone had a happy holidays!

December was a month  of experimenting with social media for UASC.

We began a Twitter account which you can follow  @sask_uasc,

and a Facebook page ,

and a blog.

We are hoping to use Facebook and Twitter to share some of the interesting things that happen here on a day-to-day basis, or interesting finds that turn up in the course of our work. The blog, on the other hand, will be more article centered (though still not overly formal), highlighting aspects of our holdings and our work–and hopefully featuring guest authors!

If you have any ideas for things you’d like to see us do (or not do) let us know!

In the meantime, an archives and special collections Twelve Days of Christmas  (was tempted to record myself singing it, but decided I’d spare everyone).

In other news, a copy of The Book of Remembrance, which features short biographies of all of the soldiers from Saskatoon and the U of S who died in the First World War, was accepted into the Special Collections holdings by Dean Vicki Williamson on December 10th. You can learn more about the book here.

Click on the image to receive a happy holiday treat from the

University of Saskatchewan Law Library.

The Office of Sustainability is currently retrofitting water fountains across campus with new water bottle filling stations, and the Law Library got one! The retrofitting initiative was sparked by a SENSSA (School of Environment and Sustainability Students’ Association) campaign to ban bottled water on campus. The new stations function as place to fill your water bottle and a water fountain for those who just need a sip. The stations also track the number of bottles of water each individual unit has saved since their installation. Since it became operation late yesterday morning – 82 bottles of store bought water have been saved.