The Law Library brought their best Halloween faces today! Please meet our Book Wizard and Book Fairies. If you’re lucky, you may find them fluttering around the Library assisting students, keeping the collection organized, and sprinkling fairy dust everywhere they go. Sadly, our Supervisor Fairy is out with the Fairy Flu today and could not be here with us.

Fairy wings, skirts, wands and Wizard scarf were all recycled and made from discarded books removed from the Law Collection.

From our Library to yours, Happy Halloween everyone!

Here at the Murray Library, we absolutely adore Saskatchewan Library Week. Besides being an excellent way to promote libraries in our beautiful province, it’s also the best week of the year to bring out our inner poets. We (Lara, Kelly, and our newest member, Brittany S.) maybe had a little too much fun making book spine poetry, but we also got a lot of engagement with the amazing display Brittany made.

We made it easy for everyone to make their own poetry by putting out a variety of interesting titles.

Here are some example titles people could use on the display:

• Dangerous Bodies
• Exceptional Violence
• Hot Thespian Action!
• Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

And just like that, a poem is born!

We posted a poem on our Facebook page for each day of Saskatchewan Library Week, so we’d like to think we now know where to find the best book titles (at least at Murray Library). If you want to make darker poems, we’d suggest searching the history section from D – DX (lots of war books with titles to reflect that tone). If you’re more into silly poems, we’d suggest checking in the North Wing (Language and Literature), especially in the PR9299s. Alternatively, if you’d like to create racier poems there’s the women and gender studies section in the HQs (but you didn’t hear that from me!).

Here are some of the poems we created this week:

This is one of Lara’s creations. I think she was feeling wistful for the Royal Wedding when she made this.

This is one of mine (Kelly). It received a “#inspired <3<3<3” comment on Facebook that made me very proud.

If anyone else celebrated Saskatchewan Library Week by making book spine poetry, we’d love to know about it!

Ghostly apparitions will be haunting the Law Library for the remainder of October. The display features a collection of ghost stories and a graveyard of 18^th Century Gothic writers. Keep your eyes peeled for the friendly ghosts all dressed up for court. Could one of them be Diefenbaker himself?   

You know what to do.

You can see the most interesting things when you look up, when you look out. This was what the Science Library staff saw the other afternoon.

Gee, can we do that?

Thanks to the library’s dragon boat team for their exemplary effort on the river this weekend and to everyone who supported the team with donations, contributions to the bake sale, and coming down to Rotary Park to cheer us on.

As our steerer Doug coached us, there are only two finishes that matter in dragon boats – first and ‘not last’. We didn’t place first, but we also didn’t place last and everyone had a great time. More importantly, our team raised $3450 for The Children’s Wish Foundation and Ronald McDonald House Saskatchewan. Congratulations everyone!

Team Bookin’ It

Did you know that the Library has a team in the 2018 FMG Saskatoon Dragon Boat Festival? Team Bookin’ It is training hard to best our campus nemesis – the University Relations Sensations (and all of the other teams) on the river and in fundraising. This year the event is raising funds for Ronald McDonald House and the Children’s Wish Foundation – two great organizations that do important work in our community and are closely connected to campus through the University Hospital and future Children’s Hospital. You can support the team and help us reach our fundraising goal of $5000 by visiting our bake sales this week:

• Tuesday, July 17 from 1 – 3:00 in the Law Library
• Thursday, July 19 from 10 – noon in Murray 122.4 (first office on your right)

Purchase delicious home-baked goodies by donation.

Late Addition! We also have a silent auction accompanying the bake sales. Check out the three items in person and place your bid when you pick up your baking.

• Hand-printed scarf using eco materials on silk, so luxurious and beautiful! Designed and printed right here in Saskatoon! Donated by Catherine Boden
• Shannon Lucky will hand knit you a pair of custom fit mittens. The winner will get to pick their own colours for the design, and consult with Shannon to ensure a perfect fit that will keep your fingers warm this winter! Donated by Shannon Lucky
• Knit using Martina Behm’s pattern “Fractal Danger” pattern. This 100% Merino wool shawl will keep you warm and up your nerd cred with its mathematical formula of a repeating fractal pattern! Donated by Jaclyn McLean

If you can’t make it to a bake sale, you can also make a donation to the team online at https://rmhcsk.akaraisin.com/fmgdragonboat2018/UofSlibrary – just pick a team member (any member! all donations count toward the team total). The races are this Saturday, July 21st.  Get your donations in this week and come to watch us Bookin’ It on the river at this free, family-friendly event.