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Halloween at LIDHSL
The Spook-Tacular staff of the Health Sciences Library had fun, not only celebrating Halloween, but Justine’s fond farewell.
LDC Step Challenge
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!
Treaty Education Display at the Education & Music Library
Now that classes have begun, we’re excited to promote our most current display in response to the TRC’s Call to Action. Here is a brief overview of our display, including some pictures.
Solemn promises: Treaty education in Saskatchewan
The intent of this exhibit is to showcase a broad range of resources which can be used to teach elementary and secondary school students about the historical context and importance of First Nations’ treaties and treaty education in Saskatchewan. By displaying these resources in conjunction with timelines, quotes, lesson plans and projects created by The Office of the Treaty Commissioner, educators, and students, we hope to foster conversations, spark ideas, and inspire students and pre-service teachers to deepen their understanding and capacity to teach the next generation of learners about this significant topic.
Curators: MaryLynn & Tina (with help from Beth at Science)
Here is a list of resources used for the display: TreatyEdResourcesBooklet
The display will run until the end of December 2017. Feel free to stop by and check it out!
G3 Open for Business
After a long summer of primping and preening, room G3 in the Murray Library is ready to reveal its shiny new makeover! Starting Monday of next week the room will once again be available for booking through the intranet’s room booking page. Come on over and check it out!
Library visits Residence
On Tuesday, August 22nd, Lara (from Murray) and Michayla (summer student in SLS) attended the Residence Advisor Programs Fair in Sask Hall. The intent of this fair was for new RAs to be made aware of on- and off-campus partners who offer programs or services that they can use in their required student/outreach programming throughout the year. RAs can plan programs to bring partners into residence for specific needs or bring residence students out to existing programs. After visiting the Programs Fair, each RA is required to organize one or more programs or events with the partners who attended the fair, meaning that a guaranteed connection will be made with those students.
We had the opportunity to speak with the RAs about some of the library’s services that would be most valuable to students living in residence (SLS help centres and workshops, late night Safe Study, group study rooms, computers and printing in the library, Ask Us chat, etc.), as well as highlight specific library programming that they could attend, such as library tours and Smart Start. It was a great chance to speak directly with these student leaders, and to ensure that they are disseminating our information directly to their students. We are very excited that this new connection has been created with the Residence Department!
What’s up, UASC?
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.
Work Green Champion Bringing ‘it’ to Law
In May our fantastic, remarkable, incredible, astonishing, wonderful, marvellous and miraculous Work Green Champion applied for the Office of Sustainability Work Green Grant for our location. Small grants of up to $300 are available to help Work Green units invest in the adoption of greener practices (e.g., the purchase of reusable dishes and cutlery).*
Look at our loot!!!!!
*plariagized from the Office of Sustainability site.
Congratulations Robin!
Reconciliation at the Education & Music Library
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This post is long overdue! In January, the Education & Music Library began its first of three exhibits in response to The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action #62: to create “age-appropriate curriculum on residential schools, treaties, and aboriginal peoples’ historical and contemporary contributions to Canada.” The exhibit entitled Responding with Heart: Residential Schools highlighted resources for elementary and secondary classrooms.
This exhibit coincided with a new 400 level class offered by the College of Education that focuses on education for reconciliation. The class visited our display early in the term and then held their final class celebration in our branch. As the class presented their final projects, it was wonderful to learn and to share ideas about reconciliation with them. It was also encouraging to see our students interacting with our resources on display. Here are some pictures from that event.
In addition to the display, we now have a research guide that highlights resources for K-12 pre-service teachers, including a section on lesson plans relating to this important topic.