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Library is open until midnight Sunday, April 22 - Thursday, April 26.
Good luck with your exams!

Play a game, colour, get crafty, smile for a selfie fashion shoot, get creative with Lego, or just unwind in our Stress Free Zone. 

Have library fines? Help the Campus Food Bank. Bring non-perishable food or grocery items to the Service Desk & we'll deduct $2. per item from your fines.

Good Friday Noon-5pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, Easter Sunday Noon-10pm, Easter Monday Noon-10pm

Happy Easter!

Open Café is cancelled. Stay tuned for our next event - Stress-free Zone!

Mon., Mar. 12, 7-8:15 pm, Library Room 312.
Join us for this entertaining but enlightening film on the symptoms, emotions, and side effects of depression.

Monday, March 5 at 4:30, Library LINC, Room 265

This video provides great insight into the need for all-gender washrooms. Discussion will follow.

Learn your rights under the Fair Dealing part of Canadian copyright law.

Check out books that have been challenged or banned in our Freedom to Read Week display. 
Enter to win a Freedom to Read Week gift card to Indigo. And, don’t forget to share your favourite banned or challenged book.

Library open 12 noon - 10 pm on Islander Day, Monday, Feb. 19th.

Happy Islander Day!

Students, we LOVE you! Come celebrate Valentine’s Day in your Library! Free pizza & movie, My Funny Valentine, 6 – 8:30 pm, Room 312, Library Upper Level. Photo booth & valentine making available all day!

Sign up for a workshop to learn how to use Robertson Library's 3D printer and see a demonstration! No experience necessary!

UnSlut: A Documentary Film, “features conversations with those who have experienced sexual shaming, including the family and friends of Rehtaeh Parsons.” Monday, Jan. 29th, Library LINC, Room 265, 7-9 pm.

UPEI now has access to the ACM Digital Library, including full-text access to the journals, conference proceedings, magazines and newsletters of the Association of Computing Machinery. 

Finding Dawn,  a “compelling documentary that puts a human face” to the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. 
Monday, January 22^nd, Robertson Library LINC, Room 265, 7-9 pm. Everyone is welcome!

Abegweit,  Monday, Jan. 15^th,  Library LINC,  Room 265, 7-9 pm. Discussion following the documentary. ”Examines the construction of the Confederation Bridge and the voices of the people affected by it." 

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Discover your Library's resources and services. Book a tour now. We would love to show you around!

LRC Plus provides analysis of poems, short stories, novels, etc. as well as biographical info about authors.

For the final day of 12 Days of PEI Postcards, we wanted to feature a detailed look into a sender of some postcards.

Discover CAB Abstracts: agriculture, tourism, and human nutrition, not just vet!

We were experiencing some technical difficulties and couldn't post a postcard for Day 10. But we're back on track today. 

Today's postcard features an old restaurant that no longer exists. It used to be located in downtown Charlottetown on Kent Street. Any idea what popular restaurant is located in that building today? 

Today for the 8th day of 12 Days of PEI postcards we feature an Island pipedream that never was

>Welcome to the 7th day of 12 Days of Postcards!

Here is today's postcard: might need a bigger boat for this catch!

Today's postcard for 12 Days of Postcards is featured on a popular TV show in the 1970s.

Today's postcard(s) is of the St. Dunstan's Basilica fire in 1913.

For the 4th day of the 12 Days of PEI Postcards we have another tall-tale postcard, but with a fairy-tale twist.

Welcome back for another day of 12 Days of PEI Postcards.

Welcome back to the 2nd day of the 12 Days of PEI Postcards.

Library open extended hours until December 15th. Monday - Friday 8 am - 11pm, Saturday - Sunday 9 am - 11 pm.

Reduce or clear your Library fines and help support the UPEI Food Bank! Bring non-perishable food or grocery items to the Service Desk & we'll deduct $2 per item from your Library fines.

The Library is running a free trial of the HeinOnline Canadian Core legal/historical database now through July 31.

The Library now offers a Click Mini book scanner in the Learning Commons

Feel overwhelmed? Studying getting you down? Do you need to just take a breath?

Come and relax in the Library's Stress Free Zone.

Beginning on December 1, we will be showcasing 12 days of vintage PEI Postcards.

Thursday, November 23, 5 - 11 pm

It's that time of year when you're getting stressed - we can help you with that!
Check out the Pyjama Party schedule.

StatsCan has recently released 2016 data tables and graphics for "Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity" and "Housing"

3D printer now available to UPEI and PEI community!

Robertson Library will be open noon-5pm on Remembrance Day, Saturday, Nov. 11th; 10am-11pm on Sunday, Nov. 12th; and noon-10pm on Monday, Nov. 13th.

The Library has obtained a free trial for online access to the scholarly journal Science for the period Nov 1 - Dec 1, 2017.

Tuesday, October 24, 1pm-4pm

Robertson Library Rm 265 (LINC)

In coordination with the Music and Belonging Wikipedia Project, the UPEI library invites all to improve existing PEI-related music or artist articles by adding citations to existing articles, or creating new articles. No experience necessary!

The event will provide training and guidance on editing Wikipedia, and finding and citing reliable sources. Refreshments will also be provided.

Wednesday, Oct. 25th at 7 pm, Room 308 (Upper Level) in the Library. Ghost stories, eerie tales, songs, & legends from UPEI, PEI, and beyond.

Events October 23 - October 26 to celebrate International Open Access Week

Congratulations to Boyang Bernie Zhou, who won the grand prize of a Samsung tablet, and to Jocelynne Richards and Selina Kuhn who were the winners of a $15 gift card to the UPEI Bookstore.

Robertson Library will be open 12 noon - 10 pm on Thanksgiving Day, Monday, October 9^th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Exhibit Launch Celebrates Homecoming 2017.

The Library’s University Archives is pleased to celebrate Homecoming Weekend 2017 with the launch of this exhibit on the development of sports and fitness at UPEI. Stop by the lobby to learn more about our University's 48 great years of sporting tradition!

Friday, Sept 22, 12:30-1pm in the Library Lobby

#SciLit17

Now through December a free trial on the database Literary Encyclopedia.

Stargazing has been postponed, and we'll try again in October! 

#SciLit17