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Monday to Friday 8:00 to 6:00
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 to 5:00

Safe Study Hours resume in September!

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Safe Study is offered by USSU and the Murray Library.

Date: April 5th
Show time: 5:00 pm
Place: Collaborative Learning Lab

Feature Film: Wiebo's War
Soon after natural gas wells were drilled near the Alberta home of Reverend Wiebo Ludwig and his clan, the Christian community started experiencing health problems. After five years of being ignored by the oil and gas industry, Ludwig decided to fight. The story of a man’s relentless struggle against powerful industry interests. (93 min)

Animated short: A Prairie Story
Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her home town, Calgary, in this critique of the spread of suburbia and exurbia. Beautifully animated with Plasticine sculpted on glass and paper cut-outs. (1 min 34 s)

The University of Saskatchewan Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity and the Exploring Culture Working Group invites proposals from artists, activists, student and community groups, and community-based scholars to engage with the resources of the Neil Richards Collections and associated archives which are held by the University Library, University Archives and Sask Archives. These collections preserve many items representing the popular culture of LGBTQ communities of Saskatchewan, Canada and beyond, including fiction, non-fiction and art books, lifestyle and physique magazines, comic and cartoon books, posters, postcards, button collections, sound recordings and archival materials. For more information about the program click here.
For more information about the Sexual and Gender Diversity Collections on Campus see: http://library.usask.ca/spcoll/diversity/campusresources.php

Jim Settee was a Metis elder and at the age of 86, the oldest person to be ordained in the Anglican Church. As a spiritual mentor he helped many of his own people to better their lives and improve their communities. This documentary traces the remarkable life of a man dedicated to preserving the heritage of the people of Northern Saskatchewan. It's also a story of transformation for the filmmaker and many others who found their own road home through Settee's kindness.

Join the University of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal Students' Centre (ASC) in celebrating Aboriginal Achievement Week.

One month trial – March 1-31, 2012
http://usask.NaxosVideoLibrary.com

The University Library brings you this trial – Naxos extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Watch the world’s greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists perform on demand!

Key features include:
1. Over 1375 full-lengh videos, available anytime, anywhere
2. Search videos by category, role, composer, artists, production personnel, work, venue

The following login is for UofS affiliates who are having trouble with authentication via your unique URL. This login allows for full streaming, but no playlist or clip creation.

General (Member) Username:
Member Login: USASKmm
Member Password: USASKmm

Contact Carolyn Doi, Music Liaison Librarian, Carolyn.doi@usask.ca, with comments and suggestions.

Come to the Speed Scrabble Tournament on the ground floor between 2:00 and 4:00!

Cheer on your favourite team in person or support Read Saskatoon by making a donation on their website.

Free Admission - Everyone Welcome

See Official Website: http://www.tambienlalluvia.com/en/

Film screening followed by Panel Discussion with:
Dr. Priscilla Settee (Native Studies/U of S)
Dr. Lalita Bharadwaj (School of Public Health & Global Institute for Water Security/U of S)
Prof. Rodolfo Pino-Robles (Native Studies/U of S)
Jeh Custerra (Environmental Campaigner)

Event Generously Sponsored by:
College of Arts & Science Div. of Humanities & Fine Arts, Dept. of Languages & Linguistics, Women’s & Gender Studies Program and the University Library.

Two Showtimes: Collaborative Learning Lab, Murray Library

• Thursday, Feb 23 1:00 pm


• Saturday, Feb 25 1:00 pm

A film about love, life and change. Oma is moving from Maple Street, where she lived for most of her life, to a senior’s residence where she doesn’t know anyone. Her granddaughter Emily, sensing that Oma isn’t sure she will like her new home, tries to ease the burden of such a momentous change.	Battling his Sunday afternoon boredom, a young boy places a coin on the train tracks and soon witnesses a remarkable transformation. Young filmmaker Patrick Doyon’s first film is a magical tale that imparts important lessons about life as seen through the eyes of a child.
Doris Dingle fights a ferocious windstorm to save the lives of her three beloved cats in an adventure story that will charm youngsters and parents alike.	When Monet’s selfish gardener bans children from playing in the gardens at Giverny, spring refuses to come. Without his garden and young visitors, Monet loses his desire to paint, and only a remarkable little boy can bring life back into this garden paradise. Inspired by one of Oscar Wilde’s classic fairy tales.

Librarians Without Borders (LWB) is a non profit organization that aims to improve access to information resources in communities worldwide. For several years I have worked on behalf of LWB on development, research and learning projects related to literacy and libraries in Guatemala. Our partner organization in Guatemala is the Miguel Angel Asturias Academy, a non-profit Pre K-12 school in the city of Quetzaltenango that serves approximately 300 students from varying backgrounds: indigenous, non-indigenous, poor, working class and middle class. The Academy’s desire to promote reading and literacy at the school led to a partnership with LWB that began in 2009 and continues to this day. In that time, a fully operational community library has been built on the school grounds, and it is used on a daily basis by students and staff at the school as part of their curriculum requirements and to support leisure reading activities. Currently, LWB is supporting a project to train a local Guatemalan teacher to run the library and reading programs at the Academy.

In my capacity as Guatemala Project Manager I have worked with graduate students at several Canadian Library and Information Science University Programs to develop conceptual and practical solutions to library development and access to information resources at the Asturias Academy. The library students are able to draw on theoretical research and critical thinking skills developed in the classroom and apply them to this real-life situation. Presently, two teams of students are working on projects: one to develop curriculum support activities, materials and lesson plans and another exploring best practices and solutions for implementation of a library lending program at the school. Both projects will undergo a consultative step with Asturias staff and students before being implemented on the ground in Guatemala during our upcoming service learning trip in May 2012. During this trip, 18 students and professionals will meet in Guatemala to complete service work at the school, while also learning about educational practices and social justice in Guatemala. My involvement with the Asturias Academy has led to personal research interests into the popular education and the educational concepts of Paulo Friere related to libraries and literacy in the developing world. To find out more about LWB’s activities in Guatemala, or to learn how to get involved, visit our website: www.librarianswithoutborders.org

Visit the exhibit. Browse the collection in the catalog.

Date: February 10 from 11:30-12:20

Location: Murray 145 (Collaborative Learning Lab) in the Murray Library

Register online. www.usask.ca/ulc/writing/workshops

On February 1, 2012, self-serve standard products available on the Statistics Canada website—including CANSIM and census data products—will become free of charge.

Statistics Canada will maintain current pricing practices for products such as print publications, maps, CD-ROMs, and custom products and services.

Licensing restrictions for the use of Statistics Canada data products will be removed.

For more information, contact Media Relations at 613-951-4636.

The above change does not affect the dissemination of survey data files (microdata files) under the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) license. These files can only be accessed through either ODESI or EQUINOX. Please contact Data & GIS Services at refdata@library.usask.ca if you have any questions.