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This year鈥檚 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR) ceremony at the 番茄社区 centred on the gifting of a Survivors鈥� Flag to the university by Dr. Barney Williams, Elder, Knowledge Keeper, and Survivor of the Christie Residential School, who served on the Survivors' Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2008 to 2015.

This August, we were saddened to learn of the death of art historian Dr. Maria Tippett, at the age of 79, following a cancer diagnosis received only two months before. Maria Tippett was an award-winning writer, specializing in Canadian art and artists biographies, most notably those of Emily Carr, Bill Reid, Frederick Varley, and Yousuf Karsh.

Eight Black Canadian artists are the focus of the new exhibition The Chorus is Speaking: Experiencing Identities of Blackness at the UVic Legacy Art Gallery. Originally exhibited at the Campbell River Art Gallery, co-curators Jenelle Pasiechnik (Campbell River Art Gallery) and Michelle Jacques (Remai Modern) have renewed the show with additional pieces for Victoria audiences.

The 番茄社区 Dataverse has been certified as a Trustworthy Data Repository by the CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board.

From Oct 21-25 2024, at Graduate Students Appreciation Week events hosted by GSS, a random draw will be held for students who sign up for the Libraries student newsletter during that week. Random draw prizes will be two $5 guest cards.

On November 20, 2024, at the Write-In event hosted by the ATWP programme, a random draw will be held for students who sign up for the Libraries student newsletter during that event. Random draw prizes will be three $10 guest cards.

From October 25 - November 22, 2024 fill out a brief anonymous and confidential survey (takes 5 minutes!) and help us identify areas of the highest impact that can support Science graduate students.

Find three of our service desks in a library scavenger hunt and be eligible for a $100 ONECard.

From July 26-27, the Vancouver Art Book Fair (VABF) returned after a five-year absence to the Vancouver art and book arts community. With 67 exhibitors 鈥� including artists, book and magazine publishers, and galleries 鈥� the fair took place at the centrally-located Vancouver Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre near Yaletown.

Through the exploration of the biggest issues in art, the Company of Ideas (COI) forums bring in a rich diversity of speakers under an annual theme inspired by the teachings and philosophy of sculptor Jeffrey Rubinoff. Since 2008, the COI has tackled topics such as art and moral conscience, art and music, art and modernism 鈥� with papers and presentations delivered by UVic AHVS students alongside contemporary thinkers, philosophers, and artists.

Special Collections & University Archives is pleased to share the news of the recent artists' book acquisition, Kinship, by Islam Aly, 2024. Kinship is a thought-provoking and beautiful volume, and an important addition to UVic Libraries artists鈥� books collection.

The Japanese practice of kintsugi honours and celebrates the repair of what was once broken. This installation takes the fragmented pieces of self, story and culture, and attempts to reassemble them into something new through song. Kintsugi invites the user to create space to reflect on their own relationship to ancestry and examine how that relationship evolves over time.

This summer, the UVic Libraries Historic Computing Lab was honored to host, sponsor and contribute to 鈥淗ypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms,鈥� an exhibition of historic hypertext artworks held in conjunction with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), held from June 10-14. Curated by Dr. Dene Grigar (Washington State University), it was the North American premiere of an exhibition originally presented in 2023 at the Bibliotheca Hertziana鈥擬ax Planck Institute for Art History, in Rome, Italy.

UVic Libraries is hiring a Communications + Design Assistant (for approved UVic work study students).

Get to know your library with a graduate student library tour. Pick a date: Sept 20, 23 or 26. Then post three things you remember from the tour in the Instagram comments and be eligible for a $75 swag bag.

Throughout September, individuals who book and attend (in-person or virtually) an appointment with a UVic librarian will be eligible to enter a drawing for a $100.00 ONECard.

Love pizza? Love reading? Visit the Ask Us desk this summer and pick up a Book Bingo Card and enjoy both.

The founding of 番茄社区 over 60 years ago was marked by a campus with a distinct modernist art and architectural style. Clearly, many projects for the modernist campus were realized, however, the University Archives holds a tantalizing document depicting an unbuilt feature designed by William D. (Bill) West: a proposed fountain in the courtyard of the MacLaurin Building (also known as the education arts complex).

And if you take anything away from this article, let it be this: apply to everything that catches your eye and apply twice to everything that catches your mind. Also, go check out my exhibit in the reading room. It鈥檚 only up until August 2024. I wanted it to be transient and insistently physical, like the diaspora it belongs to. You won鈥檛 know us until you look through our windows.

Originally, I was drawn to the Transgender Archives at UVic 鈥� the largest Transgender Archive in the world 鈥� because I wanted to research trans histories. I chose FTM because those stories resonate deeply with me, and I have many transgender friends currently transitioning from Female to Male. As a non-binary person myself, I was curious about past treatment of trans individuals and important issues in the trans community.