Student Work Opportunity
UVic Libraries is hiring a Communications + Design Assistant (for approved UVic work study students).
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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.
Find three of our service desks in a library scavenger hunt and be eligible for a $100 ONECard.
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 University of Victoria 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’s only up until August 2024. I wanted it to be transient and insistently physical, like the diaspora it belongs to. You won’t know us until you look through our windows.
Originally, I was drawn to the Transgender Archives at UVic — the largest Transgender Archive in the world — 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.
From the Stonewall riots to present day, the journey has been long and challenging but the resilience and determination by the 2SLGBTQIA+ community has led to significant milestones.
In February 2024, the Diana M. Priestly Law Library unveiled a new display that showcases the background, history, and accomplishments of the Raging Grannies nationwide and includes artifacts from the University of Victoria’s Special Collections & University Archives.
My work involves talking to publishers about our renewals, making sure we receive and pay our invoices, ensuring that you're able to find and access electronic resources in our collections, and perhaps most importantly, making decisions to ensure the library collections have what they need to best support UVic's many academic programs.
One of the benefits of this position was how it allowed me to learn about so many facets of the library, from Special Collections to the Centre for Academic Communication to the Digital Scholarship Commons and everything in between. I’ve made so many connections across departments, and the staff at the Libraries have made every day a joy. I feel so fortunate for this opportunity and for all the wonderful people I’ve met along the way.
No two days are ever the same. Most days involve helping students – answering questions over email or having appointments and drop-ins. Depending on the day, I will work on answering questions over email and preparing for student appointments.
My job is to make sense of all of the interconnections between those different platforms and resources and help shepherd us towards a consistent and comprehensible web presence that helps students and other library users find what they’re looking for easily and efficiently.
With In the With Out is an art exhibition by BIPOC artists that examines how aspects of their personhood interact with the larger world.
Using her meditative practice as a base from which to frame this exhibit, Gammon guides us behind-the-scenes to that space between the walls, in the collections' vaults, where women's artworks endure. Captured by partially blurred and obscured black and white photographs, Gammon's self-portraits encourage us to not only consider the passage of time and space, but both the presence and absence of women artists in archives and art historical collections.
The Untitled ṮEṮÁĆES map, the first produced haptic map prototype, was co-created by UVic student Kim Shortreed and W̱SÁNEĆ/Lekwungen artist TEMOSEṈ Chazz Elliott for Shortreed’s PhD project, "Contracolonial Practices in Salish Sea Namescapes."
Learn about waste challenges, management, solutions and the work of informal waste workers with workshops and an exhibit.
Read more: Making our waste visible and knowledge mobilization
The newly established teaching space provides hands-on, dynamic learning opportunities with contemporary and historical book arts equipment, and information technologies more broadly.
Join UVic Libraries for a free, drop-in event on February 14, 2024 and make a Valentine's card for your crush!