“As you grieve the loss of Siôn*, let me assure you that I bring years, even decades of experience as a subject librarian!” Back when the SARS pandemic struck in the early 2000s, I was taking a bus in Toronto with my five-year-old daughter when she began regaling the passengers with her original song, “the

After 14 years as the Canadian Studies Librarian, Siôn Romaine has stepped aside to focus on other duties at the Libraries. Theresa Mudrock will took over as Canadian Studies Librarian effective July 1, 2021. We are so grateful to Siôn for all he has done for the collection and on behalf of the Center during

This documentary, available through UW Libraries, tells the story of how art played a key role in the success of the Inuit and Cree co-ops in Nunavik, Québec. Atautsikut/Leaving None Behind: La Fédération des cooperatives du Nouveau-Québec (2019) is a film by John Houston produced by Atautsikut Production Ltd. The 60-minute film is in English

Many publishers, including large commercial publishers like Routledge and Springer, are steadily expanding their offerings of Arctic-themed monographs. UW Libraries continues to acquire resources to support Canadian Studies, particularly resources focused on the Arctic, the North and Canada’s Indigenous peoples. Recent acquisitions include: Atautsikut/Leaving None Behind In this streaming video, Nunavik Inuit and Cree Elders

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the desLibris online library has been made available to the UW Libraries through the end of June. desLibris consists of over 80,000 resources from and about Canada, and includes ebooks, government documents and thinktank policy papers. Titles may be searched, cited, downloaded, read offline and shared with others. To access desLibris, click here. If you are

UW Libraries has updated the Arctic and Northern Studies Guide to become one of the most comprehensive databases on the Arctic in the country. Several years ago, UW librarians Siôn Romaine, Canadian Studies librarian, Maureen Nolan, Fisheries-Oceanography librarian, and Dan Mandeville, Nordic Studies and Linguistics librarian, built UW’s first Arctic and Northern Studies Research Guide,

Canadian Studies Librarian and PI on a Government of Québec University Grant, Siôn Romaine, was just awarded $1,000 for Acquisition of Material on Québec for UW Libraries. UW Libraries just received a $1,000 library support grant from the Québec Government to support the purchase over 40 titles relevant to the teaching of Québec and French

Former Canadian Studies Librarian Linda Di Biase will retire from UW Libraries this spring after over thirty years with the university. As Canadian Studies Librarian from 1988 to 2006, Linda helped to build one of the most robust collections on Canada in the country: UW Libraries boast well over a half million catalogued volumes, maps,

Don’t have Netflix or Hulu? Try the National Film Board of Canada’s CAMPUS online streaming service! CAMPUS provides access to approximately 1,700 NFB films that are available only to CAMPUS subscribers, both on and off campus. A further 3,500 NFB films are freely available online! A wide-range of topics related to Canada and world events

When John Vallier, the Libraries’ Head of Distributed Media, heard that State University New York (SUNY) Buffalo was deaccessioning a collection of Radio Canada International spoken word and musical sound recordings and that they needed a new home, he was quick to confer with Canadian Studies Librarian Sion Romaine to see if this would be