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

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has, through its Shared Purchase Program, acquired 230 reels of the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. Founded by politician and journalist Henri Bourassa, Le Devoir enjoys a strong intellectual reputation documenting over a century of Quebecois history and culture. This purchase completes CRL’s holdings of the backfiles for the years

Two new resources are now available through the University Libraries. EBSCO’s Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is an online database covering all aspects of North America’s aboriginal culture, history and life. With some links to full-text, it includes broad coverage for aboriginal peoples across the continent, including Aleuts, Eskimos and Inuit peoples. Because it is an

In early January, librarians Dan Mandeville (Nordic Studies), Louise Richards (Fisheries/Oceanography) and Siôn Romaine (Canadian Studies) collaborated with Jenny Halpin and Cammie Dodson of the Odegaard Writing & Research Center to lead a Research & Writing Workshop for members of the SIS495 Arctic Security in the 21st Century Task Force. Overall goals of the workshop were

Building a strong collection in any subject area is not a simple task. Librarians must consider what is needed now with what might be needed by historians in the future, and must meet those needs within our budgets. To build collections, librarians rely heavily on approval plans, reviews in relevant magazine and journals (such as

Siôn Romaine, U.W. Canadian Studies Librarian, wrote a successful Matching Library Support grant to the Government of Canada receiving $2,000 for the Canada Collection to be purchased this summer and fall. The Canadian Studies Center, along with consortium partners, the Center for Canadian-American Studies, Western Washington University, are the Canadian depositories for federal and provincial

This spring, the Libraries received a grant from the Government of Canada to support the purchase of the 2011 Microlog microfiche set. Microlog is the clearinghouse for Canadian research and report literature in all subject disciplines. The set includes research, scientific, technical and annual reports, policy papers and statistical materials and is indexed in the

Note from the Canadian Collections Librarian: Arctic & Northern Studies is the study of the culture, history, peoples, government and politics of areas north of the Arctic Circle. Visit the site for more information: http://guides.lib.washington.edu/canada-arctic

The challenge: guide students in the Jackson School’s Task Force courses to the many quality resources and services available through the University Libraries and the Odegaard Research and Writing Center, and by doing so, improve the final reports produced by each Task Force. The solution: have the University Libraries subject librarians partner with Task Force