Collections at Work
The following are some examples of how material from our collections are being used:
Books
"kā-ki-pē-isi-nakatamākawiyahk (Our Legacy): Essays". Cheryl Avery and Darlene Fichter, eds. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan, 2009, 246 pp. Graduate students were given an opportunity to write "illustrates essays," based on materials found on the "Our Legacy" site.
LINEage: Tracing Generations of Faculty, 1936-2008. This exhibition, curated by students in Arth420.3 , includes artwork by former faculty of the Department of Art and Art History (Eli Bornstein, Robert Christie, Reta Cowley, Stan Day, Hans Dommasch, Bill Epp, Mina Forsyth, Augustus Kenderdine, Don McNamee, Wynona Mulcaster, Brenda Pelkey, Warren Peterson, Otto Rogers, Nik Semenoff, Hilda Stewart, James
Thornsbury, Patrick Traer, David Umholtz, Janet Werner). In addition to utilizing the University Art Collection, students researched biographical materials about the former faculty in the University Archives.
Shifts: Art and Art History at the University of Saskatchewan. Catalogue for six exhibitions on campus from April to December 2010, highlighting the history, development and impact of Art and Art History on campus.
Dancing Northern Lights By Doreen Winona Logeot. Brandon: Webber Printing, 2010. 279pp. Doreen used a source material "Medical and Surgical History of the Candian North-west Rebellion" from Special Collections to help inform her historical novel.
Firefly Books. Images of auroras from various old monograhps held in Special Collections were used for a publication by Firefly Books.
Television
"Love Hate and Propaganda" CBC documentary hosted by George strombolopolous. The first episode they intend to talk about the USSR in construction and Stalin. USSR in Construction is a propaganda journal; the U of S Library, Special Collection has several issues and some images were sent to CBC for use in the documentary. The images were discovered by CBC through our online USSR in Construction website, created by summer student Catherine Nygren, which can be see here.
"Big Bear" Documentary on Big Bear based on book by Rudy Weibe Big Bear from teh Penguin Extrardinary Canadians series. Special Collections supplied an image from MSS 49 of Wandering Spirit drawn by Alexander Campbell in 1885, deemed by recent scholarship to be likely the most acurate in existence.
Virtual Exhibits in the class room
Dr. Maria Isabel Criales Hernandez, Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia ("Marine Invertebrate Larvae," http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/lacalli")
David Leeson, labour history, Laurentian.
("At Work," http://scaa.sk.ca/gallery/labour/index.html")
Teaching
LIB 194 students at Kelsey Campus got their hands on history when they visited three campus archives, including the University Archives and the Library’s Special Collections.
Touring stacks filled with acid-free storage boxes holding documents, maps and photographs, the students got a feel for how history is cared for on a daily basis in an archives. In the reading rooms, they also turned a few pages from the past themselves. Here, the students are reading a newspaper index listing articles on Kelsey in its earliest years.
Via the Archives and Records Management component of the Library and Information Tech program, second-year students learn about acquiring and preserving personal and corporate history collections, and how active records take on new value and uses with age. Going virtual through digitization has allowed collections housed even in remote archives to be showcased across the world, resulting in a vast increase in archival inquiries.
Many libraries have archival collections relating to their local community, making archives management training a vital part of Library and Information Tech studies.
