Dr. John Archer Library and Archives

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The Dr. John Archer Library and Archives on the University of Regina campus houses monograph and journal collections of some 2.6 million items.

The Library holds over a million books, pamphlets and journals, approximately 600,000 government publications, over a million items in microform, as well as a growing collection of recordings and materials in other media.

The Archives collection consists of over 3,000 linear metres of records in various formats and over 15,000 photographs.

The Library is an active participant in the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Multitype Library Board, and a number of other associations.

For more information on the library and its services, visit the web site at: www.uregina.ca/library/

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A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits the Regina Campus in 1969
(University of Regina Library, 2025-02-11) Flood, Dawn Rae
This Presentation was by Dr. Dawn Rae Flood on 11th February 2025 in the Archer Library in celebration of Black History Month. Dawn Rae Flood is an Associate Professor of History at Campion College at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth and the Courts (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012, 2018) and “A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits Saskatchewan, 1969,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 8 no. 2 (Fall 2014): 21-49. Her research focuses on race and gender relations in a modern, urban setting and radical activist movements in support of social justice. Her research on Fred Hampton’s visit to the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan is currently being developed as a dramatic play and limited-run television series.
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A study of drag‐and‐drop query refinement and query history visualization for mobile exploratory search
(Wiley, 2024-12-30) Mohammad Hasan Payandeh; Orland Hoeber; Miriam Boon; Dale Storie; Veronica Ramshaw
When undertaking complex search scenarios, the underlying information need cannot be satisfied by finding a single optimal resource; instead, searchers need to engage in exploratory search processes to find multiple resources by itera- tively revising and reformulation their queries. This process of query refinement is particularly challenging when using a mobile device, where typing is difficult. Furthermore, in mobile search contexts interruptions can lead to searchers los- ing track of what they were doing. To address these challenges, we designed a public digital library search interface for mobile devices that includes two novel features: drag-and-drop query refinement and query history visualization. To assess the value of this interface compared to a typical baseline, we conducted a controlled laboratory study with 32 participants that included pursuing complex search scenarios, being interrupted in the midst of the search, and resuming the search after the interruption. While participants took more time, they generated longer queries and reported positive subjective opinions about the usability of the exploratory search and task resumption features, along with a greater increase in certainty. These findings show the value of leveraging new touch- based interaction mechanisms within mobile search contexts, and the benefits that visualization can bring to supporting search task resumption
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Academic Librarians, Open Access, and the Ethics of Care
(University of Regina, Dr. John Archer Library, 2021)
This paper explores the value of applying the ethics of care to scholarly communications work, particularly that of open-access (OA) librarians. The ethics of care is a feminist philosophical perspective that sees in the personal a new way to approach other facets of life, including the political and the professional. Care, in this context, is broadly construed as “a species of activity that includes everything we do to maintain, contain, and repair our ‘world’ so that we can live in it as well as possible” (Fisher & Tronto, 1990, p. 40). Joan Tronto outlined four elements of care: attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and responsiveness, and highlighted the value of care beyond the domestic sphere (1993). The ethics of care values care and relationships as instructive ways of framing and examining work, and has been applied in diverse disciplines, including education, nursing, social work, and even business. Several LIS professionals have considered the ethics of care in the context of library technologies (Henry, 2016) and digital humanities (Dohe, 2019), among others. The ethics of care can also provide inspiration for OA librarians as we think about the scope and nature of our work. What could open access librarians learn from the ethics of care? How might our practice change or evolve with the ethics of care as an underpinning philosophy? Who do we include in our circle of care while we undertake our work? The ethics of care provides a more expansive way to think about OA librarianship.
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Academic Supports for International Students
(University of Regina Library, 2016-08-31) Chaudhry, Haroon; Loustel, Cassandra
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AI, Bias, and Libraries
(2024-05-03) Ramshaw, Veronica
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Analysis of Pharmaceutical Policy in Canada
(2012) Mailhot, John
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Annual Report 1950-51
(1951) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1951-1952
(1952) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1952-1953
(1953) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1953-54
(1954) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1954-55
(1955) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1955-56
(1956) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1956-57
(1957) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1957-58
(1958) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1958-59
(1959) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1974-5
(1975) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report 1996-1997: Meeting the Challenge
(1997) University of Regina
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Annual Report for the year ended June 1960
(1960) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report for the year ended June 1961
(1961) University of Saskatchewan
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Annual Report for the year ended June 1966
(1966) University of Saskatchewan

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