Emily Carr University Library

Your Library items are due back soon! Everything checked out over the summer will be due back next Friday, August 16th. You can return items at the Service Desk, or through the book drop in the hallway.
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If you want to renew anything for the fall, you should be getting a reminder email soon - there will be a link in there that will take you to your library account! If you have any issues with your renewal(s), please visit us in person, email the library account, or give us a call (aka: we don't always check DMs here in a timely manner, so we recommend contacting us on more official channels.)
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See you in September!

As part of Indigenous History Month, June 21st marks National Indigenous Peoples Day. We invite you to take a look at our current Reading Room celebrating Indigenous Culture and would like to highlight this recent publication by the Museum of Anthropology which can be found in the selection.

"Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art' is a landmark volume that brings together over eighty contemporary Indigenous knowledge holders with extraordinary works of historical Northwest Coast art, ranging from ancient stone tools to woven baskets to carved masks and poles to silver jewelry.

First Nations Elders, artists, scholars, and other community members visited the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia to connect with these objects, learn from the hands of their ancestors, and share their thoughts and insights on how these belongings transcend the category of "art" or "artifact" to embody vital ways of knowing and being in the world.

Texts by the authors sketch the provenance of the objects, and, in dialogue with the commentators, engage in critical and necessary conversations around the role of museums that hold such collections.

The voices within are passionate, enlightening, challenging, and humorous. The commentators speak to their personal and family histories that these objects evoke, the connections between tangible and intangible culture, and how this “art” remains part of Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples’ ongoing relationships to their territories and political governance. Accompanied by over 300 contemporary and historical photographs, this is a vivid and powerful document of Indigenous experiences of reconnection, reclamation, and return." - Publisher

N 6351.2 .I53 D84 2021

Reading Room Salon | Reception + Artist Talks
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Tomorrow! May 9, 2024 3:30pm – 5:00pm
in the ECU Writing Centre
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Join us for a gathering to celebrate the opening of the 2024 Show Reading Room with mini artist talks, snacks and a chance to peruse the printed material included as part of The Show.
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Reading Room materials are available to view when the ECU Library is open from 9am–5pm Monday through Friday. The ECU Library will be open during Opening Night.

The ECU Library is now the home to a Fibre Library! Part of a network around Vancouver facilitated by Baaad Ana's Yarn Store.
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The Fibre Library can be found on the upper level of the library at the end of the Supply Swap. It includes yarn, textiles, tools, and books.
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TAKE what you need, GIFT what you can. But no dirty or moth-infested textiles fabrics and thanks.
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Our Fibre Library was coordinated by a group of ECU students. If you'd like to help maintain the Fibre Library, please follow the link in our bio.
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Share the love of fibre arts!

Spot the difference? Which one is an imposter?

Sara-Jeanne Bourget's Foundation 164 class have crafted handmade replicas of rocks, shells, fossils and other objects in their exhibition 'Alike', a response to Vija Celmin's work 'To Fix the Image in Memory 1977-82'.

'Alike' will be on display on the lower level of the library until the end of March.

There's some wonderful symbiosis between these sculptures from Parvin Peivandi's ceramics classes and our collections, including our plants! (There's tonnes of talent too, so lookout, Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down!)
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Both Parvin's foundation and second year ceramics classes have worked with clay as an organic material and metaphor of earth to convey the effects of climate change on our bodies and other creatures, and the results are quite impressive.
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Meanwhile, Sophie Gaur's Industrial Design class explore pregnancy and childbirth, addressing issues of agency, over-medicalization and problematic social narratives in their class exhibition 'Material Anatomies'.
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As with Parvin's displays, 'Material Anatomies' offers lots of food for thought, and showcases some amazing talent and creativity!
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Thanks very much to Sophie, Parvin, Priyanka and their classes for sharing their work in the library space. This work will be up until Friday March 15th.

Lots happening in the library this week including an exhibition by the INDD 300 class featuring repaired artifacts, meditative video work by the Multispecies Field School documenting non-human life, and a great installation by WRTG 210 and WRTG 301. There's some really cool risographed zines from COMD-325 on display too! Don't miss out!!!

The ECU Library + Archives are currently inviting applications for a Student Researcher-in-Residence for the Spring of 2024 semester. This position is open to both undergrad and graduate students.
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The Student Researcher for Climate Action will work with the Library and Archives team to develop and participate in library programming and/or research using and interacting with the library and archives collections and spaces.
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Application deadline: Dec. 8th (end of day).
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To find more details and submit an application please search the Artswork opportunity board on the ECU Leeway site. If it's your first time using the Leeway you will have to set up an account. A link to the Leeway can be found in our linktree.

Join us in the Artists' Book Room on the lower level of the library this Wednesday and Thursday from 11:30-12:30 and browse a curated selection of artists' books related to climate. We hope to see you there!

Hey! Everybody likes bingo right? What about bingo that helps save the planet? 🌏
Introducing our new and improved sustainability bingo challenge, designed to help you on your sustainability journey, no matter where you're at.
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Pick up a risographed bingo card at the library service desk (while supplies last) or download the PDF from our sustainability guide. And be sure to check out the links in the PDF - there's tonnes of great info in there!
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Complete five activities in a row (vertical, horizontal, or diagonal) and return your card to the library service desk by April 22nd, 2024 (Earth Day) for a chance to win an eco-friendly prize. If you’re using the PDF, you can email the filled out card to [email protected]
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For more details, and access to the online bingo card, follow the link in our linktree.
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The image above was originally scanned and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with the gracious permission and cooperation of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec and Wikimedia.

This November, the ECU Library will once again be participating in Climate Action Month.

Climate Action Month is a province-wide initiative organized by the BC Library Association and is intended "to raise awareness, answer our communities' growing needs, and articulate clearly that libraries are places to connect people and access resources on climate change".

This year we will be displaying a large selection of climate action related resources at the entrance of library, all hand selected by ECU library staff and instructors. We will also be sharing information on where you kind find - and drop off - various materials on campus (ie. wood, textiles, metals, etc.)

There will be a number of events and exhibitions happening in the library as well, including a 'Co-existing with Coyotes' talk with Urban Wildlife Programs Coordinator Dezirae Barreto on November 16th, and an emergency preparedness workshop with Emily Carr's Leslie Urquhart on November 30.

Meanwhile, two separate class exhibitions will explore the documentation of non-human life and the repair of industrial products.

Finally, we will be offering a new, updated version of our sustainability bingo! Pick up a risographed bingo card at our library service desk while supplies last, or find a downloadable pdf version on our website, and enter to win some fun eco-friendly prizes!

More details about Climate Action Month events and programs can be found in our linktree, and keep checking our Instagram throughout November for updates and sustainability tips.

Check out Bloomsbury's Design Library and Music and Sound Databases, available at the ECU library until October 19, 2022!

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Did you know that the Archives contains documentation from past grad shows starting in the 1970’s?

Over the last few years, with the help of students from the Digital Images and Text Collections class at UBC’s iSchool, a number of slides from the 1970’s Ceramics Grad Show have been digitized and now are available on the eCollections site. See Linktree for more!

Slide 1 – Untitled by Phyllis Argyle (1976)
https://ecuad.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/ecuad:14968

Slide 2 – Untitled by Carol Henriques (1975)
https://ecuad.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/ecuad:14937

Slide 3 - Untitled by Sam Kwan (1975)
https://ecuad.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/ecuad:14950

Slide 4 – Untitled by Unknown Artist (1970’s)
https://ecuad.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/ecuad:14891

Please note that the ECU Library is closing early Wednesday, April 27th, for a staff event. Our open hours will be 9am-12pm.
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It’s time again for Movie Wednesday! This week we have a new display up promoting the library’s collection of movies and books on Q***r Cinema. There is also a handy guide on our website for more streaming resources, and more info. Check our link tree!

This weeks movie Thursday feature is an animated short that tells the story of Seraphim "Joe" Fortes, one of Vancouver's most beloved citizens. Born in the West Indies, Joe Fortes swam in English Bay for over 30 years. A self-appointed lifeguard at first, he became so famous that the city of Vancouver finally rewarded him with a salary for doing what he loved best. He taught thousands of people to swim and saved over a hundred lives. This 8 minute story is animated by Emily Carr Alumni Jill Haras and voiced by Blu Mankuma.

Watch Joe today through one of our streaming databases, NFB Campus. See our Linktree for access or come check out our ancient VHS copy!

It’s Movie Thursday! It’s also Transgender Awareness week in Canada and Saturday, November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance so in honour of this we are highlighting the movie Tangerine. Tangerine is a comedy that explores various LA subcultures by following two heroines, transgender actresses Kitana ‘Kiki’ Rodriguez and Mya Taylor. Set on Christmas Eve, the story follows two trans s*x workers one trying to get revenge on their cheating boyfriend and the other trying to get people come to her musical performance. The captivating story and beautiful visuals of this micro budget movie were all shot on an iPhone 5s.

Watch Tangerine today through Kanopy (see Linktree) or come by and borrow our DVD!

Magazine Mondays are back!
Come to the Library to flip through the Sept/Oct issue of 'Crafts' or read articles online via our database search!

It’s Movie Thursday! This week's pick is the award winning movie Supa Modo by Kenyan filmmaker Likarion Wainaina. A story of 9 year old Jo who is obsessed with Jackie Chan and action films who dreams of being a superhero.  When doctors reveal that she is terminally ill, Jo leaves the hospital and returns home to be with her mom and sister. While her mom insists that she stay inside and rest, her sister has different plans. With the entire village's support, they decide to make dreams a reality and turn Jo into the superhero they know she is.

Watch this film today through Kaltura (See our Linktree!)

Happy Halloween from the ECU Library aka the Schitt's Creek Library.
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