Congrats to our Summer Movie Contest winners! 🎬
🍿 From classics to hidden gems, students picked their favourite movies for this year's summer contest! Thanks to the 49 undergrads & 17 grad students for their entries. Check out the contest guide to browse the selections and find your next movie. 🎥
Announcing the Archer Library Scavenger Hunt!
10 QR codes are hidden throughout the Archer Library building based on the Scavenger Hunt clues (see link below). Once you've found each QR code, scan it and enter in your student number to register that you've found the clue. The clues will be open for submission beginning on Tuesday September 2nd!
• Deadline to complete Scavenger Hunt Monday September 15th @ 11:59pm
• Draw Date: Friday September 19th
• Prize Claim Period: If you are selected as a winner, you will have 7 days from the date of notification to claim your prize.
• Please make sure to check your email regularly around the draw date to see if you are one of our lucky winners.
• While the Help Desk is unable to provide the answers to any of the clues, they are there to help you navigate the library. Please visit the helpdesk if you have any questions.
Congratulations to our Archer Book Club 5 Year Celebration winner for their outstanding review of Animal Farm by George Orwell! We received an amazing 88 submissions, and we want to give a big THANK YOU to all participants!!
Check out the contest page for the winning review and honourable mentions:
Our Fall 2025 Book Club sessions are all books that are being adapted into new films:
• Wednesday September 24, 2025 - 12pm (online) - The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, hosted by Brandi Adams. Film release set for December 2025.
• Wednesday October 29, 2025 - 12pm (online) - Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, hosted by Arlysse Quiring. Newest film adaptation release set for November 2025, directed by Guillermo del Toro.
• Wednesday November 26, 2025 - 12pm (online) - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, hosted by Jennifer Hall. Film release set for March 2026.
To attend any meeting, please email Arlysse.Quiring@uregina.ca. All faculty, students, staff are welcome.
Jump into our Summer Movie Contest for a chance to win prizes: library goodie bags, Starbucks gift cards, and more!
Who can enter?
Registered University of Regina students
Deadline:
August 26, 2025
How to enter:
Swing by the Archer Library Entrance Display, scan the QR code, grab a bookmark or mood pencil (while they last), and check out our movie-themed display.
Or just enter online here: Summer Movie Contest Guide
Celebrate 5 years of reading with the Archer Book Club! In June 2020 we began the virtual club both as an outreach initiative during trying times and as a way to form a community of readers on campus.
We select three books per semester and have strived to cover as many authors, subjects and genres as possible. Some of our absolute favourites over the years have been Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi), The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Kim Michele Richardson), Born a Crime (Trevor Noah), The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller), and Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier).
We’ve also had the great pleasure of hosting guest authors and speakers, as well as partnering with both the UR Alumni Association and UR Press. Our book club archives offer details on each book and guest over the years.
To celebrate these years of reading and wonderful discussion, we have launched a reading contest. Just tell us your favourite (or least favourite) recent summer reads and you could win a Starbucks gift card! All details can be found at our library guide, on the contest tab. There are no entry limits – the more you read, the more chances you have to win! On our guide you will also find information about our small team, suggestions for staycation reading, a few special events, and even our full list of club reads, both current and past. You can also vote for future book club selections!
The contest runs until July 25th, with winners announced on the 30th. Have fun and get reading!
From May 14 to June 15, we received 55 entries from 41 undergrads and 13 grad students who shared their favorite summer reads—thank you! 💛 ✨ Check out the winners and the Summer Book Recommendations on the Spring Wonderland Contest Guide.
Submit what you’re reading + your thoughts for a chance to win a Starbucks Gift Card!
Visit the "Alice's Library Adventure" display at the Archer Library entrance, scan the QR code and tell us your favorite summer book! Browse our Victorian Books table for inspiration! Pick up a free bookmark and/or a Victorian-style thaumatrope with an Archer Library mood pencil, while supplies last!
(Note: a "thaumatrope" is an optical toy that was popular in the 19th century. A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to blend into one.)
No time to stop by? Explore our online "Alice’s Library Adventure" to find the contest form and join the fun from anywhere! Also delve into the online library resources about Alice in Wonderland and Victorian culture.
There will be TEN randomly drawn prizes: three library goodie bags each with one of the following prizes: 1. Chick 'N' Tendees 50% off meal coupon, 2. Starbucks $5.00 Gift Card or 3. Starbucks reusable hot cup. Additionally there will be seven other library goodie bags as prizes.
Visit Alice's Library Adventure for full contest details.
We are pleased to announce that Addisen Nelson is the winner of the Dr. John Archer Library Award for 2025. The Library Award celebrates undergraduate scholarship by challenging a student to explain in a compelling reflective essay how they personally engaged with staff, resources and services at the Archer Library & Archives to complete a major assignment in any course taken completed within the last year. Addisen wrote about researching her project (titled Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910) Solitude) for Dr. Barbara Reul’s MUHI 202 – Music History Survey-Preclassical to Contemporary course from the Fall 2024 semester.
A copy of Addisen’s reflective essay and research assignment have been added to oURspace: https://ourspace.uregina.ca/handle/10294/5336.
A private photo-op ceremony happened on April 17. Pictured here is Addisen with the trophy, Dean of University Libraries & Archives Brett Waytuck presenting the plaque, and Addisen with Barbara Ruel.
Details about the award are at: https://library.uregina.ca/library_award
Our “Still Life” contest ran from March 18 to April 6, and we received many creative ideas for Still Life table objects and Still Life uploads. A big thank you to the undergrads and grad students who entered the random draw — we loved seeing your artistic spirit!
Curious who won? Visit the “Still Life” Contest guide below to see the lucky winners of the book Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau (signed by the artist and donated by University of Regina Press) — plus the 10 library goody bags!
https://library.uregina.ca/librarycontest/stillife2025
Participate in the "Still Life" Contest for a chance to win:
one of three signed copies of the book Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau, one of ten Archer Library goody bags.
This contest is open to all registered students and the deadline is April 6, 2025!
Don't miss out- enter today! 🎉
For full contest details, visit: https://library.uregina.ca/librarycontest/stillife
