McPherson Library Hours

McPherson Library hours for the next several months are:

1. Extended hours during April exams (April 2 to April 24, inclusive):
Monday to Friday 8 am to 11pm
Saturday to Sunday 10 am to 11pm

2. Easter Weekend hours (April 9 to April 12):
Good Friday 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday 10 am to 11 pm
Sunday (regular) 10 am to 11pm
Easter Monday 10 am to 6 pm

3. Summer Session hours (April 25 to September 6, inclusive)
Monday to Thursday 8 am to 9 pm
Friday 8 am to 6 pm
Saturday & Sunday 10 am to 6 pm

McPherson Library is closed on statutory holidays in Summer Session.

Winter Session hours begin September 7, 2004.

Hours are available on the Libraries' Gateway at http://gateway.uvic.ca

Revised - Food and Drink Policy

A revised Food and Drink policy has been drafted for the Gateway. Please read through this just as a refresher and reminder of what is acceptable regarding food and drink in the library. Since the Student Monitors can cover only a fraction of the building at any time your assistance in reminding students of the policy as well as modelling the policy yourselves would be invaluable.

http://gateway.uvic.ca/dept/access/fooddrinkpolicy.html

Assistant Law Librarian Appointed

UVic Libraries are pleased to announce the appointment of Serena Abelson to the position of Assistant Law Librarian. She previously held the term position of Assistant Law Librarian: Akitsiraq Law School.

Prior to joining the University of Victoria, Serena worked at the BC Legislative Library, the Greater Victoria Public Library, McGill University, and the Reference Desk in McPherson Library. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Victoria and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from McGill University. She began this appointment February 1.

Serena is located in the Priestly Law Library.

Sciences Librarian Appointed

UVic Libraires are pleased to announce the appointment of Kristin Hoffmann to the position of Information Services Librarian: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Physics and Astronomy.

Kristin earned her Master of Library Science degree from the University of Western Ontario, and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering Physics, specialization in Oceanography, from U.B.C. She began her appointment February 16.

Kristin in located in the McPherson Library.

'Unbuilt UVic' Display

The University Archives has created a new display of plans and drawings for University structures that were never built.

Unbuilt UVic includes original plans and artists conceptions for individual buildings and the campus as a whole, dating from 1961-1966. Of particular note are high-rise apartment buildings, an administration tower, and a campus at the site of present-day Camosun College.

The materials selected for the display come from Architectural Drawings series of the University of Victoria's Facilities Management fonds*, the William D. West fonds, the Archives Historical Photograph Collection, and the McPherson Library Collections.

We invite the University community to view this display between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Mondays to Fridays in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room of the McPherson Library.

For more information, you may contact Lara Wilson in the University Archives at 472-4480.

* Fonds is an archival term, meaning all the documents, regardless of form or medium, created, received and accumulated by a person or organisation.

Lara Wilson
Associate Archivist (Records, Access & Privacy)