Archer Library Annual Report 2022-23
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Kahkina nitinaweˉmaˉkaninaˉnik
Kahkiyaw kiwâhkômâkaninawak
Mitákuye oyás’in
Tout ki wahkoomitonawn
Toutes nos relations
‘All our relations’ – such a simple phrase, yet one
with such rich and diverse meanings.
When the University of Regina adopted this
Indigenous concept of interconnectedness, family,
and community for our 2020-2025 strategic plan, it
perfectly encapsulated everything that universities
and libraries represent and strive to be.
This year’s report highlights the many
accomplishments of our staff and faculty, but
in every case success was predicated on formal
and informal relationships that connect all of us
as students, researchers, teachers, and active
community members.
This report also highlights our donors, whose
foresight and generosity will ensure that the
collections of the Dr. John Archer Library and
Archives, and the new ideas they spark, will
extend beyond those singular gifts and create
new and unforeseen relations in the near and
distant futures.
We have also spent time examining the troubled
history libraries have with diverse communities,
and highlight some of the ways that we are
working with academic libraries in western
Canada and nationally to repair, strengthen, and
foster relations with all of our diverse and unique
communities.
Finally, we are pleased to profile some of the
many students who have engaged with Archer
over the past year. These impressive young
people are just forming the relations that will
connect their past and their future, and we are
honoured to have been part of their journey.
No matter how you are connected to the Dr. John
Archer Library and Archives, we are glad that we
can count you as one of our relations.
Brett Waytuck
Dean, University Libraries and Archives