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

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