tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55857444683106123542024-03-06T19:35:29.310-08:00Bruce Peel Special Collections NewsUALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598588491723390360noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585744468310612354.post-71727408439446858192024-02-29T13:35:00.000-08:002024-02-29T13:38:19.467-08:00Peel's doors will be closed and services significantly reduced from April-August 2024<p><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don’t miss out! </strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you want to view the current exhibition (<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mercantile Mobility: Chinese Merchants in Western Canada</em>) or study rare materials in one of Peel’s reading rooms, then you will need to do so before the end of March because Peel’s doors are closed and services significantly reduced from April–August to allow the team to focus on backend operations.</strong></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><b>Full service resumes in September.</b></span></span></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Detailed information is available <a href="https://bpsclibrarynews.blogspot.com/2021/07/peel-reopens-on-august-16th-with.html">here</a>.</strong></p>Bruce Peel Special Collectionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14744598900466699119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585744468310612354.post-82548239582110673912023-02-13T14:25:00.031-08:002024-02-05T12:52:55.576-08:00Mercantile Mobility: Chinese Merchants in Western Canada (Exhibition)<h2 style="text-align: left;"></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b>Mercantile Mobility: Chinese Merchants in Western Canada</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2sfYS1QKV3VUD13Wm6uF5g34UGNyZ19fQtB0axOvrxPNljirQMjXVx4WfBDPY4Q0OQ6Nmb-HMcS4G3QUk-74pYh44AfBqhUrHJG2O10dyzm6Afx39j4c0fiiyFdy-bLW0y1mpCfc2hpnCJdCcgYyBLKjldruGh6NYrPaIqYCR-IdApCR0xErxcMByQ/s222/MercantileCover-PeelWeb%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="170" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2sfYS1QKV3VUD13Wm6uF5g34UGNyZ19fQtB0axOvrxPNljirQMjXVx4WfBDPY4Q0OQ6Nmb-HMcS4G3QUk-74pYh44AfBqhUrHJG2O10dyzm6Afx39j4c0fiiyFdy-bLW0y1mpCfc2hpnCJdCcgYyBLKjldruGh6NYrPaIqYCR-IdApCR0xErxcMByQ/s1600/MercantileCover-PeelWeb%20(1).jpg" width="170" /></a></div>Curated by U of A alumna Helen Kwan Yee Cheung, this exhibition takes us on a journey through time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, to explore what happened to Chinese immigrant workers after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which they helped to build. The curator presents a new perspective on the history and contributions of Chinese immigrants in Canada by profiling those workers who started from the ground up to become merchants and considering how they progressed from mere survival to becoming successful as entrepreneurs. This exhibition examines the distinctive socio-economic landscape where this dynamic group carved out their own niche and quietly propelled the Canadian economy; it reveals how they helped to build communities through movements of products at the municipal, provincial, and global levels. Their business ventures are explored through rare archival documents and images collected over a decade by the curator through a community-based process and through the ongoing acquisition efforts of Bruce Peel Special Collections. Pre-arranged group visits are offered on Monday afternoons hosted in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English by Helen Cheung, Jeff Papineau, and Michaela Morrow. Unfortunately, the award-winning exhibition catalogue is out of print.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2t7Ez2DV4mzoqaN71UBo7H8ONrH3YiP7sjuahnSwS7M9ynybELA5WXk5bb3L-EicJWZL6qcraxs1PYDafrYFACMrRudEQ6vPKd-TTayhr5ui7w13hkBVGoiUfom3W0LpBw75dIkFlJlNY22rW2jm9K1cxq6cMdcNULJVub4HWk76CzZdEzIQGoice_w/s270/mercantile-mobility.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="193" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2t7Ez2DV4mzoqaN71UBo7H8ONrH3YiP7sjuahnSwS7M9ynybELA5WXk5bb3L-EicJWZL6qcraxs1PYDafrYFACMrRudEQ6vPKd-TTayhr5ui7w13hkBVGoiUfom3W0LpBw75dIkFlJlNY22rW2jm9K1cxq6cMdcNULJVub4HWk76CzZdEzIQGoice_w/w143-h200/mercantile-mobility.jpg" width="143" /></a></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Exhibition in Bruce Peel Special Collections</b> </div><div>(lower level of Rutherford South)</div><div><div>Open 1-4pm Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons from 24 May 2023 to 28 March 2024</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Group Exhibition Visits</b></div><div>Small groups are offered a brief introduction to the exhibition in English, Cantonese, or Mandarin before being given a chance to browse and talk between 1-4pm on Mondays. Advance booking is required. To inquire, email <b><span style="color: #38761d;">bpsc@ualberta.ca</span></b><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><b>Written by Helen Kwan Yee Cheung, designed by Kevin Zak, and edited by Cheryl Cundell, the <i>Mercantile Mobility</i> catalogue won two Awards of Excellence–in both the book and exhibition catalogue categories–as well as Honorable Mention in the categories of cover design for both books and exhibition catalogues, a <i>quadfecta</i> in the annual UCDA Design Competition (Atlanta, Georgia, 2023) from the University & College Designers Association. This multi-award-winning catalogue is now out of print.</b></span></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>See "<a href="https://www.ualberta.ca/the-quad/2023/05/new-u-of-a-library-exhibition-honours-chinese-immigrant-contributions.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">New U of A Library Exhibition Honours Chinese Immigrant Contributions</span></a>," by Taylor Downing in <i>The Quad</i> (25 May 2023).</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div></div>Bruce Peel Special Collectionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14744598900466699119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585744468310612354.post-60357866617094565502021-07-09T10:44:00.062-07:002024-02-06T15:06:56.872-08:00Peel's hours and services<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffa27a4-7fff-22f4-7052-fd38156e6bfc"><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a4b7aa1-7fff-f484-3a3b-0ea585f94bc4"><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HOURS & SERVICES AT BRUCE PEEL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS</span></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-564e5678-7fff-1d2e-b46b-b9a0ed13273a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Don’t miss out!</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> If you want to view the current exhibition (</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mercantile Mobility</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">) or examine rare materials in one of Peel’s reading rooms, then you will need to do so by 28 March 2024 because Peel’s doors are closed and services significantly reduced during the summer months (April-August) to allow the team to focus on backend operations.</span></p></span></div></span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ab21d4-7fff-349d-7972-ede7070a30ca"><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">REGULAR EXHIBITION HOURS </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(September through March)<br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mondays 1-4pm: Reserved for pre-arranged group visits*<br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tuesdays: Closed<br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Wednesdays-Fridays 1-4pm: Open for drop-in visitors</span><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">REGULAR RESEARCH HOURS </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(September through March)<br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mondays: No research appointments<br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tuesdays 1-4pm: Reserved for quiet research, by appointment*<br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Wednesdays-Fridays 1-4pm: By appointment*</span><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LIMITED SUMMER SERVICE</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (April through August)<span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Peel’s exhibitions, workshops, and drop-in services are suspended to allow the team to focus on backend operations. Limited remote research services continue to be available and there is a very limited capacity to accommodate the most urgent requests from researchers who need to view rare print materials and simply cannot wait until the fall term begins. NOTE: During this summer period, non-circulating materials housed at RCRF or that have been brought in via Interlibrary Loan can only be used in the reading room at U of A Archives.</span><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">*<b>To request a research appointment or a group exhibition visit</b> (with an introduction that can be offered in Cantonese or Mandarin on request), please write to us at bpsc@ualberta.ca. </span><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Research appointments: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To view rare materials held in Bruce Peel Special Collections, please write to us at </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00fe; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">bpsc@ualberta.ca</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to request an appointment well in advance, listing the requested materials including author, title, and call number for each item, and offering some date options. We book research appointments on a first-come, first-served basis, so there may be a delay, but we will do our best to be accommodating. Normal </span><a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/info/visit#policy" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00fe; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">reading room policies</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and protocols, designed to protect rare materials, are in force.</span><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Remote Research Services:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The Peel team serves researchers' needs remotely by answering questions about rare materials, providing researchers with images of materials not otherwise available (whenever possible), and providing links to digital resources that may help to meet current research and teaching needs (see "</span><a href="http://bpsclibrarynews.blogspot.com/2020/04/working-with-primary-materials-from.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00fe; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Peel materials online</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"). If you have questions that relate to materials housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections, you can send us an email at </span><a href="mailto:bpsc@ualberta.ca" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">bpsc@ualberta.ca</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Visiting Researchers:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> If you are planning to travel to the Edmonton area to carry out research at Bruce Peel Special Collections, we strongly recommend that you do so during the regular academic year to avoid our limited summer service period. Whenever you plan to visit, it is important to contact us at </span><a href="mailto:bpsc@ualberta.ca" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">bpsc@ualberta.ca</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> well in advance so that we have every opportunity to accommodate your needs.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Like other locations of the University of Alberta Library, Bruce Peel Special Collections is open to all researchers, including faculty, staff, students, and members of the general public.</span></div><div><br /></div></span></div>Bruce Peel Special Collectionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14744598900466699119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585744468310612354.post-67224737917309054852020-04-14T13:50:00.040-07:002024-03-06T15:34:17.372-08:00Peel materials online<h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpPLaazenpn-G0JFZ5QxODo4YQ6BL_6hV6KvA5IxSxIwmLknzmVZANZaZcBUYi6tDI9BAAPdzO4FtWoa4IY4o3czkpa9ZG555_dSuCenJJRedtsabWW2OElWEF4vIuLJKTfh-9ZlTsNjT/s1600/IMG_0293.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpPLaazenpn-G0JFZ5QxODo4YQ6BL_6hV6KvA5IxSxIwmLknzmVZANZaZcBUYi6tDI9BAAPdzO4FtWoa4IY4o3czkpa9ZG555_dSuCenJJRedtsabWW2OElWEF4vIuLJKTfh-9ZlTsNjT/s320/IMG_0293.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;">Bruce Peel Special Collections offers a limited number of research appointments each week (September-March), but some researchers will want to consider using digital resources where possible, and professors who are planning classes are encouraged to make use of rare materials that can be examined either as print originals or using digital reproductions, so that all options are available to your students. </span></h3>
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In order to help you to identify digital reproductions of primary source materials, we continue to work to add relevant links to the <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections"><span style="color: blue;">Research Collections</span></a> </span>page on Peel's website. Such links will help you to find digital content that has been created by U of A Library, by our colleagues at other institutions, and through collaborative projects, such as the <i>very extensive</i> <a href="https://www.library.ualberta.ca/dbinfo/hathitrust"><span style="color: blue;">HathiTrust</span></a> database. Also, please note that <a href="https://library.ualberta.ca/"><span style="color: blue;">University of Alberta Library</span></a> subscribes to numerous online databases, including many that offer digitized primary source materials.</span></h3>
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Here are some highlights of Peel's digital resources:</span></h3><h3><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Peel's Digital Exhibitions</span></u></b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> - <span style="font-weight: normal;">Expertly
curated and filled with images of rare materials, Peel's award-winning digital
exhibition program covers topics from the history of photography</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(</span><i><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/intro/about" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Photographies</span></a></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">) to</span> <i><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/womenartistsbooks/introduction"><span style="color: blue;">Canadian Women Artists' Books</span></a> </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">to the
source of some of the earliest ideas about witches and witch trials (</span><i><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/tinctor/imagining"><span style="color: blue;">Tinctor's Foul Treatise</span></a></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">). They explore the
papers (including photographs) of pioneering Western Canadian journalist</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Miriam Green Ellis</i></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">,</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> the complexities of
interpreting primary historical materials (</span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/forty/intro"><i><span style="color: blue;">Sam Steele's </span></i><span style="color: blue;">Forty
Years in Canada:<i> History or Fiction?</i></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">), and some of the
most frequently-requested rare books in Bruce Peel Special Collections (</span><i><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/honorary/message-from-20th-chancellor-r"><span style="color: blue;">Honorary Degree Books</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">)</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></h3><h3><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Digitized in Databases</span></u></b><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> -</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> Some of
Peel's collections have been partially digitized through databases hosted
by major publishers, including the</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> </span><a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/books-about-indigenous-peoples" style="font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Gregory Javitch Collection</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of books about Indigenous peoples and the </span><a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/dr-ronald-b-madge-entomology-collection" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Dr Ronald B. Madge Entomology Collection</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></h3><h3><b style="font-family: times; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Internet Archive</span></u></b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> - <span style="font-weight: normal;">A selection
of Peel materials have been digitized through the Internet Archive,
including</span> <a href="https://archive.org/details/brucepeel?query=treaty+parchment&sin="><span style="color: blue;">Treaty parchments</span></a> <span><span style="font-weight: normal;">(for Treaties 4, 6, 7,
& 8), </span></span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal; text-indent: -17.85pt;">the</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/invectivescontre00tinc" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Tinctor manuscipt</span></a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal; text-indent: -17.85pt;">, a</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/horaebeataevirgi00cath" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Medieval Book of Hours</span></a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal; text-indent: -17.85pt;">, a collection of</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bpsc_playbills" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="color: blue;">English Playbills</span></a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal; text-indent: -17.85pt;">(1779-1949), </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">the </span></span></span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bpsc_indigenous_photographs?tab=collection" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Indigenous Photograph Collection</span></a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">, the </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/albertapostcards"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Prairie Postcard Collection</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal; text-indent: -17.85pt;">in addition to selections from the </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bpsc_javitch" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Gregory Javitch Collection</span></a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal; text-indent: -17.85pt;">of books about Indigenous peoples and the </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bpsc_madge" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Dr Ronald B. Madge Entomology Collection</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></h3><h3><span style="font-family: times;">Good luck with your research!</span></h3><div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Explore early ideas about witchcraft by learning about a very rare (and sinister) fifteenth-century manuscript housed in University of Alberta's </span><a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;">Bruce Peel Special Collections</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></h3>
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<b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/tinctor/imagining" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;">Tinctor's Foul Treatise</span></a></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;">is an award-winning digital exhibition that unlocks the secrets of this special manuscript. T</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">he exhibition was mounted in October 2016 by </span><span style="color: #666666;">University of Alberta's<span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;">Bruce Peel Special Collections, and it is</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #666666;"> the winner of the prestigious</span> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/04/2018-rbms-leab-exhibition-award-winners"><span style="color: #073763;">2018 Leab Award</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (Electronic Exhibitions)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: 400;">from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the A</span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: 400;">merican Library Association</span></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;">.</span></h3>
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<b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07128-2.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #073763;">The Arras Witch Treatises</span></i></a></b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">is a full English-language translation of two </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">important </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">fifteenth-century source texts (Tinctor's </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Invectives </span></i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the anonymous </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Recollectio</i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">) </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">prepared by the curators of <i>Tinctor's Foul Treatise</i> and published by Pennsylvania State University Press (2016) as part of their </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Magic in History</i></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> series. This edition is available through</span> </span><b><a href="https://www.library.ualberta.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">University of Alberta Library</span></a></b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(BF 1582 A155 2016) and is widely available for </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">sale</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Get a close look—through Archive.org—at the copy of</span> </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/invectivescontre00tinc"><span style="color: #073763;">Tinctor's <i>Invectives</i></span></a> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); color: #333333; font-weight: normal;">housed in University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You can still check out</span> </span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/tinctor-s-foul-manual-1.2913889" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Tinctor's Foul Manual</span></b></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> online, a one-hour documentary produced by Paul Kennedy for the CBC's </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Ideas </i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">that has been aired numerous times,</span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">most recently on 2 August 2016.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read "</span><a href="https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/flor.33.005"><span style="color: #073763;">The Travels of a Fifteenth-Century Demonological Manuscript: The University of Alberta's Copy of Jean Taincture's </span></a><i><a href="https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/flor.33.005"><span style="color: #073763;">Invectives contre la secte de vaudrie</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">,</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">" by Robert Desjardins, Francois Pageau, and Andrew Gow. </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">Florilgelium </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">33 (26 Aug 2019).</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Check out Paula Simons' fascinating exploration of the ways that old ideas about witchcraft continue to haunt us today: "</span><a href="http://edmontonjournal.com/news/insight/paula-simons-politics-powerful-women-and-hunting-witches-in-a-new-age-of-superstition" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Politics, Powerful Women and Hunting Witches in a New Age of Superstition</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">" <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Edmonton Journal</i> (29 Oct 2016). This story helpfully links to a relevant story by Simons:</span> "<a href="http://edmontonjournal.com/news/insight/from-the-archives-witch-history-takes-flight-in-rare-manuscript-at-u-of-a" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;">Witch History takes flight in Rare Manuscript at U of A</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">,</span>" <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Edmonton Journal </i>(27 Oct 2012), and a related blog post</span> "<a href="http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/the-witch-burners-mein-kampf-excerpts-of-evil" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;">The Witch-Burner's Mein Kampf: Excerpts of Evil</span></a>"<span style="font-weight: normal;"> (Oct 2012).</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Or this recent article: "</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/13/300-years-on-will-thousands-of-women-burned-as-witches-finally-get-justice"><span style="color: #073763;">300 years on, will thousands of women burned as witches finally get justice?</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">" </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">The Guardian</i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (13 Sept 2020).</span></span></h3><h3><br /></h3>
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