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Celebrate #WorldOceansDay with these water themed bilingual children’s books, written in English and the indigenous language nsyilxcən. . TD388 H35 2020, QL626.5 B7H35 2020, QL737 R632H35 2020, GB848 H35 2020

Calendar leaf from a Book of Hours listing feast days in June. From France, c. 1400-1425. #medievalmanuscript Fragm.Lat.9

For #MarginaliaMonday: recorded in the flyleaves and pages added this Bible are the births, deaths, and marriages of the Pryor family in Halifax, NS, from 1743-1883. The first entry is for the marriage of Edward Pryor to Abigail Stevens in 1790. BX5145 A4 1756

3/4. And finish off with some dreamy summer scenes around Vancouver Island! #archivespostcards . SC284

3/4. Check out a few highlights across Canada... #archivespostcards . SC284

2/4. Make a few more stops in Europe while you’re in the area. #archivespostcards . SC284

1/4. Take a little Friday afternoon trip through the Postcards Collection! First stop: 1890s Paris. #archivespostcards . SC284

#findoftheday This book of designs for church embroidery comes with a stunning colour card of threads in the front! (SC NK9310 W54)

An unexpected #ArchivesArt connection in our collection: the presence of this telephone table might seem rather random, but take a look at the background of this portrait of Ezra Pound and see if anything looks familiar…bit.ly/3ndBZtS . (SC 404-4 OS4)

UVic students looking at art in the studio, ca. 1968. . #ArchivesArt #archivalphotographs #UVicHistory . AR343 035.2005

This month’s #ACAHashtagParty is highlighting #ArchivesArt! . An art exhibition in the lobby of the MacLaurin building. ca. 1976 #archivalphotographs #UVicHistory . AR343 133.0305

“When I wrote it, I desired to inculcate the truth that prosperity has as many duties as adversity has sorrows” -Charles Lever This sweet volume is a first edition of Lever’s popular story “St. Patrick’s Eve”. #StPatricksDay (PR4884 S2 1845)

Sometimes marginalia contains valuable information about previous readers and/or their responses to a book. Other times, it’s a doodle of a goat. #MarginaliaMonday (DD31 G48 1740, sadly separated from its cover)

It’s the Monday after daylight savings; we’re all feeling like this picture of Samuel Beckett but (probably) not looking as cool. #archivalphotographs Photo by Gisele Freund, 1997-039 1.6

This #InternationalWomensDay let us honour the women we have been and celebrate the women we hope to become. The materials pictured here are from the Raging Grannies of Victoria fonds. The Grannies are a peace activist group made up of mostly grandmothers. (SC 326)

If you still don’t believe books are magic, this beautiful #foreedgepainting on a book of Scottish poems might change your mind! #foreedgefriday (PR4047 L3 1863)

Celebrating #WorldBookDay with a #shelfie from the oversize shelves. The technical term for these guys is “a lot of book”.

"I begin to grasp the largeness of the work before us, the fact that we are not only creating essays or poems or stories, but the fact that we are creating culture"- Daniel Garrett, In the Life. #BlackHistoryMonth (PS509 H57I5 1986, PS595 H65H47 1992, PS509 H57B55 1983)

Collections of poetry by Black voices in Special Collections throughout the 20th century. #BlackHistoryMonth (PS3503 R7244B4 1975, PS614 S59 1971, PS591 N4C8 1927, PN6071 H724M35 1997)