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Library Posters: 2006: Tell Us Your Story

Winners of the Library Poster Contest, which ran from 2006 to 2009

General Information

Theme Tell Us Your Story
Judges Colleen Bell, Library
Dana Landry, Writing Centre
Kim Lawrence, Marketing & Communications
Michelle Rhodes, Geography
Photography and Poster Design Diane Nosaty, Instructional Media Services

Posters

Background silhouette of person with detective hat looking through window, in front is white text detailing a story of detecting for info. Standing next to her story is author Danielle Barbeau, who is laughing and gazing into the camera.Danielle Barbeau
2nd Year, Theatre Diploma Program
Winner - Student Category,

So there I was... sitting at my computer desk in the dark, googling the endocrine system of the human body. And there it came, just waltzing on to my computer screen without an invitation. Something like fourteen million hits.

Dames. They always flaunt the Dames when I try to search for something. If only my project were on the study of human reproduction, I would be set.

Sadly, pornography was not my answer this time. I gazed around the dusky room and my eyes fell upon something beautiful. Illuminated by the glow of the monitor, as if sent by heaven -- a UCFV day planner. Suddenly I had the answer to this mystery -- the Library.

In a jiffy, this gumshoe was looking through scientific journals, when there it was, just what I needed. Endocrine System, you've met your match.

I still have to look into the removal of gum from shoes.

Word 'Research' in large black text, smaller text describing experience of author Linda Drake, who is pictured with long brown hair and glasses.Linda Drake
3rd Year, Bachelor of General Science 2005
Winner, UCFV Upper Level Analytical Research Writing Prize
Honourable Mention - Student Category

Research - the word alone drove chills of the unknown down my spine. Combining it with the word "essay" made me ready to surrender to "Fear Factor" rather than completing the assignment for SCMS 255. Nonetheless, I trekked of to the library for an introductory tutorial and soon learned that it was not an impossible feat to find the necessary sources to write an award winning essay. Little did I know that as I clicked away, following the instructions of our seminar leader, I would soon be sourcing nuggets that would thread together my inspiration for my essay topic. Not only was this wealth of information available in the library, but this vast world of facts and figures could be accessed from home. Amazing!

Four image panes, variations of the same young woman holding a child, both smiling. White text in each pane is describing doing library research as a single mother.Kathleen A. Sahota and daughter, Faith
Final Year, Bachelor of Arts (double extended minor in Criminology/Criminal Justice and Psychology) 
Honourable Mention - Student Category

As a single mother I am constantly confronted with the problem of finding enough time to physically get into the library to conduct research on any given assignment.

But, despite the challenges of being a single mother and a fourth year student, I have discovered a solution to my dilemma; I put my three year old daughter to work in the library helping me find books, journals, newspaper articles, and asking library staff for assistance when needed.

Amazingly, sending her on missions that she has no hope of ever completing keeps her busy long enough for me to accomplish what I set out to do. And comically enough, the odd time she will actually bring me something that is applicable to a particular assignment. 

Poem titled First Impressions in black text white background next to picture of the author, Susan Vinnels, who has brown shoulder-length hair, a blue sweater, and is smiling into the camera.Susan Vinnels
3rd Year, Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice (minor in Psychology)
Honourable Mention – Student Category

First Impressions 

He called me knowledgeable.
He said I was informed.
He described me as well-versed.
He identified me as savvy.
He disclosed I was enlightened.
He labeled me as expert.
He termed me experienced.
He thought I was wise.
He whispered I seemed familiar.
He alleged I was well-informed.
He believed I was up to date.
He understood I was on the ball.
He assumed I was acquainted.
He hinted I was erudite.
He uttered I was alert.
He reckoned me clued-in.
He announced I was educated.
He mentioned I was learned.

All because I had done my research.

Poem titled Guide Book in black text next to picture of the author, Vicki Grieve. She has shoulder length greying hair and smiles into the camera, a compass is in the background.Vicki Grieve
Instructor, College & Career Preparation
Winner – Employee Category

Guide Book

To this traveler, an adult new reader,
the library is as strange as Timbuktu

Online catalogues and databases
an indecipherable alphabet.

But here the librarian, Genius Loci, reads
the body language of anxiety, knows

that synchronicity cannot be digitized
and that not everyone

in the wired world
is wired.

She leads the traveler toward
the first vista, an explanation

of subject headings
while they walk to the stacks

and shelf-read together until
inevitable Eureka!

The traveler finds not walls but
entry to a destination:

one book meant for now
and others that wait for later.

The University of the Fraser Valley is situated on the traditional territory of the Stó:lō peoples. The Stó:lō have an intrinsic relationship with what they refer to as S’olh Temexw (Our Sacred Land), therefore we express our gratitude and respect for the honour of living and working in this territory.

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