When there is a green circle at the top left corner, library staff is available to help you right now! (Ask Us Hours)
Use the curved arrow icon to "pop" the whole chat box out to a separate window that you can make larger.
Use the envelope icon to email yourself the entire chat history for later use.
When the service is offline, there are other ways to get help:
To check PC availability, visit here: PC laptops
Robertson Library provides students with different printing and scanning options
B&W: Single $0.10, Double $0.16
Colour: Single $0.20, Double $0.40*
Ask staff for help
You can save scans to USB or send them to an email
Learn more about the PEI Collection & University Archives.
If you would like to contribute to the development of the Robertson Library's digital collections (which are freely available to all) please visit our Gift page or contact the University Librarian (university-librarian@upei.ca, 902-566-0460).
These collections have been digitized by UPEI Robertson Library staff. For commercially published digital collections (e.g. ebooks), see Find Books and More.
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Check out our 2025 Video Library Tour! Discover the study spaces and services and resources available at the Library.
Our 2025 Video Library Tour is also available in French, Japanese, and Urdu.
To book an individual or group Library tour, please email instruction@upei.ca to schedule a time.
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Group Study Rooms: 261 (in Collaboratory, downstairs); Rooms upstairs: 306, 330, 341-350 Group size: 2-8 people (306 can hold larger groups, ask at the Service Desk) Time per use: 3-hour block
Individual Study Rooms: 331-336 (yellow rooms) Time per use: 3-hour block
Online Study Rooms: 320, 321, 326, & 327 (need to reserve using the Room Reservations website) You will need your UPEI Campus Card to sign out the key Time per use: 3-hour block
Research Study Rooms: 322-325 Note: Research rooms are not bookable; please ask at the Service Desk, you will need your UPEI Campus Card to sign out the key Time per use: 3-hour block
Find an appropriate study zone, for yourself or a group, if the study rooms are unavailable.
Hot topics this week: Wireless configuration; Printing
Remembrance Day
ArtStor is a collection of images of art across many cultures and times. UPEI does not subscribe to the main database, but a significant portion is freely available to all as the Public Collections.
Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.
Oxford journals (about 240) and ebooks purchased from Oxford. This does NOT include the Oxford English Dictionary which is on its own platform.
Provides access to archival issues of over 4,500 scholarly journals across most academic disciplines. Includes primary source materials.
The collections are the following: Arts & Sciences I to XV, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, Global Plants, Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa, and 19th Century British Pamphlets.
