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Reserve and renew: the LIS mental health zine

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"A compilation zine with submissions from people who work/volunteer in libraries or archives (or are working towards a library degree) exploring the intersections of mental health, mental illness, and library/archives work."
- From the creators

Revolution!

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This is a 1st Edition, 1st Printing

Players: 3-4
Playing time: 1 hour
Ages: 13 and up

Game Objective:
The land bubbles with intrigue and unrest. The people clamor for change. Revolution is coming. When the old regime falls, who will the…

Rosetta Stone [facsimile]

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Good to very good ; facsimile of original Rosetta Stone tablet.

Rowdy, Hostile Northern Australia Mirrors Arctic

Montreal, Quebec

Part five of a six part co-series with Cartoonist Ed McNally about spending several weeks in Australia. Desbarats writes about a very rough Austalian bar with an electric international mix of labourers from a uranium and copper…

Sagas of the Icelanders: A Roleplaying Games About the Lives of Icelandic Settlers in in the Saga Period

Sagas of the Icelanders
Introduction: In the year 874, the first Norse stylers set foot on iceland. They were escaping war, poverty and the dissolution of their political Freedoms on the mainland. Their families and people followed and claimed the empty lands, free from…

Sail to India: A Game of Exploration and Trade

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Players: 3-4
Playing time: 60 minutes
Age: 14 and up

Introduction: It is the Age of Discovery! With the Mediterranean under Osman Turkish control, the Portuguese are looking for alternative routes to the East Indies, moved by the trade of gold,…

Saint George and the Dragon

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"This Caldecott Medal-winning book retells the story from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene of the Red Cross knight and his quest to save an English kingdom from the wrath of a fire-breathing dragon. Hyman's stunning illustrations are perfect for…

Satellite Conference

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Photograph video conferencing screen from SLIS first use of satellite for conferencing

Satellite Dish

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photograph of a large satellite dish used for SLIS first use of satellite for conferencing.

Scaredy Squirrel

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"In a nutshell, Scaredy Squirrel is the story of a small squirrei living in a big and frightening world, never leaving his nut tree. Green Martians, killer bees, germs, and sharks are just a few things the agoraphobic Scaredy Squirrel dreads. Then,…