What We Do

UPEI is very proud of the Robertson Library, an award winning and innovative academic library. With access to over 1.4 million books, over 125,000 journals, 100,000 streaming media,…

Our Vision

UPEI’s growth demands a world-class library. With your support, we will expand the Special Collections space to accommodate the increase of PEI’s published heritage and the growth of…

Who We Are

The Robertson Library was conceived in 1973 by the University of Prince Edward Island’s founders as the first academic building to be constructed as part of the Progress…

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President and Professor Emerita, Dr. Elizabeth Epperly

When I became the first student to register at the new University of Prince Edward Island in 1969, I was grateful for the university’s small library, with its…

Dr. Alan MacEachern

Thank you, UPEI Robertson Library, and Islandora for the IslandArchives.ca project. As sometimes PEI scholar, in exile, I appreciate so much the research opportunities that IslandArchives.ca has afforded…

Greg Gaudet, PEng

In 1986, Greg Gaudet, a Three Oaks Senior High School graduate, was a first-year student at UPEI. Featuring images of the Robertson Library and UPEI’s campus from that…

Dr. Kate Scarth

“My work as the Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies with the L.M. Montgomery Institute and as a professor in the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture (ACLC) would not…

Dr. Ed MacDonald

“The library is at the very heart of a university’s educational and research mission, the one institution on campus that serves everyone: faculty, students, staff, researchers, the general…

Dr. Libby Osgood

“Through the OER Program that the Library supports, my research students and I developed an online textbook that is tailored to first-year engineering students at UPEI and saves…

Inge Dorsey

The Robertson Library has been central to my UPEI story for 40 years. As an undergraduate Arts student in the 1980’s the Robertson Library was where I studied,…