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This fall, the Allison Library has opened a new Writing Centre that offers 30-minute, one-on-one sessions with an experienced tutor! For more information and to book an appointment, click here.

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This fall, the Allison Library will be offering several workshops and courses to help Regent students improve their research and writing skills. Workshops are 1-hour interactive sessions with a staff member on a certain topic, including Library Or...

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The Allison Library will close early at 6 pm on Wednesday, July 24.

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With Regent's Spring session coming to a close, here are the inter-term and summer hours of the John Richard Allison Library:

June 8 - June 23

Monday - Thursday          8 am - 6 pm

Friday                               8 am - 5 pm...

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We've just uploaded an album of photos from our 2018 conference on the Puritans, "Uncommon Devotion: Reflections on Puritan Texts"! Click here to see it. In order to flip through the photos, hover your mouse over the first photo and click the rig...

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In celebration of International Women's Day we've set up two new displays in the foyer: one on rare Puritan books that have evidence of female ownership, and the other on books written about or by women in history found in the main stacks. Feel fr...

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One exciting thing you can discover in our rare book collections is evidence of female ownership. Check out our blog post about female signatures found in our copy of Richard Sibbes' Glance of Heaven featured on earlymodernfemalebookownership....

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The Allison Library will be closed for Family Day on February 18, 2019.

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The Allison Library will be closed all day on February 12, 2019 due to snow.

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Our new display on illustrations is now up in the library foyer! Unlike many new editions of old books, these early editions include illustrations on their title pages and frontispieces that show something about the time in which they were made. T...

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