Black History Month
This year's Black History Month theme celebrates three decades of Black History Month in Canada and recognizes the enduring legacy of Black Canadians, whose leadership, creativity, innovation and resilience have shaped our past, continue to influence our present, and will inspire future generations.
In the Light of Dawn
This book spotlights the Dawn Settlement, a Black Canadian community built through resilience, education, and collective care. This engaging history traces its struggles and lasting legacy, broadening our understanding of Canada’s past and the communities that shaped it.
Can you hear me now?
A powerful, candid memoir about finding your voice while navigating race, politics, motherhood, and public life in Canada. Caesar-Chavannes reflects on what it costs to speak up—and what it costs when you don’t—inviting readers to think deeply about leadership, belonging, and showing up as your full self.
Black Excellence
An inspiring collection that celebrates the depth and diversity of Black achievement through twenty powerful, real-life stories. This book challenges narrow ideas of success and reframes excellence as something rooted in purpose, resilience and daily intention. It offers actionable guidance from innovators across industries designed to help anyone to "up their game" and pursue their goals with clarity and confidence.
High Rider
High Rider offers a compelling portrait of John Ware, who rose from enslavement in South Carolina to become a respected Alberta rancher. Bill Gallaher traces Ware’s journey with vivid detail, highlighting his skill, resilience, and generosity as he overcomes hardship and quietly reshapes the communities he joins.
In the Black: New African Canadian Literature
A vibrant collection of contemporary African Canadian writing that spans poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Bold, creative, and wide-ranging, this anthology showcases diverse voices and perspectives, highlighting the depth and vitality of Black literary expression in Canada today.
Finding Edward: A Novel
Finding Edward is a moving novel about a Jamaican family in Toronto uncovering the hidden history of an enslaved ancestor. Blending past and present, Sheila Murray explores memory, identity, and the long reach of history, reminding us how understanding where we come from can help shape where we’re going.
The Skin We're In
A sharp, deeply personal examination of racism in Canada, blending Desmond Cole’s lived experience with reporting on policing, education, and everyday life. Urgent and eye-opening, it challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths about the country we think we know, and the work still ahead.
Where Beauty Survived
A lyrical and powerful exploration of Black Canadian history, memory, and resistance. Through poetry and prose, George Elliott Clarke honours the beauty, endurance, and cultural legacy that persist despite erasure and injustice.
Updates
🪪 Tap your eCard for self-checkout
Our Meescan self-checkout kiosk is back after a behind-the-scenes upgrade! You can now tap your SAIT eCard to check out books quickly and easily at our kiosk, located to the right of the information desk.
✅ Click START ✅ Tap your eCard ✅ Place your books on the RFID pad ✅ Click FINISH.
Handy if you're in a hurry or just want to skip the line at the information desk.
📢 Introducing Intertek Inform i2i
Need to access standards and codes for your program?
Intertek Inform i2i is our new go-to database. Replacing Engineering Workbench, i2i provides electronic access to standards from major publishers like ASME, ISO and API in one searchable platform while allowing us to build a custom collection of standards based on what you actually need for coursework, teaching and research.
👩💻 LIT Practicum Student Helps Raise Awareness of OER
Second-year Library Information Technology student, Chang, joined us for a three-week practicum in January. Chang worked on materials to raise awareness of Open Educational Resources (OER), breaking down the cost-saving, customizable advantages they offer. He also enjoyed gaining experience answering questions on our information desk, checking items in and out, and getting a feel for the day-to-day working of the library. We wish Chang the very best as he goes on to finish his program at SAIT and pursue a rewarding career in libraries!
📖 Freedom to Read Week, February 22-28
Intellectual freedom is the idea that everyone has the right to explore information and ideas without someone else deciding what’s “acceptable.” This principle matters deeply in academic settings. Learning thrives on curiosity, questioning, and the freedom to investigate ideas openly. When access is limited, so is understanding. Libraries celebrate choice and believe that your right to read, discover, and decide for yourself is worth protecting!
Learn more about Freedom to Read Week, or check out some of these challenged (but cherished) books from our collection.
📜 What's New in the Archives?
Our Archives recently received an exciting donation of historical items from the President’s Office – a mix of historical documents, photographs, and objects gifted to SAIT by visitors from Canada and around the world- Chinese cloisonne vases, silver Omani necklaces, a Polish tea set and a Kazakhstani stone wall painting, plus statues, plates, framed art and trophies. One of SAIT’s Library and Information Technology students spent a 3-week practicum cataloging details of everything and creating a finding tool.
Some of the historical documents and photographs are currently displayed in a small case outside the Archives office, including this 1929 photograph of all SAIT’s students and employees outside Heritage Hall.
Oki, Âba wathtech, Danit'ada, Tawnshi, Hello.
SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.