Library and Information Services

The Gabriel Dumont Institute has its own Métis-specific library system – one of the most extensive owned by any Métis educational or cultural institution – with branches in Regina and Prince Albert. A GDI student resource centre is provided in Saskatoon.

To search the GDI Library catalogue online, click here, or type your search term(s) in the following box and click the search button

 

 

With a unique collection specific to Métis history and culture, the GDI Library provides service to GDI students as well as the wider Métis and non-Métis community.

What you can find in the library:

• Reference collection (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, atlases)
• Reserve collection (materials for use by students in a particular course)
• Dewey collection (fiction, literature, and non-fiction)
• Juvenile collection (books suitable for elementary and middle school readers)
• Easy collection (picture books suitable for use by young children)
• Curriculum collection (textbooks, teacher’s guides, and other teaching materials)
• Saskatchewan learning curriculum collection (curriculum guides, bibliographies, and other materials published by the Ministry of Education)
• Government documents collection (documents published by federal, provincial, and First Nations and Métis governments and organizations)
• Audio-visual collection (kits, videos, DVDs, records, cassettes, CDs, picture sets)
• Periodical collection (journals and magazines of interest to historians and educators)
• Vertical file collection (articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings)
• Picture file collection (archival photos and illustrations, poster-size illustrations and photos for use in schools)
• Rare book collection (out-of-print and rare books of historical significance; only available in Regina)
• Not recommended collection (items written for children with stereotypes, factual errors, misrepresentations, or errors of omission; not recommended for casual use without understanding the criticisms about their content)

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