Newfound Voices

Crystal Rose
This interview is with Crystal Rose, who received her Masters in Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University, and previously attended Grenfell as a Visual Arts student. She began working at the Grenfell Campus library in 2008. As Public Services Librarian, her job was providing research assistance, library instruction classes, purchasing books, and providing copyright support. She holds a Certificate in Canadian Copyright Law.

Crystal is a board member of the Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Archives, and recently completed certificates in Archival Practice, Managing Archives, and Oral History: From Theory to Practice through the Archives Association of British Columbia. She is also the co-recipient of the Vice-President's (Grenfell Campus) Engagement Award (2015) and the Dalhousie School of Information Management Outstanding Alumni Award (2016). She is a past president of both the Newfoundland & Labrador Library Association and the Atlantic Provinces Library Association.
In her new role as Associate Dean of Libraries for Grenfell Campus, Crystal is responsible for overall management of the library, the Harlow Campus Library and has university-wide responsibility for copyright oversight.

Interviewer: Dr. Stephanie McKenzie
Stephanie McKenzie is a professor in the English Programme at Grenfell Campus. She has specialized for the last decade or so in West Indian Women’s Poetry and, earlier, in First Nations literature in Canada of the 1960s and 1970s. Her monograph, Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Poetry, was published in 2007 (rpt. 2019). She has also published three books of poetry with Salmon Poetry.

Relevant Links

-Grenfell Library Website: www.library.mun.ca/grenfell/

-Borrow Technology and Equipment: www.library.mun.ca/grenfell/printingtechnology/borrowtechequipment/

New Books and Special Collections: www.flickr.com/photos/librarygrenfell/albums/with/72177720297262395

-New Graphic Novels: www.flickr.com/photos/librarygrenfell/albums/72157665587579662

-New books & DVDs with an LGBTQ perspective: www.flickr.com/photos/librarygrenfell/albums/72157712861396276

-Gardening collection: www.flickr.com/photos/librarygrenfell/albums/72157671048600695

-Cookbooks: www.flickr.com/photos/librarygrenfell/albums/72157712862575823

-"Self-Help" collection developed with Grenfell Counseling & Psychological Services: www.flickr.com/photos/librarygrenfell/albums/72157666022674785

Digital Archives Initiative Bowater Oral History Collection: https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/bowater

Grenfell Campus Archives: www.library.mun.ca/grenfell/archives/

Mark McPhedran speaks with Grenfell Campus Professor, ​Dr. Svetlana Barkanova.

Dr. Barkanova is a part of the Physics Department at Grenfell Campus. In this episode, we discuss the mysteries of the universe, the role of women in science, and life in Corner Brook.

Billy Newell talks to Matthew Hills from the Grenfell Art Gallery.

This month's host, Kate Pendakis, interviews Dr. Garrett Richards

Grenfell professor Dr. Stephanie McKenzie interviews Steve and Tangiene, who moved to Corner Brook in April of 2020.