The collection is essentially Seghers' personal library complemented by collateral works purchased by the Diocese and is rich in continental imprints from the 16th to the 19th centuries, not only in Latin, but also in French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish and English. The collection, besides his vocation, reflects Seghers' broad interests in philosophy, ethics, psychology, science, Roman history and drama, and music.

The Seghers books are of interest not only for their content, but also for the light that they throw on book production, printing, illustration, and binding, especially on the European continent from 1550 through to the end of the hand-printing era. The publication studies Seghers' influence on the development of the collection while analyzing subsequent generations of users, analyzing marginalia, annotations and artwork.

How are interpretations of literature changing in a digital age? Using James Joyce's Ulysses as its tutor text, this student-curated exhibit engages that very question, with an emphasis on time, place, computation, and speculation. The exhibit brings together traditional physical materials from the University's Special Collections and the University of Victoria Art Collections with 3D replications of objects, as well as a digital environment. Guided by the question of self-remediation –how do we see ourselves as others see us– the exhibit places Ulysses in its contemporary context and engages its long, often unanticipated, afterlife. Audiences are invited to interact with many of the curated materials. http://uvac.uvic.ca/ for more information on UVic art collections, http://maker.uvic.ca/ulysses/ for the index of digital projects created for the exhibit.