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Welcome, Warriors! Whether you’re new to campus or returning for another term, we're delighted to welcome you to the University of Waterloo Libraries. We're here to empower your learning and research. Visit us early this term to explore our spaces, discover our collections and online resources, and connect with our team of information experts. 

When students in HLTH 480: Competencies in Health set out to address complex community health challenges, Rachel Figueiredo, entrepreneurship librarian, and Siu Hong Yu, a health and science librarian, helped ensure their ideas were grounded in evidence.

Faculty librarian Mike Chee recently collaborated with Professor Heather Whiteside (Faculty of Arts) to design PSCI 601: Research and Writing in Political Science for the winter 2026 term.

The University of Waterloo Libraries recently caught up with Sarah and Lakshmi, winners of this year’s Sharon Lamont Student Award. The award is given annually to students who have worked at the Libraries and have, through extracurricular involvement, supported equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Since 2010, the Red Dress movement, originated by Métis artist Jaime Black, has been both an artistic and educational call to action, raising awareness of the disproportionate number of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit (MMIWG2S) people in Canada.

The Libraries will be moving to a new course reserves platform, Leganto, beginning Fall 2026 to better support faculty and students.

The Libraries' Online Learning Object Repository (OLOR) will be decommissioned as of July 1, 2026, with relevant content redistributed to Waterloo's LEARN platform and eCampus Ontario.

The University of Waterloo Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives (SCA) is the recipient of the 2026 Archives Association of Ontario (AAO) Institutional Award.

Four new projects have received a 2026-27 Staebler Insurance OER Fellows Grant from the Libraries.

Canadian research libraries and researchers come together to expand access to Canadian primary-source materials