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In recognition of National Indigenous History Month, the Libraries unveiled a mural in the Dana Porter Library lobby by Tehatsistahawi (Tsista) Kennedy (Hot Dog Water Art). An Anishinaabe Onyota’a:aka artist belonging to Beausoleil First Nation and Oneida Nation of the Thames, he is a self-taught artist and often creates his work digitally.

This week Canada is celebrating National AccessAbility Week – an opportunity to highlight the work of the people and groups removing barriers and reflect on the work yet to do to make Canada a more accessible, inclusive home for all.

A small group gathered for Anti-Racism Reads to discuss the selected memoir for Asian Heritage Month: See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur, a Sikh activist, lawyer and author.

Four projects have been selected to receive a 2025-26 Staebler Insurance OER Fellows Grant from the Libraries. The program offers competitive grants of $5,000 each to instructors to help create or adapt an open educational resource (OER) for a UWaterloo course.

The Libraries and the Faculty of Engineering are collaborating to provide School of Architecture students, faculty and staff with self-checkout options in order to expand access to the Musagetes Architecture Library and its resources beyond library service hours.

The Libraries are adjusting opening hours for our two main campus locations, Dana Porter and Davis Centre, for spring term as part of the University’s work towards financial sustainability.

If you’ve been to the Doris Lewis Reading Room in the Special Collections & Archives (SCA) recently, you may have noticed something new. A Tremaine Map of Upper Canada circa 1862 now hangs prominently on one of the walls. 

Restoring history

Donated in 2009 by Jon Dellandrea, a former VP of University Development at Waterloo, the map needed extensive restoration work before it could be made available for researchers. 

The Libraries are delighted to share our 2024 Annual Report.  

This year’s report highlights our work in key priority areas that lay the groundwork for the next phase in our organization’s development. 

On February 28, Anti-Racism Reads participants gathered at Federation Hall to discuss Canadian author Matthew R. Morris’s debut novel, Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging. I see this collection of personal essays as a significant contribution to those interested in critical race, Black masculinity, education and anti-racism studies.

The two-year pilot project exploring a campus-wide approach to implementing the use of Open Researcher and Contributor Identifiers (ORCID) has reached a midway point.