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Vicky Situ had her first co-op work term this winter as a GIS Library Technician at the Libraries' Geospatial Centre, located in Dana Porter Library. As a second year Geomatics student, she was excited to deepen her GIS skills through the hands-on learning a co-op role provides. What she wasn’t expecting was an opportunity to marry her creativity and love of history with those GIS skills. 

Once a month the Student Engagement and Communications Assistant co-op student interviews Library staff to provide patrons with a peek behind the bookstacks at all the work that happens to provide a variety of services and resources that support the learning, research and innovation that happens at Waterloo. 

This month, co-op student Mia Malidzanovic interviewed Melanie Hannaford the Library’s Administrative Officer. 

The Library recently welcomed Rebecka Taves Sheffield as our new head of Special Collections & Archives (SCA). Rebecka is an award-winning author, educator and archivist with more than fifteen years’ experience working in the field.

Anne Innis Dagg, a groundbreaking Canadian zoologist, feminist and environmentalist, passed away on April 1, 2024. She studied and worked at the University of Waterloo from the 1960s through 2013, pursuing a wide range of research interests. Anne donated many of her research papers, drawings and photos to the Library’s Special Collections & Archives (SCA) in 2003 and continued to work with the materials, visiting SCA in Dana Porter Library.

The Library is pleased to share its 2023 Annual Report.  

This year’s report pays tribute to the place of the Library on campus, both past and present, while also looking ahead to consider how we can re-imagine the Library of the future to provide services and collections that support scholars and researchers in a rapidly changing information landscape. 

Once a month the Student Engagement and Communications Assistant co-op student interviews Library staff to provide patrons with a peek behind the bookstacks at all the work that happens to provide a variety of services and resources that support the learning, research and innovation that happens at Waterloo. 

The Library recently welcomed Kevin George (BA '22) as our new associate director, Indigenous initiatives. Kevin is Fish Clan Potawatomie/Cree. He is a member of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation with relations at Fort McMurray 468 First Nation. 

Are you part of the University of Waterloo community? If so, we want to hear your opinions! How satisfied are you with the services, resources and expertise provided by the Library and which ones are most important to you in reaching your goals?  

The Library is pleased to announce four dynamic projects have been selected to receive a 2024-25 Staebler Insurance OER Fellow grant this year: 

As part of the Library’s mission to make high quality learning materials freely accessible and available to the Waterloo campus community, the Instructional Design (ID) team has a unique role, both within the Library and within the Waterloo campus community.