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.
As part of the Library’s mission to make learning materials freely accessible and available, the Staebler Insurance OER Fellows Grant supports the creation of open education resources (OER) at Waterloo. The Library, with the generous support of Staebler Insurance, provides Waterloo instructors with competitive grants of up to $5,000 each to help create or adapt OER for use in a Waterloo course.
As we prepare to announce a new round of grant recipients during Open Education Week, we’re reflecting on the progress the 2023-24 fellows have made on their projects.
The Library is delighted to announce the second phase of the Special Collections & Archives’ Oral History Project is now available in our online archive. This next step in the project was an important partnership with the Office of the Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Anti-Racism.
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 Emily Fitzgerald interviewed Marian Davies, Liaison Librarian in the Faculty of Environment.
The History Department and the University of Waterloo Library recently collaborated to bring important resources related to Black Studies to campus, which will benefit students and faculty studying Black history.
Not sure what Love Data Week is and what it has to do with the Library? We’re turning to Digital Scholarship Librarian Antonio Muñoz Gómez and Research Data Management Librarian Anneliese Eber to tell us more about it and how it can help you with your research.
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 Emily Fitzgerald interviewed Farzaneh Keramati, Liaison Librarian for Religious Studies.
Much of the support librarians provide in an academic and research environment is through consultations, instructional workshops and providing online learning tools. They educate and guide scholars and researchers to build the systematic searching skills required to undertake their own projects.
As time allows, however, they can also take a more active role in research as a collaborator on a research team, often fulfilling the role of Information Specialist.
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 Emily Fitzgerald interviewed Mark Anderton, Library Coordinator and Supervisor in Circulation Services at Musagetes Library.
The outpouring of support from the community for the Library on Giving Tuesday this year, November 28, helped us raise over $20,000 from 43 donors!
Our Challenge Champion, Don Cowan (MSC ’61, PHD ’65), helped us surpass our 2023 goal of raising $15,000 by matching donations up to $5,000. Donations to the Library came in early and often, encouraging an additional $1,500 in matching donations to further boost our success.