News

The Library is excited to welcome new and returning students to a fresh academic year. We’re here to be your partner in learning and research, from our variety of study spaces to our vast collection to our information navigation experts.

To help you get to know the library resources and services available to you as a Waterloo student, here are some of the key things you need to know:

The Library’s Special Collections & Archives (SCA) curates not only rare books, archives and materials related to the University’s teaching and research programmes, but it also houses the University of Waterloo Archives, containing official correspondence, publications, photographs, memorabilia and more.

Once a month the student engagement and communications assistant co-op student interviews library staff to provide library 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 Meray Philobbos interviewed Jude Doble, administration and strategic initiatives, associate university librarian.  

Earlier in July, the Library was fortunate to host Barina Utkan, the Open Access and Institutional Archive, Head, from Middle East Technical University Library in Ankara, Turkey. With a background in mathematics, digitization and archives, Utkan was excited to learn more about open access, research data management and digital scholarship during her visit.

The Library is continually adding to its collections to provide Waterloo scholars and researchers with the resources they need to meet their goals. With support from generous donors, we’re able to purchase new resources across a variety of subject areas and diverse voices, responding to direct requests from our users, usage statistics and emerging subjects of interest. 

The hate-motivated attack that took place on our campus last week has shaken many of us. To reiterate President Goel’s message, gender-based violence has no place at the University of Waterloo, or anywhere. We wish the professor and two students a speedy recovery and support them in their healing. We would also like to acknowledge the pain and injustice many of you may be experiencing from this incident. 

Once a month the student engagement and communications assistant co-op student interviews library staff to provide library patrons with a peek behind the book stacks 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 Meray Philobbos interviewed Courtney Bremer, cataloguing and metadata librarian. 

Once a month the student engagement and communications assistant co-op student interviews library staff to provide library patrons with a peek behind the book stacks 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 Meray Philobbos interviewed Michael R. Clark, coordinator, accessibility and information resources.

The Library recently launched institutional storage to the citation manager Zotero, allowing Waterloo researchers to easily collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research with unlimited storage space. 

Each year the University of Waterloo bestows a small number of honorary doctorates, distinguished professor emeritus designations, as well as honorary memberships to the University. Honorary memberships are the highest honour a staff member can receive and are granted on retirement in recognition of individual outstanding service to the University as a whole.