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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.

During Open Education Week earlier this year, the Library announced support from Staebler Insurance to continue our OER Fellows Grant program for the next five years. As part of the Library’s mission to make learning materials freely accessible and available, this program was launched last year to support the creation of open education resources at Waterloo. 

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. 

Have you heard the term “resource sharing”? It’s an important term in a library context as it gets to the heart of what libraries do: provide easy access to information. 

The Library is delighted to spotlight this year’s Sharon Lamont Student Award winners, Zoya Randhawa and Claire Reynolds. This is the second year the award is being given out to two students who have worked at the Library and have, through extracurricular involvement, supported equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives. 

Starting this month, the student engagement and communications assistant co-op student is interviewing a library staff member to provide library patrons with a peek behind the book stacks at all the work that happens to provide the variety of services and resources that support the learning, research and innovation that happens at Waterloo.

The Library hosted a Town Hall on March 28 to share updates and projects that reflect progress towards our 2020-2025 strategic plan. James Rush, vice-president, academic & provost and Charmaine Dean, vice-president, research and international opened with remarks on the place of the Library within the campus community followed by Beth Namachchivaya, university librarian, who shared stories and activities included in the Library’s 2022 Annual Report and answered questions from the audience.

The Library is delighted to share its 2022 Annual Report. 

Special Collections & Archives (SCA) at the University of Waterloo Library has launched an Oral History Hub on the Waterloo Digital Library, providing access to interview recordings, including transcripts, that actively document Waterloo’s history through the lived experiences of our staff, faculty and students.  

The Library is celebrating Open Education Week March 6–10, which seeks to raise awareness about innovative Open Educational Resources (OER) and practices worldwide.