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Key stakeholders, including the Library, the Office of Research, and representatives that participate in a Bibliometrics Working Group (BWG), have come together to support the implementation of Open Researcher and Contributor Identifiers (ORCID) across the University, starting with a two-year pilot project to explore how a campus-wide approach could support researchers.

The Library and the Research Data Management Working Group are excited to announce the launch of a Research Data Management (RDM) Guide.

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. 

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 Rachel Figueiredo, the Entrepreneurship Librarian.  

The Library is delighted to share this year’s Sharon Lamont Student Award winners, Sarah Chun and Udani De Silva. This is the third 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. 

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.