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On June 19th, 2025, LAAUW President, Rebecca Hutchinson, sent a letter to the office of the Premier of Ontario and the Ministry of Colleges and Universities in Ontario, urging them to support college libraries. A copy of the letter is available in the body of this news item. To learn more about the financial crisis occurring at Ontario colleges, visit opseu.org/saveourcolleges.  

The Librarians’ and Archivists’ Association of the University of Waterloo supports the statement put out by FAUW on March 21 calling for the University to keep vaccine and mask mandates for the Spring term.

Over the past year and a half, the Librarians’ and Archivists’ Association of the University of Waterloo (LAAUW) has been evaluating affiliation with the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo (FAUW). A vote was held in late March 2021 and our membership decided against seeking FAUW affiliation.

LAAUW sent the below copied letter to Ana Serrano, President of OCADU, and cc'd a number of OCADU officials.

The Librarians’ and Archivists’ Association of the University of Waterloo unequivocally stands by our Laurentian University (Laurentian) colleagues in demanding better. We echo the expression of solidarity for our colleagues at Laurentian put forth by the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo (FAUW).

LAAUW sent the below copied letter to the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services; the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations; and the Honourable Greg Rickford, Minister of Indigenous Affairs, carbon copied to Mr. Toby Barrett, MPP, Haldimand-Norfolk, Ms. Bardish Chagger, MP, Waterloo, Mr. Bernie Corbett (Board Chair), Haldimand County Police Services Board, Ms. Catherine Fife MPP, Waterloo, Ms. Diane Finley, MP, Haldimand-Norfolk.

Dear President Hamdullahpur,

We are writing on behalf of the Librarians’ and Archivists’ Association of the University of Waterloo (LAAUW) to express serious concern for our membership, our Library staff colleagues, and support staff across campus following Waterloo leadership’s decision to “maintain business and administrative operations during this period of uncertainty.”

The LAAUW Executive would like to thank all our members for their continued support, input and participation in all the activities and discussions we have had over the past year.

We would like to provide you with a brief update of our projects and activities since our AGM in May 2019.

Dear Charmaine Dean, Vice-President, Research and International, 

In response to your August 6, 2019 invitation to Waterloo community members to share their views on the Thirty Meter Telescope, the Librarians and Archivists Association of the University of Waterloo (LAAUW) is writing to express its support for a moratorium on the project.