Events by month

January 2019

Monday, January 14, 2019 (all day) to Wednesday, January 23, 2019 (all day) to Wednesday, January 23, 2019 (All day)
boy holding valentine behind back

Show Veterans your gratitude for their sacrifices and achievements in serving our country. Fill out a valentine created with images from Special Collections & Archives and help bring joy to a Canadian Veteran this Valentine's Day.

Find valentines postcards at Dana Porter, Davis Centre and Musagetes libraries.

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 — 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST
Ambassadors at fair booth

Meet our student Library Ambassadors and learn about all the services the Library and our campus partners have to offer you!

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 — 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST

Theses and other long documents (e.g., books, manuals, reports) can present challenges that shorter documents don't. It is more difficult to maintain a standard "look and feel" throughout a long document like a thesis. This course will demonstrate features in Word that will make formatting your thesis easier and less time consuming, such as: styles, numbering headings, page numbering, captioning tables and figures, footnotes, cross references, table of contents, and lists of tables and figures.

Monday, January 28, 2019 (all day) to Friday, February 1, 2019 (all day) to Friday, February 1, 2019 (All day)
Caption our collections contest

What is happening here?!

Submit your captions to these images from the Waterloo Digital Library and earn a chance to win one of five amazing book-themed prizes!

Monday, January 28, 2019 (all day) to Friday, February 1, 2019 (all day) to Friday, February 1, 2019 (All day)
Example of paper heart craft

Take a break from studying and make a book heart ornament in the third floor lounge of Dana Porter Library.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 — 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
Mary Lynne wearing touque

Tuesday, January 30 is Bell Let’s Talk Day.

Waterloo Library is partnering with Waterloo Recreation and Wellness to talk about mental health and hand out stickers, buttons, ‘talk bubbles’ and toques. Drop by Dana Porter and Davis Centre libraries and keep the conversation around mental health going.

Thursday, January 31, 2019 — 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST

You may have heard of GIS, but what exactly is it, and more importantly, how can you use it in your own research and academic work?

This introductory workshop presents the basic concepts of GIS and will teach you the skills you need to find geospatial data, map it, and discover new dimensions of information.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

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