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Visit our book display in the Dana Porter Library to learn more about Black Canadian authors and their works. While you're there, collect limited-edition buttons featuring images from the new Waterloo Digital Library that honour University of Waterloo's own Black History.

Our freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Our main Library's namesake, Dana Porter, himself stood for intellectual freedom, and struck down a ban on the book Fanny Hill in 1964 while serving as Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Visit the book display in the Dana Porter and Davis Centre libraries to learn more about Freedom to Read Week and check out books in our collection which have been banned or challenged.

Looking for your next favourite novel?

This Fair Dealing Week, support #faircopyright by taking advantage of Creative Commons-licensed material. Creators of the images below have licensed their work CC-0, putting them in the public domain. This means that you can share, use and remix these images…into the perfect meme!

The Creative Commons motto is "When we share, everyone wins." Share your (g-rated) meme with us and win!

Fair Dealing Week is an annual celebration of the rights provided to users of copyright-protected material under the fair dealing exception in the Copyright Act. Learn more and help us celebrate:

Undergraduate students can get tips on their résumés, cover letters and interviews during a 15-minute drop-in session with Centre for Career Action (CCA) staff. Bring your WatCard to register in-person, and printed copies of your résumé and/or cover letter if you would like them reviewed.