Library Lens - Week 12

This week's submissions combine the past and the present in both pictorial and textual formats!

We have reached phase 5 of the "Life of the Book in Cataloguing." Welcome to the  New Books Shelf! Submitted by Alex Dobre.

A rather unusual library patron visited Porter Friday, March 28^th. Submitted by Leah Haisoch.

Patrick Miller, ISR and Brandon Love, Co-op in the Adaptive Technology Centre, have had their papers published this week in the same issue of the ACMLA Bulletin (Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives journal), Issue 146. Submitted by Eva Dodsworth.

Carl Nagel took this photo just before this computer was picked up for Surplus by Central Stores. He writes, "This was the first microcomputer bought by the library that I set up which became Annette Dandyk’s workstation back in 1983. We actually got the expansion unit a year or so after the main unit when Annette needed more storage capacity".

This week's throw-back photo

A 1964 University of Waterloo publication writes about the Library's Reference Department. Some things just never change. Submitted by Laurie Strome.