The University of Waterloo Libraries recently caught up with Sarah and Lakshmi, winners of this year’s Sharon Lamont Student Award. The award is given annually to students who have worked at the Libraries and have, through extracurricular involvement, supported equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Since 2010, the Red Dress movement, originated by Métis artist Jaime Black, has been both an artistic and educational call to action, raising awareness of the disproportionate number of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit (MMIWG2S) people in Canada.
The Libraries will be moving to a new course reserves platform, Leganto, beginning Fall 2026 to better support faculty and students.
The Libraries' Online Learning Object Repository (OLOR) will be decommissioned as of July 1, 2026, with relevant content redistributed to Waterloo's LEARN platform and eCampus Ontario.
The University of Waterloo Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives (SCA) is the recipient of the 2026 Archives Association of Ontario (AAO) Institutional Award.
Four new projects have received a 2026-27 Staebler Insurance OER Fellows Grant from the Libraries.
Canadian research libraries and researchers come together to expand access to Canadian primary-source materials
The Libraries invite you to discover our 2025 annual report, which highlights a year of both reflection and forward momentum.
Every February, the global data community celebrates Love Data Week, hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). This year’s theme, “Where’s the data?”, invites us to think about the journey data takes, from collection to analysis, storage to preservation.
As part of the Library’s efforts to ensure learning materials are freely accessible and available to learners and researchers at Waterloo, we’re once again seeking applications from Waterloo instructors with projects to create or adapt an open educational resource (OER) for a Waterloo course.