Posts for the Topic Waterloo Digital Library

Five years down

Monday, April 25, 2022 by Danielle Robichaud
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This week marks a University of Waterloo Library (Library) milestone: the Waterloo Digital Library (WDL), an online repository used for sharing select items from Special Collections & Archives (SCA) and the University of Waterloo Archives (UWA), is officially five years old![1]

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Bettie Bernice Wilson collection

Salute to the Canadian Solider!

Monday, November 8, 2021 by Danielle Robichaud
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Over the past year I’ve redescribed the initial set of records that make up the 

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World War II
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New additions to the Waterloo Digital Library

Thursday, July 16, 2020 by Danielle Robichaud
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As COVID-19 and the closure of the University of Waterloo campus continues to impact how Special Collections & Archives (SCA) staff interact with on- and off-campus researchers, the SCA team has gotten creative about how it delivers reference and research services. I talked about some of that work in Episode three: Dear Library of the Virtual Library Bunch series back in May.

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Waterloo Digital Library updates

Thursday, September 6, 2018 by Danielle Robichaud

Curious to see items from our holdings, but aren't up for making a trip to campus? You're in luck! Several new collections have been added to the Waterloo Digital Library (WDL) since it first launched back in April. They include:

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Meet the Waterloo Digital Library

Monday, February 26, 2018 by
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Just over two years ago I started in a newly created position as Digital Archivist. It took some time to figure out where my expertise would be best directed, but one task that was clear from the start was that Special Collections & Archives needed a way to selectively share our digitized primary resources.

Readers, I’m delighted to share that we have a solution to that problem and its name is the Waterloo Digital Library (WDL).

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