Events - 2018

Join your Library colleagues and retirees for refreshments and door prizes!

Party time = work time.

This is a scent-free celebration.

Diversity, accessibility, and equity are more than buzzwords: as public institutions, they should be the cornerstones of all that we do. This year, the theme for Scholars Portal Day is Investing in Inclusiveness. Join the conversation about how we can sustainably design and build our services, collections, and spaces, both digital and in-person, with inclusion at the core.

All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.

The University of Waterloo recently subscribed to SciVal, a very powerful tool allowing you to: visualize research performance, benchmark against peer institutions, develop strategic partnerships, identify & analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.

This hands-on, technical workshop will appeal to individuals anticipating the need to use SciVal on a regular basis to search for, and extract, research impact data.

The University of Waterloo recently subscribed to SciVal, a very powerful tool allowing you to: visualize research performance, benchmark against peer institutions, develop strategic partnerships, identify & analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.

This hands-on, technical workshop will appeal to individuals anticipating the need to use SciVal on a regular basis to search for, and extract, research impact data.

All staff are invited to join the Knitting Club fundraising event for the United Way.

Knitting and crocheting classes for beginners

Pick up a hook, some needles and learn how to "play" with no limits. Members of the UWaterloo Knit Collective will teach you the basics of knitting or crocheting - your choice!

Whether you are an absolute novice or you want to refresh some rusty skills, these beginner classes will get you going:

All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.

One of the issues preventing greater instructor involvement in open education is professional recognition; they question whether the effort required will be rewarded. Top-down signs of support (e.g. acknowledging open educational practices in tenure and promotion) are rare; bottom-up activism feels like an uphill battle. Can anything be done? In this webinar, panelists will identify signs of progress and discuss where open educators might best concentrate their efforts to make a difference in institutional policy.

Launched in May 2017, ORCID-CA provides Canadian institutions and organizations with premium membership to ORCID at a reduced cost as well as access to dedicated support services.

The online forum will be an occasion to share the latest ORCID news with the Canadian community. The forum will also provide an opportunity for stakeholders to engage with ORCID-CA and work together to develop a vision moving forward for ORCID in Canada.

Program Highlights:

The Library's most popular United Way fundraiser gets better every year! Watch this spot for more information.

Contact Sarah Martin if you have an item to donate to the auction.

Finding the funding, Part two: Strategic approaches to funding scholarly initiatives

Aside from funding libraries themselves, there are many innovative projects that might never be accomplished without the support of grants from foundations of various sizes and sorts. What are the current trends? The speakers in this event will identify and examine those trends and share what their impact on the academic environment might be.

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