Events by month

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.

This NISO webinar will look at bias awareness and the difficulties of appropriately valuing diversity in a work environment.

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

Leave your pretty GUIs at home, kids! Graham Faulkner is going off-road data wrangling, with only a few Python tools and his native wit to survive. Watch him:

We’re not in Excel now, Toto! This is one you won’t want to miss.

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:

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 session will appeal to a general audience having an interest in exploring research impact data, for example: analysts, librarians, research assistants, researchers, senior management, etc.

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 session will appeal to a general audience having an interest in exploring research impact data, for example: analysts, librarians, research assistants, researchers, senior management, etc.

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.

Staff are welcome to stay from 2:30 to 3 p.m. to discuss Scopus in more depth with Elsevier, or to ask other Scopus-related questions. 

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