In a July "Survey of UW Graduating Students, 2003", the Library received the highest service satisfaction rating (84%) of any unit on campus.
The Library has received a donation of one million dollars for the creation of an Information Commons in the Davis Centre Library.
Reserves remains an important library service as highlighted in a recent survey of Faculty Perspectives on Reserves.
Significant staff resources are being expended in support of the OCUL VDX and ScholarsPortal initiatives. Carol Stephenson has been seconded to OCUL to lead the VDX project, and all the ILL/DD staff together with the UW TUGbars (book and article retrieval service) staff have been active as phase 1 implementers and trouble-shooters. Doug Morton (liaison librarian) and Charles Woods (senior systems analyst) have been appointed to an OCUL ad hoc group on linking technologies and services.
Christine Jewell and Bill Oldfield recently visited Ottawa to attend a meeting of a technical sub-committee to review issues related to a pilot project to provide access to electronic theses. The National Library, Laval Universite, and the University of Waterloo are collaborating on this initiative. Christine, Bill and Sharon Reeves will be presenting a paper on the pilot at the 2004 OLA Super Conference.
In accordance with new Ontario legislation, the UW Accessibility Plan has been published. The UW Library Accessibility Report and Plan are also available.
In a fit of "surely there is a more efficient and effective way to handle all this email", we have created a link for external job postings to reduce email traffic and inbox sizes.
An Associate Provost noted at the October Board of Governors meeting that "the whole place is jumping". The libraries have never been so busy.
Preparations continue for the move of the School of Architecture to a scenic site on the Grand River in the City of Cambridge. September 2004 is the target date. Preparations include a new architecture library.
The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), the University of Waterloo (UW), and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) have collaborated to host a workshop on the emerging information society and its global implications. The workshop highlights several questions from within the three main themes of the upcoming discussions at the major World Summit on the Information Society. Ian Wilson, National Archivist, gave a pithy presentation on issues of preservation in a digital environment.
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