May 2003

• After a long and distinguished career as University Librarian, Murray Shepherd became University Librarian Emeritus on May 1. Murray retires on July 31^st.
• All the UW libraries are now “wired for wireless”.
• Richard Pinnell (Manager, University Map and Design Library and Branch Library Services) received the Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA/ACACC) Honours Award/Prix d'Excellence for 2002
• The Library continues to work in partnership with the National Library on a variety of electronic theses developments
• The UW Electronic Thesis (ETD) database has now been enabled for Open Archives (OAI) harvesting http://etheses.uwaterloo.ca/OAI/TestPage.cfm
• In collaboration with the UW Faculty of Environmental Studies work is proceeding on a TUG Geospatial Metadata Project
• A successful pilot of a copyright requesting service for electronic resources was completed and extended as a one year pilot campus-wide as of Spring 2003
• Significant work on information access integration continues on a variety of fronts. See for example http://www.scholarly-societies.org/ (the Scholarly Societies Project). A News/Editorial item describing the new search engine and comparing it with the old one can be found at http://www.scholarly-societies.org/editorial_20030509.html

University

• Significant construction work continues in a variety of areas on campus, including the completion and official opening of the new building for Co-operative Education and Career Services. The building is called the William M. Tatham Centre, recognizing the $4.1 million donation by Tatham, a 1983 systems design engineering graduate. Other donors include UW students ($4.35 M) and the Ontario government’s SuperBuild infrastructure program ($2.35 M).