Photo of Dr. Ken McLaughlin and grad student, Cheryl Dietrich.
A $25,000 gift from the Birks Family Foundation is being used to enhance the tools and furnishings in the Library's special collections reading room. The Special Collections department provides unique primary source material to support the University's teaching and research programs as well as the needs and interests of Canadian and international researchers.
This multi-year grant has been used to have commissioned specially designed archival desks. These desks have been designed to ensure that students and researchers, who are of all ages and spend hours combing through the collections, can do so in an ergonomically designed, comfortable work area.
Future grants will be directed to enhance workstations, permitting integrated access to digitized slides and photo collections, archival collections, and the detailed online databases that support them, as well as broad access to all materials in the collections.
The contribution from the Birks Family Foundation is helping the Library provide a technologically advanced, ergonomically correct environment for students, researchers, and community members to review historical materials.
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