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Librarians' Activities and Accomplishments

Here are some of the activities and accomplishments of University of Waterloo librarians. See something missing? Use our online form to let us know about your or your colleagues' activities and accomplishments.

  • Kathy Szigeti was elected to a 2 year member-at-large position with the Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries effective July 1, 2012.

  • Sandra Keys and Kathy Szigeti are members of the Canadian Community of Practice for Research Data Management in Libraries. This Community of Practice (CoP) evolved out of the Introduction to Research Data Management Service Course produced by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries in January 2013. At this course, it was agreed that there is a need for a forum to enable ongoing dialogue and exchange with others working in research data management. The CoP created a blog; Sandra and Kathy facilitate the Metadata and Standards section.

  • Alison Hitchens presented “MOAR RDA for Systems Folks” at Code4Lib North 2013 at Ryerson University. Alison is also now Chair for the ELUNA Primo Product Working Group.

  • Eva Dodsworth co-presented with Jon Morgan on “From In-person to On-line: Using Open Source Apps for Interactive Map Access and Discovery” at the CARTO 2013 Conference, in Edmonton, Alberta, June 11-14, 2013. Eva also co-authored the following paper with Andrew Nicholson, ”Visualizing Our Futures: Using Google Earth and Google Maps in an Academic Library Setting”, in the 2013 ACRL Proceedings.  

  • Shannon Gordon co-presented the paper "More Knowledge On The Go: A Survey of Mobile Device Usage in Pharmacy" with Trish Chatterley (University of Alberta) and Vicky Duncan (University of Saskatchewan) at the Canadian Health Libraries Association Conference in Saskatoon, May 2013.

  • Nancy Collins (Waterloo), Lorna Rourke (St. Jerome's University), and Susan Shepley (Sheridan College) presented "Therapy Dogs, Exam-time Cookies, and Banning Books: Community Engagement in Academic Libraries" at the Atlantic Provinces Library Association Conference in Charlottetown, PEI, May 2013.

  • Jane Britton authored "Personal Studio: Documenting Growth and Change in the Waterloo Region 1946-1996 or From Mom-and-Pop to Drive-Up-and-Shop" in the Waterloo Historical Society's (WHS) 100th volume. The WHS annual volumes are available in local libraries including Dana Porter, call number: FC3095.W32 W3, 3rd floor.

  • Poet and retired librarian, Rienzi Crusz, was presented with an award at the Festival of South Asian Literature and the Arts on May 3, 2013 in recognition of the important contribution he has made to Canadian and Sri Lankan literature.

  • Pascal Calarco was elected to Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) Steering Committee, 2013-2015, following the 2013 annual conference and meeting, April 29-May 5, Athens, GA. ELUNA represents some 1800 library customers of Ex Libris products in the U.S., Canada and Caribbean.

  • Pascal Calarco presented "So that's how its done here! Comparing and contrasting strategic planning in two different institutional library contexts," Peer reviewed and accepted presentation at ELUNA 2013, Athens, GA. May 1, 2013.

  • Eva Dodsworth and colleague Andrew Nicholson (University of Toronto) have published their survey results, in Information Technology and Libraries. "Academic Uses of Google Earth and Google Maps in a Library Setting." 2012. They also presented this paper at WILU, in May in Edmonton.

  • Tim Ireland presented at the COSCI 12 conference in Dusseldorf Germany and co-authored a conference paper with Kathy MacDonald and Peter Stirling entitled "The h-index: What is it, how do we determine it, and how can we keep up with it?"

  • Pascal Calarco has been appointed to the NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee, July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2015.

  • Pascal Calarco presented Research Data Management at the University of Waterloo: How Can Librarians Help at CANHEIT 2012 in Saskatoon, Canada (June 11, 2012).

  • Pascal Calarco presented Research Data Management at University of Waterloo: How Can Librarians Help at the meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers during Congress 2012 of the Humanities & Social Sciences in Waterloo, Canada (May 30, 2012).

  • Pascal Calarco co-presented "Scholarly Usage Based Recommendations: Evaluating bX in a Consortium" (with A Greenberg, D Thomas) during the 2011 International Group of Ex Libris Users Annual Meeting (September 10-14, 2011).

  • Pascal Calarco and Alison Hitchens presented "From Search to Discovery: Finding Global Scholarly Resources with Primo" at the WatITis Conference in Waterloo, Canada (December 10, 2011).

  • Alison Hitchens is a member of the adhoc Pan-Canadian Working Group on Cataloguing with RDA. Members are working on training modules for the new cataloguing rules which will allow cataloguers across Canada to participate in training. They are also taking part in pre-conferences, training days, and EI institutes. Alison's module is "Module 7: Cataloguing with RDA:  Part 3: Recording attributes of Persons, Families and Corporate Bodies, and of Place."

  • Eva Dodsworth, Richard Pinnell, and Sandra Keys made significant contributions to the Scholars GeoPortal, which was recently launched. The GeoPortal received the 2012 OLITA Award for Technical Innovation at OLA

Secretary, LAUW
May 2013