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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.

  • Poet and retired librarian, Rienzi Crusz, was presented with an award at the Festival of South Asian Literature on May 3 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
March 2012