Description: For those of you who haven’t met Ingrid yet, she is here until April 27 as part of a grant program funded by Andrew Carnegie Corporation that places mid-career academic librarians from South Africa in short-term visiting positions at ARL member libraries.
Description: Lorna and Scott will discuss their experiences with collective bargaining at St. Jerome’s University and the University of Guelph respectively. They will share insights into the changes and issues associated with librarians being a part of faculty unions/associations.
Description: Laura will share her experiences volunteering as a librarian in the Corely Smith Library at the Charles Darwin Foundation in the Galapagos.
Description: Increase your understanding and knowledge of university rankings like the Maclean’s University Rankings, the Globe and Mail Canadian University Report, and more! Blair Clarance from Institutional Analysis and Planning will share some of Waterloo’s 2011 results and provide resources and references.
Christy and Dan Sich
Since leaving the University of Waterloo Library in 2008, Christy and Dan Sich have been working at the Weldon and Taylor Libraries (respectively) at the University of Western Ontario. They will discuss key differences they have noticed between the libraries at Waterloo and UWO, including the academic status model at UWO, and the team approaches currently in place at the Weldon and Taylor Libraries.
When: Wednesday, March 30 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Where: Davis Centre Conference Room
Women in Early Austrian Anabaptism, Their Days, Their Stories (2009): A illustrated talk by the author, Linda H. Hecht
Previously untold stories of women persecuted for their faith during the early years of the Reformation are revealed in the Austrian Anabaptist court records. In the turbulent years of the early 1500’s, women chose to express their personal faith publicly through adult baptism, which was outlawed by the state.
When: Wednesday, February 2 from 11:30 to 12:30
Where: Dana Porter Library, Room 428 (4th Floor)
Innovation Boot Camp: Fostering a more innovative workplace
Robin Bergart, User Experience Librarian; M.J.D'Elia, Learning & Curriculum Support Librarian; University of Guelph
Does your library value innovation? Many organizations say so, but we wanted to make innovation a more deliberate and pervasive part of our everyday work. To do this, we conducted a 12–week "Innovation Boot Camp" designed specifically to inspire, energize, and challenge participants to be more innovative at work.
When: Wednesday, February 23, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Where: Davis Centre Library, Conference Room (DC 1568)
Holiday Social
When: Friday, December 10 at 7:00 pm
Where: Concordia Club's Restaurant, The Schenke
Ryerson Double-Header!
Join Sonny Banerjee and Graham McCarthy from Ryerson University Library and Archives (RULA) as they speak on the topics of RULA’s staff intranet and mobile applications.
When: Thursday, November 11 at 11:10
Where: DC 1568
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics – George Leibbrandt Library
Have you ever wondered what goes on in that strange building by Waterloo Park’s Silver lake? In this talk, you’ll hear about the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and its library: who we are; what we do; how we do it; and our plans for the future.
Speaker: Dawn Bombay, PI Librarian
When: Thursday, October 28 at 11:00 am
Where: DC 1568
An information session on Your Waterloo Positioning Guide
When: Thursday, July 15 @ 1:00 pm
Where: LIB 428
Speaker: Kelley Teahen, Associate Director of Communications and Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs
Rienzi Crusz
Poetry Reading by a former Reference and Collections Development Librarian at the University of WaterlooSponsored by the League of Canadians Poets
Beyond Literacy
Post-literacy, as explored in this presentation, is not a decline from literacy into some new dark age but rather the beginning of a transformational capacity as yet unimagined. Not for the faint of heart
Speaker: Mike Ridley
Librarians without Borders
An information session by Erin Fields and Irene Tencinger
ENGINE E-print Project
Allan Bell introduced the ENGINE E-print project @ UW.
Hollywood Librarian viewing
Visual Design Fundamentals, April 2008
View the powerpoint slides for "Visual Design Fundamentals with a focus on Poster Presentations" presented by Alan Kirker on April 24, 2008.
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