Celebrating Your Connection to the Library
The Library thanks students, faculty, and staff in the campus community for their continual support. Library Day is a time to celebrate your connection to the Library!
What's YOUR connection?
Every year, students, faculty, and staff use and support the Library in a multitude of ways. Read below to see where you fit in!
Your Patronage
The Waterloo community spends a lot of time visiting the Library — both in our physical locations and virtual web presence. We are one of the very busiest services on campus, with close to 14,000 visitors to our locations every day and over 16.5 million hits to our website every year.
Students recognize the importance of the Library to their academic success and student experience. Every year students provide significant financial support in the form of endowments. Key endowments in recent years have included:
- Arts Endowment Fund — equipped the Dana Porter Library with 10 new study carrels and chairs, a donation totaling $13,099.97
- Engineering Endowment Fund — provided $5,000 to help the Library purchase first-year engineering textbooks to be held on reserve at the Davis Centre Library
- Math Endowment Fund — donated $24,990 to enable the purchase of study carrels and chairs for the Davis Centre Library
- The Faculty of Science Foundation (FSF) — awarded $5,000 to purchase new chairs for student use in the Davis Centre Library
- The Student Life Endowment Fund — provided $11,249.93 to support projects promoting accessibility for students and to equip both the Davis and Porter libraries with new chairs for student use
Your Talent
Your talent is reflected in the Library's physical and virtual spaces.
Students are continually contributing their unique vision to the Library. A few recent examples include student art, class contributions, and participation in creative library contests:
- Student artists often choose the Library as the site (and sometimes muse) for their artwork and other creative projects. Here are a few examples of how students have expressed their creativity in connection with the Library:
Fine Arts students created a drawing installation in the Davis Centre Library, September 2010.
Corrina Lobbezoo created a poem about the Dana Porter Library for her friend Ramez, who "seems to spend his days - all of them - at DP."
Arts alumnus Daniel Simac took this magical picture of Porter during a snowy night while completing his degree.
- In 2008, students created a wide range of videos describing why they loved the Library in the Library's "Why do you love the Library?" contest. In 2009, students provided photos of their favourite spots in the Library for a photo contest.
Your Feedback
Student feedback plays a key role in the Library's operational decisions.
In recent years, student feedback has been a driving force in major projects at the Library:
- Before and during the Dana Porter's Main Floor Renovation, students provided feedback that helped shape the current main floor
- At the Davis Centre Library, students continually engage with staff to inform the many current and upcoming changes in the Davis Centre Library environment
, Communications and Liaison Librarian
October 18, 2010
