Winter term was a busy one around Special Collections, as the department welcomed two new staff members, Joseph Wong and Luvneet Rana, to assist in processing a selection of the department's prized archival collections.
Joseph, a UW co-op student hired for the term, worked largely on digitizing and preparing preservation copies of archival materials. He began his work by scanning negatives from the collection of local photographer Charles Belair who had donated his collection representing over 75 years of photography in the KW area.
| Shown right is a 1938 photograph taken by Mr. Belair of the YWCA at 84 Frederick St. showing the recently completed addition to the original building—so recent that the landscaping has not been completed. |  |
Luvneet, a Masters student from the University of Western Ontario whose internship was sponsored by the Gladys Srivastava Endowment for the Fall 2007 and Winter 2008 terms, has also been working with early documentation about the local YWCA, processing an accrual to the YWCA’s collection originally received in 1990 and added to regularly over the years.
Luvneet's work has included adding content to Special Collections' web pages, scanning materials, and cataloguing files of archival materials and photographic negatives. Like Joseph, she is amazed by some of the archival negatives she has come across: "They give a picture of what KW was like in the past. Some of them go back to the 1930s!"
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| A recent addition included some early material. Shown here is a 1926 photograph from the YWCA’s summer girls camp at Paradise Lake near Waterloo. |
Joseph and Luvneet's efforts have been instrumental in assisting the department to preserve fragile and valuable documents, and in enabling the Library to make these unique resources widely available online.
For more information, contact:
Special Collections Archivist
Ext. 32445
University of Waterloo Library
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
519 888 4883
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