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Library News is your source for the latest information on library resources, services, and events.

The Library Communications Team publishes news items on an ongoing basis and also prepares a monthly email newsletter news @ your library, which captures news highlights from the past month.

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Monday, February 9, 2026

Where’s the Data? How libraries improve data discoverability

Every February, the global data community celebrates Love Data Week, hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). This year’s theme, “Where’s the data?”, invites us to think about the journey data takes, from collection to analysis, storage to preservation.

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Staebler Insurance OER Fellows Grant 2026-27: Now Accepting Applications

As part of the Library’s efforts to ensure learning materials are freely accessible and available to learners and researchers at Waterloo, we’re once again seeking applications from Waterloo instructors with projects to create or adapt an open educational resource (OER) for a Waterloo course.

Monday, December 8, 2025

Campus-wide ORCID pilot project concludes

The two-year pilot project exploring the campus-wide implementation of Open Researcher and Contributor Identifiers (ORCID) will officially conclude in early 2026.

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

A surprise donation from Alumni Weekend

The Library’s Special Collections & Archives (SCA) curates not only rare books, archives and materials related to the University’s teaching and research programmes, but it also houses the University of Waterloo Archives, containing official correspondence, publications, photographs, memorabilia and more.