Our accomplishments

The University of 蓝莓视频 Library is pleased to extol the accomplishments of our staff members.

贵补濒濒听2024

Rebecca Hutchinson听and various campus partners听published听听which听presents a systematic review of domains in which social robots have been evaluated specifically in health/wellbeing contexts, and includes 443 articles.
碍补迟别听惭别谤肠别谤听successfully ran the second year of the Biomedical Engineering Stakeholder Cafe, with a colleague in Systems Design Engineering
Eva Dodsworth published an encyclopedia chapter entitled "Geographic Information Systems" in the听.
Jackie Stapleton, in collaboration with KHS and SPHS researchers, co-authored an article outlining the scoping review protocol for their CIHR knowledge synthesis grant;听.
The Library Green Office Group were awarded the Green Office Gold Certificate from the Sustainability Office听at the UW Eco Summit 2024. The event featured a panel on how students are making an impact on sustainability on campus during their studies, and another panel on how staff are working to achieve sustainability solutions with ever-growing priorities.
碍补迟别听惭别谤肠别谤听was a judge in the Sandford Fleming Foundation Debate Competition in Engineering
Ryan Ball, Anneliese Eber, and Rachel Figueiredo, collaborated with the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering over the Fall term for a pilot of a new graduate studies course ME 738: Engineering Practice, Research Methods, Ethics, and Professional Development for MME Graduates.听ME 738 will be听a mandatory course required for all masters and doctoral students in MME, and that our librarian team will have an ongoing role as a strategic partner in future offerings.
Anneliese Eber听co-organized and chaired a symposium at the Canadian Association of Biological Anthropology annual meeting, Data Sharing and Open Data, with international speakers representing data management experts, the Tri-Agencies, and data repository creators. Anneliese also presented on as part of the symposium.
碍补迟别听惭别谤肠别谤听taught BME 101, Introduction to Communications
Ryan Ball听was invited to be a part of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering鈥檚 Graduate Student Research Symposium, where he听was one of the keynote talks, presenting on the topic of: 鈥淎chieve Success Throughout the Research Life Cycle: How the Library Empowers Researchers鈥�.听 Ryan听also served as one of the judges in the day long event, evaluating the research presentations for 17 masters and doctoral students who shared their incredible research.
Anneliese Eber & Antonio Mu帽oz G贸mez successfully developed and delivered a new online Library workshop series, Data Journeys, about research data management and digital scholarship.听Anneliese & Antonio created a successful workshop framework with three existing workshops that can grow and adapt as needed in future semesters and years.听This data-based workshop series addresses various knowledge gaps that the Library can contribute towards addressing including topics in data literacy, research data management, and digital scholarship.听 The Workshop successes include:
- 90+ registrants across three initial workshops
- High participant engagement
- Cross-campus outreach and engagement with registrants, including staff, students, and faculty, from each of the six University of 蓝莓视频 faculties
The Geospatial Centre worked with the Faculty of Environment, the Geospatial Club and the 蓝莓视频 Association of Geography Students to host GIS Day 2024. This half day event brought over 100 students, faculty and staff interested to learn and share GIS-related stories with each other. 听There were two GIS workshops offered, a series of Lightning Talks, as well as a networking event held in the Geospatial Centre.
Caitlin Carter, along with colleagues at the School of Pharmacy, co-authored 3 knowledge synthesis protocols, published with and :
碍补迟别听惭别谤肠别谤听published 听with colleagues in Systems Design Engineering
Caitlin Carter, along with colleagues at the School of Pharmacy, co-authored the following two knowledge syntheses:
- in the Journal of Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease
- 鈥淢edication Use by Older Adults with Frailty: A Scoping Review,鈥� funded by the Canadian Frailty Network (CFN).听 Results of the review are being used to create an educational module for Canadian healthcare professionals on optimizing medication management in frail patients.
Beth Namachchivaya and 碍补迟别听Mercer joined the executive committee of the TRuST network 听
Resource Sharing staff held another Resource Sharing Week in November.听 This year,听they spent part of a day engaging with students and faculty in Hagey Hall.
Lending Services are adapting to a new staffing model with fewer permanent and student staff, while simultaneously absorbing work from other areas. Staff have managed this transition efficiently and collaboratively, while still maintaining high user service standards.
Agnes Zientarska-Kayko co-organized and co-moderated the annual held virtually by OCUL's听Government Information Community.

Spring/Summer 2024

Danielle Robichaud wrote a response about the state of Library and Archives Canada鈥檚 digital services for Active History: .
Nicole Marcogliese hosted听two workshops for Integrated Communications and the marketing and communications team in the Faculty of Engineering. These workshops are intended to promote SC&A and听the library as a research partner, and facilitate the use of archival material in outreach efforts on听and off campus.
Nicole Marcogliese听worked closely with the alumni relations team for the coordinate a display of archival items at the Forever Black and Gold Luncheon during Reunion weekend.
Nicole Marcogliese听worked closely with the Faculty of Engineering to coordinate a display of archival items at the faculty鈥檚 dinner.听These displays, developing campus partnerships, and engaging with new audiences helps demonstrate how the library鈥檚 programs and resources play a vital role in communicating the continuing value of the 蓝莓视频 experience for the University community, alumni, and donors.
Karina Arrambide听has adapted a听presentation into a chapter for User Experience in Libraries: Yearbook 2024. The chapter talks about Library spaces and how they can be improved based on user feedback.听
Michael Clark and听Johanna Whitson presented听on how good Knowledge Management practices benefit neurodivergent library staff at , a conference centring听on neurodivergent gallery, library, archive, and museum workers in Canada as they share their interests, experiences, research, and support.
Kate Mercer, Ryan Ball, and Rachel Figueiredo published听 which听presents three case studies about librarian collaborations within the Faculty of Engineering, including a brief examination of key takeaways, lessons learned, and future potential. This paper was recently featured in both the ARL and CARL news digests.
Library听IT has migrated all our server virtualization over to IST, while still maintaining administrative responsibilities to the virtual workloads.听 This has allowed the decommission of two physical server clusters and one data center rack in EC2. By March 2025, the Library will no longer be managing physical server infrastructure in EC2 and MC,听relying solely听on IST's hosted services to run virtual servers and access storage resources. This change has reduced听our annual operational costs, and would not have been possible without the collaboration efforts between Digital Initiatives听and Library IT.
Stefaniada Voichita and Mayuri Sivakumaran designed a poster for Israel de Silva to present at the Association of Research Libraries conference.听 It won the Best Poster Award for the event.听听The theme for ARL IDEAL 2024 was Sustainable Resistance and Restoration in Global Communities and the title of the poster was 鈥淲eb Accessibility baby steps: anyone can conduct audits even with limited resources鈥�, demonstrating that anyone in the library can perform an initial but comprehensive web accessibility audit.
Kate Mercer听published the following papers at the ASEE Fall conference with a colleague in SYDE.

Winter 2024

Lauren Byl, Logan Imans, and Stefaniada Voichita are pleased to announce the completion of the learning module. This learning module will help undergraduate students understand the basics of copyright as it pertains to the materials they use and create during their studies at the University of 蓝莓视频.
Love Data Week at the University of 蓝莓视频 was an overwhelming success! As one of 80 institutions hosting events globally, the Library hosted 6 data-related workshops (5 online, 1 in-person) and 1 boothing event (in-person, at both Dana Porter and Davis Centre Libraries) that focused on teaching practical data skills with theoretical digital scholarship and research data management underpinnings. While there are many highlights from the week, here are a few that capture the overall success and reach of Love Data Week at 蓝莓视频:
- Over 220 participants across 7 events
- Over 40% of online workshop participants were external to the University of 蓝莓视频 spanning 5 countries and 2 continents
- Overwhelmingly positive feedback from workshop participants including interest in re-watching recordings of workshops

Kari Weaver听recently served as a guest on the discussing implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for the education sector and considerations for educators who may wish to change their instructional practice in light of these tools.
Sarah Brown and Kari Weaver听have been invited to present at the ACRL IS Inclusive Pedagogy Spring Webinar: Inclusive pedagogical practices in library instruction on our recent article Drama queens: Applying dramaturgy as an inclusive pedagogy within the oneshot
Mike Chee and Kari Weaver听have recently published the book chapter 鈥�Universal Design for Learning for Accessible OER: Implications for Partnership, Workflow, and Licensing.鈥� In R. McMullin, & D. Skaggs (Eds.) Universal Design for Learning in Academic Libraries: Theory into Practice (pp. 177-193). Association of College and Research Libraries. This is the first publication to consider UDL principles within the varied uses of OER across their lifecycles. A copy will be available in UWSpace soon.
Kari Weaver听had听two presentations at the听Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, which has a theme this year of information literacy in an age of artificial intelligence. These include Growing with Generative Artificial Intelligence: How Learning and Student Motivation Theory Can Inform Effective Pedagogies and Mitigate Academic Misconduct with a colleague at the University of Guelph and When It's Just Literacy: Intersections of Information, Data, and AI Literacy with Kate Mercer.
Alexa Evans completed the Library Management Skills Institute 2 with DeEtta Jones and Associates.听
Caitlin Carter is the Continuing Education Coordinator for 2024-25.
Caitlin Carter听and Jackie Stapleton delivered听a听workshop entitled听鈥淢astering the Art of Systematic and Scoping Reviews: A Workshop for Librarians鈥� at听both the OLA SuperConference听and听the Wellington 蓝莓视频 Dufferin Health Library Network.

Fall 2023

Sarah Brown and听Kari Weaver听published the听article听 in the journal Reference Services Review.
The听Open Access Week planning committee hosted 4 presentations and a game in the lobbies along with some news articles to bring awareness to Open Access publishing.
Jude Doble presented on "EDIA in Libraries" and "Library Leadership Coaching" at the听annual Canadian Associate University Librarian conference in Winnipeg.
Rachel Figueiredo presented virtually at the 听to highlight the library's current partnership with Velocity, called Foundations: The Happiness Project. it's a 10-week co-curricular program to teach students foundational entrepreneurship skills and connect them with key stakeholders across campus who could听benefit听from their ideas for new programming and practices. Rachel and Ben are particularly proud that Foundations attracted a majority of female Arts & Humanities students, which is a group that isn't always drawn to entrepreneurship programming.
Jackie Stapleton is collaborating as the information specialist on a CIHR Knowledge Synthesis and Mobilization Grant titled 鈥淏rain Health and Reduction of Risk for Age-related Cognitive Impairment鈥�.听 The research team, led by Dr. Laura Middleton, Kinesiology and Health Sciences, will synthesize literature regarding physical activity and nutrition among people living with dementia. 听
Eva Dodsworth worked with Cambridge author to help study historical railway maps to determine the site of a historical park in Cambridge. Using GIS听Eva听was able to overlay the map over a modern one to exactly pinpoint the geographic coordinates of the park boundaries. The maps听created for Paul were published in his book,听Idywild Park - The Forgotten Paradise.
Eva Dodsworth worked with 3 artists from who needed help analyzing the geographic landscape of Kitchener, as well as understanding the history of certain buildings. Using a combination of maps and the Vernon Project,听the artists included their findings in their artwork and art show. Eva听was invited to collaborate with the team of 3 in future grant-related art projects.
The Geospatial Centre participated in Library Week, offering a week-long project launch and exhibit highlighting historical GIS data created from the Historical City Directory initiative (Vernon Project). Staff worked all summer creating derivative maps of historical eateries, businesses, urbanization (and loss of structures), street network development and more.
On November 15^th, the Geospatial Centre, Environment Technology & Instructional Support (ETIS), and the 蓝莓视频 Association of Geography Students () had partnered to host an afternoon of learning; GIS DAY! Students, faculty and staff were invited to 12 Lightning Talks, 2 GIS workshops, and a Geospatial Centre open house that highlighted GIS projects, offering听a mix of old and new technology using stereoscopes and VR technology. Over 50 guests attended each of the two Lightning Talk sessions, and over 30 attended the workshops. Markus Wieland and Eva Dodsworth听each gave a Lightning Talk, promoting the Library鈥檚 geospatial projects and collections.听See photos of the event. Additionally, the Geospatial Centre worked with other OCUL听institutes to co-host a week-long virtual GIS Day(s) event, with multiple speakers and workshops.
Geospatial Centre has created 2 new digital projects for downloading , and a pathfinder for locating .
Eva Dodsworth听and Markus Wieland have published a peer-reviewed paper,听听"e-Perimetron: international web journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps". Vol. 18, No.3, 2023.听
Jenny Hirst听presented听"Oh The Places We Could Go! Our Journey towards an Analytics Roadmap" at the CARL .
Kari Weaver听was appointed to the American Library Association's听 as the liaison to the LEARN Roundtable. The appointment lasts through June 2025.
Kari Weaver and Kate Mercer published听鈥淣avigating Multidisciplinary Research for Information Literacy in STEM.鈥� in K. Bright, K. Matusiak, & D. Schachter (Eds.) , with听International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
Sarah Brown and Kari Weaver published听, with听Reference Services Review.
Caitlin Carter, along with School of Pharmacy colleagues, completed two scoping reviews, which were recently presented at the following conferences:
- Baby B, McKinnon A, Patterson K, Patel H, Sharma R, Carter C, Griffin R, Burns C, Chang F, Guilcher S, Lee L, Abu Fadaleh S, Patel T. 听. 听 American Geriatrics Society 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, Long Beach, CA.
- Sharma R, Kaur Gill J, Carter C, Chhabra M, Alkabbani W, Vidyasagar K, Chang F, Lee L, Patel T.听 .听 11^th Canadian Conference on Dementia, Toronto, ON.
Jenny Hirst was invited to join the '听.听 This is a two year appointement.听
Information Technology completed听renovations听and technology upgrades to DC 1554.听 The听meeting room now includes an Owl Labs Meeting Pro (camera/mic), Dell Optiplex 9020 computer with 75鈥� TV, and alternative HDMI connection for laptop users.听
Antonio Mu帽oz G贸mez, Sarah Martin, Danielle Robichaud and Matt West lead a multi-year project co-ordinating volunteer submissions, editing, and design efforts from across the Library to publish the . Featuring recipes from Library staff, the project was launched as a United Way Campaign and was inspired by a created by Library staff in celebration of the University of 蓝莓视频鈥檚 25^th anniversary.
Sue Lout and Danielle Robichaud launched the Special Collections & Archives exhibit Gender Studies Isn鈥檛 New in response to the June 28, 2023 attacks on campus as a way to highlight the persistence of gender-based study, research, and activities over time.
Special Collections & Archives, with help from Alison Hitchens and Sandra Keys, partnered with Classical Studies Professor Altay Co艧kun to host an open-house and workshop. The event highlighted the , donated in 2019 by Elizabeth Kerr, consisting of ancient coins ranging from the Persian Empire of the 6th century BCE to 19th century Britain.
Nicole Marcogliese hosted two workshops for Alumni Relations and Advancement staff to facilitate the use of archival material in outreach efforts on- and off-campus, and two donor events highlighting curious items in Special Collections & Archives鈥� holdings.

Spring/Summer 2023

Jude Doble joined the听campus-wide Institutional Values committee.
Jenny Hirst听presented听to the on the visualization of library data in MIcrosoft's .
Eva Dodsworth and Markus Wieland presented at the on . The paper presented and published in the conference proceedings is titled: Delving into the archives: studying geographic and cultural landscape changes using cartographic and textual data.
Caitlin Carter completed the Medical Library Association's听 course.
Nirmal Prasad听completed the 鈥溾€� offered by McGill University.听 This program will听help听him听apply听advanced Data Analytics at the University of 蓝莓视频 Library.
The Circulation Services department added locker pickup locations.
Nadeem Lawji returned from his听Staff Enhancement Experience (SEE) Canada Grant trip.
The听Resource Sharing unit staff hosted听Resource Sharing Week.
Sarah Martin,听Agnes听Kordiasz,听Amy Lim, and听Sue Martin听completed the听Mental Health Literacy program from Campus wellness.
Nadeem听Lawji听and Sue Martin finished the听Leadership Essentials program听from听Organizational & Human Development.
Derek Scholar听attended听Fire Extinguisher Safety training.
Jason Keta attended both听Fire Warden training, and an Introduction to Project Management.
Tim Ireland and Sarah Brown听are attending the hosted by CARL.
Karina Arrambide听presented at the听 in Brighton, UK about .
Caitlin Carter, along with her co-authors from the School of Pharmacy, have earned recognition from the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association for their publication 听 The recognition was based on the fact that despite being published in 2022, the scoping review already has 5 citations in other research papers, as well as news media.
Stefaniada Voichita听completed WatSPEED鈥檚 Project Management Certificate Program.

Winter 2023

Rachel Figueiredo completed the Fundamentals of OCAP course through the .
Kate Mercer听won the听Pearl Sullivan Outstanding Staff Teaching Award.
Kari Weaver, Karina听Arrambide,听and others presented听鈥淭he Design, Development and Deployment of Academic Integrity Modules for Students in STEM: Initial Research Findings.鈥� at the听.
Marian Davies听joined the board of the听听for the term ending 2025.
Kari Weaver, Mike Chee,听Stephanie Mutch, and Kate Mercer presented听鈥淏oth Sides Now: Growth Through Shared Learning in Mentoring Relationships.鈥� at the听.
Logan Imans听completed the Mental Health Literacy Certificate course.
Kate Mercer and听Kari Weaver听published听听with听Science & Technology Libraries, 42(1).
Steve Hiebert听joined the听Library Davis Centre Space Group.
Kari Weaver, Kate Mercer, and others authored a chapter on critical reading across the engineering disciplines听in听Teaching critical reading skills: Strategies for academic librarians Volume 1 available in UWSpace soon.
Karina听Arrambide听completed the Know Your User: Research Methods Beyond Usability Testing course from Library Juice Academy.
Library IT听undertook a major and unexpected VDI migration,听with听over 100 staff moved to a new virtual desktop solution. The outcome of this migration also provided a major improvement to stability for staff VDI.
Tim Ireland and Agnes Zientarska-Kayko were invited to provide a library instruction session, and a hands-on Zotero training to the class of students taking the Wicked Problems of Climate Change course.
Library IT听achieved a听major milestone by听regularly updating over 90% of all Library desktop software centrally.听 The VDI migration has created a large increase in Library IT resources to centrally support the Library-specific desktop software utilized by staff computers.
Karina听Arrambide听collaborated with students from SYDE 543 Cognitive Ergonomics to reimagine and improve physical spaces and digital services in the Library.

Fall 2022

Jordan Hale gave the Dave Binkley Memorial Lecture keynote at the Access Conference, entitled 鈥淭he library? What is it? It鈥檚 a big building where you access information, but that鈥檚 not important right now.鈥�
Stefaniada Voichita completed the Project Management Applied Tools and Techniques course, part of the听Project Management Certificate听series, through UW WHATSPEED.
Kari Weaver began听a听term as the Vice Chair/Chair Elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Section.
Sarah Brown, alongside Open Scholarship Committee members, planned articles for the Daily Bulletin in support of this year鈥檚 International Open Access Week.
On behalf of the Accessibility Working Group and Library Accessibility Services, Ryan Ball presented as part of the OCUL Accessibility Community Development Series sharing the ongoing accessibility work our Library has been engaged in.
Agnes Zientarska-Kayko, Tim Ireland, and Megan Palmer were invited to provide a library instruction session and a hands-on Zotero training to a newly assembled 蓝莓视频 Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience research team.
Alison Hitchens was appointed to the for a 3-year term.
Kari Weaver, in cooperation with various听colleagues,听has published multiple articles, presentations, and posters, including:
- Lightning Findings on Graduate Student Research Experience.
- Fostering Information Literacy Skills for Engineers: A Module-Based Approach to Engender Lifelong Learning.
- Oh ERIC! A Contemporary, Preliminary Analysis of Journal Coverage Across Core Education Databases and the Implications on Evidence Synthesis.
- If You Only Knew: Lessons, Limitations, and Learnings from 2.5 Years of an Online Learning Object Repository.
Ryan Ball, Sarah Brown, and Agnes Zientarska-Kayko completed the first , a 4-day intensive course sponsored by the University of Victoria Libraries and CAPAL鈥檚 Research and Scholarship Committee.
Nick Richbell was听an invited speaker at the and also at the . For both events, Nick gave talks about the s茅ance collections that are held in Special Collections & Archives.
Laura Bredahl published a library technology report on 鈥溾€澨齱ith ALA TechSource.
Kate 惭别谤肠别谤听published a paper "" with colleagues in SYDE.

Spring/Summer 2022

Kathy Szigeti and Sandra Keys participated as merit committee reviewers for the Data Champions Pilot Project funding call by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
Evan Schilling serves on the Advisory Board of the UW School of Architecture鈥檚 Racial Equity and Environmental Justice Task Force.
Alison Hitchens, Kathy Szigeti, and Sandra Keys are members of the campus-wide Research Data Management Institutional Strategy Working Group, which is co-chaired by Alison.
Caitlin Carter, along with Pharmacy colleagues, published the following 3 scoping reviews:
- 听Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2022;44:102206.
- Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2022;62(1):15-26.e11.
- Journal of Medical Regulation. 2022;107(4):17-31.
Jackie Stapleton,听along with colleagues in the Kinesiology and Health Sciences, has published the following 3 systematic reviews:
- 听Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism.听2022;47(4):369-378.
- 听Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. 2022; 47(3):215-226.听 *Editors Choice article
- 听Sports Medicine. 2021; 51(6): 1273-1292.

Melanie Hannaford completed a Mental Health Literacy Certificate.
Eva Dodsworth, Markus Wieland, and Aidan de Villa-Choi presented 鈥�Creating a Searchable Digital Atlas from 100 Years of Digital Vernon City Directories (1900-2000)鈥� at the 8th International Conference on Cartography.听 This paper was also published in the conference鈥檚 peer-reviewed .
Sarah Brown, as co-Chair for the Planning committee for the , cohosted the 2 day free virtual conference.

Winter 2022

During Black History Month,听Musagetes Library purchased a selection of 50 books that focus on Black architects, designers and history, the BIPOC lived experience, and the intersection of race and space. This strategic acquisition is the first step in an ongoing collaboration between the library and the School of Architecture鈥檚 Racial Equity and Environmental Justice task force to increase representation in our research resources and work towards a new global architecture.
Kate Mercer, Kari Weaver, and others presented their poster 鈥淭ranscending academic power structures: Navigating STEM misinformation for undergraduate learning鈥� at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference.
Mike Chee and Kari Weaver听presented 鈥淭he pedagogical limits of asynchronous learning objects: An analysis of an interactive citation module using Bloom鈥檚 Taxonomy鈥� to the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy.
Eva Dodsworth and Markus Wieland presented their paper 鈥淒ata Transformation and Geocoding of Historical City Directories鈥� at the Geographical Information Science Research UK conference.
Kate Mercer presented 鈥淗ow to navigate online health information & misinformation鈥� for a University of 蓝莓视频 Donor Talk.
Mike Chee, Kari Weaver,听and others published 鈥淢ore to do than can ever be done: Reconciling library online learning objects with WCAG 2.1 standards for accessibility鈥� in the Journal of Web Librarianship.鈥嬧赌�
鈥嬧赌�Eva Dodsworth听was invited to be a guest lecturer at the University of Tennessee鈥檚 Library Science program.听 The topic was 鈥淭he Use of GIS in Library Projects鈥�.
Kari Weaver was appointed as a Member Representative on the HathiTrust Member Meeting Planning Committee.
Kate Mercer presented 鈥淭raining students on the Critical Evaluation of Information at the University of 蓝莓视频鈥� for an OCLC Workshop
Mike Chee, Lauren Byl, and Kari Weaver听published 鈥淲hite paper on OER: Seven recommendations to improve OER uptake in higher education institutions鈥� in the UWSpace.
Nick Richbell and others from the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies presented 鈥淓xperiential Learning Partnerships: Working with Letters from the Archives鈥� at 蓝莓视频鈥檚 Teaching and Learning Conference.
Tim Ireland, Nick Richbell, and Agnes Zientarksa-Kayko presented 鈥淭he Library: What鈥檚 in it for me?鈥� at the 蓝莓视频鈥檚 2022 Staff Conference.
Kari Weaver, Kate Mercer, and others presented their paper 鈥淒o Something, Say Something, Be Something: Harnessing the Power of Critique to Advance Information Literacy鈥� at the LOEX 2022 Conference.

Fall 2021

Mike Chee and Kari Weaver听spoke about 鈥淚nsights from implementing WCAG 2.0 best practices鈥� to the virtual meeting of the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians WCAG Community of Practice.
Eva Dodsworth joined the OCUL Air Photo Workshop Group, and became the Webmaster for the Association of Canadian Map Libraries & Archives.
Jordan Hale and Kari Weaver published 鈥淭he proof is in the pudding: Building a local repository for online learning objects鈥� in Association of College and Research Libraries Scholarly Communications Cookbook.

Kate Mercer, and others were invited as workshop speakers on 鈥淒eveloping Ethical Engineers with Empathy鈥� and also 鈥淓ngineering, Patriarchy, and the Pluriverse: What World of Many Worlds Do We Design? What Worlds Do We Teach?鈥� at the Canadian Engineering Education Association EDI conference.

Kate Mercer, Kari Weaver, and others presented their poster 鈥淎cademic Power Structures & Scientific Misinformation鈥� at the Librarian鈥檚 Association of the University of California, Berkeley conference.
Kate Mercer taught BME 101 鈥淐ommunications in Biomedical Engineering-Written and Oral鈥� and SYDE 101 鈥淐ommunications in Systems Design Engineering-Written and Oral鈥�.
Kari Weaver and others published 鈥淒eveloping Universal Design for Learning Asynchronous Training in an Academic Library鈥� in Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research.

Spring/Summer 2021

Nicole Marcogliese and Danielle Robichaud听successfully advanced听to the ranks of Librarian III and Librarian V respectively. (Spring 2021)听
Kari D. Weaver completed her work as part of the 's听(LIRT) Strategic Working Group researching and making recommendations to the to advance issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion.听 With that work finished, Kari was appointed to a two-year term to the , and a two-year term as a member of听LIRT's听 Committee. (Spring 2021)听
Collaborating with a Kinesiology research team, Jackie Stapleton co-authored the following systematic reviews:听听and . (Spring 2021)听
Nick Richbell became a member of the 鈥檚 , and also their . (Spring 2021)听
Farzaneh Keramati completed the MLIS program and graduated.
Nick Richbell presented 鈥淪茅ances in the Stacks鈥� at the University of North Texas Folklore in the Archives conference.

Winter 2021

Mike Chee听and Kari D Weaver presented 鈥溾€� at the OLA Super Conference. (Winter 2021)听
Agnes Zientarska-Kayko and Tim Ireland听delivered a hands-on Zotero workshop to the International .听 This partnership SSHRC project is led by the University of 蓝莓视频 and includes scientists from around the globe.听 The aim of participants is to create a shared online portal of their research and a method of collaborating on literature reviews. (Winter2021)
Christine Moffatt coached a team for the first , a听research-intensive competition hosted by , the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change, and Problem Lab. Her team placed first and was awarded $5,000 to continue developing their idea. (Winter 2021).
Kathy Szigeti successfully completed the requirements of the . (Winter 2021)
Laura Bredahl will serve as Deputy Editor for the international blog 鈥溾€� for a 2 year term. (Winter 2021)
As Entrepreneurship Librarian,听Christine Moffatt, participated as a research expert on two panels hosted by at U蓝莓视频;听The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem听and听Starting small: Best practices for starting a small business. (Winter 2021).听
Jordan Hale was听named to the University鈥檚 Equity Data Advisory Group. (Winter 2021)
Christine Moffatt joined both the Education and Professional Development Committee, and the Graduate Professional Skills Committee, a group supporting graduate students at the U蓝莓视频, where she听joins Lauren Byl as representatives from the Library. (Winter 2021).听
Laura Bredahl was elected to the for a 2 year term. (Winter 2021)
Sandra Keys, along with colleagues from Western, Wilfrid Laurier, and Queen鈥檚, presented "" at the OLA Super Conference. (Winter 2021)
Laura Bredahl and a colleague from the University of Alberta,听in collaboration with CARL and the Bibliometric and Research Impact Community, hosted the 鈥溾€� with over 130 attendees from across Canada. (Winter 2021)听
Christine Moffatt, along with colleagues from various institutions, published an article in听Open Shelf titled 鈥溾€�. The article details their six-month volunteer project to clean-up Open Shelf鈥檚 metadata and to improve content discoverability on the website. (Winter 2021)
Kate Mercer and a colleague presented 鈥�Introducing Critique to Enhance Traditional Evaluation in Your Large Classroom鈥� at the Canadian Design Workshop. (Winter 2021)听
Kathy Szigeti helped听helped author "".听 This exemplar Data Management Plan (DMP) was created by U蓝莓视频's听Ecohydrology Research Group for the purpose of providing a standardized DMP model for its multi- and cross-disciplinary research projects. (Winter 2021)
Laura Bredahl and a colleague from the Northern Illinois University听published the article 鈥溾€� in Library Hi Tech News, Feb 8^th 2021. (Winter 2021)
Kate Mercer, Kari Weaver, Rachel Figueiredo, and听their colleague听from U蓝莓视频's Arts faculty presented 鈥溾€� at the OLA Super Conference. (Winter 2021)听
Laura Bredahl completed the course 鈥溾€� a 4-day intensive course provided virtually by Leiden University鈥檚 Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). (Winter 2021)
Kate Mercer, and her colleagues听from U蓝莓视频's faculties听of Engineering and听Applied Health Sciences, published 鈥溾€� in Technology in Society, Volume 64. (Winter 2021)
The听Student Engagement Committee听in collaboration with McMaster Libraries, created听, allowing students from both universities to share words of encouragement and original artwork with their fellow students.听 Mimicking a sticky note on a campus photo, the Birds of Encouragement Instagram account already has 115 followers and has received 26 submissions of words of encouragement. (Winter 2021)
Through the听Green Office Committee,听the Library has been awarded a second Sustainable Action Fund听grant. 听The award will be added to library funds to complete the switchover to the new waste receptacle system in our public areas; this is the system that has already been deployed in the Davis library and on the main floor of Porter, which we know will encourage more recycling and reduce the amount going to landfill. (Winter 2021)
Jackie Stapleton and her collaborators in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, published 鈥淓ffect of yoga on health-related outcomes in people at risk of fractures: a systematic review鈥� in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism.听 This article was chosen as the Editor鈥檚 Choice paper for the issue.

Fall 2020

Laura Bredahl and Alison Hitchens presented 鈥溾€� at the OCLC Works in Progress Webinar Series. (Fall 2020)
Jordan Hale听chaired a panel entitled 鈥溾€� at the 2020 Access Conference. (Fall 2020)
Laura Bredahl and Alison Hitchens presented 鈥溾€� at the CNI Fall 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting. (Fall 2020)
Eva Dodsworth attended the virtual conference and participated in a panel discussion on GIS librarianship. (Fall 2020)
Laura Bredahl completed the course 鈥溾€�, a 4-day intensive course provided virtually by Leiden University鈥檚 Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). (Fall 2020)
Carmen Peters and Emily Christofides asynchronously presented the poster at the 2020 Library Assessment Conference. (Fall 2020)
Carmen Peters presented the poster at the . (Fall 2020)
Jackie Stapleton, Caitlin Carter, and Laura Bredahl published the following paper providing evidence based guidance on searching Library and Information Science literature: 鈥溾€� in the Journal of Academic Librarianship. (Fall 2020)
Sharon Lamont听recently completed the听听course, via the听Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.听 This course explores Canadian Indigenous histories and contemporary issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. (Fall 2020)
Thanks to the hard work of听Cataloguing听in charge of receiving, holdings maintenance, and cataloguing, an approximate of 1,500 new print items have been made discoverable and available to patrons. The department resumed print cataloguing in mid-September, starting with an inventory of around 1,900 items which was down to 556 as of November 27. The department has also continued work with electronic resources, as well as various metadata enhancement and remediation projects resulting from the migration to Alma. (Fall 2020)
The听Library鈥檚 Green Office听is proud to announce that the Library was recently certified as a Gold member of the Green Office program.听 The Green Office certification program encourages campus departments to find ways to reduce their environmental impact on campus, as well as to raise awareness of issues and of ways of reducing environmental impact at home.听 The Library is one of only 5 departments on campus to have achieved Gold. (Fall 2020)
In collaboration with other OCUL institutions, the听Geospatial Centre听took part in planning and executing the very first听-wide online听. For four days,听GIS Day consisted of presentations, demonstrations, and lightning talks by students, staff and researchers across Ontario.听Eva Dodsworth听and听Markus Wieland听presented on their city directory project (鈥淰ernon鈥�).听 (Fall 2020)

Spring/Summer 2020

Kate Mercer and听Kari D. Weaver published the paper听"".听(Summer 2020)
Jackie Stapleton, Caitlin Carter, and Laura Bredahl published their scoping review article: 鈥溾€� in the Journal of Academic Librarianship. (Spring 2020)
Laura Bredahl along with the AVSL Whitelist of Vision Science Journals Working Group/Advisory Group and Reviewers won the from the Medical Library Association. (Spring 2020)
Kathy Szigeti, as a member of a , helped create several instructional videos. These short introductory training videos are intended for researchers, data professionals, librarians, and anyone else who is getting started with FRDR and would like to learn the basics of using the service, setting up an account, and uploading and downloading datasets. They are available on the '听听. (Spring 2020)
Jenny Hirst, as part听of the Data Visualization Project Group of the CARL Assessment Committee Continuing Education Working Group,听released their . The purpose of this resource is to provide guidance for academic libraries seeking to incorporate dashboards and other data visualization tools into their assessment practice. It includes tools, best practices, examples, data sources and collection methods, professional development opportunities, and other resources. (Spring 2020)
Kate Mercer and听Rachel Figueiredo,听along with others, published the paper听"Embedding librarians in Engineering Programs: Three case studies with engineering students."听 Published for听CEEA 2020. This was a collaborative听 project between the Library, SYDE, and a Librarian at the University of Saskatchewan. (Spring 2020)
Mary Lynne Bartlett published a four part series of essays, entitled The Virtual Library Bunch, exploring how University of 蓝莓视频 library staff are embracing innovation and change in our new virtual environment.听 The series was further distributed via the university's Daily Bulletin.听(Spring 2020)
Kari D. Weaver, Kate Mercer, and听Rachel Figueiredo, along with various听faculty, co-authored a paper entitled "", which听was selected by 2020 as among the top five听of this year鈥檚 First-Year Programs Division Papers.听The paper focuses on the importance and impact that librarian intervention can have on student learning, a topic the co-authors are happy to have widely associated with the University of 蓝莓视频 and our library.听(Spring 2020)
Jennifer Haas and听Rachel Figueiredo, along with many others, co-authored听a publication that was unanimously awarded听the.听 The publication, entitled 鈥淪upporting the Changing Research Practices of Civil and Environmental Engineering Scholars.鈥澨齣s based on the outcomes of the research undertaken into research practices of Civil and Environmental Engineering scholars.听 The University of 蓝莓视频 Library was a participant in this multi-site, international research project. (Spring 2020)
Kate Mercer is co-supervising a Masters student, with Catherine Burns in SYDE. Kate is also now an adjunct at the University of New Brunswick, and is on the Thesis Committee for a student there in the Interdisciplinary Studies program. (Spring 2020)
Kate Mercer, along with others, presented "Addressing Human Factors Challenges in Pediatric Home Care: Development and Evaluation of a Mobile Home Care Communication App" at the . (Spring 2020)
Circulation听and听Cataloguing听departments advanced the听Item Description project; assessing bibliographic records and updating data in item records for approximately 168,000 titles.听 This work will fix a problem that interferes with the ability for patrons to place requests on these items. There is no way to automate a solution to this, so this work has a significant impact on our patrons鈥� ability to do their research.听 Staff have been working on this project in conjunction with their other responsibilities and to date approximately 49,000 records have been corrected! (Summer 2020)
The听Geospatial Centre听participated in advising听听on specifications for the use of an exceptionally large Canadian Satellite dataset the RADARSAT Constellation Mission which keenly awaited by many of our faculty and researchers.听Also the听听is moving along nicely with all hands-on deck and with the much appreciated help of several Circulation staff members participating with data compilation. (Summer 2020)
A revision of the听Library's听Librarian and Archivist Employment Handbook听was completed. (Summer 2020)
The听Library听created听a听Black Lives Matter 鈥� Canadian reading list听and an听Indigenous peoples in Canada reading list. (Summer 2020)
Special Collections & Archives听expanded their听statement regarding language in archival descriptions. (Summer 2020)
Student Engagement听released its first听. The escape room taught听students to access library services and resources, along with familiarizing them with policies and staff. It was very well received by students with a high engagement rate for the contest and sharing on social media.听(Spring 2020)
The听听was celebrated by听听for听our听Asian Heritage Month听initiatives.听(Spring 2020)
All of the听Library听staff have completed the new AODA accessibility training.听(Spring 2020)

Winter 2020

Kate Mercer,听Kari Weaver, Rachel Figueiredo, and Caitlin Carter published the article听鈥溾€� in听C&RL News. (Winter 2020)
Kate Mercer is, for the second time,听supervising a Systems Design Engineering Capstone Group.听 Kate is now an adjunct with the听Systems Design Engineering听progam at U蓝莓视频. (Winter 2020)
Stefaniada Voichita completed听all four of Organizational听& Human听Development's Mindful Employer sessions, as well as a online course Instructional Design: Digital Media, New Tools and Technology from the听University of Maryland.听 Stef also attended the听 symposium, a conference hosted at Ryerson University.听 (Winter 2020)
Kari D Weaver听joined the planning committee of the Learning Design & Libraries Virtual UnConference 2020. This newly founded online unconference is meant to provide connection and professional development opportunities for instructional design librarians, and others engaged in learning design work within libraries, worldwide. (Winter 2020)
Sarah Murray wrote an听article 鈥�Accessibility for All鈥� for the听Library鈥檚 website, as part of a comprehensive approach to student usage of Library Accessibility Services/Adaptive Technology Centre services and amenities that have already yielded听a 14% increase in study room usage. (Winter 2020)
Jenny Hirst听joined the Analytics Working Group.听 They will work on a variety of analytics-based consortial projects including: Alma analytics, practices, policies, processes, and potential resourcing听within the context of Collaborative Futures.听 Their identification of common shared reporting requirements (ie. CARL, ARL), and the development of standard reports to be used by CF institutions, will听work closely with the Standing Committees, Expert Advisory Network, and other relevant OCUL communities. (Winter 2020)
Sandra Keys begun a 2 year term as co-moderator of the OCUL Data Community. (Winter 2020)
Adam Savage听completed the听Leadership Foundations听program. (Winter 2020)
The听Library, in collaboration with Communication Arts, English, and Civil Engineering were accepted by the听听for a research paper,听"Information-seeking behavior among first-year engineering students and the impacts of pedagogical intervention". (Winter 2020)

Fall 2019

Caitlin Carter, along with Pharmacy colleagues Tom McFarlane, Noor Rehman, Katie Wang, and Jenny Lee, published a literature review 鈥淐utaneous toxicities of new targeted cancer therapies: must know for diagnosis, management, and patient-proxy empowerment,鈥� in . (Fall 2019).
Qian Zhang was awarded two micro-grants from the for the projects "Improving Reproducibility with Gamification in Whole Tale" and "Use Cases of Computational Reproducibility in High Performance Computing (HPC)". Qian is pursuing this research as part of her CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Software Curation. (Fall 2019)
Mike Chee and Kari D Weaver presented听听at a Ryerson University听.听 The听session was well-received by attendees, with many reporting its usefulness in helping them tackle accessibility at their own institutions. (Fall 2019)
Emily Christofides, along with several others,听published听 in the journal "Research Ethics". (Fall 2019)
Emily Christofides听presented Assessing the evening/weekend library UX and Choosing your assessment method听at the Canadian Library Assessment Workshop. (Fall 2019)
Laura Bredahl and听Kari D. Weaver听were awarded a听听from CARL鈥檚 for their work,听Exploring Students鈥� Information Use through Learner Needs Analysis, in a Canadian STEM context: Towards a collaborative approach to integrated instructional design. (Fall 2019)
In preparation for听, the听Circulation听department accomplished:
- 10 Circulation-related workshops delivered in the Computer Lab
- Over 160 total attendees
- Attendees were from several library departments, as well as from almost all other libraries and delivery locations on campus (Musagetes, Pharmacy, Optometry, SJU, CGC, Renison, Centre for Career Action, Centre for Teaching Excellence, Stratford)
- 6 trainers (Sarah Martin,听Ryan Ball,听Laurie Strome,听Danielle Farr,听Leah Haisoch, and听Sue Arruda)
- Feedback on all of these sessions has been uniformly positive.听 Staff who were not delivering sessions have been working hard to learn the material, and we鈥檙e mostly feeling ready to go! (Fall 2019)听
The Library听collected 22 large bags of groceries and $144 in cash for the Feds 鈥淪tock the Bank鈥� challenge. (Fall 2019)听
Sharon Lamont,听Nancy Collins, and听Rebecca Hutchinson听were part of the听UW Excellence Canada听team that received the听Gold certification听in the听Excellence, Innovation and Wellness program,听which recognizes the University for its exceptional organizational and workplace practices. While other Canadian universities have achieved department certification, we are the first university to achieve certification across our entire institution. (Fall 2019)听
Special Collections & Archives听collaborated with听听on the creation of an audio-documentary and exhibit at THE MUSEUM based on one of our Spiritualism collections. Special Collections & Archives holds the听which contains 154 audio-reel recordings of s茅ances held in Kitchener during the 1960s.听听podcast features some of s茅ances, details about the medium, Thomas Lacey, as well as information about the religion of Spiritualism. (Fall 2019)
Special Collections & Archives听participated at Kitchener Public Library鈥檚 7^th听Annual听听in November. (Fall 2019)
Special Collections & Archives听held an event,听, at Kitchener Public Library in September. Over 20 knitters from the Region were treated to a talk about some of our women鈥檚 studies collections whilst they knitted items selected from some of our 900 knitting and crochet magazines. (Fall 2019)

Spring/Summer 2019

Kate Mercer and Rachel Figueiredo initiated the (CEEA) Librarians鈥� Special Interest Group (SIG), and Rachel is chairing the group. Our mandate involves Promoting the effective and ethical exchange, use, and management of information in engineering education through collaboration between librarians, information specialists, educators, students, publishers, and content creators. To date, there are 15 members. (Summer 2019)
Kathy Szigeti听has been working with the Ecohydrology Research Group and the听 to digitize meteorological observations taken from statio颅颅颅ns around the world. The observations were taken during the 1950s to the 1990s and published by the former USSR.听Once scanned, the data will be cleaned, go through quality assurance, and prepared in a manner that allows for downloading in a format ready for manipulation, as opposed to an image of the data. (Summer 2019)
Mike Chee听was the recipient of the听H.W. Wilson Graduate听Scholarship;听awarded annually, when merited, to a student entering a school offering an accredited masters degree in library and information studies. Consideration is given to academic achievement, leadership potential and demonstrated interest in the profession. (Sumer 2019)
Kari D Weaver has听been appointed as the Chair of the Outreach, Marketing, and User Education Subcommittee听of听the . (Summer 2019)
Jordan Hale听completed the , cycling 137km in five hours and听fifty-nine minutes. (Summer 2019)
Kari D Weaver听published the article with Braegan Abernethy in the journal Collaborative Librarianship. (Summer 2019)
Kari D Weaver听presented the workshop Developing Outside the Lines: Collaborating to Cultivate a Tool for Assignment Planning with Amy Greene and Valerie Walker of the University of 蓝莓视频 Writing and Communication Centre at the 2019 Digital Pedagogy Institute conference. (Summer 2019)
Shannon Gordon spoke at听the Fall Web of Science Group InCites Forum,听at the National Science Foundation. (Summer 2019)
Courtney Bremer was appointed to the Chair of the Serials Management Sub-Committee, of the . (Summer 2019)
Caitlin Carter authored an encyclopedia chapter entitled in the .听 (Spring 2019)
Courtney Bremer gave a听presentation on the library process mapping electronic resource troubleshooting workflow at a听U蓝莓视频 continuous improvement workshop, hosted by Lean at 蓝莓视频. (Spring 2019)
Hilary Hung presented at the Staff Conference this year. Her session, entitled "Empower Students & Learn Through The Arts",听explored how staff can better empower students in their day-to-day encounters. Attendees participated in arts-based learning activities to: recognize the authority that accompanies their position on campus; identify ways to empower students in their role; practice reframing their interactions and discourse to promote empowering moments. (Spring 2019)
Carmen Peters completed her Masters of Information, concentration in Library and Information Science from the University of Toronto.听 (Spring 2019)
Caitlin Carter collaborated with a U蓝莓视频 Pharmacy faculty member, Dr. Tejal Patel, as well as Sadaf Faisal (graduate student) and Catherine Lee (undergraduate student) on the following two scoping reviews, presented as posters at the 2019 Summit:
- Pharmacist activities for persons with intellectual disabilities: a scoping review
- The usability, acceptability and functionality of smart oral multidose dispensing systems for medication adherence:听 a scoping review听 (Spring 2019)
Kathy Szigeti, along with her colleagues Melissa Cheung, Dylanne Dearborn, Lyne听Da Sylva, and听Shahira Khair,听presented a poster at the 2019 Summit of the Research Data Access & Preservation Association (),听entitled "". (Spring 2019)
Shannon Gordon attended the Canadian Bibliometrics & Research Impact Community (BRIC) Conference in Quebec City and co-presented these sessions:
- Duimovich, G. & Gordon, S. (May 2019). Research assessment frameworks around the world. Presented at the Canadian Bibliometric & Research Impact Community Conference, Laval University, Quebec City, QC.
- Pokrajac, P., Mitra, S. K., Demaine, J., Gordon, S. M., & Droog, A. (May 2019). Bibliometrics driving research clusters at the 蓝莓视频 Institute for Nanotechnology. Presented at the Canadian Bibliometric & Research Impact Community Conference, Laval University, Quebec City, QC.听 (Spring 2019)
Shannon Gordon hase also worked as part of the BRIC Organizing Committee to organize the BRIC2019 conference; this committee includes Deirdre Moore (Natural Resources Canada), Eve Richard (Universit茅 Laval), George Duimovich (Carleton University), Jeffrey Demaine, and myself representing 蓝莓视频. (Spring 2019)
Kari D. Weaver听successfully defended her Ed.D. in Curriculum & Instruction at the University of South Carolina School of Education. Her dissertation was entitled听An Exploration of Academic Librarian Self-Efficacy in the Teaching Role: A Canadian Perspective. (Spring 2019)
Rachael Lewitzky听and Kari D. Weaver听presented the lightning talk, 鈥�You've Been Accepted! Creating an Instructional Design Intake Process at the University of 蓝莓视频 Library鈥� at the 2019 Ontario Library Association Digital Odyssey Conference. (Spring 2019)
听Kate Mercer successfully defended her PhD (Communicating health information in primary care: a multidisciplinary exploration of patient, pharmacist, and physician decision-making) at U蓝莓视频鈥檚 School of Pharmacy. (Spring 2019)
Kate Mercer,听Kari D. Weaver, and Ariel Jocelyn Stables-Kennedy of Western University presented their paper ""听at the American Society for Engineering Education () 2019 conference.听(Spring 2019)
Kari D. Weaver, Kate Mercer,听and Ariel Jocelyn Stables-Kennedy of Western University presented their paper ""听at the American Library Association () .听(Spring 2019)
Rachel Figueiredo听presented 鈥溾€� in collaboration with engineering librarians from the University of Toronto at the American Society for Engineering Education () 2019 conference.听(Spring 2019)
Alison Hitchens presented with Sharon Murphy (University of Alberta) and Karina McInnis (University of Guelph) on 鈥淩esearch impact: libraries and research administrators working together鈥� at the (CARA) in Montreal, May 2019. (Spring 2019)
Alison Hitchens was elected to the (ELUNA) for a three-year term beginning May 3, 2019.
Mary Lynne Bartlett听presented at on May 10^th about Serious Fun. (Spring 2019)
Caitlyn Sageman is the new co-chair for Student Engagement.
Mary Lynne Bartlett听joined the 蓝莓视频 Wellness Collaborative Community of Practice.
Melanie Hannaford completed the Leadership Essentials course.听(Spring 2019)
Special Collections & Archives, with the assistance of听Digital Initiatives, launched a new online research platform;听.听听Available descriptive records can be browsed by thematic area, academic disciplines or via keyword search (basic and advanced options are available), and the hierarchical nature of those descriptions can be viewed using the navigation tree at the top of each fonds or collection page. (Summer 2019)
Eva Dodsworth听and听Markus Wieland听attended the听听Conference as hosted by the听, where they听presented on the Geospatial Centre鈥檚听Urbanizing Kitchener-蓝莓视频: A Historical Geospatial听Perspective听project. (Summer 2019)
The sixth annual听Digital Pedagogy Institute conference听was听held at the University of 蓝莓视频, in partnership with Brock University, the University of Guelph, Ryerson University, and the University of Toronto Scarborough Library.听 Its organizing committee was chaired by听Tim Ireland, and supported by听Laura Bredahl,听Kathy MacDonald,听Agnes Zientarska-Kayko, and many other volunteers.听 The conference featured presentations from over 20 institutions, and 163 attendees from over 30 institutions. (Summer 2019)
The听Geospatial Centre听has received a SSHRC grant to fund the project,听Urbanizing Kitchener 蓝莓视频: A Historical Geospatial Perspective.听This initiative promotes quantitative historical research and facilitates visualization by 1) providing researchers with an online map and database listing one-hundred years鈥� worth of city directory entries, and advertisements and 2) providing users with a historical narrative related to local residential and commercial urbanization. The grant will cover the costs of hiring undergraduate and graduate students to assist the Geospatial team in geocoding, analyzing and developing an interactive web map. (Spring 2019)
The听Instructional Design听team听completed 11 projects spanning various disciplines in the humanities, arts, and sciences; meeting the needs of undergraduate and graduate students and fostering听relationships with campus partners, including the听Writing and Communications Centre, the听Centre for Extended Learning, the听Office of Academic Integrity,听Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, and the听Student Success Office. (Spring 2019)
Student Engagement听collaborated听with the University of Guelph to broadcast the 鈥�Representation in the Queer Community鈥� talk by Pamela听Dedman, PhD candidate听in Feminist Philosophy at University of 蓝莓视频, on June 14. (Spring 2019)

Winter 2019

Eva Dodsworth听was invited by the Heritage Planner at the company to present a workshop听on using for historical cartographic research. This group regularly uses the Geospatial Centre's听online air photos for heritage planning. (Winter 2019)
Sam Gibbon has been accepted as one of two Resource Sharing representatives on the COPPUL-OCUL-CAUL-BCI Resource Sharing Agreement Working Group.听 These are the consortia of academic libraries that cover all the Canadian provinces.听 The group has been created to consider questions and make decisions on changes to the Canada-wide Resource Sharing Agreement. (Winter 2019)
Ryan听Ball, Mary Lynne Bartlett, and Sara Perkins presented the poster听听at the in Toronto, ON. (Winter 2019)
Ben Colussi听completed the Leadership Essentials course.听(Winter 2019)
Ben Colussi听and听Sarah Martin听became co-chairs of the Library's听. (Winter 2019)
Courtney Bremer听gave three live presentations听while attending the annual听Electronic Resources & Libraries conference听in Auston, Texas:
- Process mapping: How it helped one university streamline their eresources troubleshooting workflow and create efficiencies
- Standards in a ticket based system: How to provide effective customer service for access issues
- The Librarian, in the link resolver, with Excel: Using VLOOKUP to solve discoverability mysteries (Winter 2019)
Jackie Stapleton, Laura Bredahl, and Caitlin Carter presented 鈥淧rove It!听 Developing Systematic Search Methods for Evidence-Based Librarianship鈥� at the in Toronto, ON. (Winter 2019)
Caitlin Carter is serving a second term as Continuing Education Coordinator for the Ontario Health Libraries Association (). (Winter 2019)
Rachel Figueiredo collaborated with the University of Toronto鈥檚 Entrepreneurship Librarians to host the second annual in-person meeting for the (NEL) group in January.听 (Winter 2019)
Kate Mercer听published the following papers in collaboration with SYDE and Pharmacy faculty members:
- 听 (Winter 2019)
Rachel Figueiredo presented a at to highlight research from the paper she and Carey Toane (University of Toronto) published in 2018, . (Winter 2019)
Larisa Smyk听presented at 's conference where she听earned an 听certificate from . (Winter 2019)
Kate Mercer, Kari D. Weaver, and Ariel Stables-Kennedy collaborated on a poster that was presented听at 听entitled听Understanding Undergraduate Engineering Student Information Access and Needs: Results from a Scoping Review. (Winter 2019)
The听Davis Reno Sub Team听updated the furnishings in Davis! Designed to specifications identified by the students themselves, the 178 new carrels offer optimal individual study options. There are also new, height adjustable chairs for these carrels and the RBC Research Commons, and eight听stand up carrels. (Winter 2019)
Geospatial Centre听staff听have worked closely with faculty member Kelley McClinchey this term to听provide听her Recreation 373 students with new GIS skills so they can incorporate geospatial technology into their term assignment. The students听were听offered four听GIS-related workshops, allowing over 100 students in that course better access and guidance. (Winter 2019)
Donations for the听Feds Student Food Bank听were collected.听 Our听 generous staff members听contributed their time and five very large bags of food and toiletries to the Federation of Students听for which听they were extremely grateful. The support was ongoing during the collections, and it was听great to be able to help our campus community! (Winter 2019)

Fall 2018

Sam Gibbon, Karen Davidson, Ted Harms, Nadeem Lawji, Carmen Peters, Steph Voichita and other Resource Sharing staff from 蓝莓视频 and Wilfrid Laurier University, planned and ran OCUL鈥檚 annual RACER Day at the Balsillie School, for resource sharing staff from all OCUL libraries.听(Fall听2018)
Sue Arruda, Margaret Uhde, Eva Ma and other collections maintenance staff concluded several projects, including spacing the Government Publication collection into the newly renovated section of the 3^rd floor and integrating sections of the collection that had been stored in different locations during the renovation.听(Fall 2018)
Eva Ma delivered a talk on the subject of learning some basic SQL to query large amounts of Excel data, on behalf of the Library Data and Analytics Community of Practice.听(Fall 2018)
Nadeem Lawji, with Heather Bunnet-Jones, Hilary Hung and Caitlyn Sageman concluded the digitization of French Studies major research papers for inclusion in .听听(Fall 2018)
Steph Voichita and Karen Davidson completed the Leadership Essentials program, and Sarah Martin completed the听Leadership Foundations听program.听(Fall 2018)
Steph Voichita and Sandra Keys of the Library Knitting Club organized a Fundraising event for the United Way in November, making connections with several staff from the broader university community.听(Fall 2018)
Carmen Peters, Sarah Martin and Courtney Bremer delivered two iterations of the Social Art Luncheon to raise funds for the United Way. In addition to raising $140, the luncheon program served a dual purpose of creating a wellness break and team-building opportunity for staff.听(Fall 2018)
Carmen Peters with the support of numerous individuals, the Communications Team, and the Student Engagement Committee, developed and executed the start of the 鈥�Art in the Library鈥� special project. A biannual rotating exhibition of artworks from the University of 蓝莓视频 community will be exhibited in the Davis Centre Library until Winter 2020.听(Fall 2018)
Caitlin Carter, along with U蓝莓视频 Pharmacy faculty听Sherilyn Houle, Kelly Grindrod, and Ross Tsuyuki,听published a systematic review 鈥� in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. (Fall听2018)
Agnes Zientarska-Kayko gave a presentation entitled 鈥淚s a 50% Reduction of Government Doc鈥檚 Space Possible? - The Curation Weeding Dance鈥� at the in Toronto. (Fall 2018)
An article written by Mary Lynne Bartlett and听Sara Perkins was published by the British Columbia Library Association's听online, open access, quarterly publication Perspectives.听 Entitled "", the听article illustrates our recent efforts听toward听"student-focused communications and outreach." (Fall 2018)
Jordan Hale, in cooperation with colleagues from the University of Toronto Libraries鈥� Media Commons, launched the听Toronto Film Map; showcasing听out every film and TV show set (not just filmed) in Toronto, this digital scholarship project utilizes GIS technologies,听a number of licensed and open datasets,听plenty of historic maps, air photos, and city directories. (Fall 2018)
Jackie Stapleton has participated as the information specialist for several research teams within the School of Public Health and Health Systems.听 As a result of these collaborations, she is a co-author on 鈥溾€�, in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, and 鈥� 鈥� in Nutrients. (Fall 2018)
Rachel Figueiredo, Jennifer Haas, and Siu Yu completed 蓝莓视频鈥檚 report on , as part of a larger project with Ithaka S+R. The report has been published in UWSpace and shared with the CEE department.听 (Fall 2018)
The United Way team of听Courtney Bremer, Carmen Peters, Cornelia Tiba, Danielle Farr, Laurie Strome, Mary Lynne Bartlett, Mark Spencer, Sue Martin, Sandra Keys, Sara Perkins, Steph Voichita, and Sarah Martin听organized 9 events over the year. We raised a total of $3,393.60 for the听United Way, which is the highest amount of any department on campus!听(Fall 2018)
The Geospatial Centre proudly听shared the听,听an ArcGIS Online project showing the City of Kitchener's road network for various decades ranging from 1853 to 1992. This data was derived from digitized copies of old street maps of the city. It is intended to showcase the change in Kitchener's road network over the course of this time frame. (Fall 2018)
The Library and听History Department combined their efforts to present a lecture entitled听Understanding the archived Web as a historical source,听by Niels Br眉gger of Aarhus University, Denmark. (Fall听2018)

Spring/Summer 2018

Mary Lynne Bartlett and Preethi Rao's article about mental health and the Library Ambassadors, "Promoting Mental Health through Student Engagement: Students Helping Students", was听published in 听a publication of听听(Summer 2018)
Laura Bredahl and Peter Stirling from the Witer Learning Resource Centre (WLRC) have collaborated with the editor of the 鈥淐anadian Journal of Optometry鈥� a publication of the Canadian Association of Optometrists听to transfer hosting of the journal to the Open Journal System managed at the U蓝莓视频 Library. This will significantly increase the discoverability of this preeminent Canadian journal.听(Summer 2018)
Alissa Droog (Library Coop Student from Western鈥檚 MLIS program), in collaboration with Laura Bredahl, Peter Stirling and the Graduate Officers at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, implemented a successful ORCID campaign that resulted in 81% of faculty within the school having an ORCID (orcid.org). (Summer 2018)
Laura Bredahl, Alissa Droog and Peter Stirling from the Witer Learning Resource Centre (WLRC) were committee members advising a School of Optometry and Vision Science Special Topics Graduate Course that focused on bibliometric analysis of the School鈥檚 authors and publications, as well as institutional comparisons.听(Summer 2018)
Eva Dodsworth began teaching a course though the online provider , entitled (Summer 2018)
Jeffery Demaine published an article entitled 听鈥淩e-discovering Forgotten Research: Sleeping Beauties at the University of 蓝莓视频鈥� in the Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice. (Summer 2018)
The Library鈥檚 Copyright Librarian, Lauren Byl, and Academic Integrity Specialist, Caitlin Carter, collaborated with other campus departments on an eCampus Ontario mobile phone application that aims to 鈥渆nhance student academic integrity knowledge and understanding by employing open access mobile technology with an innovative pedagogical approach.鈥� (Summer 2018)
The Entrepreneurship Librarian, Rachel Figueiredo, collaborated with Carey Toane from University of Toronto on research surrounding core competencies for entrepreneurship librarians. The paper,听, was published in The Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship.听(Summer 2018)
The Digital Archivist, Danielle Robichaud, received the Talman Award from the Archives Association of Ontario, specifically for her work in implementing Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Committee.听(Summer 2018)
The Geospatial Data Librarian, Eva Dodsworth, published the book , navigating the cartographic resources available to researchers, and how to locate and access them.听(Summer 2018)
The Director of Organization Services, Sharon Lamont, volunteered to serve coffee and collect donations for participating in a Timbit Toss game on Tim Horton鈥檚 Camp Day.听(Summer 2018)
Librarians Jackie Stapleton, Agnes Zientarska-Kayko and Jane Forgay, utilized their subject expertise in public health, government publications and political science information resources to support a request from Dr. David Hammond, faculty member in the School of Public Health and Health Systems.听 Dr. Hammond is acting as an expert witness in a court case, worth tens of billions of dollars, in which the provinces are seeking to recover health care costs from tobacco companies in Canada.听 Jackie, Agnes and Jane were able to link Dr. Hammond to the Library resources and services needed to ensure his access to archival documents including Canadian government publications, House of Commons debates, CTV National News transcripts, Canadian newspaper articles and more.听(Spring 2018)
Alissa Droog听represented the University of 蓝莓视频 during the CRKN ORCID.ca Update Webinar in June, 2018.听(Spring 2018)
Eva Dodsworth presented her paper, , at the seventh , in Sozopol, Bulgaria. (Spring 2018)
Nick Richbell, with colleagues at Wilfrid Laurier University, organised the Archives Association of Ontario鈥檚 along the theme of 鈥淐elebrations. The good, the bad, the ugly鈥�. Held over 3 days at 蓝莓视频 and Laurier, over 120 attendees were welcomed to the Region in May. The conference would not have been a success without the help of Jessica Blackwell and Danielle Robichaud who both volunteered on the local host committee. (Spring 2018)
The Library established two working groups to develop a framework for research and digital scholarship services at the library. The groups will use an evidence-based approach to examine existing models, identify researcher needs, and recommend updates to the Library鈥檚 research and digital scholarship support services.听(Summer 2018)
The Witer Learning Resource Centre (WLRC) staff have collaborated with the Canadian Association of Optometrists (CAO) to secure a new source of funding and an ongoing commitment from the association to support the听Alumni Resources听made available from the WLRC for all practicing optometrists who are either U蓝莓视频 Doctor of Optometry Alumni or CAO members. (Summer 2018)
At the closing ceremonies of the fifth Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference, at Brock Universtiy, it was听announced that the University of 蓝莓视频 would host听DPI 2019听. (Summer 2018)
Bridge to 2020 strategic planning issue papers were supported by 14 Library staff members, who helped by shaping research questions, providing literature review and synthesis for each theme, and sharing expertise in bibliometrics and user experience.听(Summer 2018)
Using Open Journal Systems provided by the Library, along advice Digital Initiatives staff, the听听launched in the spring.听(Summer 2018)
The Geospatial Centre鈥檚 historical military mapping project has been released via Scholars GeoPortal, making them available for viewing and downloading by the general public.听(Summer 2018)
Student Library Ambassadors interacted with 3500 first-year students during orientation, participating in all faculty events, WaterWho, and the campus life fair.听(Summer 2018)
Construction has finished at Dana Porter Library. The new user spaces on the third floor include a flexible learning lab, lounge space and more bookable study rooms.听(Summer 2018)
Regular student feedback sessions have been guiding and refining planned updates to the library space, furniture and signage. Sessions will continue on a bi-weekly basis, expanding our scope to include other aspects of the library user experience.听(Summer 2018)
The Student Success Office has joined the听drop-in services听provided by the Writing & Communication Center and the听Centre for Career Action, reaching students who may not otherwise access these services.听(Summer 2018)
Goose Week听(July 16 to 20), was a week of passive and active programming, engaging students with Library staff, resources, and promoting wellness. The event was supported by partnerships with Retail Services, Athletics and Recreation and 2025 蓝莓视频.听(Summer 2018)
The Library hosted two staff sessions on听staff compensation and performance reviews, ahead of implementing the performance calibration tool in the upcoming performance appraisal process. A working group of managers and staff are drafting documents to clearly outline expected behaviours and provide consistency across departments, in support of this transition.听(Summer 2018)
Library听Data and Analytics Community of Practice听has been hosting regular听lunch and learn sessions听for all staff on the topics of data, analytics and the software and tools that can support our work in these areas.听(Summer 2018)
Library staff joined others from across campus in the United Way鈥檚 March of 1000 Umbrellas to kick-off the annual fundraising campaign in the region.听(Summer 2018)
The Library partnered with the Registrar鈥檚 Office to raise enough money to have a white pine planted between Needles Hall and Dana Porter Library. (Summer 2018)

Winter 2018

Kathy Szigeti, along with Ian D. Gordon, Patricia Meindl, and Michael White published a research article 鈥溾€� in Science & Technology Libraries. (Winter 2018)
Kari D. Weaver presented the paper "Sociology In Action: A Comparative Study of Embedded Interventions for Improved Research and Writing in the Introduction of Sociological Research Methods", along with her former colleague, Dr. Michelle Petrie, at the Librarian鈥檚 Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) in Liverpool, UK. (Winter 2018)听
William Roy became a member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Open Repositories Working Group, which includes my assignment within this group as leader of the task-group on Standards for IR Usage Data to the list of accomplishments. (Winter 2018)
Laura Bredahl presented a poster with American colleague Dede Rios at the 2018 Medical Libraries Association annual meeting 鈥溾€� which described the success of the Witer Learning Resource Centre鈥檚 series of workshops for graduate students and researchers within the School of Optometry and Vision Science. (Winter 2018)
The Library听Data and Analytics Community of Practice听hosted a viewing of听, a live all-day conference that allowed the opportunity to learn from a variety of peers and experts on how to discover more about ourselves and our patrons through our library data.听 Throughout the day, we had at least 18 library staff attend, and had several interesting conversations in-between the sessions. (Winter 2018)
The Library鈥檚 representative on the campus' Teaching and Learning Spaces Committee,听organized听large student events in Davis Centre with participants from around campus to gain insights on student and faculty perspectives on furnishings for flexible classroom spaces. These events are informing ongoing renovation efforts throughout campus and have provided additional valuable insights for furnishing options in our own active learning space as part of the 3^rd听floor renovation currently underway.听听(Winter 2018)
Various Library staff were quoted in an article, ""听by The 蓝莓视频 Region Record. (Winter 2018)

Fall 2017

Jenny Hirst in collaboration with the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (ICCA) has created new Canadian standards for developing flood-resilient communities, a study of the role of wetlands in mitigating rural flood damage; this study wa used at a UN Disaster Risk Reduction conference in China. (Fall 2017)
Members of the Collections Development department and LibExec participated in an initial assessment of several factors that have impacted the Library's Collections budget over the past decade, in order to produce a budget program briefing document with key data visualizations for the Deputy Provost. (Fall 2017)
Official launch and first meeting of the Library Data and Analytics Community of Practice; the CoP currently has a membership of 18 internal staff. (Fall 2017)
The听Geospatial Centre, along with the Faculty of Environment hosted the annual听GIS Day听event on November 15^th听in the Geospatial Centre and the Flex Lab. This event included a Geospatial Centre Open House, Lightning Talks, and a Mapathon, where participants mapped and placed 200 buildings in Stratford on the OpenStreetMap online platform. The 鈥榯raditional GIS Day cake鈥� was served and听door prizes, courtesy of Simply Analytics, were given.听Approximately 100 visitors attended. (Fall 2017)
The Digital Initiatives department began听the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal (RAMP) for UW's Institutional Repository,听.听 RAMP is a web service that improves the accuracy of IR analytics by integrating with Google Search Console and Google Analytics to improve the count of file downloads. (Fall 2017)

Spring/Summer 2017

Siu Hong Yu and Jennifer Haas each completed the training听in the semi-structured interview methodology being used in the multi-site study of research practices of civil and environmental engineering scholars. (Summer 2017)
Jackie Stapleton collaborated with School of Public Health and Health Systems听researchers on a journal article publication, ""听that describes novel methods for conducting a grey literature systematic search.听 The article has been accessed over 5500 times and is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric, a tool which measures online attention and activity including Twitter, Facebook, and other social media tools.听(Summer 2017)
Sarah Brown and Jackie Stapleton offered a new workshop, 鈥�Systematic Reviews for Social Science Researchers鈥�, to students.听Drawing on their experience as collaborators on systematic review research teams, this workshop outlines systematic review methodology with a focus on social science research questions and information sources. 听Registration quickly exceeded capacity and a second workshop is being held this winter. (Summer 2017)
Mary Lynne Bartlett is consulting on a fourth year Knowledge Integration thesis for one of the Library Ambassadors. The thesis is exploring how students engage with the Library and听will include听a recommendation report that听will be able to be incorporated into our training, activities, and promotion. (Summer 2017)
Kate Mercer published two papers and wrapped up a project where she co-supervised a co-op student.听She has听been invited to be a mentor & judge for a most recent Hack4Health event.听 Kate's two papers are:
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Caitlin Carter co-authored three chapters in the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada (AFPC) and Canada Health Infoway鈥檚 e-Resource called 鈥淚nformatics for Pharmacy Students.鈥� This e-Resource is used by the 10 Canadian pharmacy faculties across Canada and it is incorporated into various pharmacy courses, as the content is competency-based. 听The e-Resource prepares pharmacy students for providing effective patient care using drug information resources and various communication technologies (e.g. electronic health records).听 The content is very interactive and is presented in the form of virtual patients, quizzes, polls, etc., and students are able to download and save certificates of completion after working through each chapter.听 In addition,听Caitlin is听the Continuing Education Coordinator for the Ontario Health Libraries Association (OHLA).听听This role involves recruiting and scheduling CE presenters for the members of OHLA.听 Caitlin also co-authored an encyclopedia chapter which will be published in Spring 2018 by Elsevier.听听The chapter is called 鈥淓vidence-based medicine: an overview for pharmacists鈥� and it will be published in the 鈥淓ncyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy鈥澨齛nd听is in the process of being reviewed. (Summer 2017)
Sharon Lamont has been named to the Accessibility Advisory Committee, and will be co-chairing the Excellence Canada听People driver working group. (Summer 2017)
Eva Dodsworth, as the editor of the journal 鈥淏ulletin鈥� for the 听(ACMLA),听published the journal's听final print issue听in November, 2017; as they move on to a digital version using University of 蓝莓视频鈥檚 Open Journal Systems (OJS). Eva听spent some time working with William Roy in setting up the online OJS platform. This journal focuses on cartographic and geographic information systems (GIS) content, often contributed by Map and GIS Librarians in Canada, but more recently from the U.S. as well. Eva听 also听was invited to present a four hour workshop on GIS and GeoWeb technologies to听the Rochester Regional Library Counsel (RRLC) in November, 2017. (Summer 2017)
Markus Wieland is participating in an ongoing collaboration with the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (ICCA), which听has created new Canadian standards for developing flood-resilient communities;听the study of the role of wetlands in mitigating rural flood damage for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, which their director, Natalia Moudrak, recently used听at a UN Disaster Risk Reduction conference in China.听Markus also recently became a member of the (WISE). (Summer 2017)
Jenny Hirst became a member of the Continuing Education Working Group's Dashboards and Data Visualization Project for 听(CARL).听In addition, Jenny, along with Collections Development and LibExec, conducted an initial assessment of听factors that impacted the Library's Collections budget over the past decade.听 This was听in order to produce a budget program briefing document with key data visualizations for the Deputy Provost. (Summer 2017)
Collaboration between the Library, the Institute for Computer Research, and faculty members from the School of Computer Science and the Department of History听led to the University of 蓝莓视频 agreeing to host a听Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow in software curation. (Summer 2017)
The听Student Engagement Committee听put on听Library Day听to celebrate our patrons. In the past we have celebrated Library Day on Halloween, but this year we decided to shake things up a bit by hosting a fall fair. The fair was very well received by students, faculty, and staff. We had carnival games, prizes, popcorn, apples, and tiddlywinks. (Summer 2017)
The听Library Ambassadors听were invited to be part of the Mascot Parade in October as part of the Mental Health and Wellness walk around campus. Two Ambassadors, Mary Lynne Bartlett, and Scholar the goose walked around Ring Road with our campus community. The Library Ambassadors are also now part of the EDGE certificate program. (Summer 2017).
The听Student Engagement Committee听worked with Campus Police, the Secretariat, Custodial Services, and St. John鈥檚 Ambulance to bring therapy dogs into Dana Porter Library for students around mid-terms. 90 students participated over the course of the two day event. (Summer 2017)
The听Student Engagement Committee听recently implemented our newest mascot, Roget Thesaurus, a dinosaur which brings stress relief and humour to students. On听his first day听Roget sat at the Assignment and Research Help Desk, students were giving it high-fives, taking selfies, and smiling. Staff also got in on the fun and stopped by to take pics and see what Roget was doing. Roget is being shared between Dana Porter, Davis Centre, and Musagetes Library.听(Summer 2017)
The听Geospatial Centre听staff worked with Instructional Technologies and Media Services for a few months over the summer and early Fall term to create a听听for the Geospatial Centre. This video is currently being played during our instruction sessions as it summarizes our services very efficiently. (Summer 2017)
Official launch and first meeting of the听Library Data and Analytics Community of Practice; the CoP currently has a membership of 18 internal staff. (Summer 2017)
The听Digital Initiatives听department on-boarded听RAMP (Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal) for UW's Institutional Repository UWSpace.听 RAMP is a web service that improves the accuracy of IR analytics by integrating with Google Search Console and Google Analytics to improve the count of file downloads. (Summer听2017)