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Join us for board games in the Laurier Library. Details: library.wlu.ca/events/2023-0… and contact Matt Rohweder (mrohweder@wlu.ca) with questions. Game on!
User Experience Design-A-Thon! Redefine navigation to be both fun and functional. Prize $5000. Apply by Feb 27th. Brought to you by UXLaurier and the Laurier Library. library.wlu.ca/research/subj…
Join us next week for an Introduction to Archival Research!
Learn how archival material is organized; how to access and evaluate archival resources; and what to expect when visiting us!
This workshop is part of the Aspire series.
Registration required. library.wlu.ca/events/2023-0…
🏆 Nominate full-time faculty or librarians who provide exceptional service leadership for the Faculty Award for Service Excellence and Community Engagement.
🗓 Submit by Feb. 15: bit.ly/FacServiceAward
The @RobertLangenAG brings a mixed-media exhibition to the @LaurierLibrary with “Z’otz* Collective: Thinking Like the Rain,” with artists Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano and Ilyana Martínez.
Experience active drawing performances from January 16 to the 19.
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A reminder that applications for the Joan Mitchell Travel Award are due this month!
This $1000 award supports researchers who wish to travel to the Laurier Archives and Special Collections to explore our collections.
Learn more: library.wlu.ca/research/laur…#EnvHist#CanHist
New - you'll need your OneCard to tap in at the Library between the hours of 12:00am midnight and 8:30am until December 22. Details: library.wlu.ca/news/2022-11-…
Good luck to all of the @Laurier students writing exams in the next two weeks!
ALT Waterloo Lutheran University students writing exams in May 1969. They are seated in rows and each student is sitting in a chair with an attached writing arm.
We're not sure exactly when this photo was taken, but things have certainly changed a lot since then! Do you recognize the houses in the background?
Hint: The one on the right-hand side of the image is near where @LaurierLibrary stands today.
ALT Four people playing hockey on an ice rink at the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada in Waterloo, Ontario. Albert Street can be seen in the background with fields beyond.
We are now accepting applications for the Joan Mitchell Travel Award!
This $1000 award supports researchers who wish to travel to the Laurier Archives and Special Collections to conduct research using our collections.
Learn more: library.wlu.ca/research/laur…#EnvHist#CanHist
ALT Graphic promoting the Joan Mitchell Travel Award. Features documents from the Laurier Archives and Special Collections including an illuminated manuscript leaf, early 20th century sheet music, a late 19th century parish register and a late 19th century death certificate signed by Dr. Emily Stowe.
To honour her memory, Julia Hendry's family has made a generous donation to the Laurier Archives' Highest Priority Needs. In recognition of this gift, Laurier has named the Laurier Archives reading room as the Julia Hendry Archive Reading Room.
Read more: give.wlu.ca/news/2022/fall/j…
ALT Glass sign with silver letters on the wall outside the Laurier Archives and Special Collections. Reads Julia Hendry Archive Reading Room.
Sept 30 is #OrangeShirtDay and #NDTR to honour and commemorate First Nations, Inuit and Métis Survivors of Canada’s residential school system and their families and communities. Laurier bookstores are selling orange shirts with all proceeds going to the @woodlandcc.