What's New at the Library

The 6th floor of the Laurier Library Waterloo is getting new carpet and will be closed starting Wednesday, July 29th for approximately 4 weeks. 

On Saturday, July 25th between 7:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., there will be intermittent outages to the services listed below as ICT carries out a disaster recovery exercise. Omni, room booking, course resources, and off-campus access may be inaccessible during this time.

Phase 2 of Laurier Library Brantford is beginning on Tuesday, July 7th with planned completion by the end of the summer.

Two important updates to existing library resources as of May 2026.

Starting with the Spring 2026 semester, Laurier Library is moving to a new Course Resources platform to replace ARES.

From Saturday March 14, 2026, 7:00 am to Sunday March 15, 7:00am, access to the Waterloo campus library will require tapping your OneCard on the bollard to access the library.

The Art exhibition, Haptic Voices, is open until April 4th. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with artists David Bobier and Jim Ruxton from VibraFusionLab, an arts-based public studio from Hamilton, Ontario, renowned for its innovative exploration of multi-sensory artistic experiences.

Laurier Archives and Special Collections is pleased to announce the following material is available to researchers in the Julia Hendry Archives Reading Room.

Caroline Meier is the recipient of the 2025 Joan Mitchell Travel Award. Meier is a PhD student from Augsburg University and the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development in Germany. Her research investigates the global environmental discourse in the post-war area and how the United Nations affected international relations and power distribution. 

Library closed due to weather and will reopen on January 16, unless communicated otherwise.