Your role as the Library’s Representative in your department is critical to facilitating communication and collaboration between the Library and academic units.
Library Representatives ensure their academic areas are aware of relevant Library resources and services, while also informing Liaison Librarians of important issues related to curriculum, research and scholarship.
Specifically, your role is:
- To facilitate communication between members of your department and the Library
- To collaborate with your Liaison Librarian regarding research and teaching initiatives
We ask that you:
- Inform your Liaison Librarian regarding curriculum changes, new faculty hires, emerging research interests
- Contact your Liaison Librarian with requests for new Library materials
- Ensure that members of your department are aware of relevant Library services
- Invite your Liaison Librarian to regularly attend departmental meetings to report on Library initiatives and discuss Library-related issues
- Attend meetings hosted by the Library to discuss major Library developments, provide feedback, and ask questions
- Distribute information from your Liaison Librarian to your departmental colleagues
Current Library Representatives
Liaison Librarian
Library Representative
Recreation & Leisure Studies
Chelsea Humphries (Elizabeth Yates on leave until August 2021)
Liaison Librarian
Library Representative
Liaison Librarian
Library Representative
Studies in Arts & Culture
Evelyn Feldman (Justine Cotton on leave until Fall 2020)
Liaison Librarian
Library Representative
Liaison Librarian
Library Representative
Faculty of Social Sciences
Liaison Librarian
Library Representative
Applied Disability Studies
Evelyn Feldman
Valdeep Saini
Applied Linguistics
Evelyn Feldman
Cheng Luo
Child & Youth Studies
Evelyn Feldman (Colleen MacKinnon on leave until Fall 2020)
Richard Mitchell
Communication, Popular Culture and Film
Linda Lowry (Justine Cotton on leave until Fall 2020)
Liz Clarke
Economics
Linda Lowry
Joseph Kushner
Geography & Tourism Studies
Heather Whipple
Michael Pisaric
Intercultural Studies
John Dingle
Deborah Yeager
Labour Studies
Heather Whipple
Kendra Coulter
Political Science
Heather Whipple
Paul Hamilton
Psychology
Ian Gordon (Colleen MacKinnon on leave until Fall 2020)
Tanya Martini
Social Justice/Equity Studies MA
Ian Gordon (Laurie Morrison on leave until January 2021)
Mary-Beth Raddon
Sociology
Ian Gordon (Laurie Morrison on leave until January 2021)
Lauren Corman
Sustainability Science and Society
Heather Whipple
Marilyne Jollineau
Women’s & Gender Studies
Jennifer Thiessen
Athena Colman