Daily Bulletin

WPIRG library expands holdings

Daryl Novak and Linda Vieregge, WPIRG coordinators, sort through mountains of books recently relocated to the WPIRG library at the Student Life Centre by Global Community Centre in Kitchener.

Global Community Centre, formerly based in Waterloo, has relocated to downtown Kitchener where it shares office space with the Multicultural Centre in Market Square. To cope with space limitations in its new location, the Centre moved its library to UW this spring where WPIRG will store and maintain the Global collection.

Some 1,500 books, 200 videos and a number of periodicals are "slowly being catalogued and incorporated into the WPIRG shelving," says coordinator Linda Vieregge. Before the influx, WPIRG holdings included about 5,000 volumes, and 30 videos. The periodical collection has doubled as a result of the move.

The video resources -- many of which are National Film Board productions -- are a real asset, says Vieregge, with titles covering a range of international development, environmental and social justice issues.

"We had never put a lot of effort into building our own collection," she adds, "with the Global library just down the street."

With the help of a student hired for the summer though the federal government's student career placement program, WPIRG staff are working their way through both current and new resources, rearranging and shifting the stacks and culling some out-of-date and rarely used material from the library.

Already, Global's regular library users are finding their way to the WPIRG offices, and with Global's secondary school programs starting up again this fall, Vieregge expects high school students doing research projects will be among the frequent WPIRG visitors. Building those links are an advantage to both the high school students and WPIRG, she adds. "When they come to UW as students, they'll already know us."

Donation jump starts solar car

"The Midnight Sun team design and construct systems, the same thing we do in industry," said Ian Telford, president of CacheFlow, in handing over the cheque. His Waterloo company specializes in web appliances designed to improve web page response time and overall Internet quality of service.

The solar team's upcoming races include the American Solar Challenge from Chicago to Los Angeles in July 2001 and the World Solar Challenge from Darwin to Adelaide, November 2001.

Open house for distance students

These and other questions will be posed by UW president David Johnston at a keynote address -- Education.com: The Impact of Technology on Learning -- at the open house for distance education students on September 16.

The annual event gives distance students a chance to meet their profs, network with other students studying by correspondence, get acquainted with the campus, unload some of their used texts -- and buy new ones.

At the course fair and departmental displays in the Davis Centre, visitors will have a chance to "see the innards of a CD player in operation" (SCI 205), learn about online courses from web course developers, and introduce the kids to "some of the cool stuff science has to offer."

Chamber music concert The Adaskin String Trio, plus Annie Trépanier, violin, and Marcel St.-Cyr, cello, will appear on Sunday, August 20, at 8 p.m., at the K-W Chamber Music Society Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterloo. The trio performs Haydn, Trio Op. 32 No. 2; Beethoven, Trio No. 1; and with the extra musicians they perform Tanaev's masterpiece, the Cello Quintet. Phone 886-1673 for information or to reserve.

A reading and writing skills seminar will be offered by the English department, and dean of arts Robert Kerton will talk about "Going the Distance" at the Festival Room lunch.

"Like many of your colleagues who have attended, you'll leave feeling connected, renewed, and exactly what you are... an important part of UW's student population," says the invitation in Correspondent, the distance education newsletter.

Distance education students are asked to RSVP by September 8 to the open house invitation.

India's independence feted

Tickets for the annual event -- hosted by the India Canada Association of the Region of Waterloo -- are no longer being sold and will not be available at the door.

Barbara Hallett
bhallett@uwaterloo.ca

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