File consists of fifty two items of miscellaneous personal correspondence between James Downey and others for the years 1999-2000. Correspondents include: Adam, Stuart; Archer, Kate; Beattie, Lorraine; Bird, Phil; Butt, Arthur; Campbell, Douglas; Clark, Ian; Cook, John; Cowan, Ann; Flagg, Mary; Frampton, Ethel; Gaulin, Michel; George, Peter; Giroux, Robert; Globe and Mail; Globus, Swani & Morton; Green, Bert; Higgins, Michael; Kalbfleisch, Jim; Konrad, Helmut; Lynch, David; Maymusson, Lynne; McKane, Paul; Milne-Smith, Carol & Ian; Mitchell, Paul D.; Mogridge, Behill; Morris, Claire & John; Parr-Johnston, Elizabeth; Patterson, Stephen E.; Pereira, Maria C.; Piper, Martha; Rymes, Tom K.; Sevcik, Ken; Shantz, Susan; Sievwright, Georgia; Simpson, Ronald D.; Skibsrud, Johanna; Smith, Rev. Mary; Van Loon, Richard J.; Vinnicombe, Elizabeth; Wicks, Ed; Wiffen, Bob; Woerner, Anna; Zanna, Betsy.

File consists of thirty items of miscellaneous personal correspondence between James Downey and others for the years 1999-2000. Correspondents include: Aitken, Lady Violet; Banks, Robin & Marjory; Beckett, Barry; Blok-Anderson, Uffe & Sharon; Carragher, Bridie; Cavan, Rosemary; Claxton, Lois; The Ditchley Foundation; Dixon, Ross & Doris; Gavin, Rhonda; George, Alan; George, Peter; Golini, Vera; Green, Bert; H[?], Reuben; Johnston, Wayne; Kalbfleisch, Jim; Kerton, Robert & Bari; Lafonest, Gerry & Marie; MacLaughlin, Wade; Montague, Susan; Polonsky, Gary; Pond, Ron; Rees, Nicholas; Shantz, Susan; Sharp, Allan; Shaw, Robert; Trotter, Barb; White, Terrence.

Records created and accumulated by the Librarians’ Association of the University of Waterloo (LAUW) that document the association’s efforts to obtain faculty representation during the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo’s (FAUW) unionization attempt between 1995 and 1996. Ultimately, the unionization attempt failed and the revised Memorandum of Agreement between FAUW and the University of Waterloo did not include librarians. File contains copies of LAUW’s statement of general principles as well as correspondence from the LAUW Executive, LAUW Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Status, FAUW presidents Gordon Andrew and Jim Brox, and university administrators including Jim Kalbfleisch, Vice-President, Academic and Provost.

Correspondence and clippings regarding negotiations between the FAUW and the University of Waterloo regarding the representation of librarians by the FAUW in keepig with article 12.2(a) of the FAUW Memorandum of Agreement. Of note are memos exchanged by Fred McCrourt, FAUW president, and Jim Kalbfleisch, Vice-President Academic & Provost, regarding two November meetings between the negotiating teams, subsequent communications related to the outcome and disagreement about whether negotiations had, in fact, concluded.