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Material created by the University of Waterloo Library while assessing noise levels in Dana Porter Library and implementing a plan to create specific study zones. Includes a survey report, a student engagement plan, a draft design for public zones, and floor plans.

Material created and accumulated by the University of Waterloo Library during the planning, development, and construction of the Warren and Mary Ober group study rooms on the tenth floor of Dana Porter Library. Includes approval forms, renderings, plans, and a document developed by the Group Study Room Planning Team outlining the features of a well-equipped study room. Also includes an invitation to the grand opening of the study rooms held on April 25, 2012.

Image of the Dana Porter Library under construction, seen with a crane on top of the structure.

Images of Dana Porter Library seen from a distance during construction to add additional floors to the building.

Images of students gathered at a sit-in on the administrative floor of Dana Porter Library protesting the University of Waterloo Act's provision for student representation on the proposed two new University governing bodies.

Accrual consists of photographs, contact sheets and slides of the Dana Porter Library. Included are interior views of spaces and furnishings along with exterior and aerial views of the building with three levels. Also in the file are photos of books being moved between buildings, including one of books being moved into the Davis Centre library.

Accrual consists of a University of Waterloo Library-branded face mask distributed to all library staff as a token of appreciation for their work during 2020-2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic. The face mask features a drawing of the Dana Porter Library with a Canadian flag flying on top against a black background.

Images of large group of students gathered in Arts Quad with the Arts Lecture Hall and Dana Porter Library in the background. Also includes images of unidentified people speaking at microphone on a stand.

The official program for the University of Waterloo's special convocation ceremony marking the opening of the Arts Library Building (now Dana Porter Library) held on Saturday, October 23, 1965 at 2:30 p.m.

Series consists of snapshots of the the exterior and interior of the Dana Porter Library with three levels.

Series consists of colour slides of the exterior and interior of the Dana Porter Library with three levels.

Sketch of Arts Library with no upper floors.

For Library fund raising brochure.

File consists of a postcard showing the exterior of the Dana Porter Library.

Material created and accumulated by the University of Waterloo Library during the planning and development of renovations on the third floor of the Dana Porter Library. Includes meeting notes, plans, approval forms, and budget information.

Material created and accumulated by the University of Waterloo Library during the planning and development of renovations to the Dana Porter Library patio. Includes correspondence, project notes, approval forms, plans, budget information, and other textual information.

Material created and accumulated by the University of Waterloo Library and The Walter Fedy Partnership during the planning and development of renovations on the main floor of the Dana Porter Library. Includes conference reports, budget information, correspondence, schedules, room data sheets, a schematic design report as well as a selection of agendas and meeting minutes of the Porter Main Floor Renovation Team, and other textual material. Also includes a report of the first and second floor reconfiguration working group from 1997.

Fonds consists of one painting by Peter Etril Snyder of the Dana Porter Library. The work was commissioned in 1975 for the home of the then President of the University, Burt Matthews.

Series consists of print photographs, copy negatives and a contact sheet of images related to the opening and construction of the Dana Porter Library. Includes Kitchener-Waterloo Record shots of a ceremonial procession of university administrators such as Dana Porter, Ira Needles, Ted Batke and Doris Lewis walking from Modern Languages to the Dana Porter Library and a group shot of J.E. Brown, Doris Lewis, Bertha Bassam, James Allan and R.H. Blackburn standing together and conversing with a view of Waterloo's mace include. The copy negatives are of a photograph of additional levels being added to Dana Porter Library existing three levels still with tarps over one half of the structure.

Series consists of print photographs and copy negatives of the Dana Porter Library, books being moved between buildings, and an aerial view of main campus.

Series consists of print photographs and contact sheets of the interior of the Dana Porter Library including, spaces, furnishes and people working and studying in the library. Also included are two contact sheets of negatives taken by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record of the library's interior and small number of the exterior and main level balcony.

Photographs of books being moved to Dana Porter Library.

Photographs of books being moved to Dana Porter Library.

Photographs of books being moved to Dana Porter Library.