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Library sit-in.
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- Source of title proper: Title supplied by University of Waterloo, Graphic Services staff.
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33 photographs : b&w negatives ; 6 x 6 cm
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Images likely from a study-in held on Wednesday, March 12, 1969 in Dana Porter Arts Library. The study-in was sponsored by the Radical Student Movement (RSM). Participants distributed broadsheets, sold literature and buttons, and circulated a petition. The study-in was intended to advocate for a series of demands to improve the library. Demands included that the university allocate a sum to library acquisitions and operations that was not less than ten percent of the total university operating budget, that immediate steps be taken to make space occupied by administration offices available for books and study space, that all meetings of the university budgets committee be open to any student, faculty, and staff member and that the committee publish a detailed budget upon its completion. At the end of the study-in a joint negotiating committee to study student demands regarding the library was formed.
Between various sources including articles in The Chevron and Admininews as well as an unidentified press clipping (found in UWA2020-04-2-Library Protests) the event is referred to as both a "study-in" and a "sit-in."
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9 of 33 negatives scanned as TIF files December 2023.
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Preferred citation: University of Waterloo Archives. Graphic Services fonds.
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Information about this event appeared on Page 1 of the Friday, March 14, 1969 (v.9, n.47) edition of The Chevron in the article titled, “RSM holds peaceful library study-in.” In addition, information about this event also appeared on Page 1 of the Wednesday, March 19, 1969 (v.9, no.21) edition of Admininews (predecessor to the Gazette) in the article titled, "Library Sit-in Attempted, President Petch Disapproves." Although pictures were included in both articles, neither appears to be a picture from this envelope of negatives.
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- University of Waterloo. Central Photographic. (Photographer)