Editing University of Waterloo (section)

=== Libraries and museums ===
[[File:Dana Porter Library 2.jpg|alt=|thumb|The Dana Porter Library, home to a collection of books focused on the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.]]
The university has four libraries housing more than 1.4 million books, as well as electronic resources including e-books, serial titles, and databases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://analysis.uwaterloo.ca/statistics/cudo/SectionD.php?year=2011|title=D1 – Library Collections|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=6 July 2012}}</ref> Three libraries are on campus: the Dana Porter Library, housing material relating to arts, humanities and social science, the Davis Centre Library, housing material for engineering, mathematics and science, and the Witer Learning Resource Centre, housing material for the School of Optometry and Vision Science. The fourth library, the Musagetes Architecture Library, is in Cambridge, alongside the university's [[School of Architecture]]. The libraries of the university's affiliated colleges are also considered a part of the university's library system.<ref name="liblo">{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/tour/MainET.html#porter#porter|title=Locations|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=6 July 2012}}</ref> [[Doris E. Lewis]] was the first University Librarian.<ref>{{cite journal|last=American Library Association|date=1985-09-01|title=PEOPLE|url=https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/21206|journal=College & Research Libraries News|volume=46|issue=8|pages=438–446|doi=10.5860/crln.46.8.438|issn=2150-6698|doi-access=free}}</ref> The university's library system is also a member of the TriUniversity Group, a partnership between the [[University of Guelph]], the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. The group provides students and researchers at all three universities with access to all of the collections and services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/aboutus/index.html|title=About Us|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=6 July 2012}}</ref> The group also operates the TUG Annex, a repository for less-used library resources from the three universities.<ref name="liblo" />

University of Waterloo also operates the Earth Sciences Museum, on campus in the Centre for Environmental Information Technology.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/earth-sciences-museum/about|title=About the Earth Sciences museum|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=24 January 2014|date=22 February 2013}}</ref> It is mainly used as an earth-science teaching museum for local schools and natural-science interest groups in southern Ontario. The main exhibits cover the [[Great Lakes]], rocks and minerals, dinosaurs and ice age mammals. The museum's fossil exhibit includes a complete cast of an ''[[Albertosaurus]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/earth-sciences-museum/exhibits|title=Museum exhibits|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=5 January 2014|date=22 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106035816/https://uwaterloo.ca/earth-sciences-museum/exhibits|archive-date=6 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> and an authentic skeleton of a [[Cave bear]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Motz |first=Jon E. |date=May 24, 2009 |title=Cave bear skeleton donated to the Earth Sciences Museum |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/wat-on-earth/news/cave-bear-skeleton-donated-earth-sciences-museum |access-date=March 6, 2022 |website=University of Waterloo}}</ref> The museum also houses an interactive, simulation mining tunnel which aims to teach sustainable mining practices.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/earth-sciences-museum/news/cobalt-discovery-mine-tunnel-grand-opening|title=Cobalt Discovery Mine Tunnel Grand Opening|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=5 January 2014|date=27 October 2012}}</ref> Also owned and operated by the university is the [[Museum of Vision Science]], which is at the university's School of Optometry building. The university had previously operated the [[Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games]], created by the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies and previously managed by the university's [[University of Waterloo Faculty of Applied Health Sciences|Faculty of Applied Health Sciences]]. Due to a lack of specific academic interest, in 2009, the decision was made to close the museum and transfer the collection elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/The%20Museum/aboutmus.htm|title=About the Museum|publisher=University of Waterloo|date=28 July 2010|access-date=24 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201070332/http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/The%20Museum/aboutmus.htm|archive-date=1 December 2009}}</ref>