Leslie Weir is a Canadian librarian, one of the founding architects of

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and former president of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Weir was the University Librarian at the University of Ottawa from 2003 to 2018. She has served as

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since August 30, 2019, the first woman to serve in the position, which was created in 2004.

Biography

Weir was born and raised in Montreal. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian History from Concordia University in 1976 and a Masters in Library Science from McGill University in 1979. Weir joined the University of Ottawa in 1992 and was its University Librarian from 2003 to 2018.Interview in the University of Ottawa's newspaper The Fulcrum, 5 June 2019
/ref> During her tenure as University Librarian, she founded the School of Information Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa where she was also a cross-appointed Professor.University of Ottawa's School of Information Studies web site
/ref> Weir was a member of the Board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), from its inception until 2009 and again from 2011 to 2015. She served as President of Canadiana.org between 2012 and 2016. Weir was also president of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries from 2007 to 2009 and president of the Ontario Library Association in 2017.

Awards

Weir received the CLA/Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship in 2015,Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship on CLA Web Site
/ref> the Ron MacDonald Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)Ron MacDonald Distinguished Service Award on the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) web site
/ref> in 2016, and, in 2018, the Ontario Council of University Libraries Lifetime Achievement Award,OCUL Lifetime Achievement Award on the OCUL web site
/ref> and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship.Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship on CARL web site
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References

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