Leslie Weir

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. She founded the School of Information Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University where she was also a cross-appointed Professor.

Weir was a founding member of the Board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), from its inception in 2009 and from 2011 to 2015. She will be succeeded by Te Paea Paringatai.

Awards Weir received the CLA/Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship in 2015, the Ron MacDonald Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) in 2016, and, in 2018, the Ontario Council of University Libraries Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship.