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Librarian in 1969, Lewis continued on at the university as a collections development librarian until her retirement in 1976. The same year the school's
Special Collections & Archives department was founded with the naming of the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room. Post-retirement, Lewis worked as consultant to the book-dealer B. H. Blackwell Ltd, Oxford.
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Library preparing the briefing reports that would inform its construction. By 1969 book volumes at Waterloo's library had increased to 300,000 and was growing at a rate of 60,000 volumes per year. After stepping down as University
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and Brian R. Land of the UofT. The following year she assisted with the preparation of briefs for the
Commission to Study the Development of Graduate Programmes in Ontario Universities (Spinks Commission). Lewis later participated in the Federal Government Library Survey between 1972 and 1974. She
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University of Waterloo in 1959, Lewis was named the school's first University Librarian.
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Interested in the lives of women, Lewis played an instrumental role in the acquisition of the Lady
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Preserving records bearing on the experience of women in North
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