Mona, Campus:

• The Mona Online Research Database received the Research, Content Driven, Knowledge and Effective Access to Information Award from the 2007 Conference of the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL). 

St Augustine, Campus:

• The St Augustine Library received the EBSCO Award forLeadership in the Use of New Information Technologies to Expand and Facilitate Access to Serials Content from the 2007 Conference of the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL).
• A display was mounted for the visit to the library by the Nobel laureate, Sir V.S. Naipaul in April 2007. Included among the exhibits were letters between Naipaul and C.L.R. James, as well as correspondence between the British Broadcasting Corporation and a young Naipaul when the latter wrote for the BBC’s radio series, Caribbean Voices Programme, in the 1950s. Sir Vidya was visibly moved by the exhibition. 

Cave Hill, Campus:

• Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Hilary Beckles, agreed to pursue funding for a new Main Library building, due to an exponential increase in student enrolment and the inadequacy and obsolescence of the current Main Library building. Despite space constraints, the Law Library increased its clientele to include students pursuing majors and minors in Law, students of the School of Continuing Studies who were pursuing a course Legal Research and Writing, other UWI students with valid ID cards, as well as members of the legal community of the Commonwealth Caribbean who were required to make a financial contribution.