Leslie Weir is a Canadian librarian, one of the founding architects of Scholars Portal and former president of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.

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.

[5] 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.

[6] 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.

[8] Weir received the CLA/Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship in 2015,[7] the Ron MacDonald Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)[9] in 2016, and, in 2018, the Ontario Council of University Libraries Lifetime Achievement Award,[10] and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship.