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Did you see that story on the internet last week? You know, that story about the guy who figured out a way of keeping mosquitoes at bay by using a simple household fan?

Rap Genius + Pulitzer-winning novel = Poetry Genius

The UWinCARD office will be upgrading their system and as a result the UWinCard system will continue to be down this Tuesday.

This means that the library will be unable to offer printing or photocopying during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody was founded in 1924 by Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News and Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and often regarded as the world's greatest publisher.

The Writing Support Desk can help you with:

• constructing strong theses and arguments
• grammar and syntax problems
• analyzing and integrating sources
• citing and referencing
• interpreting assignment prompts
• developing active reading habits

The Writing Support Desk is located on the main floor of the main building of the Leddy Library.

The Writing Support Desk is open:

The desk is located on the main floor of the main building of the Leddy Library. The Academic Writing Centre is open:

With its debut in 1842, The Illustrated London News became the world’s first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, marking a revolution in journalism and news reporting.

On May 29-30th 2013 the University of Windsor played host to the International Symposium on Arab Youth: Developmental Pathways for Identity. The conference organizers, Julie Hakim-Larson and Rosanne Menna, have worked with the Leddy Library to help provide access to the posters and presentations from the event. The results are now starting to be made available in the Scholarship at UWindsor institutional repository and can be found at the link below. Take some time to take a look or even explore the contents from other departments on our campus.

You can now request a consultation with one of the liaison librarians of the Leddy Library who can discuss with your research problem at hand using our new Research Consultation Request form.

We can advise you on available information sources, search strategies and other related information topics related to research such as open access, data, and citation management.

A new feature on the library website is a browsable index of our electronic dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks which can be filtered by subject area. If you're looking for reference resources please take a look here for easy online access!

http://leddy.uwindsor.ca/dictionaries-encyclopedias-handbooks

May 4-11th is the 2013 Canadian Children's Book Week. Canadian Children's Book Week celebrates Canadian children's books and the importance of reading. Canadian Children's Book Week is organized by the Canadian Children's Book Centre, in partnership with the Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada

The theme of Canadian Children’s Book Week 2013 is All the Bookshelf’s a Stage: Celebrating the Performing Arts.