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Starting today, Monday, October 6th, the Leddy Library will host its Used Book Sale, offering a wide variety of gently used materials for just $1 each. The selection includes withdrawn items, including children’s books, popular fiction, as well as other assorted donated titles that didn’t make it into the collection but are ready for a second life on your shelf. Whether you’re a student on the lookout for a study resource, a parent or educator seeking affordable kids’ reads, or simply a curious browser, there’s something for everyone to discover.

Today, on September 30, the University of Windsor joins communities across Canada in observing the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours Survivors of the residential school system, remembers the children who never returned home, and affirms our collective responsibility to learn from this history and work toward healing and reconciliation.

Good research deserves good data management. This fall, Leddy Library is offering a series of short, practical online workshops to help you take charge of your research data—whether you’re just starting a new project, are collecting a lot of data, or are thinking about how to share your research outputs (including data!) with the world.

A new open educational resource (OER) developed by Berenica Vejvoda, Research Data Librarian and PhD student in Social Work at the University of Windsor, is now available.

2SLGBTQ+ Data Literacy for Social Work Education is a free, online book that helps social work educators and students critically engage with Canadian data about 2SLGBTQ+ communities. The resource integrates social work perspectives with research data literacy to support inclusive teaching, research, and practice.

The OER includes:

We are excited to share that the Leddy Library now subscribes to DynaMed as our primary point of care resource. We have selected DynaMed as the most comprehensive and sustainable product for the University of Windsor community.
 

In Winter 2025, the Leddy Library announced that the University of Windsor is joining a growing national network of Canadian universities on Scholaris—a community-supported, open-source institutional repository hosted by the Ontario Council of University Libraries’ (OCUL) Scholar’s Portal.

Join us Thursday, April 24 for a webinar about archiving your dataset for long term preservation and to making it discoverable for other researchers to reuse. Learn about all the benefits of archiving data and the data repository options available to you!

We will also cover the Tri Agency data deposit mandate rollout (including other mandates from journal publishers) and discuss the Open Science principle of making data as, "Open As Possible, Closed as Necessary" (Horizon Europe).

Register here.

Sponsored by: Leddy Library and the Office of Research and Innovation Services

Today (March 17, 2025) is Green Open Access Day, a time to celebrate and promote the importance and benefits of green open access (OA). Green OA, also known as self-archiving, allows researchers to make a version of their article openly available through an institutional or disciplinary repository. This ensures that research is accessible to a global audience without paywall restrictions.

In March we celebrate Social Work Week in Ontario (March 3^rd to 9^th) and National Social Work Month for Canada.  This year’s theme for the Ontario Association of Social Workers is Wherever you are, so are we.  OASW notes that this theme “…speaks to the availability and versatility of the social work profession, highlighting its critical role in addressing a growing and universal problem – access to care” (