Blogs

This semester, History majors from the University of Windsor took part in an innovative new class, History on the Web(43-397).  Team taught by Dr Rob Nelson (History) and Dr Heidi LM Jacobs (Leddy Library), students engaged in a range of projects that investigated issues related to how history is presented, preserved and made accessible on the web.  We talked about public history, academic history, spatial history alongside issues of open access, digital preservation, and digital curation.

Romanticism: Life, Literature & Landscapes offers students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to over 2,500 art pieces as well as documents, manuscripts, correspondence, and travel journals of  William Wordsworth and his fellow writers.

Virtual Resources

Global Commodities Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange contains resources on the history of key commodities that have been exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. In addition to Interactive Charts, Maps and Data this resource include wide range of primary-source materials such as Original Records, Photographs, Maps and Advertisements.

Chronology

-"We Can Do It!" an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller

Today is International Women's Day. To emphasis the valuable contributions that women have had to Canada's history, and to the quality of our lives in the 21^st century Leddy Library has created a subject guide to highlight some of the libraries resources on Women's History.

Biographies

The Taylor & Francis Online platform will undergo scheduled downtime.This will start on Saturday 1st March 2014 at 16:00 GMT and will end on Sunday 2nd March 2014 at 08:00 GMT. Taylor & Francis Online will be unavailable for a duration of 16 hours.

Event Info:

Speed Reading: Kind of like speed dating, but for book-lovin’ readers! An event hosted in collaboration with Broken City Lab and Leddy Library

Date: Saturday March 1st, 2014 Time: 1:00pm Location: Space behind Williams Cafe, Leddy Library, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON.

BioOne website will be undergoing maintenance starting Saturday, 1 March 2014. Scheduled downtime will begin at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (UTC-5) and may last up to 16 hours. During this time content and services on  bioone.org will be unavailable.  

Did you miss our Make a Blind Date with a Book promo?: Worry not!  Leddy is filled with lots of fun books that will take you away from midterms and winter weather.  Here are just a few titles that went out on blind dates with Leddy patrons.  

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 

Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding 

Small Island by Andrea Levy