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Cybersecurity Month: Special Series for Researchers

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and with cyberattacks becoming increasingly common, the importance of cybersecurity has never been more relevant. Researchers, in particular, need to take specific measures to protect their data and infrastructure from cyber threats. To safeguard research and ensure outputs remain secure, it’s crucial to implement strong physical and cybersecurity practices.

ONCE UPON A TIME: Part Seven … Through the lens of a Black archivist

Bahamian Storytelling Chant
“Once upon a time was a ‘wery’ nice time; monkey chew tobacco and spit out lime.”

So once upon a time, and a very long time ago, this blogger was born at Nassau, Bahamas on the 23rd day of September in a year not to be disclosed, but consider the blogger an 'archive'. And archives matter!

So... Oopsy! So excited was I at sharing precious archives in this Blog Series "61" [re UWindsor's age] that I went past 61 posts - Yikes!

ORCID Help Guide Now Available

To support our UWindsor community in using the researcher identifier ORCID, Leddy Library has recently published an ORCID Help Guide! In this guide, you will learn what an ORCID iD is, why you should have one, how to create and populate your profile, and more about ORCID at UWindsor.

ONCE UPON A TIME: Part Six … Through the lens of a Black archivist

By Antoinette "Anto" Seymour
Posted September 2024

Bahamian Storytelling Chant

“Once upon a time was a ‘wery’ nice time; monkey chew tobacco and spit out lime.”


So once upon a time there indeed were the UWindsor CARISAns, and associates, who went on to create waves and nation-build across the planet.

And once upon a time those CARISAns, and associates, resided either at UWindsor dorms, offsite UWindsor housing, or abodes elsewhere in that

ONCE UPON A TIME: Part Five … Through the lens of a Black archivist

By Antoinette "Anto" Seymour
Posted August 2024


Bahamian Storytelling Chant
“Once upon a time was a ‘wery’ nice time; monkey chew tobacco and spit out lime.”

So once upon a time, as reminded in Blogs 1-4, there was the Caribbean Students Association or CARISA at UWindsor, a motley crew of Caribbean stars (although many non-Caribbean persons were indeed invited to the cookout), “mixed right up like conch salad” – which is a popular Bahamian phrase.

ONCE UPON A TIME: Part Four … Through the lens of a Black archivist

By Antoinette "Anto" Seymour
Posted July 2024


Bahamian Storytelling Chant
“Once upon a time was a ‘wery’ nice time; monkey chew tobacco and spit out lime.”

So once upon a time there was the Caribbean Homegoing Booklet, a funeral booklet perhaps like no other, an unlikely genealogical ‘talking piece’, chock-rich in legacy information.

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