Blogs

Leddy Library will be hosting a free screening of the movie Bon Cop Bad Cop for National Canadian Film Day 150 (NCFD 150).  The event will be held in the Leddy Library comfy seating area (behind the Brown Gold Café) on Wednesday, April 12^th at 7 PM. 

The film pairs Patrick Huard as David Bouchard, a rule-bending detective for the Sûreté du Québec, with Colm Feore’s Martin Ward, a by-the-book Ontario Provincial Police detective.

Games are good for you! (Yes, we have the science to back up this claim). So why not take a break from studying in the Leddy Library and grab a friend or two and play a game from our new shelf of games. You can borrow the games for a day.

Here is what we currently have on offer:

The library has encountered a problem with the Statistics Canada web site that may impact your work. The CANSIM database (the source for most social and economic Canadian statistics) is not functioning at present. Faculty and students who need this data can access our backup version of the CANSIM database through the University of Toronto CHASS system:

http://led.uwindsor.ca/cansim

For the past several years the Leddy Library has partnered with the Polish community of Windsor to build a collection of English language materials reflective of the cultural, historical, and economic history of Poland and the Polish people. Many thanks to the Polonia Centre for its annual collections donation to the Leddy Library, in support of this important collection.

The Leddy Library is proud to announce the publication of Volume One of the proceedings from The Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics

Two presentations by James Elmborg are happening on March 8th and 9^th, 2017 at the University of Windsor.

March 8, 10:00: “Critical Library Practice and Why It Matters”, Leddy Library 302, West Building.

March 9, 4:00: “Digital Humanities and New Modes of Collaborative Scholarship”, Memorial Hall 105.

Award-winning author Karolyn Smardz Frost will be speaking on March 16^th, 2017 at the University of Windsor.

March 16, 2017  7:00

Public Talk, Katzman Lounge, Vanier Hall

Today is the first anniversary of the passing of singer David Bowie. David Bowie was a passionate reader and as part of a 2013 retrospective of his work at the AGO, Bowie shared 100 of his favourite books.

Academic libraries across the country are experiencing significant challenges to their information resources budgets, and University of Windsor’s Leddy Library is no exception.  The library has faced diminished purchasing power for its collections budgets over the past several years due to 3 main factors: 

A new display at Leddy Library highlights student work alongside material from Leddy Library's Rare Books and Special Collections and the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive (SWODA).