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Fall 2016 Leddy Library Reading Challenge!

The Fall 2016 Leddy Library Reading Challenge is a social group for ALL members of the University of Windsor community. Meetings are every Tuesday from 3-4 p.m. until the beginning of December!

The main objective of this group is to create a larger sense of community on campus while allowing for students, faculty, and library staff to share a social-academic space for critical thinking and literature review.

Still not certain this group is for you - well how about some incentive to start reading?

Notice: Google Scholar & Library Resource Problems

This notice is for users who are attempting to access library resources through Google Scholar. Unfortunately at this time users will be unable to link to the library's electronic resources from Google Scholar. This is a priority issue and we hope to see service restored soon. In the meantime, you can continue to find resources through the following platforms:

The library's search interface: http://led.uwindsor.ca/one-stop-search

Elsevier Acqusition of SSRN

On May 17th publishing giant Elsevier announced it had acquired the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). This potentially marks a major change in scholarly communications landscape and is the first time a large academic publisher has stepped into the repository landscape. The stated benefits of this change include potential integration with existing platforms such as Scopus and the Mendely - another relatively recent purchase by Elsevier.

Black Lives Matter - A Reading List

To celebrate Black History Month, the Leddy Library is sharing The Left Bank Books` Black Lives Matter Reading List. The Left Bank Books bookstore is located in St. Louis, Missouri.

This is a community curated list of books, poems, articles and blog posts that explore race, not only in St. Louis, but America as a whole. By no means a full comprehensive list, here are a few to get you started on the trail of understanding what's happening.

Windsor's Football Past: Assumption College 1915

Assumption College Football Players c.1915

Did you know that the history of Purple Raider and Lancer Athletics goes as far back as the early 1900’s? To learn more about the history of athletics at our university, please visit the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive brought to you by Scholarship @Uwindsor

- Jasna Cakmak

 

The second of our college football songs for the week!

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