Featured Collections

Explore some of our featured resources and collections at Leddy Library, including some of our curated and themed reading lists.

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Treaties Recognition Week

Oct 25, 2021

In Ontario, Treaties Recognition Week takes place the first week of November each year and was introduced in 2016 as one way to honour the importance of treaties and to help Ontarians learn more about treaty rights and relationships, as we are all treaty people. This year the Treaty Canoe by artist Alex McKay will be on display in the Student Research Collaboratory at Leddy Library....

Open Access Week 2021

Oct 19, 2021

International Open Access Week is a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions, and organizations across the world, and its organization is led by a global advisory committee. The official hashtag of Open Access Week is #OAweek. See what's happening at Leddy Library and around the globe for Open Access...

Missing Children of Indian Residential Schools

Sep 29, 2021

Missing Children of Indian Residential Schools  is a story map created by Leddy Library's geospatial data analyst, Carina Luo, that uses data collected from the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report (TRC) and geographic information system (GIS), to provide a visual representation of the 139 Indian residential...

Orange Shirt Day: Residential School Experiences

Sep 22, 2021

This collection represents books, and ebooks available through the Leddy Library about the experiences of Indigenous persons at Residential Schools in Canada. The list, including fiction, biographies, and children's books, was curated by the Indigenous Outreach Librarian, Jennifer Soutter.

Children’s Books with Social Justice Themes

Sep 9, 2021

The Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) within Leddy Library houses many resources for students, including kits of manipulatives and teaching aids (e.g. bugs, science experiments, puppets, flashcards, posters, etc.), videos, juvenile books, and children’s books to enhance lesson plans. This collection, curated alongside Dr. Lana Parker in the Faculty of Education, was created to assist pre-...

Selected Indigenous Resources

Aug 25, 2021

The Library invites you to explore a variety of resources this week: from print to electronic books, primary archival resources and even physical replicas of existing treaties in the form of wampum belts, a form of treaty used in 1600’s to establish relationships between certain Indigenous communities and early European settlers.