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Who wants to study in a dirty and smelly environment?

DID YOU KNOW… Over 1 million students have come through our doors this year alone!

Who wants to study in a dirty and smelly environment? We sure wouldn’t and neither should you! When you come to Leddy to study, please be mindful of your neighbours – we ask that you follow these tips so that everyone who comes to study here can have a positive experience:

1. If you are bringing in a drink, please keep a lid on it

2. If you’d like to eat, please do so at William’s café

The Leddy Library does not accept bitcoin...

The Leddy Library does not accept bitcoin... but our UWin cash machine was refurbished on Friday and so we are now able to accept ALL new monies, loonies, toonies and the new 'plastic' bills.

The Leddy Library supports Dale Askey

The Leddy Library supports the Canadian Library Association’s position on the libel suits against Dale Askey and urges Edwin Mellen Press to cease all remaining legal action in this regard. The Leddy Library considers these suits to be an affront to intellectual freedom.

Freedom to Read Week

Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Libel Chill and The Freedom to Read Week

When you can find ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ readily available at your local grocery or drugstore, do we even need to worry about the Freedom to Read anymore?

Yes.

Leddy now in UWindsor's mobile app

The Leddy Library can now be found in the University of Windsor's mobile app.

At the moment, you can check with a glance whether the library is open and with just a click, you can see what books you have out and when they are due back at the library.

Congratulations to the winners of the Employee Recognition Awards

The Leddy Library extends a hearty congratulations to the staff of The Paul Martin Law Library for their Service Excellence – Team award they received yesterday as part of the University of Windsor Employee Recognition Awards. Indeed, congratulations go out to all those who were recognized at yesterday's celebration.

Introducing the Leddy Library Dashboard of Open Data and Statistics

This past weekend, ten University of Windsor Computer Science students took up the challenge of the HackWE Code Jam: use the City of Windsor's set of Open Data to create an interesting app. And that they did:

File Sharing, Open Access and the Pace of Change in Academic Publishing

Digital file sharing has undoubtedly altered the landscape of music distribution. However, similar changes have not occurred within the realm of academic publishing. What might be dubbed as academic piracy was rarely heard of until the recent death of Aaron Swartz. Before his death Swartz was facing the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence for allegedly unlawfully downloading roughly 4 million journal articles from JSTOR.

Ten Books to Contextualize the Idle No More movement

The following is a re-print of ActiveHistory.ca's January 4th post Ten Books to Contextualize Idle No More by Andrew Watson and Thomas Peace. Thomas Peace is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College; Andrew Watson is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at York University. The original post has many other book recommendations made in response to the original ten suggestions - nine of which are currently available at the Leddy Library.

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