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Scholarly repository marks 10-year anniversary
Dec 5, 2022Posted By: Leddy Library
Scholarship at UWindsor, the campus institutional repository, marked its 10th-anniversary last month. Launched in November 2012, it collects, preserves, and disseminates intellectual output from UWindsor scholars in digital form.
Changes to the term of copyright protection in Canada
Nov 30, 2022Posted By: Dave Johnston
Copyright law in Canada provides all authors and creators with exclusive rights to reproduce, perform, and publish their work. (Government of Canada, 2022). However, copyright doesn't last forever and eventually does expire.
Exhibit to celebrate donation of political cartoons
Nov 14, 2022Posted By: Leddy Library
An extensive collection of more than 2,600 political cartoons by well-known social commentator Mike Graston has been donated to the University of Windsor’s Archives and Special Collections housed in Leddy Library.
Leddy Library used book sale returns
Nov 10, 2022Posted By: Leddy Library
Calling all book lovers: The Leddy Library used book sale is back!
Starting Monday, Nov. 14, the library will sell used books and materials at bargain prices — all items are $1.
The book sale will be set up across from the information desk on the first floor of Leddy's main building.
Foundational treaty subject of Friday presentation
Nov 8, 2022Posted By: Leddy Library
The University of Windsor will host Alan Ojig Corbiere, assistant professor of history at York University and Canada Research Chair in History of Indigenous Peoples of North America, during Treaties Recognition Week, Nov. 6 to 12.
Conference an occasion to launch Journal of Canadian Baseball
Nov 8, 2022Posted By: Leddy Library
Colleagues invited to celebrate retirement of long-time librarian Joan Dalton
Nov 1, 2022Posted By: Leddy Library
Joan Dalton arrived on the University of Windsor campus in 1978 to begin studies toward an MA in English. She added an MLIS degree at Western University before returning to Leddy Library to launch her professional career as an academic librarian.
Climate justice key topic during Open Access week
Oct 24, 2022Posted By: Leddy Library
Leddy Library invites the community to join a conversation around climate justice to celebrate International Open Access Week.
Art Installation at Leddy Library honours Orange Shirt Day
Sep 27, 2022Posted By: Leddy Library
An art installation on display this week in the Leddy Library honours Orange Shirt Day.
Located in the library’s main stairwell, the installation contains roughly 6,000 small orange shirts strung together to acknowledge the unofficial number of unmarked graves of Indigenous children found on the grounds of former residential schools in the U.S. and Canada.
Leddy adds rooms dedicated to student wellness
Sep 23, 2022Posted By: Leddy Library
The Leddy Library surprised students this month with three new spaces designed to enhance their wellness.
These spaces have been designated as “wellness rooms”: two in the main building on the second and third floors, and one in the west building on the third floor. Each room is equipped with dimmable lighting and cozy furniture to help students relax.
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