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Freedom to Read Week
Feb 26, 2013Posted By: Selinda Berg
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
Feb 25, 2013Posted By: Mita Williams
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
Feb 11, 2013Posted By: Mita Williams
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
Jan 25, 2013Posted By: Mita Williams
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.
Introducing the Leddy Library Dashboard of Open Data and Statistics
Jan 23, 2013Posted By: Mita Williams
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
Jan 15, 2013Posted By: Dave Johnston
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.
Ten Books to Contextualize the Idle No More movement
Jan 9, 2013Posted By: Mita Williams
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.
Where is that book? Now you know!
Nov 5, 2012Posted By: Mita Williams
Our library catalogue tells you a lot of things about the books that we have in our collection, but for a period of time, it didn't tell you on what floor your books were located and you had to look up each item in this table on our website: http://leddy.uwindsor.ca/call-number-locations
Celebrate the ability to read because of Open Access by reading about Open Access
Oct 23, 2012Posted By: Mita Williams
Like so many other folks around the world, the Leddy Library is celebrating Open Access Week.
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