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Tikkun book cover

Book a record of community healing to inspire generations to come

Nov 26, 2019
Posted By: Leddy Library
When education professor Yvette Daniel and her team across five sites envisioned the Tikkun Youth Project, which brought together youth and university researchers, activists, and community organizers world-wide to lead to positive social change, they knew its legacy would continue long after the project had ended.
Photo of Berenica Vejvoda, Data Librarian

Leddy Library welcomes Berenica Vejvoda as academic data librarian

Oct 9, 2019
Posted By: Leddy Library
In the technological age of information, analytics, and statistics, almost everything we do can be converted into research data. For the Leddy Library’s new academic data librarian, Berenica Vejvoda, the data collected from our everyday actions has the potential to solve problems, assist decision making, create new knowledge, and tell compelling stories.
Photo of Chatham Coloured All-Stars comic book

1934 mini-comic the latest from the Harding Project

May 21, 2019
Posted By: Leddy Library
Local students will have the opportunity to turn new pages of history this September — pages of a comic book, that is. A 10-page comic book along with a teachers’ guide is the latest development to grow out of the Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred (Boomer) Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars project.
Map Sale Event poster

Leddy Library hosting map sale

May 13, 2019
Posted By: Leddy Library
The public is invited to a Map Sale this week in the Leddy Library. Leddy Library is offering all its United States Geographical Survey topographic maps for purchase at 25 cents each — cash only. The sale will run 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., May 13 to 17, in the library’s basement Media Centre. For directions, visit the Information Desk.
Rendering of the Student Research Collaboratory Design

Construction begins on the Leddy Library Collaboratory

May 9, 2019
Posted By: Leddy Library
Construction crews will begin work today — Thursday, May 9 — to transform Leddy Library’s main floor space into a new state-of-art Student Research Collaboratory. The Collaboratory will provide University of Windsor students with a dynamic space to share their research findings and develop collaborative relationships with partners from across campus and globally.
Alumna, Sarah Morris, working in the archives.

Leddy Library archives help event leader dig deep into local history

May 2, 2019
Posted By: Leddy Library
While many Windsor locals know the names of the city’s streets, few are familiar with the people behind the names. UWindsor alumna Sarah Morris (BA 2012) is determined to shed light on the topic during the 2019 Windsor-Essex Jane’s Walk this weekend.
stylized drawing of a tooth, with the text: "fluoride: (mis)information"

fluoride: (mis)information

Feb 27, 2019
Posted By: Roger Reka
We invite members from across the University of Windsor campus, and the greater Windsor-Essex community, to drop by and visit our latest exhibit. Located on the main floor of the Leddy Library, learn about how information is used and misused in the very public controversy over community water fluoridation programs.
Montly Gate Counts graph

Introducing the Leddy Library Dashboard of Open Data and Statistics

Jan 23, 2013
Posted 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:
screenshot of library catalogue showing floor location

Where is that book? Now you know!

Nov 5, 2012
Posted 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
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