Community partnerships

October 20–26, 2025 | Theme: Who Owns the Knowledge?

International Open Access Week is a global event promoting free and immediate access to scholarly research. Now in its 18th year, it invites researchers, institutions, and communities to explore the benefits of Open Access and advocate for equitable knowledge sharing.
This year’s theme, “Who Owns the Knowledge?”, sparks important conversations about access, ownership, and the future of scholarly communication.

The Leddy Library will hold its first-ever sale of used records from July 29 to Aug. 2.

Music enthusiasts can explore a collection of hundreds of vinyl LPs, each available at the unbeatable price of just $1. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover hidden gems and expand your vinyl collection.

The sale will run while supplies last in the café area of the library. Sets containing multiple records are priced according to the number of records in the set.

Sales are cash only, with the proceeds benefiting student appreciation events.

A new digital exhibition offers a glimpse of life in Canada during the Second World War. Based on clippings in a scrapbook made in the 1940s by the mother of Canadian wartime journalist Jack Calder, the exhibit considers how the home front and battle fronts were connected.

Calder, who worked as a reporter for the Chatham Daily News prior to enlisting, was a natural storyteller and was among the first to document the war from the front lines sharing details of raids, take downs, and even encounters with the royal family.

While the exact number of residential school-related deaths remains unknown due to incomplete records, there are estimates that more than 6,000 unmarked graves have been found to date. An art installation displayed this week in the Leddy Library honours those victims.

Located in the library’s main stairwell, the installation contains roughly 6,000 small shirts cut from orange paper and strung together.

June is Indigenous History Month and, to honour its intent, Leddy Library’s Indigenous outreach librarian Jennifer Soutter has curated a