EXAM HOURS
Thursday April 5 to Thursday April 19
Thursday, April 5 at 8am to Friday, April 13 at 2am (24hrs)
Saturday, April 14: 10am to 2am
Sunday, April 15 at 10am to Thursday, April 19 at midnight (24hrs)
from Leddy Hours
We’d like to welcome David Johnston to the Leddy Library as our new Information Services Librarian.
Dave earned his Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario in 2011. He recently completed a contract position as Public Services Librarian at Mount Allison University.
Welcome!
Leddy Libraries’ Librarian Research Series will continue Friday, April 13th at 11:00 with Mita Williams presenting, “The Library as Interface for Public Space and Public Self.” Mita will explore the library’s potential to help bridge the digital divide and to play a key role in facilitating public space and the infrastructure of the Internet as a means to share and engage with each other. Join us Friday, April 13 at 11:00am, Room 302 West Building, Leddy Library.
Our second talk in the Leddy Library’s Librarian Research Series is today, at 11 am in Room 302, West Building, in the Leddy Library.
Art Rhyno will be presenting his talk, Optical Character Recognition for the Masses: Digitization Options for Small Budgets and Big Collections. Please join us!
Get a sneak peek at the new books coming into Leddy Library by visiting the New Arrivals shelf behind the Reference Help Centre on the main floor. Browse by subject. See what’s new. Find your new favourite book.
Please join us on March 16, 2012, in room 302 West from 11am to Noon to hear “What if Maria Susanna Cummins had Twitter?: Information literacy, literary history, social media and the classroom” – a presentation by Heidi LM Jacobs.
This presentation is the first of a series of a Librarian Research Series which provides the opportunity for the library and campus community to hear more about the exciting, innovative, and diverse research projects being undertaken by the librarians of the University of Windsor. Upcoming talks include:
March 30, 2012, 11:00- Noon
Art Rhyno
“Optical Character Recognition for the masses: Digitization options for small budgets and big collections”
April 13, 2012, 11:00- Noon
Mita Williams
“The library as interface to public space and public self”
April 20, 2012, 11:00- Noon
Brian Owens
“The archival manuscript and the book: Tools of knowledge and artefacts of destruction during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.” (Working Title)
April 27, 2012, 11:00- Noon
Karen Pillon
“No student turned away: Using Kohlberg’s 6 Stages of Moral Development to inform a customer service model”
May 4, 2012, 11:00- Noon
Kristi Thompson & Victoria Paraschuk
“Finding strength(s): Insights on Canadian Aboriginal physical cultural practices”
May 11, 2012, 11:00- Noon
Tamsin Bolton
“Students helping students: Measuring the impact of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Mentor Program”
May 18, 2012, 11:00- Noon
Selinda Berg
“TBA”
What better way to kick off the new year than with words of wisdom from those who have threaded before us? That’s precisely the premise of advice to sink in slowly, a wonderful project enlisting design graduates in passing on advice and inspiration to first-year students through an ongoing series of posters [Brain Pickings]
Welcome back for another semester! Here are some posters that we hope you find inspiring for the days ahead. There’s lots more too.
Design by Rebecca Cobb
Design by Thomas Barwick
Design by Gray318
Design by Temujin Doran
Design by Robert Evans
Recently, we got a question from a reader who was interested in adding library books to her new ereader and wanted to know how to go about this. I thought I would share my answer for all those other folk out there who also received a new Kobo, Kindle, or Nook over the holidays:
The world of ebooks is in a state of considerable flux at moment. There are a variety of file formats for ebooks out there and at the moment, all competing for market share. Most ereaders are able to read files in the epub format … except the Kindle, which uses the mobi format as its default. The file format that most ebooks, tablets and computers can read is the pdf format and almost all the ebooks available from the Leddy Library are in this format. Unfortunately, while pdf files can be opened by most ebook readers, they are really hard to actually read from them.
So while you can generally read any pdf ebook offered from the Leddy Library, you may be able to only download a portion of the book at a time. To make matters even more confusing is that each publisher is deciding how much of a book can be downloaded at a time — if they even let the reader do this at all. Some of these services will require the reader to register at their website before the ability to download a work is made possible.
It’s a very confusing reading landscape out there.
Now, before you start cursing Santa out for not bringing you a tablet computer instead, please know that there are reading options for your ereader.
For recent, popular reading, the Windsor Public Library makes ebooks available through the Overdrive service.
For public domain material (mostly works before the 1920s), both the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg provide texts in a variety of formats, including epub and txt. Canadian Public Domain material is also well represented in Scholars Portal Books which allows such works to be read and downloaded.
If you have any questions about ebooks and the Leddy Library, please let us know at leddyref@uwindsor.ca.
We’re open! But only until 6pm for today, Tuesday, January 3rd and tomorrow, Wednesday January 4th.
Have a good holidays! See you next year!
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