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Exam hours in effect: Leddy now open 24 hours

April 5th, 2012 by Mita

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

Welcome our new librarian

April 3rd, 2012 by Mita

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!

Optical Character Recognition for the Masses

March 30th, 2012 by Mita

Optical Character Recognition for the Masses

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!

Check out what`s new at Leddy Library

March 15th, 2012 by Heidi

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.

What if Maria Susanne Cummins had Twitter?

March 12th, 2012 by Mita

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.

WhatIfSusannaHadTwitter

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”

 

Join us for a discussion on ebooks, Friday March 9th at 11am

March 8th, 2012 by Mita

 

Archbook

The Leddy Library will be hosting a panel discussion on Ebooks in the Bibliographical Imagination, as part of the Humanities Research Group’s lecture series,  Friday, March 9th at 11 a.m. in the 4th floor conference room

Our host will the Dean of the Library, Gwen Ebbett and our our guest lecturer will be  Dr. Alan Galey.

Galey is an assistant professor in Toronto’s Faculty of Information, where he teaches in the collaborative program in book history and print culture.

Please join us!

ebook records in the library catalogue have been restored

January 19th, 2012 by Mita

During an upgrade of the Leddy Library’s catalogue, some of the records of the library’s ebooks became suppressed.

This problem has now been resolved and library catalogue records describing these ebooks are now publicly visible again.

Taming the Chaos STEPS session at 3pm today (Wednesday)

January 11th, 2012 by Mita

S.T.E.P.S. is a program that offers a variety of sessions for students that can help you develop the Skills to Enhance Personal Success.

Today (Wednesday January 11th) at 3pm there will be a S.T.E.P.S. session dedicated to time managment being held in the comfy seating area of the first floor of the Leddy Library. A description of the session is below:

Taming the Chaos (Time Management)

As a student, you may have to juggle many responsibilities, which might include academics, a part time job, and family obligations. At the same time, you probably want to have a social life and get out into the community to pursue your hobbies. This presentation will give you some tips on how to deal efficiently with your seemingly chaotic university life.

Learning outcomes: Students who attend to this session will be able to:

  1. Describe what being proactive means in regards to time management
  2. Recognize procrastination
  3. Apply strategies to better manage their time
  4. Apply strategies to avoid procrastination
  5. Create and plan a realistic and organized study time
  6. Identify other factors that influence their grade outcomes
  7. Evaluate their short-term goals
  8. Create new short-term goals that better reflect their long-term goals

 

Interested? Just drop in!

Poll: what swag should the Leddy Library give away?

January 9th, 2012 by Mita

We’re running a poll on the Leddy Library Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/questions/10150570525431558/?qa_ref=qd

The question is: what promotional item would you want to receive from your friendly neighbourhood library?

(Hate Facebook? let us know what you’d like in the comments!)

 

 

Posters of advice to sink in slowly

January 5th, 2012 by Mita

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 Rebecca Cobb

 

Get Lost

Design by Thomas Barwick

Chase your own tale

Design by Gray318

 

take time

Design by Temujin Doran

Learning is frustrating

Design by Robert Evans