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

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!

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”

Most books will be priced at 50¢ or $1. We will also be selling some sheet music and a small number of classical music LPs. Items for sale consist mainly of donations which the library is unable to keep.

The book sale will be in the main lobby of the Leddy. We hope you check it out!

Why are librarians taking to the streets? Barbara Fister explains the current situation very well:

Here’s my version of an Occupy Wall Street cardboard sign. At my library, we’ve been seeing big price increases in two big journal packages that we really need. Again. This is what we’re paying for American Chemical Society journals

2010 – $29,705
2011 – $34,337
2012 – $41,741

This is what we’re paying for SAGE journals

2010 – $39,105
2011 – $41,442
2012 – $52,500

… I’m not upset that my budget isn’t growing. I’m upset that scholarly publishers think these price hikes are okay, that they can keep adding new journals to their title lists with the expectation that I will pay for them. I’m upset that big scholarly publishing is being run like a protection racket, and that both I and the faculty I serve are pawns in this game.

You can help us reclaim scholarly communication and make it available to everyone whether you are a professor, a researcher, a student or a librarian.

Lessig’s lecture was delivered at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland this April 2011 and the talk about is about open access to academic or scientific information but also covers Read/Write Re-mix culture with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School.

“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

Now in it’s fifth year, International Open Access Week is an opportunity for Leddy Library, as well as the greater academic and research community to continue to learn about and promote the potential benefits of Open Access.

Throughout this week, we’ll be posting videos about Open Access as well as related topics such as Creative Commons, and your right to remix! To start off, here’s a short one from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL):

Introduction to Open Access From CARL

Traditional publishing agreements often require that authors grant exclusive rights to the publisher – which means authors no longer have the ability to redistribute their own work. CARL – in conjunction with SPARC, have created an Author Addendum that enables authors to secure a more balanced agreement by retaining select rights, such as the rights to reproduce, reuse, and publicly present the articles they publish for non-commercial purposes that reflects Canadian copyright law.

Got a question? ASK!

The next brown bag talk this will be on Wednesday, August 17th, running from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in the 4th floor boardroom at the Leddy Library.

Nicole Noël is the Research Coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Social Justice. Her background is in the Social Sciences rather than the Humanities, but a big part of her job involves dissemination of research via the web.  She manages the open access journal Studies in Social Justice. She will speaking to us on the topic of:

Apps for Teaching and Learning

For people working in academia there are a host of applications for use on computers and mobile phones that allow us to collaborate, teach, and collect data in new ways. We will open this discussion to allow you to discuss your favourite “apps for academics.” In addition, Nicole Noel will share how she uses one social bookmarking application: diigo. diigo combines social bookmarking with website annotation such as highlights, private and public notes, and discussion groups. It can facilitate research collaboration and be used as a tool for teaching critical reading of the internet to students. This session will include an introduction to the basic features of diigo including: bookmarking, tagging, annotation, and groups. There will also be discussion of the way faculty have used diigo in the classroom to teach net literacy and broaden the context for their courses.

Please join us!