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

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.

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”

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

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!

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!)

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