Leddy Library News

There are now “comfy chairs” on the first floor of the Leddy Library. The official launch in is Janurary but you can enjoy them now!

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New page on the Leddy website: What is a library barcode?

Today the Leddy Library has 16 new computer workstations available to the students, staff and faculty of the University of Windsor. These new “Scholar’s Workstations“ are available on the first floor of the main building of the Leddy Library.

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Please note that due to maintenance and upgrades, the elevator in the library’s west building will be out of service for approximately six weeks beginning December 11, 2002.

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Leddy Library has recently acquired access to Datastream Advance.

Datastream Advance is powerful financial tool that allows the user to request static, time-series, and company fundamentals data and to manipulate that data in chart and list form as well as allow the user to export said data into spreadsheets, word processing and presentation software. Its content includes:

• Detailed index related data across global markets, including valuation measures and constituent lists
• Global and sector indices information
• Exchange-traded derivatives data
• Global investment research
• Detailed information on fixed income and equity securities around the world
• Current and historical fundamental data Indicative foreign exchange and money markets data
• Real-time financial news from the Dow Jones Newswire
• Closing prices for OTC bond instruments
• Global forecast and historical economics data
• Interest and exchange rates

Datastream Advance is available at workstation Leddy01 on the first floor of the Leddy Library. There is one user license for the University of Windsor campus.

New products on trial: Globe and Mail 1844 and Oxford Reference Online.

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New addition to the Leddy website: Who was Leddy Library named for?

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A change to the Leddy Library hours : Saturday and Sunday, December 21 and 22 : 12 noon to 5pm

New addition to the Leddy website: Theses and Dissertations.

New product on trial: Reference Suite & FACTS.com.

The University Librarian’s Annual Report (2000/2001) has been released

One new addition to the Leddy Library’s electronic collection:

WORLD OF LEARNING (Fulltext)
World of Learning is a directory to the academic world: Features of searchable directory include: over 30,000 universities, colleges, schools of art and music, libraries, learned societies, research institutes, museums and art galleries; details more than 200,000 staff and officials; information on over 400 international cultural, scientific and educational organizations; covers every important library giving the number of volumes held and outstanding features of the collection; professors at major universities are listed by name, together with the subjects in which they specialize.

… and one new addition to the Leddy Library’s Journal Articles and Databases By Title page:

UNITED NATIONS TREATY COLLECTION (Fulltext)
This collection includes the following categories of treaty-related data: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, The United Nations Treaty Series, Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties, Photographs of Treaty Signature Ceremonies, Titles of the Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN official languages, Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of MultilateralTreaties, Treaty Handbook, Monthly Statements of Treaties and International Agreements, Depositary Notifications (CNs) by the Secretary-General, United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index, and Notes verbales from The Legal Counsel relating to the depositary practice and the registration of treaties pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter.

Welcome back returning University of Windsor students and welcome to all our new students! If you would to like to get to know (or get to better know) the Leddy Library, please join us for a tour.

The Leddy Library no longer subscribes to Applied Science and Technology Index.

Art Index, General Science Index, Social Sciences Full Text, Humanities Full Text are now available through a new product: WilsonWeb OmniFile

The Leddy Library has launched our redesigned website.
Please let us know what you think – send us your praises, gripes, and suggestions!

Thanks to the Wayback Machine, you can see the evolution of the Leddy Library website:

• the ‘green’ design (September 2002 – August 2005)
• the ‘yellow pages’ (September 2001 – August 2002)
• ‘blue and orange’ (September 2000 – August 2001)Â

• snapshot: August 16, 2000
• snapshot: October 2, 1999
• snapshot January 29, 1998
• snapshot: July 27, 1997
• snapshot: April 29, 1997