Leddy Library News

Effective immediately, the Leddy Library will be open 24 hours a day until the end of the exam period. We will close again at midnight after December 22nd.

Happy studying!

In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. While some classic articles from the 1987 were retained, around 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions. This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world’s most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists. This edition contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world’s leading economists.

This trial ends December 31st, 2008 and is NOT available off campus.
Please leave a comment or send your feedback to the Librarian responsible for Economics jfoster@uwindsor.ca.

SYB is an authoritative and accessible volume containing information essential for diplomats, politicians and all statesmen involved with international affairs. It has a reputation as an indispensable reference tool and has been published continuously since 1864, through two world wars, without missing an edition. It was ranked by Library Journal as one of the top 20 best reference resources of the millennium.

The scope of the book is broad, with expanded coverage of history, politics, economics, trade and infrastructure for each country. This resource provides extensive reading lists and web links to facilitate further research.

This trial ends December 31st, 2008 and is NOT available off campus.
Please leave a comment or send your feedback to the Digital Services Librarian jsoutter@uwindsor.ca.

Mosby’s Nursing Skills is an online skills and procedures reference system offering the most comprehensive combination of skills and multimedia content available. Over 830 skills from leading reference works in nursing are available, including:

* Perry & Potter, Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 6e
* Proehl, Emergency Nursing Procedures, 4e
* AACN, Procedure Manual for Critical Care, 5e
* AACN, Procedure Manual for Pediatric Acute and Critical Care
* Wong’s, Nursing Care of Infant’s and Children

This resource is organized to support nurse managers and educators, enabling administrators and specialists to: establish specific learning criteria for the nursing staff; evaluate individual learning needs, create assignments and track the process of staff against established standards; customize instructional material to align with the specific policies and standards of the organization; create a variety of reports to measure individual and group performance and post announcements for hospital staff.

Trial ends: December 31, 2008
This trial is not available off-campus.

Please leave a comment or send your feedback to the Librarian for Nursing at smunro@uwindsor.ca.

Ontario’s Christopher Paul Curtis wins $20,000 children’s literature award (CBC):

[Windsor] Ontario author Christopher Paul Curtis has won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for Elijah of Buxton, a book about runaway slaves in the 19th century.

Elijah of Buxton is the story of an 11-year-old boy living in an Ontario settlement of runaway slaves, who travels to the United States and discovers the horrors his parents fled.

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International Metropolis today features a postcard showing the original building of the Leddy Library as it appeared prior to expansion. The library was built in 1957, and has been known as the West Building since expansion in 1971.

Anyone interested in local history should check out International Metropolis, an outstanding local weblog that highlights modern architecture in the Windsor area.

Available until November 30, 2008, the John Johnson Collection consists of more than 65,000 items and offers unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.

Housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the John Johnson Collection is widely recognised as one of the most important collections of printed ephemera in the world and generally regarded as the most significant single collection of ephemera in the UK. It was assembled by John de Monins Johnson (1882-1956), Printer to the University, who was visionary in his preservation of Britain’s vulnerable paper heritage. It contains a high proportion of unique material, which has remained largely hidden to scholars and researchers until now.

Please leave a comment or send your feedback to the English liaison librarian at hjacobs@uwindsor.ca.

The Library Catalogue will be one of a number of campus systems unavailable this Sunday, November 2, from 1.20am EDT until about 2.30am EST (approximately 2 hours). Only the catalogue will be affected. Other services, including our online Journal Articles and Research Tools, will function normally.

From the October 31 issue of the Daily News:

If you’re one of those people who thinks there aren’t enough hours in the day, you’re going to love Sunday.

With the end of Daylight Savings Time and the return of Standard Time at 2 a.m., you’ll get a 25-hour November 2.

Push back your clocks one hour; most electronic devices on campus, including computers, are programmed to reflect the change automatically.

Information Technology Services will take the University’s database server ADMIN1 offline for about two hours Sunday, from 1:20 a.m. EDT until about 2:30 a.m. EST.

This shutdown will affect campus systems such as student recruitment, university advancement, the registrar’s office, parking services, residence servicves, conference services, facility services and the following applications: the Student Information System (SIS), Voyager (the Library system), AZORUS (Student Recruitment), Office of Research Services, the Research Ethics Board and CLEW.

Please direct any questions to the HelpDesk at helpdesk@uwindsor.ca.

Leddy Library will be offering extended hours for the remainder of the fall term, beginning October 19:

Regular hours (October 19 to November 30)
Sunday: 10:00am – 4:00am
Monday-Thursday: 8:00am – 4:00 am
Friday: 8:00am – 12 midnight
Saturday: 10:00am – 12 midnight

Exam hours (December 1-21)
Sunday-Thursday: 8:00am – 4:00am
Friday: 8:00am – 12 midnight
Saturday: 10:00am – 12 midnight

Monday, December 22: 8:00am – 12 midnight
Tuesday, December 23: 8:00am – 4:30pm

CLOSED Wednesday, December 24 to Thursday, January 1, 2009

January 2009
Friday, January 2: 8:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday, January 3: 1:00pm – 8:00pm
Sunday, January 4: 1:00pm – 8:00pm

Regular Hours for the Winter Term begin Monday, January 5, 2009

We have a 2 week trial for Marquis Who’s who on the web, September 15, 2008 – September 26, 2008. This database now contains all their print Who’s Who products with coverage back to 1985. It also includes the digitized version of Who was Who – which goes back much further. During the trial, we have only 1 simultaneous user; there are also restrictions on downloading.

UPDATE: This trial has now ended.