A sale of used books and music this week in the Leddy Library will support the library’s Student Appreciation Days, to be held during the April exam period.
The sale features books on many subjects, as well as CD’s, DVD’s and even sheet music. It runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, March 19 and 20, in the library’s lobby area.
So come on out, pick up a few bargains, and help the library staff show some appreciation to students during stressful finals!
A survey distributed to University of Windsor faculty, staff and students earlier this week is designed to assess perceptions of library service, says Gwendolyn Ebbett, dean of the library.
“This survey will allow us to better understand how the University community rates library services and where we can concentrate our efforts towards improving services,” she says. “It will also let us find out how Leddy Library results compare with those of other libraries and determine best practices.”
The Leddy Library will reduce its hours Monday, February 18, opening 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in observance of the Family Day holiday. It will retain regular hours of operation through the remainder of Study Week.
The Paul Martin Law Library will close February 16 to 18; open 8:30 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, February 19 to 21; close February 22 and 23; open 1 to 8:50 p.m. on Sunday, February 24; and resume regular hours of operation on Monday, February 25.
It’s germ warfare. Two senior nursing students are putting their knowledge to use, fighting a campaign to convince their fellow students to maintain a healthier environment.
Fourth-year nursing majors Rana Allawnha and Meagan Sandhawalia have won approval from the Leddy Library for a quality improvement pilot project to promote germ awareness in the building.
“We spend a lot of time in the library,” Sandhawalia says. “We see what goes on, and it’s time for students to take ownership of their own study environment.”
Pejman Habashi, a first-year computer science major who began his UWindsor career this term, was the winner of a draw for a $50 Bookstore gift card for participants in tours of the Leddy Library held last week.
Each 20-minute tour featured various service points in the Leddy Main and West buildings. In addition, participants received explanations of the library’s borrowing policies, collections and help services.
The staff and librarians of Leddy Library will conduct tours of the building next week, guiding both new and returning students through some key features and resources that the library has to offer.
Tours are set for:
DailyNews will over the first week of 2013 list the leadership in each of the academic areas. Today, current appointments in the faculties of Graduate Studies, Human Kinetics, and Law, the Odette School of Business, and the Leddy Library:
Graduate Studies
Human Kinetics
The staff of the Leddy Library encourages students who are finishing projects and studying for finals to come to them for help.
The Library Assistant Access Services offers students guidance with finding online journals, checking out books, writing formal papers, accessing course reserves, and general reference questions.
“We have several quiet areas and comfortable couches where students can sit back and read,” says library assistant Sue Eberlie. “We are always here to help.”
Your mother always taught you not to play with your food, but she never said anything about paying with it.
The Leddy Library’s Food for Fines program, now in its third year, allows students to pay their library fines for overdue materials with non-perishable, unexpired food items. Through December 9, students are able to receive a $2 credit towards their fines for each item brought in.
The event is run by the library’s access services staff, which has set a goal of collecting 900 food items.
The Leddy Library is a lead participant in a project to make a large Indonesian newspaper collection available online.
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of newspaper pages collected for the Violent Conflict in Indonesia Study is carried out at night using grid processing techniques and library workstations.
The study was conducted by the World Bank Conflict and Development team, and used local newspaper monitoring to track incidents of violence. More than 1,000,000 newspaper pages undergo OCR to make the text captured in the page images searchable and reusable.
