Leddy Library

The staff of the Leddy Library understands it is better to give than to receive. So the library has announced that it is accepting donations to the University of Windsor Student Food Bank as payment for library fines.

Under the Food for Fines program, each non-perishable, non-expired food item donated at the Leddy’s circulation desk will be credited at a rate of $2 off outstanding fines, to a maximum of $50 per person. The program runs from November 26 through December 9.

It is truly better to give food than to receive a fine for overdue materials!

Student input helped to inform the strategic direction of the Leddy Library, says its dean Gwen Ebbett, and its focus on five key points.

The library recently unveiled its plan, which dovetails with the objectives of the University’s plan, Thinking Forward … Taking Action.

“In truth, it was not that difficult for us to come up with our goals,” Ebbett says. “We are already making movement on a number of these items.”

The plan lays out a course of action to:

A group from the Leddy Library is hoping to change the face of men’s health, and its members are putting their faces on the line.

Franco Magliaro, John Minos, Brian Owens, Joe Silvestri and Dino Spagnuolo have joined the Movember movement, growing moustaches through the month of November in an effort to raise awareness and funds in support of men’s health issues, especially prostate cancer.

“We were just talking one day and decided to combine our efforts as a team,” says Magliaro, captain of Mo Leddy. “We hope our colleagues will pitch in and make a donation.”

Scholarly communication and academic publishing are quickly evolving and these developments are transforming the sharing of research and scholarship.

In observance of Open Access Week 2012, the Leddy Library will host Shana Kimball, head of publishing services at the University of Michigan’s MPublishing, for a free public lecture Tuesday on academic publishing, open access and the development and impact of MPublishing at the University of Michigan.