Psychology major Sara Estoesta drew more than one benefit from a tour of the Leddy Library in September—she won a $50 gift card to the University Bookstore.
The prize draw helped to promote the tours, which attracted almost 150 student participants from September 18 to 20. Each 20-minute tour featured service points in the Leddy Main and West buildings, as well as explanations of the library’s borrowing policies, collections and help services.
The 20-minute tours are free and there’s no need to register in advance—just show up!
Guides will lead the tour through both the main and west buildings, stopping at points along the way to explain borrowing policies, collections and help services. The tours leave from the library’s lobby:
A display in the Leddy Library this month will help alert students to the benefits of the myUWindsor app, available for download to iPhone, Blackberry or Android smart devices.
The app puts course information, exam schedules, directed messaging and more right in the palms of users’ hands, says John Powell, director of web communications.
“It’s accessible at any time, wherever you are,” he says.
Information Technology Services developed the app and launched it in May. So far, more than 7,200 users have downloaded it.
The Leddy Library will commence the following hours of operation on Tuesday, September 4.
The library will close Monday, October 8, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Leddy Library invites colleagues and friends of Johanna Foster to celebrate her retirement after 42 years at the University of Windsor, with a party Friday, August 24.
The event will run 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the library’s fourth floor staff lounge, room 4107.
Everyone is welcome; attendees should RSVP to Yvonne Arnowitz at arnowitz@uwindsor.ca by Friday, August 17.
A ground-breaking etextbook licensing partnership, the first of its kind in Canada, will provide University of Windsor students with lower costs and greater access to high quality course materials in a wide range of digital formats.
Gwendolyn Ebbett, dean of the library, spearheaded the university-wide agreement with Flat World Knowledge, the largest publisher of openly-licensed college textbooks.
The following positions are available through Human Resources.
The following Non Union Administration position is available to all applicants through Human Resources.
#2012-NU-12 Director of Centre for Career Education (temporary position for approximately 1 year)
The following posting closes Friday, July 6, at 4 p.m.
Thursday’s reception in recognition of campus donors to the Annual Giving Program was the biggest yet, according to development officer Mona Dosen.
“We had a record number of people in attendance,” she said. “I think a lot of people wanted to see the new garden.”
As the culmination of this year’s fundraising campaign on the theme “Plant a seed,” Facility Services revamped a garden outside the Leddy Library, including one bed planted with a Lancer shield.
“They did a wonderful job,” Dosen said. “It is breathtaking.”
Helping a history professor examine U.S. public opinion in the 1930s and ’40s using old surveys required him to turn archaeologist, says Dan Edelstein, an academic data specialist in the Leddy Library.
He will discuss the experience in a free public lecture, “The Data Consultant as Archaeologist: Digging for meaning in World War II era U.S. public opinion surveys,” Friday, May 18, at 11 a.m. in room 302, West Leddy Library.
Information literacy librarian Tamsin Bolton and drama professor Tina Pugliese will discuss their research into the impact of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Mentor Program in a free public presentation Friday in the Leddy Library.
“We have surveyed first-year students, mentors, and instructors who have had mentors in their classrooms to get a full sense of what has been happening,” Bolton says. “We are currently in the process of going through the data.”
