Windsor Public Library
locations will be closed
on MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 to celebrate Victoria Day with Summer Hours beginning on TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013. Summer Hours come into effect on the third Monday in May. Additionally, Sunday hours at Central, Budimir and Riverside branches conclude Sunday, May 12, 2013. They resume on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2013. Customers should note that accounts will not be impacted by materials due back on these dates. Materials can be renewed at www.windsorpubliclibrary.com.

At 1:30 pm on Thursday,
March 21, the Cultural Engines website and eBook are launched, both exploring the rich history of the three largest and oldest cultural organizations in Windsor and area: the Windsor Public Library, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and the Art Gallery of Windsor.

Cultural Engines is a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers, and focuses on the history, growth, and achievements of these groups, showcasing community members’ contribution to cultural appreciation and achievement in Windsor.

WPL will offer free loan of
100 Sony eReaders to registered WPL cardholders. Beginning February 15, they will be available at all 10 branches, and customers will be able to place a hold on an e-reader. A library card will be required to borrow the e-reader and there will be a 3-week loan period.
Up to 10 e-books can be borrowed at one time.
Customers will have the opportunity to load the device with a selection of fiction and non-fiction titles. The purpose of these loans is to allow customers the opportunity to experience the eReaders and to learn more about the availability of digital content at WPL.

Windsor Public Library Summer Hours

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Windsor Public Library locations will be closed on MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 to celebrate Victoria Day with Summer Hours beginning on TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013. Summer Hours come into effect on the third Monday in May. Additionally, Sunday hours at Central, Budimir and Riverside branches conclude Sunday, May 12, 2013. They resume on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2013. Customers should note that accounts will not be impacted by materials due back on these dates. Materials can be renewed at www.windsorpubliclibrary.com....
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The Social Media World is A-Buzz with the Big Library Read

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The Four Corners of the Sky
Over the last week or so, millions of readers from around the globe have joined together to participate in the first ever Big Library Read.  This global book club is 100% online, making it absolutely perfect for those of us who love book talks, but can never seem to make it at “normal” times.  If you’re not already participating, it’s not too late to join.  Click here for more details. On Thursday, May 23rd, at 8 p.m, Sourcebooks and OverDrive will host a Facebook Chat with Continue Reading...
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Ancient Memory Secret

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Holmes and Watson ruminate over a case
In Sherlock, the latest British television incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s famous consulting detective, you might have heard Sherlock Holmes bark to a long-suffering Dr. Watson, “Get out, I need to go to my mind palace.” Other TV-watchers may also have been introduced to the idea of a “memory palace,” as described by a more recently-created fictional consulting detective, Patrick Jane, in The Mentalist: “You build a memory palace … It’s perfect for recalling a large body of information. All you need is a physical Continue Reading...
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If there’s anything better to do on a Friday, or any day for that matter, than read Kurt Vonnegut, I don’t know what it is.

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Words Upon a Friday
“Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.” ―Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage...
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Learn a New Language (or improve your English) with Mango

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Mango. Es un programa fantastico!  Summertime is almost here…do you have any big plans? Backpacking through Europe? Mountain climbing in Tanzania? Cruising the South Pacific?  Or, are you in my boat (or in this case lack thereof), and more likely to experience culture/nature on a bit more of local level – say, visiting Carousel of Nations and strolling the waterfront trails.  Regardless of where you’ll be and who you’ll see, you can’t really go wrong with honing your international conversational skills – you never know when Continue Reading...
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Queen’s Printer peeks (May 2013)

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Even with all the cutbacks occurring within the public service, there are still many useful research reports and general interest guides being written and published by the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario. Increasingly these are released only in electronic format. Those available to public can be read via the internet in .pdf format. From time to time, selected new government releases will be highlighted in this blog. Here are a few examples to start. China market profile. .URL: Electronic Publication for: China market profile. Continue Reading...
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