Category Archive for "Leisure & Sports"

World’s Largest Newsstand, Now Available!

Posted in: March 3, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

Customers of Windsor Public Library have now unlimited multi-user access to a selection of complete digital magazines, easily viewed on most internet-enabled devices, through Zinio for Libraries, the world’s largest newsstand! Zinio for Libraries enables you to: • enjoy complete digital editions of your favourite magazines – some of which are only available in this format; • download full-colour magazines with interactive elements such as audio and video; • find the stories...

Shirley Temple Black ~ 1928-2014

Posted in: February 11, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

Shirley Temple Black died Monday, February 10, at home in Woodside, California. She starred in 23 motion pictures beginning at age three and, from 1935 through 1939, was the most popular movie star in America. Shirley Temple retired from the screen at 22 but embarked on a second career, one in which her image as “friend to everyone” would stand her in good stead: that of diplomat. After marrying Charles...

Sochi Winter Olympics begin today

Posted in: February 7, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

The 2014 Winter Olympics are being held in Sochi, Russia, February 7 – 23, 2014. Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the north-east coast of the Black Sea near the Georgia/Abkhazia border and Russia. The Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games will be held March 7-16, 2014. (Pssst…don’t forget to check out Getting Ready for the Olympics with Feats of Endurance and From Russia With the Library.)...

50 Years Ago Today: Beatlemania USA

Posted in: February 7, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

On February 7, 1964, The Beatles arrived in the United States for the first time, at John F. Kennedy International Airport, giving rise to Beatlemania on this side of the Atlantic. The appearance by The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, watched by a TV audience of 73 million viewers, marked the beginning of the British Invasion in music. The set list for their February 9,...

Philip Seymour Hoffman ~ 1967-2014

Posted in: February 2, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

The world lost the distinctive voice of Philip Seymour Hoffman today, one of the screen’s finest actors, equally notable playing lead roles and supporting characters, in both film and on stage. Hoffman grew up in the village of Fairport, in upstate New York, and earned a BFA in Drama from The Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in 1989. His performance as Truman Capote in Capote (2005) is ranked...

Pete Seeger: 1919-2014

Posted in: January 28, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

“The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.” ~Pete Seeger, 1919-2014...

WPL Continues to Expand its Database Collection

Posted in: January 10, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

Windsor Public Library is pleased to announce it is now offering another online eResource to WPL customers: PressDisplay. WPL joins 13 other Ontario public libraries currently offering this service. PressDisplay is the online version of the resource that produces WPL’s printed NewspaperDirect Print-On-Demand newspapers, which are offered in-branch at Central Library (850 Ouellette Avenue). PressDisplay provides instant online access to today’s newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format....

Learn Languages Online with Mango

Posted in: November 6, 2013 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

Mango is an online language-learning system available free to WPL customers with library cards in good standing. Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you’ll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you’ll know how they’re used in practical situations and conversations. You’ll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation, you’ll...

windsormusictangle.com Launches September 14 in Coordination with Phog Phest 5

Posted in: September 9, 2013 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

Windsor Public Library is pleased to announce the launch on September 14 of a new online archival resource visualizing the connections between Windsor bands and musicians throughout the years: windsormusictangle.com. The project is a spinoff of the Windsor Rock Wall at Phog Lounge begun by Tom Lucier in 2011. The web site will provide users with an opportunity to reminisce about bands they enjoyed seeing live, bands they played with,...