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Celebrate Aboriginal Awareness Week With WPL

Posted in: May 5, 2014 by Adam | Comments are closed

This May, the Windsor Public Library will be celebrating Aboriginal Awareness Week (AAW). This event takes place the four days following Victoria Day (May 20-23). AAW was created to honour the Aboriginal people and cultures of Canada and is a great opportunity to learn more about the Métis, Inuit and First Nations members of our community. Help WPL celebrate this week by learning more about Aboriginal culture and the issues affecting Aboriginal members of our Canadian mosaic. A number of organizations within the Windsor and Essex-County area are great resources Continue Reading...

Music Free & Legal: Freegal

Posted in: April 10, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | Comments are closed

Illegally downloading music is never a good idea. In addition to being against the law, it’s unfair to the artists, producers, record labels, and music industry affiliates. On top of all this, it can really harm your computer. Try to imagine using BitTorrent, P2P, and other file sharing networks as taking candy from a stranger. You might be fine, but, there’s always that chance that the candy is tainted and will make you sick. You might download 100 songs without a problem, but all it takes is one Continue Reading...

eMagazines @ WPL: Borrow them Anytime, Anywhere…

Posted in: March 3, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | Comments are closed

Great news! We’ve added Zinio Digital Magazines to our suite of eResources. You can now access e-copies of popular magazines through the Windsor Public Library. Some examples of titles in this collection include: Food Network Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, House Beautiful, Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, National Geographic, Macworld, PC Magazine, Popular Science, and OK! These are just a few examples of the 40 titles available covering topics in Business, Men’s & Women’s Health, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, and more. What you get through Zinio is the full Continue Reading...

World’s Largest Newsstand, Now Available!

Posted in: March 3, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | Comments are closed

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 you want to read quickly and easily with an intuitive navigation and all-inclusive keyword search; • Continue Reading...

Shirley Temple Black ~ 1928-2014

Posted in: February 11, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | Comments are closed

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 Alden Black in 1950, Shirley Temple Black became a fundraiser for the Republican party, was appointed Continue Reading...

Windsor Music Tangle Micro Doc

Posted in: February 10, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | Comments are closed

The Windsor Music Tangle is an interactive web site that documents Windsor’s live music scene and its connections. Have you tried it out? It’s awesome! After launching in September 2013 at Phog Phest, the site continues to grow with every new submission. We’d like to extend a huge THANK-YOU to those of you have have contacted us to add Bands and Musicians. We’re still accepting new entries, so if you can’t find yourself or your band we’d love to hear from you. Details on how to submit information Continue Reading...

Sochi Winter Olympics begin today

Posted in: February 7, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | Comments are closed

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.) This is the 22nd observance of the Winter Olympiad. The first Winter Olympics were held in Continue Reading...

50 Years Ago Today: Beatlemania USA

Posted in: February 7, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | Comments are closed

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, 1964, appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was: All My Loving; Till There Was You; She Continue Reading...

Philip Seymour Hoffman ~ 1967-2014

Posted in: February 2, 2014 by Windsor Public Library Library | Comments are closed

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 35th on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006), a performance for which he Continue Reading...