The Leddy Library loaned out more than 27,000 physical books through the first 11 months of the year, easily dwarfed by the number of times electronic materials were accessed: 1,283,517.

The most downloaded book was by a UWindsor professor: classics scholar Max Nelson’s monograph The Barbarian’s Beverage: A History of Beer in Ancient Europe. It was downloaded 2,547 times in 2024, contributing to a total of 39,624 since it was posted in April 2015.

Political conflict seems to be of interest this year — the most loaned non-textbooks were:

• Chinua Achebe’s 1966 satirical novel A Man of the People;
• Selected Works by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels;
• William Trevor’s 1983 novel of the legacy of Irish decolonization, Fools of Fortune.

A total of 5,487 separate individuals booked study rooms up to the end of November — more than 42,000 bookings for almost 115,000 hours!