At the foot of the Ambassador Bridge to Detroit, the modernist Leddy Library marks the University of Windsor's shift from its roots as a Jesuit college to a public university.
Built on a field and filled with rare books bought by the truckload, the quick rise of the Scott library is emblematic of the 1960-70s higher education boom.
Browse for books and fresh vegetables at the Hamilton Central Library, where a recent renovation reconnected the library with the farmers market that occupies the same building.