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Testing Centre on Campus

The University's Testing Centre is at the registrar's office in Chrysler Hall North.

The centre operates seven days a week and charges enough to cover the costs of its services. Contact Marie Walker at (519) 253-3000, ext. 3324.

The Centre offers the following tests:

• Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) testing program, which measures English language competency
• TOEFL / TSE for Educational Testing Services
• the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT)
• the Miller Analogies Test (MAT)
• the Ontario College Pharmacy Test (OCP)
• the Pharmacy College Admissions Test (PCAT)
• the University of Toronto Pharmacy Admission Test (UTPAT)
• Graduate Record Examinations (GRE)
• Applied Measurement Professionals (AMP)
• Schroeder Measurement Technologies (SMT)
• University of British Columbia Real Estate (UBCRE)
• Canadian Diabetes Educator Certification Board (CDECB)
• National Dental Assisting Examining Board (NDAEB)
• Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB)
• University of Ottawa JD Law Examinations

'A UWin Account is required of everyone associated with the University of Windsor who plans on using on-line administrative programs and computing services.' Students can activate their own accounts by typing uwindsor.ca/userid in their browser window

http://uwindsor.ca/userid

and following the instructions there. Of course the IT staff can help too.

BOMB
'BOMB is a cultural quarterly with an active editorial board of 70 professionals in the performing and creative arts. For 24 years BOMB Magazine has been facilitating conversations between artists of all stripes: painters, actors, poets, directors, musicians, novelists, sculptors....'
Many resources are available through their website (interviews, original works); 'Columbia University Libraries has acquired the editorial archives of BOMB magazine'; full-text articles can be found through our subscription in WilsonWeb; anonymous sources say the University Bookstore will be stocking BOMB beginning next issue.
And The Paris Review's DNA of Literature continues to freely offer their huge archive of interviews with writers from the past fifty years. Recent issues available in our LION database.

CUFTS: Open Source Serials Management

'As a knowledgebase of over 300 fulltext resources, CUFTS provides Electronic Resource Management services, an integrated serials database, link resolving, and MARC records for your library.'
The neatest part is the Resource Comparison that compares database content. (Thanks to Mita)