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NB Black Hitory Society Time Walk Exhibit

NB Black History Sociey Time Walk Exhibit

History comes to life as the New Brunswick Black History Society unveils its Time-Walk Exhibit on the University of New Brunswick's Fredericton campus. Previously showcased in Saint John, this extensive interactive exhibit is now available throughout September at the Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton.

NB Black History Sociey Time Walk Exhibit
NB Black History Sociey Time Walk Exhibit

 

The exhibit is designed as an interactive time-walk experience with a series of upright banners and a computer touchscreen, allowing visitors to step back in time and gain a deeper understanding of hundreds of years of Black history in the province. 

Key Highlights of the Time-Walk Exhibit:

  • Pioneering figures: The exhibit delves into the lives and legacies of trailblazing Black New Brunswickers who have left their mark in various fields, including education, civil rights, the arts and sports.
     
  • Interactive display: The Time-Walk Exhibit incorporates an interactive touchscreen display with audiovisual presentations and multimedia. Visitors can engage with historical documents, photographs and immersive experiences that bring the past to life.
     
  • Education and awareness: The exhibit serves as an educational tool, offering valuable insights into the challenges faced and triumphs achieved by Black communities in New Brunswick over the years. It also emphasizes the importance of diversity and inclusion in contemporary society.
     
  • Community involvement: The NBBHS worked closely with the community to gather stories, artifacts and personal accounts that enriched the exhibit's content. This collaborative effort makes the exhibit a true reflection of New Brunswick's diverse cultural heritage.
     
  • Recognition of contributions: The Interactive Time-Walk Exhibit honours the numerous individuals who have significantly contributed to New Brunswick's cultural, social and economic development.

Available until September 29th 2024

Lobby, Harriet Irving Library 


The New Brunswick Black History Society

The New Brunswick Black History Society (NBBHS) was founded in June of 2010. According to their website, their mission is “dedicated to the research, analysis, documentation, and preservation of New Brunswick’s Black History.” Their objectives are as follows:

  • To gather information concerning New Brunswick’s Black residents, past & present.
  • To promote awareness of New Brunswick’s Black history.
  • To encourage the Black community and the general public to work together.
  • To work towards increasing the presence of Black History in New Brunswick’s educational system

To learn more about the NBBHS, visit their website here. 


 

Images of Research 2024 Challenge Winners Announced

Images of Research 2024

Images of Research challenges graduate students to produce a 2D image that best represents their research, accompanied by a brief explanatory text.
The Harriet Irving Library Research Commons and the School of Graduate Studies announce the winners of this year's Challenge.

Winners for Images of Research 2024 are:

First Place:

Your Footstep: The Key to Digital Identity by Ala Salehi

Your Footstep: The Key to Digital Identity

 

Second Place:

The Precious Rings of Life by Keelie Taylor

The Precious Rings of Life

 

Third Place:

Promiscuity and the East German Stasi by Jordyn Bailey

Promiscuity and the East German Stasi

 

Runners up:

The Emerging Life by Isabela Freire

The Emerging Life

 

Searching for a needle in a haystack? by Kiirsti Owen

Searching for a needle in a haystack?

 

Eco-Emotions of Precarious Entanglements by Christine Jean

Eco-Emotions of Precarious Entanglements

View all submissions:: https://lib.unb.ca/researchcommons/ior/contests/images-research-2024/submissions

Drop by the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons or the Hans W Klohn Commons between April 8 and 19 to view digital exhibits of the Images of Research Challenge

Love Data Week Feb 12–16 2024

Love Data Week 2024

Love Data Week Feb 12-16, 2024

HIL 316 - Innovation Hub 

UNB Libraries is excited to celebrate International Love Data Week 2024 (February 12–16, 2024) with a series of workshops and lectures. Love Data Week is an international initiative that aims to educate researchers about data, research data management best practices, and promote a more inclusive and equitable society.

All workshops and lectures will be held in Harriet Irving Library Research Commons and are open to everyone.

Please join us in celebrating Love Data Week 2024!

Register here

Coffee will be provided!

Our events

Sharing Research Data Using UNB’s Dataverse Repository

Monday Feb 12, 2024. 11:00am – 12:30pm

The session will begin with a brief introduction to Dataverse repositories in general and the UNB Libraries Dataverse repository in particular. 

Participants who bring their laptops will then use a Dataverse repository sandbox to create a dataset for their data, documentation, and code, use metadata to help make their data more discoverable, review and set conditions of use, and publish their dataset or create a private URL for reviewing an unpublished dataset.

Participants may use their own data or data that will be provided.

The Power of Linked Data 

Tuesday Feb 13, 2024. 11:00am – 1:00pm

Join Dr. Sandra Magalhaes as she showcases the potential of provincial administrative data for research purposes. With examples from her own work, Dr. Magalhaes will highlight the benefits of utilizing data from the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data, and Training (NB-IRDT).
 
Providing a general overview of accessing and using data from Statistics Canada, Dr. Chang Z. Lin will present insights on doing research in the New Brunswick Research Data Centre (NB-RDC), focusing on utilizing federal administrative data for research purposes

RDM and Academic Scholarship. Writing a Data Management Plan (DMP) for Grant Applications 

Wednesday Feb 14, 2024. 11:00am – 1:00pm

A recent Tri-Agency RDM Policy makes learning good research data management practices a necessity, rather than a choice. We will consider the technical, legal, and ethical aspects of research data, secure storage of digital materials, documentation and metadata writing, research data sharing and reuse. These RDM fundamentals will help you to make informed decisions on how to handle your research data during and after the research project. 

Tri-Agency has been implementing data management plans for grant submissions since 2021; slowly but surely, DMPs are becoming a requirement when applying for funding. During a hands-on session, participants will create an account in the DMP Assistant online tool and write a DMP following the Tri-Agency's guidelines and disciplinary norms. This plan can be later accessed, modified, and shared with other researchers.  

Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops. 

Fall in love with Excel: Learning Excel for the first time.

Thursday Feb 15, 2024. 11:00am – 11:30am

In this short, live-demo session, we’ll cover the basic components of Excel, including some formatting essentials, calculation concepts, basic formulas as well as how to create basic visualizations. This session is geared for those who have little to no experience with Excel but would like to learn what it’s all about and some of the basic (but still powerful) features spreadsheets can perform. (roughly 30-45 minutes but happy to take more time for questions)

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and Open Scholarly Infrastructure 

Friday Feb 16, 2024. 11:00am – 1:00pm

When your work is published or shared in a repository, a Rube Goldberg machine of publishing infrastructure is pushed into motion. In this session, participants will learn about the interconnections between a variety of scholarly communications systems and how data and metadata flow, openly, between so many platforms. We’ll cover DOIs, ORCiD, the differences between different registration agencies, and how APIs connect these systems to one another for the free flow of publicly available metadata. (60 mins)

ORCiD and Your Publication Record

In this shorter, live-demo session, we’ll cover creating an ORCiD account, how ORCiD profiles work and how to modify them, and how to configure ORCiD to automatically track your publication records so you don’t need to. (30 mins)

Winter 2024 Graduate Booster I: Scholarly Profiles | Geographic Information Systems

Winter 2024 Graduate Booster - Recording Live
UNB LIBRARIES PRESENTS

Winter 2024 Graduate Booster I: Scholarly Profiles | Geographic Information Systems

Put your research on proper footing with these helpful introductory research sessions about the expertise, resources, services, and lovely people from UNB Libraries

Lie recording now available below!

 

Find out more about:


Scholarly Profiles and ORCID

with Mike Nason (mnason@unb.ca)


Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

with Jingjing Li (jingjing.li@unb.ca)


This session was recorded live in the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons Innovation Hub (Room 316), 10:00 to 11:00 am on Friday, February 2nd, 2024.

Any Questions?

Email Marc Bragdon (mbragdon@unb.ca)
Head, Harriet Irving Library Research Commons
UNB Libraries

Graduate Booster 2

Grad Booster 2 - Recording
UNB LIBRARIES PRESENTS

Graduate Booster 2: Scopus Research Profiles and Connected Papers | Text and Data Mining | 3D Imaging and Research Data Needs in Field Schools

3 x 15 minutes presentations with Q&A on people, practices, products that can facilitate your research in new and unexpected ways. 

Watch the live recording below.

 

Find out more about:


Scopus Research Profiles and Connected Papers

with Alex Goudreau (Alex.Goudreau@unb.ca)


Text and Data Mining

with Julie Morris (julie.morris@unb.ca)


3D Imaging and Research Data Needs in Field Schools

with Erik Moore (ecmoore@unb.ca) and Mike Meade (mmeade@unb.ca)


This session was held both online and in person in the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons Innovation Hub (Room 316), 10:030 to 11:00 am on Friday, November 17, 2023.

Any Questions

Email Marc Bragdon (mbragdon@unb.ca)
Head, Harriet Irving Library Research Commons
UNB Libraries

Free Peruvian Film Series

Free Peruvian film series

Free Peruvian Film Series
Serie de Películas Peruanas Gratis

Hosted by Dr. Sophie Lavoie, Culture & Media Studies

4 films across 4 days


The Best Families
Las mejores familias (2020)

Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Genre: Drama / comedy

Two sisters come from a modest environment and work as housemaids for women of Peru’s upper class. They are almost considered a part of the families or so it seems… One day, a celebration gathers the families and a long-held secret involving both households is exposed, blowing up their perfect aristocratic world forever.

Thursday November 16 at 7pm
Milham Room, Harriet Irving Library


The Healing Land
Hatun Phaqcha (2021)

Director: Delia Ackerman
Genre: Documentary

The film showcases the cultivation and uses of various traditional crops domesticated in pre-Columbian Perú. Taking us through the culturally and biologically diverse regions of this country, the film highlights the remarkable health benefits and nutritional value of products that are often unknown or overlooked. Why is it so important to preserve these crops and increase uses in the diets of people across the world?

Thursday November 23 at 7pm
Milham Room, Harriet Irving Library


Silent Trilogy
Trilogia Muda (2022)

Director: Daniel Rodríguez Risco
Genre: Silent Film
English Subtitles

A current of thought unites the three episodes in a coherent way, embodied with few elements, and that makes of space, time, and movement, purely cinematographic modes of expression. Voice is not needed. Yes there are sounds, music, but not human voices, as in primitive cinema. There are faces, slow or fast movements, despair, fatality, a barely glimpsed horror, desire and fear of freedom. There is also love, perhaps as an illusion, rather than as a reality.

Thursday November 30 at 7pm
Milham Room, Harriet Irving Library


Ainbo: The Spirit of the Amazon

Directors: Jose Zelada and Richard Claus
Genre: Children’s film

In the spirit of Moana and Frozen, this film is the epic journey of a young hero and her Spirit Guides, “Dillo,” a cute and humorous armadillo and “Vaca,” a goofy oversized tapir, who embark on a quest to save their home in the spectacular Amazon Rainforest.

December 2 at 11am
Chickadee Room, Fredericton Public Library


All are welcome!
Free parking on UNB Campus in the evening.

UNB Libraries Logo along with all sponsors for the film series