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Book Launch: Beaver Books for a Dime

Posted on Thursday, April 13th, 2023 at 10:14am by Jonny Wood
UNB Libraries and The Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature Collection invite you to celebrate the launch of the book Beaver Books for a Dime: A Bibliographic History of the Children’s Books of Brunswick Press, 1952-1984

UNB Libraries and The Eileen Wallace Children's Literature Collection invite you to celebrate the launch of the book

Beaver Books for a Dime: A Bibliographic History of the Children's Books of Brunswick Press, 1952-1984

by Susan R Fisher and Margot Stafford

New Brunswick Bibliography Series, Volume 3
published by Gaspereau Press, 2023

4pm, Thurs May 11th, 2023

Event Space, 3rd Floor, Harriet Irving Library, UNB Fredericton
RSVP Lisa Pollock: pollockl@unb.ca

This is the story of how an innovative postwar publishing venture started by Fredericton’s Brunswick Press pioneered Canada’s now vibrant tradition of children’s book publishing. Under the leadership of Michael Wardell, and with the backing of Lord Beaverbrook, Brunswick Press became an early adopter of process-colour offset printing, giving it the production capacity to launch Canada’s first modern children’s picture book series in 1952. The venture was aided by the wave of cultural nationalism that followed the release of the influential Massey Report in 1951, prompting a significant expansion in the cultural and educational infrastructure both in New Brunswick and in the rest of Canada and establishing a market for Canadian-published books.

In Beaver Books for a Dime, Susan R. Fisher and Margot Stafford offer a detailed history of the juvenile publishing program carried out by Brunswick Press between 1952 and 1984, compiling a comprehensive review of all the press’s children’s titles, including editions and variants. As well as highlighting this largely unexplored catalogue, this study challenges the established narrative about children’s publishing in Canada, broadening the conversation on the history and contribution of cultural production in New Brunswick

MEF Race Studies Collection on Kanopy Streaming

Posted on Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 at 4:44pm by Jonny Wood
Banner with the text "media education foundation. Race Studies Collection. The UNB Libraries logo sits bottom left, opposite the Kanopy logo and words "stream now on Kanopy", bottom right.

The 26 films in this Media Education Foundation (MEF) collection encourage critical thinking about the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media.

With a special focus on representations of gender and race, and the affect these representations have on identity and culture, MEF films are especially well-suited for use in Women's Studies, Sociology, Race Studies, Communication, Anthropology, Education, and Psychology courses.

Stream the collection now – available on Kanopy
Learn more about Kanopy Streaming at UNB and view currently licensed Kanopy video titles here

Systematic Review Essentials Workshop

Posted on Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 at 2:51pm by Jonny Wood
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UNB Libraries' Systematic Review Essentials Workshop

Instructors: Alex Goudreau, MLIS, and Richelle Witherspoon, MLIS.

Tue, May 9 – Thu, May 11, 2023
9:00am – 3:30pm

PUNB Libraries is offering a fast-paced free 3-day workshop will cover the essentials of conducting a high-quality, publishable systematic. This workshop will be hosted online using Teams.

Session topics will include:

  • Developing a protocol and search strategy
  • The importance of grey literature and how to find it
  • Critical appraisal tools and their application in SRs
  • And more!
For more information, or to register for SR Essentials, visit our Eventbrite page here
 

Report to Senates 2023, Towards Open.

Posted on Thursday, April 06th, 2023 at 2:41pm by Jonny Wood
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I am very pleased to present this year’s UNB Libraries Report to Senates.

We have titled this year’s Report Towards Open, with a specific focus on the evolving scholarly communications landscape. UNB faculty and student researchers experience a publishing landscape that is dramatically different from even a few years ago. Universities across the country, and indeed across the world, are working both collaboratively and within their institutions to develop strategic approaches to the “open science” landscape. Within UNB Libraries we share the goals of our Canadian Association of Research Libraries colleagues to foster timely, equitable, and enduring global access to, and dissemination of, knowledge. We are committed to strengthening UNB’s research contributions to the advancement of science, scholarship, and the betterment of society.

While significant developments are emerging across the world for stronger “open science” policies, and gains continue to be made to ensure that the results of publicly funded research are made openly available (when appropriate), investment in these initiatives is required. As our Report explains, UNB Libraries actively supports our researchers in meeting their own publishing objectives, and in meeting open access requirements. We contribute to the national commitment to sharing and preserving the outputs of Canadian research, and to containing the costs of subscribed access.

With our Report to Senates we are seeking a commitment from UNB at an institutional level for an Open Access Policy, aligned with the role that UNB Libraries plays in contributing our expertise, our services, and support locally for UNB researchers and the necessary regional, national, and international open infrastructures and services. I invite you to read our Report.

Read this year's report:

Report to Senates 2023, Towards Open.

You will find a draft version of a UNB Open Access Policy as Appendix A, for which your support is requested.

Smiling Lesley Balcom portrait photo

Lesely Balcom,
Dean of Libraries

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Images of Research and Models of Research Winners and Exhibits

Posted on Monday, April 03rd, 2023 at 2:03pm by Jonny Wood
Images of Research winners submissions

 

The School of Graduate Studies and UNB Libraries' Harriet Irving Library Research Commons announce the winners of this year's Images of Research and Models of Research Challenge.

The 2023 editions of the Images of Research and Models of Research challenges invited UNB graduate students to submit either an image or 3D model they believe encapsulates their research and to explain in 200 words or less its association to their research.  Each challenge was adjudicated by a separate cross-disciplinary panel of UNB faculty, and the winners were announced March 23rd, 2023 at the Graduate Student Research Conference, held in the Wu Centre on the UNB Fredericton Campus.

Winners for Images of Research 2023 are:

First Place:

To look upon a star by Tim Blackmore
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science

Second Place:

Glooscap by Percy Sacobie
Faculty of Education

Third Place:

Out of office! by Ella Middleton
Faculty of Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Applied Science and Engineering

Honourable Mentions:

The Mud of Vimy Ridge Archived Forever by Bradley Shoebottom
Department of History, Faculty of Arts

Duck's Eye View by Kiirsti Owen
Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management

Images of Research and Models of Research submissions will be exhibited in the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons Data Visualization Lab (Room 320D) noon until 1:30 weekdays from April 3rd until April 14th. 

There will also be a concurrent exhibit in the Hans W. Klohn Commons on the UNB Saint John campus.

Winners for Models of Research 2023 are:

First Place:

Development of sustainable low-carbon bionics-based lightweight panels by Elena Vladimirova
Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management

Second Place:

Wind Power by Muhammad Usman Ghani
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Third Place:

Local correlations in bio molecular systems by Mostafa Javaheri Moghadam
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Honourable Mention:

Rodeska Robotics by Dhruv Patel
J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Engineering

Models of Research submissions will be exhibited physically in the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons Exhibits cabinets in the central thoroughfare.  
For more information and to view challenge submissions and winners online, please visit: https://lib.unb.ca/researchcommons/ior

Anthroposcream: Fiction Writing in the Climate Crisis

Posted on Friday, March 24th, 2023 at 2:38pm by Jonny Wood
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Creative Writing Workshop with Mike Thorn

Wednesday, March 29, 3:00 pm
Innovation Hub, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library

This one-hour workshop will address the concept of the Anthropocene, and the fraught relationships between human and nonhuman animals therein. It will also explore the difficulties and possibilities of creative writing within the climate emergency, with some references to the genre-coded opportunities endemic to horror fiction.

Participants will be invited to "free-write" reflections on life within this contemporary, ecologically tenuous moment.

To register, please email erik.moore@unb.ca. Maximum of 20 seats available.
Please note: this event is in conjunction with the Teach-in on Climate Justice, but registration is separate given audience limits. You are welcome to attend other parts of the Teach-in.