Pre-July 2008

Geography Awareness Week was established by the National Geographic Association and other members of the geographic community in 1987 to celebrate the importance of geography in schools and universities. As part of the week-long celebrations, November 19 is designated as “GIS Day”, to highlight the role of geomatics in understanding our environment.

UNB Libraries have recently acquired a collection of fifteen criminology e- Journals published by SAGE and affiliated societies. The collection is titled “Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection” and has been added to the UNB Libraries e-Journals directory.

New versions of the Maliseet Dictionary and the Loyalist Collection databases have been developed and are now online. They can be found at:

UNB Libraries have recently licensed Forestscience.info, a web-based product that combines access to Forestry Abstracts, Forest Products Abstracts and AgroForestry Abstracts. These products were already individually available online from the UNB Libraries’ web site, so what’s new?

E-info Lab No.6 on databases for the arts and social sciences will be offered Oct. 23 in the Harriet Irving Library, Room 112. A lab on databases for science and technology will be held in Head Hall, Room B17, also on Oct. 23.

UNB Fredericton ranked 10th for Library Services and 9th in Online Resources out of 38 Canadian Universities in the current Globe and Mail University Report Card. The University also ranked high in the areas of technology and access to computer, based on comments like “great online library resources.” These were the top 4 ranked areas at UNBF.

Due to hardware failure in one of our servers, searching within a variety of library projects and websites in temporarily available. We have acquired replacement hardware and are working to retore the service.

What is broken?

Searching within some or all of the following websites is not functional:

UNB Libraries will be hosting a series of free, hands-on library information sessions. Topics will include library databases, e-journals and Quest, as well as other research tools. To register or find out more information, visit www.unb.ca/ctd or e-mail Rebecca Cornell.

UNB Libraries is pleased announce the addition of IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) to our electronic resources.

IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) provides current electrical and computer science literature, which includes:

The latest display in the lobby of the Harriet Irving Library features a range of books from the Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature collection.