Pre-July 2008

Whether analyzing the types of fonts used in fifteenth century literature, saving patents of mechanical engineering inventions from 1990 to a disk, or printing an image of a bicycle manufacturer advertisement from the 1920’s, the digital microform scanner is a valuable tool for researchers of all levels.

UNB Libraries have expanded access to Kluwer journals, from under fifty print subscriptions to over 750 titles in electronic full-text. Kluwer is a major academic publisher in the areas of life sciences, humanities & social sciences, environmental & plant sciences, physical sciences, biomedicine, behavioral sciences, engineering and international law.

Freedom to Read Week, February 24 – March 2, encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

An online form is now available to expedite the search request process. Use this form if you have found an item in Quest but are unable to locate it on our shelves, OR if you wish to have the materials retrieved from a Storage location, OR if you wish to request a book that is on order but is marked as “received” in Quest.

WILU 2002 – the 31st Annual Workshop on Instruction in Library Use – will be held May 13-15, 2002 at the Wu Conference Centre at the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus.

The Merriest Knight, a collection of Arthurian tales by Theodore Goodridge Roberts, has just been published by Green Knight Publishing of Oakland, California. These wry tales concern the adventures of Sir Dinadan, “perhaps the most practical of the Knights of the Round Table.” Two of these collected stories and an introduction by Roberts have never been published before.

The UNB Libraries offers access for students, researchers and Staff to the largest North American data archive, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Over the fall, thanks to a cooperative endeavour between the Law Library and Harriet Irving Library, several legal electronic resources have been added to the e-Resources section of the UNB Libraries web site. These are products for which the Law Library has purchased site licenses for UNB and STU.

During 2000/01, UNB Libraries undertook an undergraduate user survey. The following is intended as a brief overview of findings. For more information, we invite you to visit our Library Survey website and read the report entitled Undergraduate User Survey

As of Monday January 14, 2002 UNB’s Science & Forestry Library joins the world of wireless computing.