News @ UNB Libraries

All faculty are invited to attend a special RefWorks session from 9:30 to 11:00 am on Tuesday, August 26 in the Harriet Irving Library’s Learning Lab, Room 112.

The special 90 minute session for faculty will cover:

• importing citations from research databases and library catalogues,

• using Write-N-Cite to add references to your papers and format them in the citation style of your choice,

• using RefShare to create class reading lists that you can post in your Blackboard course or to a website.

This session is free but registration is required. Please visit //training.unb.ca to register.

Come along and catch up on the latest from RefWorks.

Library Blackboard is a plug-in to Blackboard that enables instructors to add course-specific library e-resources and e-services to their Blackboard course sites.

Instructors who add the Library Blackboard module to their courses provide students with a convenient and focused gateway to online indexes and journal collections, as well as access to the library public catalogue and any course reserves.

Come learn how to leverage library resources within your courses in this fun and energizing session on either Sept. 2 or 3. Please visit www.unb.ca/ctd to register.

Date: Thursday, August 21 – 9:00am – 1:30pm
Location: HIL – Milham Room

Faculty are invited to attend UNB Libraries’ 8th annual half-day Faculty Institute.

Come along and get an overview of new library resources available for teaching and research in the air-conditioned comfort of the Harriet Irving Library’s Milham Room. Then, tour the Learning Commons and catch up with faculty and library colleagues over lunch – we’re buying!

Among our featured resources this year will be the rapidly growing film collection, new online Reference sources, new article databases/e-Resources, and some great new RefWorks features. You’ll also have an opportunity to meet the new UNB Libraries Copyright Officer, who will explain how faculty and our libraries could be affected by the government’s proposed copyright legislation.

To register for this free event, please visit //training.unb.ca.

All faculty are invited to attend a special RefWorks session from 9:30 to 11:00 am on Friday, August 22 in the Harriet Irving Library’s Learning Lab.

The special 90 minute session for faculty will cover:

• importing citations from research databases and library catalogues,

• using Write-N-Cite to add references to your papers and format them in the citation style of your choice,

• using RefShare to create class reading lists that you can post in your Blackboard course or to a website.

This session is free but registration is required. Please visit //training.unb.ca to register.

Come along and catch up on the latest from RefWorks.

Drop by Harriet Irving Library and take in a wonderful display of Canadian award-winning books from the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design.

The exhibition is located in the H.R. Stewart Exhibition Room, 5th floor, Harriet Irving Library and can be viewed from Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m until August 15, 2008.

The thirty-five winning titles will be exhibited internationally at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, and in Germany at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs. Nationally the books will travel from coast-to-coast over the next six months. Fredericton’s Harriet Irving Library will be the only stop in New Brunswick.

The Alcuin Society is a Vancouver based non-profit society for the support and appreciation of fine books.

For more information, please feel free to contact Archives & Special Collections at archives@unb.ca or 453-4748.

The air-conditioned group study rooms in HIL’s Learning Commons are a big success with UNB and STU students.

There are four study rooms on the newly air-conditioned first floor of HIL. Most rooms offer SMART Board™ capability.

UNB/STU student study groups are welcome to make bookings for two hour periods. Please contact HIL’s Commons Service Desk at 453-4756.