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The REDress Project is a work by artist Jaime Black which focuses on the issue of missing or murdered Aboriginal women across Canada. The art installation project is an aesthetic response to this critical national issue, through which the artist hopes to “draw attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence” (excerpt from The REDress Project).

The artist Jaime Black will be giving a public talk on Monday, October 26, at the Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre in Marshall d’Avery Hall, room 356, at 12 pm.

The dresses will be on display in the Harriet Irving Library Commons Cafe from Tuesday, October 27th until Friday, November 6th.

For more information about The REDress Project, please see the following links:

The REDress Project

STU Campus Events: The REDress Project – Public Artist Talk With Jaime Black and Art Installation

University of New Brunswick: Honouring Our Sisters

UNB Libraries would like to remind students, faculty, and staff that ITS has scheduled a significant IT service interruption on Saturday night, Oct. 24, for a 6-hour period (9:00 PM Saturday – 3:00 AM Sunday).

The outage will affect a wide range of services for F & SJ on-campus users, including network traffic to and from off-campus. For library patrons, this will mean an interruption in access to all library websites and services (including the proxy server, and any of our licensed eResources) for the duration of the outage.

Full details can be found in the notice, here:

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We apologize for any inconvenience during the outage, and thank you for your patience.

UNB Libraries are happy to celebrate Open Access Week!

Open Access Week is an annual, global event celebrating and promoting open access initiatives throughout the academic and research community. During the week, groups ranging from librarians to researchers, students, communities of practice, and professional organizations use the opportunity to spread the word about how open access not only has the potential to benefit researchers, but change the way we disseminate knowledge.

This year, we’ve decided to use the occasion to announce upcoming Open Access Town Hall events. By the end of November, we hope to host two events hosted by our Scholarly Communications Librarian, Mike Nason, where he will speak about the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications, developments with the UNB Scholar Research Repository, and then open the floor up for a general discussion on Open Access issues such as Author’s Rights, mandates, where to find journal/publisher policies, predatory publishers, and many more subjects.

In the spirit of OA week, here are some excellent resources promoting open access literacy, and some tools for faculty/staff/students.

– Open Access @ UNB

Open Access Literacy

– Peter Suber’s Overview of Open Access // Peter Suber is one of the most respected figures in OA. This overview serves as an excellent starting point for OA literacy.
– Open Access Explained – Piled Higher and Deeper // A tremendously relevant and accessible video about OA by the creators of PhD Comics.

Publishing Tools and Resources

– SHERPA/RoMEO // A database of journal OA policies to help determine the rights of authors to directly share or otherwise make their work available outside of the publication.
– Think Check Submit // A resource for authors to help researchers identify trusted journals for their publications.
– The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition (SPARC) // A respected resource for protecting both author’s rights and copyright.

The pizza is free and the workshop just might prove invaluable!

Why do we cite? What does citation have to do with plagiarism? This FREE workshop will help you to understand the importance of citations in your academic writing and will teach you how to use them properly.  You’ll get some practice identifying plagiarism, some tips to keep your work clean, and a couple of FREE SLICES OF PIZZA to top it off!

Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
11:30am-1:00pm
Milham Room (100)
Harriet Irving Library
UNB Fredericton Campus

Pizza and Plagiarism is a joint initiative offered by UNB Libraries and the UNBF Student Union.

No pre-registration required.  Just show up, learn, and eat!

Due to the rainstorm today, Wednesday September 30th, we are postponing the Common Read Trivia Night.

The new date of the event is Thursday, October 8th, from 7:30pm-9:30pm in the Milham Room at the Harriet Irving Library.

Be sure to stop by for trivia, snacks, prizes, and lots of fun!

Please join us for the launch of the first three books from the George Frederick Clarke Project on Friday 18,  September at 4:00 p.m. in the Milham Room, Room #100, Harriet Irving Library.

Mary Bernard, George Frederick Clarke’s granddaughter, and other family members will be speaking and reading from the books. Reception to follow. Copies of the three books will be available for purchase and signing.

The three books are: The Last Romantic. The life of George Frederick Clarke, master storyteller of New Brunswick by Mary Bernard; The Ghost of Nackawick Portage. The collected short stories of George Frederick Clarke edited by Mary Bernard and Six Salmon Rivers and another, 4th edition, by George Frederick Clarke, edited by Mary Bernard.

George Frederick Clarke (1883-1974), prominent Woodstock citizen, dentist, noted author, historian, archaeologist, sport fisherman, and conservationist. Awarded an honorary degree from UNB in 1969 recognizing him as “a distinguished resident of his native Province.”

Further information can found at:

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