News @ UNB Libraries

Want to know more about the Fredericton Morgentaler Clinic and the abortion debate in Canada?

UNB Libraries can help you, with print and online access to many books, articles, reports and other documents. Here are just a few:

1. Follow this link to journal articles from peer-reviewed publications.
2. Richer, Karine. (2008). Abortion in Canada: Twenty Years After R. v. Morgentaler.
   Parliament of Canada: Law and Government Division.
3. E-books:
   • Feldberg, Georgina. (2003). Women, health and nation: Canada and the United States since 1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
   • MacGuigan, Mark. (1994). Abortion, conscience & democracy. Toronto: Hounslow Press.
   • McBride, Dorothy. (2001). Abortion politics, women’s movements, and the democratic state: a comparative study of state feminism. Oxford: OUP.
   • Brown, Lori. (2012). Contested spaces: abortion clinics, women’s shelters and hospitals: politicizing the female body. Burlington: Ashgate.
   • Collier, Carol, et al. (2011). Bioethics in Canada: a philosophical introduction. Toronto: CSPI.
   • Shaw, Jessica. (2006). Reality check: a close look at accessing abortion services in Canadian hospitals.
     Ottawa: Canadians for Choice.
   • Chapman, Roger. (2010). Culture wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
4. Read some recent newspaper stories from NB Newspapers.

UPDATE from Physical Plant: “Please be advised that with unforeseen circumstances we are rescheduling the HIL power outage to a future date.”

A planned power outage at the Harriet Irving Library will occur this coming Sunday, July 13, from 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Please be aware that the outage will make unavailable the library website, electronic resources, reserves, and any services requiring authentication (eg. the library’s proxy server). The library catalogue, UNB WorldCat (visit //unb.worldcat.org/), will remain available but electronic books or journals requiring login will remain inaccessible for the duration of the outage.

Power is expected to resume at 3:00 PM.

June 30th marks the end of an era as John Teskey steps down as Director of Libraries (UNBF) after 23 years at the helm. John has led the system through major change, taking advantage at every opportunity of technological advances that have transformed both library collections and library services.

Evidence of John’s impact on UNB Libraries can be seen all around. From digital collections to online reference services, food in the library (the opening of the HIL coffee shop in the late 1990s caused quite a stir!), the launch of the Electronic Text Centre, the development of the Learning Commons, the introduction of group study rooms, and the implementation of two automated library systems (QUEST in 1995 and WMS in 2013), John has pulled us, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st Century!

A celebration of John’s many achievements and contributions to UNB is being planned for the fall. Notices and invitations will be sent closer to the date.

In the meantime, we wish him well!

The Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management invites you to a reception in honour of UNB alumnus Donald Angus Macdonald (B.Sc.F., 1914), Canada’s third and last Dominion Forester.

When: 23 June 2014

Where: Forestry & Geology Building, Room 202

Time: 1:00pm – 2:30 p.m.

Please RSVP to yolanda@unb.ca

Staff from Archives & Special Collections will give a brief talk accompanied by images and illustrations. In addition, items from the recently acquired collection of D.A. Macdonald will be on display.

Further information can found at: //www.unb.ca/fredericton/forestry/news/mcdonaldreception.html

Best wishes to Stephen Rosenfeld, Director of Library Systems, on the occasion of his retirement!

Steve has been a fixture at UNB for 40 years and it is almost impossible to think of Library Systems without Steve in the lead. He has recruited and retained an amazingly talented group within Library Systems, and they have created a systems architecture to support the library well into the future.

Most recently, Steve led us through the implementation of OCLC’s WorldShare, which puts the library LMS back on the leading edge, positioning UNB Libraries in a very favourable and stable position from which to move forward.

Steve’s last day in the Library will be Wednesday, April 30th, 2014, but there will be a party in June to celebrate his contributions to UNB. Notices and invitations will be sent closer to the date, but mark your calendar now and plan to join Steve’s retirement celebration on Thursday, June 12th in the Milham Room (HIL).

Are you a Research Assistant who could benefit from some not-so-obvious research tips?

Come to learn about various strategies that you could use in your work as a Research Assistant.

What could you do when you cannot find an item? What services are currently available to support your research? How could RefWorks help you organize and share your results?

You are welcome to bring your own questions.

Registration is NOT required for this 30-minute drop-in session.

Where:

HIL Seminar Room (HIL 417)

Session Times:

Wednesday, 7 May 2014 (10:30am) or
Thursday, 8 May 2014 (3pm) or
Tuesday, 13 May 2014 (6pm)