News @ UNB Libraries

All UNB Fredericton faculty members are invited to the library’s annual faculty showcase of resources and services, to be held in the Milham Room of the Harriet Irving Library, on Wednesday, Aug. 21, from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Session topics will include new library e-resources, library apps, copyright, film streaming, and more.

A light lunch will be provided, and we have door prizes. (including a Kindle Fire)

Please register at //es.unb.ca/apps/workshops/ . We look forward to seeing you there.

For more information, please contact Merle Steeves at mas@unb.ca or Joanne Smyth at jsmyth@unb.ca.

Are you a graduate student looking to make a little extra money this academic year?

The Harriet Irving Library is looking for a graduate student to work part-time, afternoons, evenings and weekends at the Research Help Desk.

For a description of the position please see Current Vacancies here: //lib.unb.ca/about/student.php

Please send a cover letter and resumé to Lyn Saunders (pls@unb.ca ) by August 12, 2013.

Check out these 3 NEW e-Resources for Business Administration at UNB Libraries!

Passport GMID is an international market research database and analysis tool from Euromonitor. The database contains business intelligence and reports across key industries, companies, markets, and consumers in more than 200 categories for 80 countries. It also provides data on lifestyle, demographic and socio-economic country that spans 206 countries.

Hoover’s Online (D & B/Mergent) is a quality business database from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) that offers reliable and comprehensive insight and analysis on more than 85 million companies, 100 million contacts, and 900 industry segments. Whether you are generating leads, researching companies and industries, or comparing competitive strategies, Hoover’s data provides some of the most up-to-date information available.

Mergent Online provides access to the most detailed financial data available for over 25,000 public U.S. and global companies. Results include: company details/history, executives, ownership, key financials, equity pricing, reports, filings, news, competitors, plus a customized Report Builder. Company financial reports for up to 15 years can be downloaded via Excel spreadsheet software. Mergent also offers real-time access to company filings submitted to the SEC (U.S.) and SEDAR (Canada). Additional attributes include a Global Private Company database for over 20 million private companies, reports (industry or equity), economic indicators, and country profiles.

For more information about these Business e-resources, please contact Leanne Wells, Business Librarian, (447-3075); for more resources relevant to studies in Business, please consult UNB Libraries’ Business Administration Guides.

For help with any of UNB Libraries’ resources, contact the HIL Research Help Desk in person, by telephone (453-3546), by email, or by Ask Us.

Need a cool space to meet during the hot days of summer?

The Harriet Irving Library has 9 air-conditioned Group Study Rooms that are available to all members of the university community over the summer!

All rooms have wireless internet access and many are equipped with whiteboards or SMARTboards to facilitate collaborative work or presentations.

No need to book in advance–the rooms will be open and available for walk-in use by UNB or STU students, faculty, and staff. If you want to reserve a particular room for a particular time, just call ahead to make a booking with the staff at the Commons Services Desk (453-4756).

(Please note these rooms are not intended to be used for classroom instruction.)

7pm Thursdays, HIL Milham Room

June 20: Mystery Train

(Directed by Jim Jarmusch, 1989, 110 min.)

Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a cranked-up Italian widow, and a cranky British immigrant (Joe Strummer) all converge on Memphis in pursuit of their own personal Gracelands. Roger Ebert proclaimed that “[t]he best thing about Mystery Train is that it takes you to an America you feel you ought to be able to find for yourself, if you only knew where to look.”

July 4: Dogtooth

(Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009, 97 min.)

Perhaps a parable on the essential strangeness of what is often considered a societal benchmark of normality, “the family”, this darkly surreal, wholly original creation was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.
In Greek with English subtitles

July 11: The Sounds of Science

(Directed by Jean Painlevé; Scored by Yo La Tengo, 2002, 90 min.)

Painlevé was one of the first filmmakers to take his camera underwater. Surreal, otherworldly documents of marine life, these films transform sea horses, octopi, and mollusks into delicate dancers in their own floating ballets. Art Rockers Yo La Tengo were commissioned to provide a new score to accompany eight of these transfixing documentaries dating from the early- to mid-twentieth century. Deeply immersive scientific-poetic cinema.

July 25: .REC

(Directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, 2007, 89 min.)

While covering the night shift at a small-town fire department, an ambitious young television reporter and her cameraman follow the crew on a call to rescue an elderly woman trapped in her apartment. A multiple award-winning supernatural horror film in the hand-held, faux-documentary style.
In Spanish with English subtitles

Thursdays (7pm)
HIL Milham Room
All welcome. Free admission.
Designer water and Jiffy Pop^tm provided!

For more information about UNB Libraries’ Summer Cinema Series or the UNB Film Collection, please contact Marc Bragdon, Film Studies Librarian, (458-7741); for more resources relevant to studies in Film Studies, please consult UNB Libraries’ Guide to Film Studies.

Provincial Archives of New Brunswick,
William Gow fonds: P749-32.

Fredericton Heritage Trust and UNB Archives & Special Collections is pleased to host the exhibition “York St. Station: Train Treks and Tracks Through New Brunswick.”

Focusing on railway history in New Brunswick, the display consists of 8 panels sharing the history of the York Street Station in Fredericton.  Complementing these panels are books and archival resources that tell stories of railway lines, stations, and travels through New Brunswick and includes the McAdam Station, The UNB Train to Mount Allison, and Henry George Clopper Ketchum’s involvement in railway development in the Maritimes.

The display can be viewed in the H.R. Stewart Room (5th Floor, Harriet Irving Library), Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. from May 21^st to August 16^th, 2013.

For more information, please contact Archives & Special Collections at archives@unb.ca.