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Grant Connect (formerly Canadian Directory to Foundations & Corporations) is a bilingual database that provides detailed information on all Canadian grant-making foundations, hundreds of corporate community investment programs, as well as government funding programs and American foundations that will fund Canadian charities.

Features:

• Updated daily with information from multiple data sources
• Financial history of the funder
• Giving history of the funder
• Application guidelines, including deadlines, evaluation criteria, and application turnaround time

Four Ways to Search:

1. Quick Look-up by name or charitable business number to find a specific funder
2. Funder Search to identify which funders are most likely to support your organization or project
3. Gift Explorer to look for organizations like yours that have received gifts or to find a funder that has made grants to organizations in your field
4. People Seeker to look for a particular individual associated with a funder (e.g. an officer, board member, or staff person)

Learn more…

Register for 2 free webinars to learn how Grant Connect can help your organization achieve its fundraising goals:

1. Grant Connect 101: An Introduction to Grant Connect designed for those who have little-to-no experience with Grant Connect or similar tools. Topics include the following:

• Understanding Prospects: An overview of the funding available to Canadian charities
• Grantseeking Basics: A look at best practises in grant solicitation
• Effective Searching: How to find great prospects using our Grant Connect Funder Search
• Managing Prospects: Perform successful funder management with the MyPipeline report

• Our Methodology: An interesting look at the data that drives Grant Connect
• Advanced Searching: Learn to maximize your results in all four Grant Connect searches
• Evaluating Prospects: How to distinguish between decent prospects and great ones
• Networking with Grant Connect: Using the power of LinkedIN to uncover connections

Imagine Canada is a national charity whose mission is to advance knowledge and relationships to foster effective and sustainable charitable and non-profit organizations. Grant Connect is Imagine Canada’s social enterprise, driven by social good above profit, with decades of success in the Canadian charitable sector.

If you would like more information about Grant Connect or any of UNB Libraries’ resources, contact the HIL Research Help Desk in person, by telephone (453-3546), by email, or by Ask Us.

Charmaine Norris, Grand Prize Winner and UNBSJ student, and Karen Keiller, Director of Information Services and Systems at UNBSJ.

Thanks to the UNB and STU communities for responding to our LibQUAL 2013 survey!

The LibQUAL survey is part of a worldwide effort led by the Association of Research Libraries to collect patron opinions on library services, facilities, and resources.

UNB Libraries has been a participant since 2004, and LibQUAL 2013 has been our most successful survey yet: over 1500 students, faculty, and staff shared their thoughts with us. Our analysis of survey results will be shared with the university community later this year.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the LibQUAL 2013 optional prize draw:

1. Grand Prize (Nexus 10 Tablet):
   Charmaine Norris (UNBSJ)
2. Second Prize (iPad Mini):
   Amanda-Paige O’Blenes (STU)
3. Third Prize (Kobo Arc):
   Laura Romero-Zeron (UNBF)

Congratulations to our prize winners, and thanks to all participants for helping us improve library services!

Welcome, delegates, to WILU 2013!

The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU), is an annual Canadian conference where delegates meet to discuss timely topics related to information literacy. UNB Libraries are honoured to host the 42nd WILU Conference as it returns to Canada’s East Coast, and to UNB after 11 years!

Our theme, Synchronicity: The Time is Now, reflects the increasing need for Instruction Librarians to balance a myriad of seemingly competing demands. What does it mean to provide timely information literacy programs in a world of synched devices, decentralized instruction, and information overload, all while serving institutions in flux? Our sessions will help us grapple with the contemporary challenges of merging tradition with innovation, balancing theory with pedagogical practice, providing instruction for interdisciplinary programs, and engaging with information ethics, open access resources for instruction, and literacies that go beyond information literacy.

Please note that the Harriet Irving Library will close at 5pm on Wednesday, May 8th for a WILU reception.

Take a look…

• PsycBOOKS
• PsycTESTS

PsycBOOKS is a comprehensive source of chapters from thousands of scholarly and professional books published by the APA and other distinguished publishers, indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

In this e-resource, you can access the following:

• approximately 55,000 chapters in PDF from over 3,500 books
• nearly 2,600 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology, dating from the 1600s
• more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology
• digitized content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection

PsycTESTS, produced by the APA, provides access to tests that are relevant to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. It is a unique database providing descriptive summaries, full text, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching. Each record includes data on the scope of the test, test implementation, a high-level overview of the test’s development, and reliability and validity data (when available). International in scope, PsycTESTS provides access to an increasing number of tests in languages other than English. While focused on contemporary instances of test use, coverage dates from 1910 to the present.

Updated monthly, PsycTESTS includes Master test profiles and actual tests or test items for:

• Unpublished tests
• Tests developed by psychologists for which no source document has been located
• Information about published tests available from commercial publishers

Content covers diverse subject areas and types of tests, including:

• Developmental Measures
• Scales for Beliefs, Relationships, or Expectancies
• Aggression, Coping, or Functional Status Questionnaires
• Racial and Ethnic Identity Scales
• Resilience, Anger Response, or Substance Abuse Inventories
• Physical Health Related Assessments
• Personality Assessments
• Educational Measures
• Neuropsychological Assessments
• Aptitude and Achievement Measures
• Competency Measures
• Occupational Measures
• Intelligence Tests
• Military Tests

If you would like more information about PsycBOOKS or PsycTESTS, please contact Linda Roulston, Psychology Librarian, (451-6879); for more resources relevant to studies in Psychology, please consult UNB Libraries’ Psychology 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.

UNB Libraries adopted UNB WorldCat as our default catalogue on our homepage a few years ago, and we are now completing the transition.   As of April 24, Quest (our old catalogue) will be officially retired and UNB WorldCat will become our sole catalogue search option.  The transition involves the switch to a new circulation system over the end of April and early May period.

Associated changes will occur to our systems behind the scenes and we anticipate minimal disruption for library users.

Please direct any questions to James MacKenzie, Head of Reference, jmackenz@unb.ca.