News @ UNB Libraries

The 2009 Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival in Fredericton has kicked into gear with another fabulous lineup of performers. Great guitarists are never in short supply at the festival, and this year will be no exception, with performances by Susan Tedeschi, Elvin Bishop, and East Coast fave Matt Anderson, just to name a few.

UNB Libraries has selected a few great jazz and blues guitar tracks from the Naxos Music Library to help you warm up for this year’s Harvest:

I Can’t Be Satisfied (Big Bill Broonzy)
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Djangology (Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli)
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Honeysuckle Rose (Bucky and John Pizzarelli)
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Guitar Blues (Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang)
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Blue Skies (Les Paul)
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The Naxos Music Library and Smithsonian Global Sound are available to members of the UNB/STU community through UNB Libraries. To check out the full range of recordings available through Naxos and Smithsonian, visit the library website at www.lib.unb.ca, or contact James MacKenzie (jmackenz@unb.ca) for more information on these and other music resources at UNB Libraries.

For more information about this year’s festival, check the Harvest 2009 website (//www.harvestjazzandblues.com/index.html).

Registration is now open for students to sign up for our Fall 2009 Cool Tools sessions. Sessions are free and several new workshops are being offered, as well as repeats of the most popular sessions from last year. The Fall lineup includes:

• Get to know your library (NEW!)
• RefWorks
• Googling Scholars (NEW!)
• Finding Journal Articles
• Pizza and Plagiarism
• My Databases (Arts or Sciences)
• Googleosophy
• Explore Papers: Your Personal PDF Library for the Mac (NEW!)
• Film Collection
• Intro. to Law Resources

For details, and to register, please go to our Cool Tools webpage at: //www.lib.unb.ca/instruction/CoolTools.html

UNB Libraries extends a warm welcome to all new and returning students, faculty and staff.  We hope you have had an excellent summer.

Access the library website at www.lib.unb.ca and you will discover a fresh and improved web presence for our libraries.

The new design is our response to many discussions, focus groups and usability testing sessions held with students, faculty and staff on both our Fredericton and Saint John campuses during 2008-09.

To ensure easy access, bookmark the new library website on your PC/laptop.

As always, our staff welcome your feedback and we wish everyone a successful term of reading and research at UNB Libraries.

All libraries on the Fredericton and Saint John campuses will be closed on Monday, Sept. 7 (Labour Day). We will re-open on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 8:00am (Fredericton campus) and 8:15am (Saint John campus).

Happy Labour Day everyone!

Courtesy of the Gerard V. La Forest Law Library, students, faculty and staff have access to a new resource – Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME).

PROME contains the full-text, original documents from the meetings of the English parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII, covering the years from 1275 to 1504. PROME also offers modern translations and introductions to each individual parliament.

The information is laid out in an easy-to-use format that one can either browse or search. Researchers studying law, history, political science, and more will find this resource to be eminently useful.

You can access PROME from the UNB Libraries’ website at www.lib.unb.ca >> Article & Research Databases >> choose “Parliament Rolls of Medieval England” from the drop down database title list. Access is also available via the Law Library’s website at //law.unb.ca/library/.

If you have any questions about PROME, please feel free to contact Cathy Cotter, Reference/Instruction Librarian in the Law Library, at cacotter@unb.ca or 447-3265.

The Harriet Irving, Science & Forestry, and Engineering libraries on the Fredericton campus will open their doors at 10:00am on Tuesday, September 1. The delayed opening is to accommodate participation in a staff workshop.

Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause.