News @ UNB Libraries

UNB Libraries is currently working on a new search interface called: WorldCat Local. The beta version is available on our library homepage or at:
//www.lib.unb.ca/worldcat/

WorldCat Local allows you to search the resources of over 71,000 libraries in 112 countries around the world, with materials held by UNB Libraries given priority or ranked first within your search results. WorldCat Local currently contains 138 million bibliographic records (books, DVDs, maps etc.) and 60 million journal articles. Many more journal article databases will be added in the Fall.

Take WorldCat Local for a test-drive today and tell us what you think! Send your feedback to Merle Steeves at mas@unb.ca

UNB’s Writing Centre is offering morning drop-in hours in Harriet Irving Library’s Learning Commons (Room 116) Monday-Friday from 10:00am – 1:00pm until August 28.

Students can also book an appointment, either by phone (453-4646 or 452-6346) or email: psimmons@unb.ca

Date: Thursday, August 20 – 9:00am – 1:30pm
Location: HIL – Milham Room

All faculty are invited to attend UNB Libraries’ 9th annual half-day Faculty Institute.

Come along and get an overview of new library resources available for teaching and research in the air-conditioned comfort of the Harriet Irving Library’s Milham Room and then catch up with colleagues and librarians over lunch – we’re buying!

Among our featured resources this year will be a new look for the library website, our library platform on Blackboard, new developments with WorldCat and e-Books, online highlights for the Arts/Social Sciences and Science/Engineering faculties, plus a brief update on RefWorks.

To register for this free event, please visit //training.unb.ca.

Summer hours are now underway in all libraries.   For a complete listing of hours, please click the following link:

//www.lib.unb.ca/about/hoursSummer.html

One of UNB Libraries’ largest research databases for peer-reviewed literature, Scopus, has announced that it has expanded its content for the Arts & Humanities (A&H).

A&H coverage in Scopus has almost doubled with the addition of nearly 1,450 new titles and broader access to approx. 3,500 high quality, international A&H journals dating back to 2002 in a variety of subject areas including:

• Education
• History
• Developmental & Educational and Social Psychology
• Literature and Literary Theory
• Architecture, Design

For more information as well as a listing of the new journals added to Scopus, please click here.

To explore the Scopus database, go to the UNB Libraries website, place your mouse over the red e-Resources tab >> all e-Resources>> Indexes & Abstracts and choose “Scopus” from the drop-down browse title listing.

It’s official! The Learning Commons on the first floor of the Harriet Irving Library in Fredericton has been named in honour of John B. McNair, one of the most accomplished scholars, jurists, and public servants ever to graduate from UNB.

The Learning Commons is a big success offering UNB’s students an enriched learning environment incorporating service points, social learning space, technology and study spaces.

“The impact of the Learning Commons is exemplified by the number of students in the Library, said John Teskey, Director of UNB Libraries. “Within the past couple years the traffic in the Library has increased by 75 per cent.”

For details about the recent dedication ceremony for the John B. McNair Learning Commons please click here.

Information about the John B. McNair Learning Commons is available at their website:
//www.lib.unb.ca/commons/