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Zotero Workshop (SJ) – Feb. 28th

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Posted on Monday, February 19th, 2018 at 4:42am by Monica Fitzpatrick

Want to learn how to organize your research and manage citations? We can help! UNB Libraries invites students, faculty, and researchers to a Zotero workshop on February 28, 2018 at 10:30am in Hans W. Klohn Commons room G16.  Zotero is a free research organization tool that includes citation management.

The workshop will consist of two parts:

10:30 – 11:30 Getting set up with Zotero and learning its basic functions
11:30 – 12:00 Setting up and using Zotero Groups (feel free to only come to this session if you’re already familiar with Zotero)

We encourage everyone to bring a laptop, however we will have some computers available.

Contact Alex Goudreau at alex.goudreau@unb.ca for further information.

UNB Libraries Open – Feb. 19

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Posted on Friday, February 16th, 2018 at 5:28am by Monica Fitzpatrick

Our Libraries are open on Monday, February 19th  Hours are listed below:

HARRIET IRVING LIBRARY 
10:00 am – Midnight

SCIENCE & FORESTRY LIBRARY 
1:00 pm – Midnight

ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE LIBRARY
1:00 pm – Midnight

GERARD V. LA FOREST LAW LIBRARY
Noon – 11:00 pm

HANS W. KLOHN COMMONS
1:00pm – 9:00 pm

Zotero Workshop – Feb. 14th

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Posted on Friday, February 02nd, 2018 at 7:06am by Monica Fitzpatrick

Richelle Witherspoon, from UNB Libraries, is holding an open Zotero workshop in the Harriet Irving Library, Learning Lab ( Room #112) on February 14th at 2:00 pm.  The workshop will consist of two parts:

2:00 – 3:00          Getting set up with Zotero and learning its basic features

3:00 – 3:30          Setting up and using Zotero Groups

If you are already a Zotero user and would just like to learn about Groups, feel free to skip the first hour and come at 3:00.  If you are not a Zotero user but would like to learn about Groups, you are welcome to stick around for the second part.

Business Source Ultimate

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Posted on Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 at 9:05am by Monica Fitzpatrick
UNB Libraries have upgraded to EBSCO’s fulltext database Business Source Ultimate which includes information about accounting, finance, banking, marketing, management and provides access to:
  • 3,507 active full-text journals and magazines
  • 2,112 active full-text peer-reviewed journals
  • 1,401 active full-text peer-reviewed journals with no embargo
  • 1,103 active full-text journals indexed in Web of Science or Scopus
In addition to accessing full-text journals, business students will have access to case studies, country economic reports, industry profiles, SWOT analyses, market research reports, product reviews, company profiles, as well as interviews with executives and analysts.
 
Business Source Ultimate also offers access to 67,000 videos from the Associated Press with footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly.   Through the Company View feature users receive detailed company information on finances, subsidiaries, products, employees and industry specifics for more than 1.1 million of the world’s largest public and private companies.

UNB Libraries Closing Early On Dec. 20th

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Posted on Thursday, December 14th, 2017 at 7:03am by Monica Fitzpatrick

Please be advised that UNBF Libraries (HIL, Science & Forestry, Engineering & Computer Science, & South Gym) will be closing at 2:45pm on, December 20th for a holiday staff party. The Law  Library is not affected.

Regular hours will resume on Dec 21st.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

The Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature Collection Presents The 2017-18 Wallace Fellowship Lecture – Dec. 5th

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Posted on Thursday, November 23rd, 2017 at 9:40am by Monica Fitzpatrick

Dr. Helene Staveley, this year’s Eileen Wallace Research Fellow, will be presenting a talk entitled, “At Play in the Atlantic Playground: Children and Communities in the Maritime Books of the Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature Collection.” Dr. Staveley is a lecturer at Memorial University with research interests in Canadian, Atlantic Canadian and Children’s & Young Adult Literature.

The talk will take place in the Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature Collection, Room 413, Harriet Irving Library, Tuesday December 5th, at noon.

All are welcome to attend.

For more information, please contact Sue Fisher at sfisher@unb.ca; 506 452-6044