News @ UNB Libraries

GIS and Spatial Data for Humanities: Introduction to ESRI’s Story Maps

Date: 11 February 2017, 1pm – 4pm

Location: Harriet Irving Library Data/GIS Lab (HIL 310)

Have you ever wanted to map the spaces and places in a literary or historical work or body of work?  If so, this workshop is for you. UNB Libraries Data/GIS Librarian, Siobhan Hanratty, will introduce you to some basic concepts that will help you on your way.  During this workshop you will use ESRI’s story maps <//storymaps.arcgis.com/en/> templates to situate your data and add text, images, and multi-media content as applicable. Time permitting, we shall also explore sources of data and more robust tools for thematic mapping.

To register, visit //www.unbtls.ca/events/

Fundamentals in Digital Scholarship is a new series of free workshops hosted by UNB Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship, and aimed at introducing the UNB community to current topics, tools, and techniques in digital scholarship. For more information on the series, please contact Erik Moore (ecmoore@unb.ca).

Instructors: Mike Meade and Erik Moore

Date: 18 February 2017, 1pm – 4pm

Location: Harriet Irving Library, Milham Room (#100)

Why digitize a photograph, historic primary text, or a collection of objects? Join Erik Moore and Mike Meade, of UNB Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship, in exploring some fundamental tools and skills of digitization. Whether you’re an undergraduate assigned a digitization project, a grad student augmenting a thesis or dissertation, or a researcher fulfilling part of a Tri-Agency grant, this workshop will help you consider numerous aspects of artifact digitization, including identifying your intended audience, dealing with limitations of available equipment, producing high-quality images for the web, developing metadata, using and re-using your digitized work, and considering your digital project’s life cycle. We’ll also give you an inside look at digital imaging operations in the Centre for Digital Scholarship, and provide you with some resources for further exploration.

To register, visit //www.unbtls.ca/events/

Fundamentals in Digital Scholarship is a new series of free workshops hosted by UNB Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship, and aimed at introducing the UNB community to current topics, tools, and techniques in digital scholarship. For more information on the series, please contact Erik Moore (ecmoore@unb.ca).

Thursdays @ 6pm, HIL Milham Room

Schedule:

• Jan 5: Les 400 Coups
• Jan 12: Journey to Italy
• Jan 19: La Pointe Courte
• Jan 24: Bob le flameur
• Feb 2: Les Amants
• Feb 9: Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Feb 16: Le Beau Serge
• Feb 23: Lola
• Mar 2: Paris Nous Appartient
• Mar 16: Le Signe du Lion
• Mar 23: Vivre sa Vie
• Mar 30: Paris vu par

Please note UNB Archives & Special Collections’ hours for the Winter term:

Book Retrieval:

10am-12pm, Tuesday to Thursday

1pm-4pm, Monday to Friday

Consultation of Archival Manuscript Collections:

By appointment only (archives@unb.ca | 506-453-4748).

For more information, please contact Archives & Special Collections (archives@unb.ca | 506-453-4748).

Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are welcome to the I.U.C. Building Atrium outside the Science & Forestry Library for an opportunity to get to know other graduate students in an inclusive and positive environment. Discover each other’s strong points and give encouragement!

Tea and coffee will be provided.

Thursday, January 26th
6:00pm – 8:00pm
IUC Building, Science Concourse

Can words and numbers get along? An introduction to computer-assisted textual analysis

Instructor: Dr. Chantal Richard

Date: 4 February 2017, 1pm – 4:00pm

Location: Harriet Irving Library, Data/GIS Lab (HIL 310)

This workshop is useful to researchers in the humanities who would like to explore new ways to analyze large bodies of text using computer-assisted textual analysis. During the first portion, Dr. Chantal Richard, associate professor in the Department of French, will go over some basic foundations in text analysis such as word frequencies, collocation (co-occurrence of words), semantic association, morphological, and content (thematic) analysis. Examples of recent research will show results created with tools available from software programs Hyperbase, Sphinx, Iramuteq, and Tropes. The second portion of the workshop will be hands-on, and will entail manipulation of these programs by participants.

To register, visit //www.unbtls.ca/events/

Fundamentals in Digital Scholarship is a new series of free workshops hosted by UNB Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship, and aimed at introducing the UNB community to current topics, tools, and techniques in digital scholarship. For more information on the series, please contact Erik Moore (ecmoore@unb.ca).