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SPANISH EMBASSY FILM SERIES PRESENTS: Flores de Otro Mundo/Flowers from Another World

The Spanish Embassy, UNB Libraries, and the Dept. of Culture & Language Studies present the award-winning Spanish film, “Flores de Otro Mundo/Flowers from Another World” from 1999.  This free public screening will be held on Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm in the Milham Room (Room 100), Harriet Irving Library, UNB Campus (free parking).

Based on a true story, this is a melodrama, written and directed by one of the foremost modern women filmmakers in Spain, Icíar Bollaín.  Santa Eulalia is a small Spanish town that is losing many of its jobs and young people to corporate agriculture and the lure of big cities. The men of the town, in an effort to find partners, organize a visit for prospective singles. From diverse backgrounds, Patricia, Milady and Marirrosi arrive and expose the tensions between sexual liberation, patriarchal society and modernity. This film examines the intersections of racism, sexism and the remnants of colonialism in contemporary Spain.

Trailer: //youtu.be/2Dq7QP3iPGU (Spanish only)

The film is presented in Spanish with English subtitles and will be briefly introduced by Dr. Sophie Lavoie (Culture and Language Studies, UNB). All are welcome.

Please note, the next film in our series –Días de futbol/Soccer Days- will be shown on Dec. 5. Save the date!

Research Sources You Can Trust

You’re trying to research a topic. You’ve got books, the web, journals, and an encyclopedia. It’s starting to feel like a juggling act, but doesn’t have to. Learn how to use research sources logically, by finding and using the right one at the right time.

Tues., November 6 @ 6:30 pm   OR

Wed., November 7 @ 12:30 pm

Harriet Irving Library, Milham Room (Rm 100)

UNB’s Student Affairs and Services has partnered with UNB Libraries to offer free, fifty minute walk-in workshops that can make your studies and your life a lot easier.

Check out the full schedule of Student Success Workshops at go.unb.ca/studentsuccess

Find That Source:
Library Layout

Take a guided tour of the Harriet Irving Library to find the best study spaces and rooms for group work; the Research Help Desk and the librarians who can help you; and scanners, printers, computers and photocopiers.

Also tour the Library’s web site and learn to locate books and journals in print and online.

Tuesday, Oct. 16 @ 6:30 pm   OR

Wednesday, Oct. 17 @ 12:30 pm

Harriet Irving Library, Milham Room (Rm 100)

UNB’s Student Affairs and Services has partnered with UNB Libraries to offer free, fifty minute walk-in workshops that can make your studies and your life a lot easier.

Check out the full schedule of Student Success Workshops at go.unb.ca/studentsuccess

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles’ cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.

JCR calculates a journal’s impact factor (i.e., the “scholarly worth” of a journal) by adding the number of citations that the journal has garnered and then dividing this figure by the number of items.

Read how Thomson Reuters’ impact factors are calculated or watch an Impact Factor Tutorial.

For further information, see UNB Libraries’ Guide to Making Citations Count.

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
11:30am-1:00pm
Seminar Room (Rom 109), Harriet Irving Library
UNB Fredericton Campus

The pizza is free, and the workshop just might prove invaluable!

When should you cite something? Just what are citation styles? This free workshop will provide general research writing and citation tips, with focus on how APA handles the citation of print and e-sources, plus some hands-on automatic formatting using Refworks as well as article databases’ Cite and Cite Format options.

This event, a joint initiative of UNBF Libraries and the UNBF Student Union, is intended for undergraduate students.

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!

Films on Demand offers an extensive online educational video streaming library with:

• Thousands of high quality educational videos viewable by faculty and students anytime, anywhere;
• Thousands of fully annotated segments that can be integrated into lectures and presentations with ease;
• Participating producers include Films for the Humanities & Sciences, BBC, PBS, TED, CBC Television, NFB, Cambridge Educational, The Open University, and many more.

Some highlights of the new service:

• Playlist creation enabling the assembly of segments from various titles;
• Unlimited 24/7 access on or off campus for faculty and students;
• Hundreds of new titles added every year;
• All programs include Canadian Public Performance rights;
• Use keywords to search the FOD digital library by title or by segment;
• Browse the FOD digital library by subject, special collections, related titles and subject tag “clouds”;
• Closed captioning available on many titles.

Take advantage of the power of digital media in your classrooms, in your assignments, and in Desire2Learn (UNB) or Moodle (STU).

Access Films on Demand.

For more information or a demonstration, contact Marc Bragdon (458-7741).